SuiNeko wrote:
Kaffis - its adding to the complexity, cost and presumably power draw of the chip, for something of no value to me as a consumer, and that has to date proven ineffective in preventing piracy.
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Also, intellectual property is an interesting proposition - I think the idea that it equates to actual property (permanent and absolute ownership / control) is a debatable one [*].
For me, the question is a pragmatic one, about incentivising and rewarding those who produce cultural content or expand the bounds of our knowledge - to promote a common good, and is not one of an obvious defacto ownership.
Cultural products almost universally build on others prior work.
Developments in research expose and utilise core facts about the world.
Neither of those, to me, equate to an obvious positive benefit from, or right to, perpetual ownership.
[*] I know copyright and patent terms are limited, but they are both repeatedly being extended, and rendered irrelevant by DRM and things like the DCMA supporting a post-copyright lock in mechanism.
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