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IP was never about society. It was a tool for the rich to create a monopoly on a product.

IP disproportionately helps organizations rather than individuals. And the major owners of those organizations are the 0.01% class

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IMO IP protection should be short lived. Imagine if copyright ownership lasted 10 years. The profits made on producing a video game would be almost identical since almost all profit is made in the first few years and half of the lifetime profit is in the first week.

What it would mean is the games that we all played as kids but are long since out of store shelves would now be free to distribute.

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