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I don't consider ip property. So the answer is it's complicated.

> I don't consider ip property

Wait, what?

Well one of the defining characteristics of property is that there is finite amounts of it.

But we have inexhaustible supplies of 0s and 1s, and words.

It'd be nice if we could have a happy medium it's like we can only live in extremes. On one end, we have the US, the land of patent trolls and divisions of companies suing other divisions of companies for millions and wasting years of time. On the other end, we have China where people just blatantly steal everything. Released a new successful product on Amazon? Get ready to be undercut by 50% or more by some no-name brand out of nowhere!

"ip" = "intellectual property". It's literally in the name.

Property isn't defined by quantity or finiteness. It's anything, real or otherwise, for which ownership consists of a set of rights to control the exploitation (aka "use") of the thing.

The name is in short shit. If I decide to call cars electric horses they still wont require breeding, pastures, or feed and will will need mechanics, gas, and pavement under the wheels.

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