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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9393588" data-attributes="member: 7030563">They are more efficient at making physical products do to economies of scale, you could call that better or one aspect of better, but regardless of how you define "better" it does make it difficult for individuals to compete.It appears you are getting into this late, my position is there should be no such thing as intellectual property.  No one should "own" that.  You own the paper you write it on, the computer it is saved on but you shouldn't own the words, code ideas etc and when you sell that book, sell that computer or transmit those ideas to someone else, that buyer/person should be able to do what they want with it to include copying and reselling for a profit.No.  Software is not a physical product, words are not a physical product.  But yes, no one should be able to control the content they create and keep other people from using it.  This is the very thing that enables megacorporations.We don't have to theorize here.  There are many countries where what we would call piracy is legal or where piracy laws are not enforced even if they exist, and in those countries you have small mom and pop shops selling copied goods and surviving or even thriving locally.   They sell copied software or sell Dooney and Burke or Versace knock off purses or whatever.  Those little companies do make money in those more free countries and the megacorporations have much less influence and much less penetration into those markets than they do into markets with stronger intellectual property laws.The reason the market is dominated by megacorporations in the USA and by and large the West is because we have and rigorously enforce laws to protect the intellectual property of megacorporations.</blockquote>

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