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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 1557683" data-attributes="member: 10913">Capitalism doesn't equate incorporation (in the "international megacorporation" sense of the word). I'm all for capitalism, when it serves its purpose. When the golem rises on its maker, however, we have a problem. When the goal of the "capitalist" becomes producing capital in opposition of the social goods it is supposed to promote, we have a problem. I suggest that the US patent laws and to an extent the copyright laws as they stand can be constured to do just that - serving the interests of raising capital at the expense of minimizing the intellectual goods in the public domain. Or at least that it is not absurdly rediculous to make such a claim, while still advocating capitalism.All that has very little to do with file sharing, however. Except perhaps WotC (Hasbaro), I don't think any corporations are involved here.And for the record, I make absolutely no exceptions with WotC for the purposes of filesharing - I buy their goods if I use them, like I do anyone else's. I do have an issue with excessive profit, even if it is legal, but this is a private pet peeve that isn't germane to the discussion here.</blockquote>