What mechanism is there to observe who 'owns' a piece of information? An abstract notion of mechanism?
What does private property mean in the domain of bit strings? Why don't 'intellectual property owners' treat their bit strings like other private property and keep it private?
What birthright grants private citizens or their incorporations state-enforced control of combinations of cultural or technical ideas? Do 'intellectual property owners' create their 'property' from nothing? From where do they source their input material? Have they stood on the shoulders of giants, on the broken backs of thousands of generations of ancestors, or are they special, unique snowflakes creating 'intellectual property' in a vacuum from the godhead?
What does private property mean in the domain of bit strings? Why don't 'intellectual property owners' treat their bit strings like other private property and keep it private?
What birthright grants private citizens or their incorporations state-enforced control of combinations of cultural or technical ideas? Do 'intellectual property owners' create their 'property' from nothing? From where do they source their input material? Have they stood on the shoulders of giants, on the broken backs of thousands of generations of ancestors, or are they special, unique snowflakes creating 'intellectual property' in a vacuum from the godhead?