*****. Intellectual property rights only impose limitations on consumption in the market place. If they were removed the market would stabilize to a new, market-determined equilibrium and content producers would be rewarded according to the interest of the market. Intellectual property rights are merely duration-marked monopolies and monopolies are rarely (if ever) good for the consumer or the market as a whole.In response to the artificial limitations granted by intellectual property 'rights' the market has responded--like any market does when barriers are imposed upon it--by leaning more and more heavily "black". It is simply a natural response and something utterly expected in these sort of conditions.Worse, these effective monopolies stifle innovation in the marketplace. If intellectual property rights were removed from the market we would see an explosion in content alongside a much lower price point for consumers, spurring massive increases in demand (and later, higher and higher valuations for content that is produced and of quality).Content producers--or rather those who traditionally "publish" that content--have a deeply vested interest in not seeing this happen, for (hopefully) obvious reasons. It may not appear so at first glance but actual content producers would benefit tremendously from a release of intellectual property rights, not the other way around. What they need is an education in economics, not a politician and a publisher's lobbyist to help them earn their way.
What a bunch of *****.
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