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Nothing sucks more than a great new technology with old-world thinking attached to it. Such has been the case with ebooks, unfortunately, with antiquated views on DRM, pricing, and storefront protectionism resulting in pissed off customers and libraries hollering from the nearest rooftop. What we're left with is a platform that could do much to spread knowledge and the practice of reading among entire populations being stifled by those that still think the world should operate based on analog philosophies.
For the uninitiated, the first link is to a book written by researchers who set out to show that patents had improved the world but ended up concluding the opposite.
The second link is to a long article by a patent attorney laying out the theoretical case against patent and copyright.
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Against Intellectual Monopoly http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...
Against Intellectual Property http://mises.org/document/3582/Against-Intellectual-Property