>>6448
Copyright is different from physical property.
Regular property is the claim to a specific instance of a thing.
Copyright is the claim to prevent people from copying what you have done with their own property, just so you can maintain an arbitrarily high amount of profit. I can use my own property of a harddrive, but making a certain arrangement of 1s and 0s on my harddrive is banned, so copyright is not a real form of property at all.
Copyright is also so hard to enforce that it's becoming pointless, and it also tends only to act to fuck over some poor guy's life randomly every now and then, while the vast majority get away with it.
Copyright is shit. Now, that doesn't mean there aren't forms of intellectual property that can be legit.
For example, I think that people should have the right to own specific digital structures such as websites and so on. Copyright however is a form of IP that has nothing in common with property really, since it actually prevents you from using your own property how you want.
I think the only exceptions that should be made is data that needs protecting like passwords and so on. Otherwise, copyright should be massively phased out and replaced with legit intellectual property as control over specific digital structures and control over having your own harddrive modified by others.
So, in summation, IP is a legitimate concept, but as it actually exists it is not a real form of property at all, but a way of preventing other people from using their property how they want, and therefore calling copyright "property" is just a sneaky way of legitimizing to propertarians who if they otherwise thought of it in more detail would generally oppose copyright and patents and so on, as being ways of getting artificially high profits by getting the government to stop other people from modifying their own property.
>>6492
>I think that patents should be around to ensure that proper credit is due for historical accuracy
Then you could just pay for a record of who was first for reputations sake and because people like to use the original, not pay to attack other people configuring their property like yours.
Besides, the internet does a remarkably good job of recording when things happen. We even know to a good degree of accuracy when certain obscure memes first appeared.