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RE: Intellectual Property and the Free Market

People need to understand that fraud exists as well, because people defend IP because they say well you could take someones design and sell it as your own and that is false because that would be fraud. What I can do or should be allowed to do is take your Idea and tell someone hey I got this idea from such and such and it is not my own that would be fine, I could also take and improve the idea. IP should not be a thing, but fraud should be people need to stop mixing these things up. Great post you got my upvote.

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Thanks! Fraud is what I was trying to think of. @burtoblog and I were discussing that yesterday and I couldn't think of the word. Plagiarism is another instance of fraud. They're both unwise business decisions to me, which could be settled privately through free market means outside of a system of coercion.