IP laws are nothing but government sanctioned monopolies.
IP laws like patents and copyrights are not only a philosophical nightmare (how does one own an idea?), but they stifle innovation more than any factor.
I do think the one IP law with value are Trademarks. You should be confident that you are purchasing something from the company on the label.
Thoughts?
In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea ceding our critical communication infrastructures to capitalism.
The postal service - It was clean, efficient and timely. It blew out of the water all the private courier services out of the water. Then came neoliberal capitalism and the Post Office despite being a public service, as forced to turn a profit. As such, they allowed advertisers to run a amok overwhelming our mailboxes with literal garbage that goes straight to the trash. Then the neoconservative fascists gutted it anyway, despite turning a profit, so it wouldn't turn a profit so the private sector couriers can thrive despite sub par service like UPS, FedEx and others. We used to be excited to get mail, now we dread it.
Telephones - an amazing technology to connect us over massive distances. Fines fees and subscriptions priced massive amounts of the population out of the most basic communication method even today.
News media - once the most major way to get quality information about politics, the world, technological advancement. Now to compete at the top levels of reach you need to either be funded by corporations and billionaires, turn their platforms into ad farms, put their most critical content behind firewalls, or most likely, all 3.
Email - once a cool new quick way to convey a ton of information in an instant. People stayed in each other's lives longer due to the ease of communicating. Now, since we decided not to regulate it, it's so overflowing with advertising and scams, we only check it to verify our passwords.
Cell Phones - it was once illegal to get scam calls on a cell phone due to cost. That went away when incoming calls and texts stop costing the customer money. Now our cell phones are all but useless staying on silent all the time while we duck "Scam Likely" our newest nemesis.
How do we keep falling for this? How is capitalist indoctrination so strong that we let them convince us to not trust our own lying eyes.
My local card room fired all the people who ran the board. Now it's on the floor to run the board.
The change is painfully noticeable.
Rake increase, food cost increase, and layoffs. Not a great formula for the long term health of this place (Ocean's Eleven in Oceanside, CA).