>>19926213Brainlet. Two men consider some design. One patents it, the other doesn’t. In your eyes, one man now owns the other man’s independent thought, this is clearly idiocy.
I can agree that you can steal the medium information is stored on, like tom cruise breaking into a vault and stealing your hard drive. But the information itself can’t be stolen. Information unlike property, copied.
Suppose you have a slide containing a blueprint. You use a projector to beam the blueprints onto the wall of my house. I now use a price of chalk to trace out your projected blueprints. I have copied your information without your consent, but have I stolen them?
Reminder that patent laws exist to enrich corporations. See right to repair problems.
