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The Quagmire of Intellectual Property

The Quagmire of Intellectual Property
Ah, what would we do without patent and copyight? Here is patent law being used to threaten Google's for having the audacity to bill people to make voice calls over the Internet--everybody knows that this ... idea? ... is "owned" by Rates Technology; and here's copyright law being used to squelch views dissenting from orthodox evolutionism.
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