Dean Baker’s been doing this whole “Kill intellectual property“ thing for a while, and now he’s published it in Jacobin. He’s also getting an amusing amount of pushback elsewhere about how he’s condoning theft.
My dark fear here though is for software. The way them to deal with this shit is to make everything a subscription service, and already too much shit is subscription service. I want to only have to pay once for something.
Thing is, there’s a lot of ground between axing all the intellectual property and just reducing some of it. I bet the greatest freeing up in resources would occur from removing the first 10% of bad intellectual property law.