>>719156737
Copyright, patent law and trademarks are massive bureaucratic burdens on capitalism. The base assumption of all of these systems is that you have infinite capital, infinite time and a legal team to deal with it, something that may have been true in the 19th century, but which became less and less true over the course of the 20th century, which unfortunately coincided with these systems expanding and becoming international, leading to more of a burden now that you need to deal with claims from more countries.
The balance that is being struck by modern IP law is not keeping capitalism and innovation flowing, it's keeping law firms and trusts in secure business and interested in administrating a patent or property for decades.
Piracy in and of itself can only aid capitalism and doesn't actually impact projected sales unless the property genuinely benefits from information suppression because it is bad.
>>719160784
Valve has already been through a legal battle where they were intentionally starved of revenue during the Vivendi case. This would just be a more complete version of that.
