Comment: What made me change my opinion on this...

I was originally pro-IP 100%, but I researched the issue a little deeper, and have come to the conclusion that more harm than good comes from IP rights. This is most apparent in the healthcare industry and with medicine.

http://mises.org/daily/5229/The-Wicked-Work-of-Medical-Patents

I thought of a scenario that I couldn't understand:

Imagine if you bought a CD of your favorite band. You use your computer, your blank CD's, your electricity, your labor, and burn 25 CD's. Do you own them? Can you sell them as copies? Can you sell the original CD for more than you paid? What about your property rights in that instance to use your resources as you choose?

IP is basically using government force to stop people from using resources they own.

IP also prohibits two people from inventing the same thing at the same time in different places with no coordination. It uses government force to block the second person from following through on his idea because the other guy file paperwork first.

I'm still researching the issue, but I'm now leaning the other way, mostly against IP rights as a constitutional necessity. I don't understand why some people in this thread are being so hateful and negative. Can we have a civil discussion?