Our first patent troll
> For some inventions this makes sense<p>No. It never makes sense. You cannot justify the Intellectual Slavery system, anymore than you can justify the Human Slavery system. It's a restriction on human freedoms; it's incompatible with actual property rights (as it restricts what I can do with my own physical property); it's a subsidy to those who were born into it (when you follow the money that flows to copyrights and patents holders, you see the majority goes to inherited wealth).<p>It's economically bad and morally wrong, is as much as you can have something morally wrong. Here is a classic example of what the Intellectual Slavery industry has brought us: <a href="https://qz.com/1125690/big-pharma-is-taking-advantage-of-patent-law-to-keep-oxycontin-from-ever-dying/" rel="nofollow">https://qz.com/1125690/big-pharma-is-taking-advantage-of-pat...</a> half a million Americans dead from a "novel" patent.<p>The system is utter garbage. We need to shatter the brainwashing that these things make sense.