<i>There’s an anti-intellectual thread running through these arguments. It’s a primitive way of thinking, valuing only tangible artifacts and not ideas. It’s OK for a potter to sell pots, but a musician should not sell musics.</i><p>It's a poor ad hominem that this thinking is "primitive" and "anti-intellectual".<p>People like the economist, Mike Masnic explains and then build on freeminum business model and the nature of non-scarce goods for years<p>* <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/rtb.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.techdirt.com/rtb.php</a><p>Two economists wrote an entire book on why intellectual property is flawed. It's also quite a history lesson in itself since it cover century of IP history.<p>*<a href="http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm" rel="nofollow">http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi...</a>