Based on Blockstream’s behavior in the Bitcoin community, I have become absolutely certain that Segwit contains patents that Blockstream and/or their owners have planned…
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In A Way I Do Sort Of Envy The US Its Patent System
I most certainly don’t envy the US its patent system as such, but as a European politician, I am concerned that the US seems…
Read MoreThe Declared Value System: Managing Monopolies for the Public Good
What would a truly free-market approach to copyrights and patents look like? The problem we have right now is this: The flat green line…
Read MorePayright: A Copyright/Patent Reform Proposal To Make Piracy Obsolete
Copyright and patent monopolies can be reformed to be less terrible, but in the long-term they need to be reformed into smithereens with a…
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How Patent Monopolies Work In Reality, Outside Of Fairytale Land
There is a fairytale about how a poor, lone inventor can come up with something fantastic, file a patent monopoly on it, and get…
Read MoreThe Teachers' Guild – A Short Story From a Parallel Universe
Imagine a world, in which when you teach something to someone the knowledge is considered your “intellectual property”. Your students are not permitted to…
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Sudden Mass Support From Oldmedia: "Patents Do Prevent Innovation"
It appears that the world of oldmedia has woken up like one to the fact that patents prevent innovation — in fact, that it’s…
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The Twenty-Year Web Cache
You’ve felt the frustration many times. As you write a comment on an interesting story, the web server responds with the message that the…
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Ten Myths About Patents
Patent monopolies were an instrument during the guild era that regulated how knowledge could pass from master artisans to their apprentices. For some reason,…
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Startup Investors: "Patents are a cancer"
One oft-questioned objective of the Pirate Parties is the dismantlement of the patent system, as in scrapping the concept altogether. Patents are a remnant…
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