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Intellectual property is dying as fast as privacy is
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I find it funny when people who believe in intellectual property don't also believe in privacy. Unless extreme measures are taken, there will not be enough individual privacy to secure intellectual property.  Ray Kurzweil raises a technological argument, and an argument based on the rate of technological change (evolution) being too fast for the laws to keep up with. My argument against intellectual property is also based on technology, but more on how it will be used to allow ideas to be so easily stolen that no one will be able to determine where an idea originated.

In a radically transparent society there isn't any intellectual property because everyone will see you thinking up something and copy you before you can even finish thinking about it. In a society with espionage like ours, as surveillance technology becomes ubiquitous and efficient it will become increasingly difficult to know whether anywhere is private and where any particular idea originated because information will possibly be shared in real time. When an idea is released to the world with no intellectual property then the incentive to apply espionage decreases because it's released to the world from the start.