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Thanks! A good primer on IP issues is Against Intellectual Monopoly.

It's all in the book. They did statistical analysis of several cases where similarly situated countries with different patent laws. I highly recommend it if you are at all interested in intellectual property. It completely upends the entire premise of patent law.

Emulating is perfectly moral. IP law has been long corrupted and bribed into being by big media long before the videogame industry existed.

Technically all videogames should be going into libraries and the public domain at some point per the constitution. So go ahead and pirate and emulate, game companies have long since proved they are just as corrupt as any other big corporation buying up laws to prevent you from owning and controlling the stuff you buy.

Go read a book on the topic, most people on reddit are politically ignorant to an extreme degree. It's the exact opposite.

https://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopoly-Michele-Boldrin/dp/0521127262/

Here's the constitution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Note the emphasis on LIMITED TIMES. Not infinite times.

I can't lie, I thought it was pretty funny when I found out this book was copyrighted.

State regulation hinders competition by definition.

In this case, imagine their worst case scenario: the single operating ISP in your area charges $50 extra for access to Wikipedia, but backroom deals with Fox News makes it your required homepage.

Now even if, against 99% of the history of the State, this legislation did not contain any specifically-designed bonuses for the entrenched ISPs (for them or against entrepreneurs), the Unseen Costs are what matters. They are often subtle, but still have immense impact on markets.

Perhaps consider that the big ISPs don't mind "Net Neutrality" if it means that upstarts that figure out how to provide the services you want at a lower cost (maybe by focusing on traffic of particular types, like streaming video etc) cannot start their business since they cannot handle ALL kinds of traffic that "Net Neutrality" requires. They can't start their business, so they can't compete with this local monopoly, so they don't have to lower their prices while providing lower and lower quality service.

That's just one possibility from the top of my head.

Here is a reading suggestion. Titled Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michelle Boldrin.

http://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopoly-Michele-Boldrin/dp/0521127262

It is also hosted for free as a digital version on UCLA.edu.

> share his invention to the world and not what you said.

Uhh you are politically ignorant, go read a book. It's the exact opposite.

https://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopoly-Michele-Boldrin/dp/0521127262/

Here's the constitution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
Discoveries.

Note the emphasis on LIMITED TIMES. Not infinite times.

Sounds like you have a problem with patents.