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seeds: yes, seed companies are evil. They'll send people out to tresspass on your fields to take samples of your crops to see if they accidentally were cross pollinated by the neighboring farm that is paying for the proprietary seed. Also they force you to destroy any seeds you may have produced each year so you have to buy all new from them.
products: yeah there's a potential issue here where a little guy can make a product and then a big guy can knock it off because they can leverage their massive access to capital to build it at a scale you never could and distribute it beyond your reach. Oh wait that's basically what we see Amazon doing every day (when they're not just selling literal Chinese counterfeits) and nobody's holding them accountable for it lol
I don't think the argument makes too much sense for e.g., books though. Like what, is someone gonna make a knockoff Lord of the Rings where the main character is named Drodo instead and he's not a hobbit he's a todget? "Moby Dick? We read Toby Rick when I was a kid..." I just can't really imagine this happening with things like books.
Although it would allow fan-fiction to be published and that could get weird. But the easy way around that is for authors and publishers of original works to find a way to differentiate their products with like a "Nintendo Seal of Approval" type thing, right?
seeds: yes, seed companies are evil. They'll send people out to tresspass on your fields to take samples of your crops to see if they accidentally were cross pollinated by the neighboring farm that is paying for the proprietary seed. Also they force you to destroy any seeds you may have produced each year so you have to buy all new from them.
products: yeah there's a potential issue here where a little guy can make a product and then a big guy can knock it off because they can leverage their massive access to capital to build it at a scale you never could and distribute it beyond your reach. Oh wait that's basically what we see Amazon doing every day (when they're not just selling literal Chinese counterfeits) and nobody's holding them accountable for it lol
I don't think the argument makes too much sense for e.g., books though. Like what, is someone gonna make a knockoff Lord of the Rings where the main character is named Drodo instead and he's not a hobbit he's a todget? "Moby Dick? We read Toby Rick when I was a kid..." I just can't really imagine this happening with things like books.
Although it would allow fan-fiction to be published and that could get weird. But the easy way around that is for authors and publishers of original works to find a way to differentiate their products with like a "Nintendo Seal of Approval" type thing, right?