http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/start.html?pg=2
Short article which compares current efforts by would-be intellectural property monopolists in the USA to restrict competition with the efforts made over three decades ago to save the USA cargo shipping industry. It didn't work then, and it is not going to work now -- the only result will be a loss of USA competitiveness accompanied by a rise of less-effective [but adequate and much cheaper] services and products elsewhere.
The major point of the article deserves to be hoisted inboard: the objection to excessive IP restriction is not that it is wrong and harmful [though in fact it is], but that over the long run it just plain does not work. The hows and whys of this are breifly sketched here -- they are nevertheless convincing.
If there ever was an argument against special interests that should be heeded throughout national policy-making, this is it. With the way governments protect people's rights today, of course, this is simply a laughable delusion, but we have to know what to want before we can ask for it.
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