As we try to stress, employing a government/state paradigm to try to solve issues of copyright and patent protection inevitably leads to a one-size-fits-all, top-down system that crushes free communication and market exchange. A voluntary system would work better. But for more than two centuries, the US and other western nations have not allowed for that kind of a system.

One doesn't need government to establish systems of property rights, market exchange, and property rights protections.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70878.html

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