Benjamin Franklin, the First IP Pirate?

“What would Benjamin Franklin have thought about P2P file sharing? We’ll never know, but a new book portrays him as a skeptic of intellectual property and an advocate for the common ownership of inventions and ideas.” What a surprise. A person with brains favouring loose IP laws. Anyone with two braincells to rub together understands that a free flow of information and knowledge is beneficial to human development.

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