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Unfortunately the polls show the media still has far too much influence on the election. When Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll earlier, their coverage propelled her to a solid third place for a few weeks. When Perry entered the race, their coverage enabled him to jump to the head of the pack...

The thread has doubled in size since I last posted in it, and yet all I see are the same exact points in favor of IP still being tossed around while all of the counterpoints explained by myself and many others against IP continue to be ignored. There's absolutely nothing gained by this thread...

Once someone has committed aggression against you, you are free to use self-defense to protect yourself and your private property.

I appreciate the apology, and I apologize for suggesting you may have been trolling us in a previous post. By unconscionability, I'm referring to the the examination of a contract to see if the provisions contained are considered excessively unfair and seen as unenforceable. When taken in a...

I should have qualified my position. I assume we're discussing contracts in a libertarian society based on the nonaggression principle, which in that case would maintain the illegality of contracting someone to kill another innocent (key word I should have included) person.

The problem is Mr Tansill believes contracts trump everything, even in a libertarian society with no exceptions (at least none he as admitted to yet, that could change). Based on the fact that he doesn't qualify this claim, I assume he's trolling us and it's best to move on.

There's no need for the personal attack. Also, I have continued to point out that when private property conflicts with the terms of a contract, that private property must win out or else it's nothing more than a meaningless label. IMO, contracts that attempt to turn private property into a form...

It's also important to note that there are limits to how much one can be binded depending on the context and clauses of the contract. It's critical that contracts do not supersede private property by turning ownership into renting unless it's explicitly stated that the person is merely renting...

Of course, I'm not claiming all contracts as part of a sale are unenforceable, just in particular ones that try to prevent a person from using their property in arbitrary ways long after the sale is complete. I also agree that contracts such as NDAs between two parties would be acceptable and...

You still have not explained why a contract stating certain actions are prohibited after purchasing a product would be considered legal, it remains just an assumption that you keep repeating. Under your claim, there would be no limit to what could be prohibited when one buys a product as long as...

See my post which already directly dealt with the claim of fraud, the one you ignored.

Repeatedly posting the same video and claiming it refutes everything does nothing to defend your positions. Please articulate how the video justifies IP and why it invalidates the plethora of arguments against IP found in this thread.

All of what you just stated is irrelevant to the IP discussion. I've acknowledged multiple times the fact that creating music and other abstract concepts requires time and effort, and I've also explained how copying a song or a certain arrangement of words does not in anyway deny the innovator...

That's false. Not all contracts are legal even in a libertarian society, especially those with ridiculous and unenforceable clauses that conflict with other basic principles of libertarianism. For example, person A enters into a contract with person B that he will pay person B $10,000 by a...

The problem here is the implicit assumption that ALL contracts are legal under a libertarian society, which is untrue. The burden of proof lies on the pro-IP side to explain why private property can be legally prevented from certain uses via an adhesion contract which even in today's...