thats actually not true, copyright laws are very valuable, theres plenty of things you can do if someone breaks your copyright, dont forget these laws can help small beginning corporations just as easily as large multinationals. and whats wrong with protecting your ideas? If you did all the work, you earn the right to decide who you share it with.

A) there are rules against monopolies, see the various lawsuits that are currently running against microsoft, google, yahoo, etc. there is increasing pressure on monopolies to allow more competition and stop unfair trade policies and this pressure will continue to grow.

As for photoshop, yes the price is high, but dont forget there are imense amounts of manhours involved in making these software packages. All these programmers need to be paid as well. amongst the various other costs involved.

B) You dont neccesarily need to protect your work from some multi million dollar industry.. there are smaller scale threats.

C) And why is it not good for you to be able to protect your work? Would you like spending months of your life programming software or making art or wiritng a book to just have it shared everywhere for free?

Theres some fear against large businesses, but dont forget without these large institutes numerous beneficial developments would not be possible. Someone needs to invest the costs and the manhours.

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