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| | Are "Intellectual Property Rights" Justified? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | Furthermore, in order to ensure that this reward can be collected, it seems to be justifiable to rely on the machinery of copyright and patent protection, mechanisms which intrinsically rely on the presence of an all-powerful government, which can enforce these institutions. |
 | | It has happened more than once in history, that a city-state was founded right at a strategic bottle-neck, such as a naturally destined river-crossing, and has set up an enforced system to collect a bridge toll, without which humanity arguably would have been better off. |
 | | Something that has not happened yet, but has been proposed occasionally, is that programmers ought to be licensed to be able to practice their trade. |
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