For However Much The State May Gain

Before The Monopoly Should Be Permitted, There Must Be Reason To Believe It Will Do Some Good - For Society, And Not Just For Monopoly Holders.

The Legal System Doesn't Work. Or More Accurately, It Doesn't Work For Anyone Except Those With The Most Resources. Not Because The System Is Corrupt. I Don't Think Our Legal System (at The Federal Level, At Least) Is At All Corrupt. I Mean Simply Because The Costs Of Our Legal System Are So Astonishingly High That Justice Can Practically Never Be Done.

If The Internet Teaches Us Anything, It Is That Great Value Comes From Leaving Core Resources In A Commons, Where They're Free For People To Build Upon As They See Fit.

We Live In A World With "free" Content, And This Freedom Is Not An Imperfection. We Listen To The Radio Without Paying For The Songs We Hear; We Hear Friends Humming Tunes That They Have Not Licensed. We Tell Jokes That Reference Movie Plots Without The Permission Of The Directors. We Read Our Children Books, Borrowed From A Library, Without Paying The Original Copyright Holder For The Performance Rights.

One Great Feature Of Modern Society Is The Institutionalized Respect We Give To Processes Designed To Destroy The Past.