Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
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When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
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Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
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