I'm not sure what you mean by sidestepping, and I'm also not sure what you are trying to say with that article. Blizzard sued and won based on current copyright law, which I'm arguing is FUBAR.
Edit: Ok now I see what you are saying. I stand by my argument. If your business can be duplicated by me pressing a button, your business is not providing value and the government shouldn't protect it. I don't think we are devaluing what musicians/artists do, but instead what distributors do. Concert sales are up, record sales are down. This makes sense to me.
>If your business can be duplicated by me pressing a button, your business is not providing value and the government shouldn't protect it.
So most web businesses are not providing value. Neither are any other software businesses. Neither are authors.
Except that loads of people want and need software and websites and books. Somehow it seems like this scarcity-based, property-based system of valuation doesn't work well.
Who wants to build the start-up that disrupts capitalism?
No. Most business software by itself is not providing value. You could not clone any web business (or any business for that matter) with the click of a button because the business is a lot more than software.
Edit: Ok now I see what you are saying. I stand by my argument. If your business can be duplicated by me pressing a button, your business is not providing value and the government shouldn't protect it. I don't think we are devaluing what musicians/artists do, but instead what distributors do. Concert sales are up, record sales are down. This makes sense to me.