The copyright industry is lobbying the WTO against an exception to vaccine patents.

Since copyrights and patents are independent laws, different on every detail, why would the copyright industry care about this question? I think it is the result of lumping these and other unrelated laws together under the umbrella term "intellectual property". That is meant to teach people to imagine a mythical principle of "intellectual property," which is so important that it overrides practical needs of whatever kind.

The world would be better off if we eliminate patents entirely. We should do so, in software and in general.

I do not advocate entirely eliminating copyright — rather, reducing it to some extent.

But we should entirely reject the term and myth of "intellectual property."

The "music industry" represses people who listen to music The "music industry" plants its boot on people who listen to music, using a repressive copyright system such as the DMCA, in the name of musicians and composers. At the same time, it increases its plutocratist exploitation of musicians and composers to the point where those get almost none of the money that the companies squeeze out of us.

I've proposed two better ways for listeners to support the musicians and composers. Let's make a deal with them, and tell Spotify and the music copyright industry to dry up and blow away.

The first, personal step: always listen to music from a non-DRM copy in your own computer — never from a streaming dis-service. By insisting on having a copy, you make sure that the possibility of sharing a copy is always available to you.

Colorado cops arrested a 73-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease who had tried to leave a store with a little merchandise she had not paid for (and maybe did not remember she had). Staff had taken it from her already.

The cops broke her arm and caused her other injuries.

*Police video shows officers joking about violent arrest of Colorado woman.*

Bill Gates is still campaigning hard against generic Covid-19 vaccines.

A mob in Papua New Guinea tortured two women with burning metal, demanding they confess to being witches.

This sort of atrocity still occurs in many parts of the world.

Our internet hate mobs are the same sort of psychological phenomenon, but without the physical violence.