Fate of those who challenge world's reserve currency!

[phillipsjk]

Uh, sorry to tell you that I am the owner of a substantial body of intellectual property subject to copyright and I haven't changed my behaviour one little bit!

Steal my shit and I sue you ass and WIN!

Copyright is not property.

Everyone has the right to participate in the cultural life of the community. All works build on what came before.

Article 27
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author

- http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a27

Copyright law from the Statute of Anne appears to be a simplification of "moral rights" such as attribution and control over publication. Now that Copyright terms border on perpetual, Copyright law has lost it's way. Torrenting works subject to Copyright is essentially civil disobedience these days.

Obviously, maintaining Bitcoin nodes can be considered civil disobedience against the financial system: whether Bitcoin replaces FIAT for most online transactions or not.

Edit: Software Patents make me question why the patent system even exists.

[jonald_fyookball]

Fiat currency, like software copyright lawsuits and copyright law itself, will become more and more a farcical affair as we move further and further into the information age.

Not to derail the topic but don't you mean software patents?  Copyrighting software is pretty useless because it would be very difficult to enforce - e.g. the copier could just change variable names in the code and the copyright would be unenforceable.

As a holder of several software patents, some of which I've assigned and some of which I still own, I have mixed feelings about the whole patent situation. Owning an earlier issued patent certainly saved my bacon when somebody else tried to sue me for infringement of a somewhat similar patent that they owned.

No, I think that was his point exactly.  (bolded above)