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[Matt Gerrans]

> Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies
of
> the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the
> underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons.  Intellectual
> property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.

Good quote!   (Although, unfortunately -- and perhaps more so, if it's a
predictor for "intellectual property" -- slave trade persisted long past the
16th century).