Originally Posted by TheDoc

What a load of shit.... betamax now? My wiki title about monopolies? Your brain is fried man.... lay off the drugs.

Originally Posted by gideongallery

the supreme court explictly declared copyright to be a monopoly 20 times in the betamax case

you might want to look at the case before you try and argue that copyright is not a monopoly.

http://supreme.justia.com/us/464/417/case.html

Originally Posted by TheDoc

gideongallery.... the shit just keeps spewing from you.

The United States Supreme Court frequently refers to a patent as providing a "limited monopoly." This is not, however, appropriate usage of the term monopoly in the economic sense. In fact, intellectual property protection cannot properly be thought of as providing an economic monopoly, at least in part, because a monopoly can only exist in the presence of a market and the ability of an actor to manipulate the market to a point where higher than competitive prices are able to be maintained, which is something that is rarely achievable by an owner of intellectual property.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelle...poly_privilege