What people do not know is IP is not about innovation, but about stopping innovation.
Precisely. And regardless how many times they hear it, and in so many different ways, they will refuse to believe it. Why is this? I used to think it was the ego afraid to be wrong or something like this but I think it's a much bigger problem.
As long as people continue to believe the information fed to them straight from the spoon of the status quo, whether by choice or by ignorance, they will never be capable of seeing the truth of this. Some people are completely aware of what's going on and support IP precisely
because it slows innovation, other people's innovation that is. So a good, patriotic American will chant the slogans about bad "pirates" and thieves around the world knowing full well this is a complete load of crap. The point is to legally prevent others from getting into the game. Otherwise how could we possibly get top dollar for AIDS drugs around the world? All we want is their money and if they have none to give then absolutely, let them die. Those people are worthless anyway, since money is the only true measure of value.
But the vast majority of supporters simply parrot what their told by the machine that manufactures consent. Understanding the catastrophic harm that IP does to the world would probably make most begin to reject the practice, especially the white and wealthy who like to declare how they heal the world by displaying a bumper sticker of sympathy for some cause. So as long as that sticker can say they support a Pirate Free World then they don't have to lose sleep over the effects of their actions, or inaction.
