One other very special observation. IP Law does not protect the Big Corp. Exactly the opposite. I suspect that due to their self-blinding hierarchic nature the Big Corp are quite innovation impotent no matter how much manpower and cashpower they throw. The riches of the 4 horses of the Infocalypse are still coming mostly from the groundbreaking innovations they did in daddy's garages and without dev money. They made money with knowledge. BUT, they failed and fail to make knowledge with money. They made money outta knowledge only because these brain-made things were protectable vs the Big Corps of the day. Not to steal and use it but to destroy it. And not deliberately but from hierarchic blindness and impotence :)