The more they force me to do, the less I care to do it.

The founding fathers had great ideas, and it’s maddening to see those wholesome ideas abused. Granted, the founding fathers weren’t directly behind some things like copyright and patent laws, but the same idea holds that good, virtuous principles were made into helpful laws and now we see them benefit mostly the behemoths , and hurt the common-folk. The fact that someone can file for a patent, with no intention of ever actually creating anything makes me crazy. I knew someone who (true story) owned a failing tech business and out of desperation, rallied his employees together to brainstorm inventions or ideas that he could patent, then get money from lawsuits for infringement. I hate to follow the typical cliché of Robin Hood, if there is an apparent abuse of power by leadership, I have no qualms disregarding their expectations. The more I hear about the abuse of power by large companies, especially in the media industry, the less inclined I am to watch/listen to their content by paying for it myself. Patent law and copy right were designed to protect the innovator; however, those same laws have turned around to damn inventors, and line the pockets of the already rich. Something needs to change.