Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

I'm afraid we will have to agree to disagree. If you think things like "patent enforcement" == "government protected monopoly", we are at an impasse.

Well, leaving aside what one thinks of patents and copyrights - a "government protected monopoly" is EXACTLY what a patent is, by definition: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" Or do you have some different definition of "exclusive Right?" But we digress. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra