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Car mechanics should do hard time for their heinous crime

Car mechanics should do hard time for their heinous crime

Dentist offices have been sued. Super Bowl parties have been canceled. Coffee shops have been harassed. Elvis impersonators have been sent nasty-grams. So who is next in line for IP litigation? How about car mechanics, whom have failed to pay the royalties of using personal radios that can be overheard by customers and colleagues. Unfortunately for the IP establishment, not only are their philosophical claims shaky at best, but their business model has been utterly destroyed. See also Kinsella’s latest stories of of IP abuses and negative economic costs.

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