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Thomas Paine’s Explanation of why People Believe in Intellectual Property

a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” — Thomas Paine, Common Sense

(Not that Paine was perfectly consistent himself on IP: see Tom Paine, Copyright Statist.)
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