← Back to context

Comment by silexia

2 years ago

Monopoly is the keyword here. Ticketmaster and Boeing and all the other nefarious companies here use PATENTS to prevent competitors from eating their lunch. Patents need to be done away with to allow free competition, don't believe the propaganda about patents helping creators

26 comments

silexia

Reply
mattmaroon  2 years ago

I love it when a system has been working for hundreds of years through by far the most prosperous time in human history but people on the internet are sure it is wrong. No proof, no evidence, not even logic, just certainty.

Also, I don’t think any of the issues with Ticketmaster have anything to do with patents.

  • giovannibonetti  2 years ago

    Maybe we could just reduce the patent's duration to compensate for the acceleration of information diffusion caused by the internet in the last few decades. Does that seem reasonable to you?

    • mattmaroon  2 years ago

      What problem are we trying to solve? Why do we think there is a problem? If the idea behind the system was to give people a financial incentive to innovate, and since the system has been put in place humans have been exponentially more innovative than they were before, why do we think it needs fixing?

      Nothing seems reasonable to me on the topic unless it comes with evidence as to how it would improve a system that would appear by any objective measure to be doing incredibly well.

      And what does any of it have to do with ticket master? They’re awful in a lot of ways, but I’m not aware of patent trolling to be one of them. If they even have and enforce patents, I’ve not heard of them, and I work in live events so I’m fairly well-informed on that company. Everyone in the industry hates them, it's unlikely they’re doing anything awful that isn’t routinely mentioned.

      7 replies →

  • some_random  2 years ago

    Yeah seriously, what patents are we talking about here? My understanding is that reason Ticketmaster is a monopoly is through deals with venues

Steven420  2 years ago

If you don't have a patent on an invention then how do you protect it from people who will just steal what you have spent time/money creating?

  • treyd  2 years ago

    This is what patents used to do, but the economic and technological circumstances under which they did have changed dramatically over the last couple hundred years. All they really do now is entrench the power of the massive corporations with the capital to buy them up and sue anyone that they think encroach. It's not promoting innovation anymore, it's stifling it.

  • TrinaryWorksToo  2 years ago

    Patents no longer go to individual people. They go to corporations. Perhaps we should ban corporations from getting patents on behalf of people.

    • OJFord  2 years ago

      That would be.. interesting from a compensation & retention (& poaching!) perspective!

    • fallingknife  2 years ago

      So the work of 1000 people at a company may have gone into developing the tech that is to be patented, but we must restrict the patent to being owned by one single individual?

      1 reply →

  • rundev  2 years ago

    1. If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. 2. Patents wouldn't be as forceful if they didn't last that long. A decade or more is basically forever in a fast-moving field like tech.

    • itsoktocry  2 years ago

      >If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue.

      Sounds like something a VC would say.

      Have you considered that inventing things and selling them are two different skill sets?

      The patent system needs reform, not elimination.

      4 replies →