@arstechnica typical nearsighted American thinking: restricting access to IP only erodes the value of that IP because it forces people to workaound its absence. And it's arrogant ignorance to think workarounds can't succeed.
IP is intrinsically worthless. The only thing truly valuable is the Intellect that creates it. IP, and ideas in general, can only have value when they're shared. If you keep ideas to yourself they can never influence the world. They go nowhere, as if they never existed.