Jammie Thomas

In 1800s the British had a thriving IP industry. One of their most jealously guarded secrets was the design of a powered loom. In 1810 an American businessman named Francis Cabot Lowell stole those plans. Memorized them actually, but whatever.

And then we named a frakking city after him.

That's what we thought about IP 200 years ago. Real IP, too, not some trumped up gangster thug nonsense from a sickeningly corrupt oligopoly called the RIAA.

And frankly, that's what we still think about IP; aside from some brainwashed suckers, purchased politicians, and the aristocracy that steals the IP from the engineers and artists that actually create it under the legal handwaving they call 'work for hire'.

Welcome to Jammieville motherfuckers.