re: #405 ihateronpaul

And yet the conservatives always support DRM because it reinforces intellectual property.

That’s a mighty broad brush there.

Should the government have the right to take your book? This is the same bullshit behind eminent domain, and I’m against it.

That’s the final clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Takings Clause: “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Believe me, we needed that where I live, to build a four-lane highway to carry the traffic that was, quite literally, killing too many people on a two-lane road. That eminent domain was exercised very much “for public use.”