@geohsia: All the points that you are making are already answered by my previous post. I guess ysss was right, nobody is gonna leave this thread any wiser

Don't be so hung up on the "selling IP" thing, it's not going to survive. I don't have to come up with a new system, someone else will soon enough.

The drug example that you give is a good way to show how the current system is broken, just change cancer with some common infectious disease. Generic drugs cost very little to produce, yet many millions go into the research of the original. If we don't protect the IP, the company who did the research doesn't get a return on their investment. If we do, millions of children die.