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So, while a mere three days ago I complained about the commoditization of America, where pretty much every item under the sun can be bought or sold, today my evil twin emerges to defend intellectual property and complain about the many Americans defending the theft — and I chose that word carefully — of it.
Is it any surprise that Pavel Hlava, a Czech immigrant, hoarded a videotape of the planes hitting the World Trade Center on 9/11, hoping to cash in on it? Or that when he couldn't sell the tape because and thought it had "lost its value," he still kept it to himself? And then paid a bar tab with it?