I really wanted it to use as an alternative for WhatsApp for our family. However, I’m the “tech guy” in the family and really struggled to get it to work for my wife and me. So, I didn’t see how my family would be able to use it.

Maybe I’ll have to try it again. Or look into flufffluff or however it’s called.

Funny enough the first documented IP right occurred 1474 in Venice, the beginning of the Renaissance.

However, it can be discussed whether there really was an exponential increase in inventions during that time.

Also, I did not say that IP rights started the development but that it correlates. Causation and correlation should not be mixed up. Whether IP rights caused the exponential growth or the exponential growth made it necessary to protect the ideas I don’t know.

Maybe look at the time since when inventions grew exponentially and you’ll see that it correlates with IP protection.

Every protected IP right may be an incentive for someone to circumvent it thereby generating new ideas/inventions.

There is no black and white. Some exploit the IP rights but this should be a reason for politics to amend the law so that the exploit is no longer possible. Hate the player, not the game.