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IP Lies – and Theft: Cons from Con Men

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Don’t You Believe Them….

Thieves lie – to advance their thievery.  Because duh.

“Con Men” – is short for “Confidence Men.”

Their objective – is to steal from you.  To achieve their objective – they weave webs of lies to gain your confidence.

To wit: Look at the 1960 Frank Sinatra-Dean Martin flick “Oceans Eleven.”  Or its 2001 George Clooney-Brad Pitt redux.

The Eleven spend months and millions of dollars developing an incessant latticework of lies – to steal the casinos’ many, many millions of dollars.

It reminds me of something my father said:

“People work ten times as hard to avoid work – as the amount of work they would have done if they had just done the work.”

An so it is with Intellectual Property (IP) – and the Con Men who insist on stealing it. (more…)

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