My comment was meant as a general statement - apologies if it seemed to be aimed at you in particular. The issue of protection of IP is one that seems to be ignored in most of these discussions. Perhaps it's because not that many of us actualy generate what we could call IP of our own - we are for the most part consumers, not creators of IP.
It's not hard to spot the envy and schadenfreud of the non-creators and the something-for-nothing crowd. You have to ask yourself - what have THEY created lately? How many jobs have THEY provided? Dig a little deeper, and what you find is sheer envy of the creators and what Rand characterized as the hatred of the good for being good.
Fair enough. Sometimes here on FR its hard to know a general reply from a personal one... :-)