Corporate Profit and Dishonesty

First posted on FB 5/22/14:

When did intellectual property become only about corporate profit? Seems whenever I hear the term on NPR it's some company whining about Chinese hackers or two corporations duking it out. What happened to teaching your children not to lie, steal or cheat? I think our loss of privacy a la the internet is only one more step in this mission creep. BP not ever having to tell us what toxins and carcinogens they dumped in the Gulf, let alone the quantities of their secondary toxic spill is only one example.