MaidSafe founder David Irvine asked the U.S. government in June 2014 to create and enforce a monopoly on his behalf. On January 1 of this year, the U.S. government agreed to do so . The monopolistic grab goes by another name, too: patent.
The following computing process is what Irvine now claims he owns: “A method of storing data from a first node on a peer-to-peer network. The method includes creating a public and private […]