a timocracy of one

Pretty self-explanatory. After seeing yet another blog post in the community on this, I decided to throw in my meager PageRank 5 help on the LogoMaid are rip-off artists campaign.

Update: Why trademark “theft” versus copyright “violation”? When you violate copyright you are committing a crime, but not directly taking anything away from the owner, unless you would have bought the product yourself, or you are distributing it to other who would have (then the lost sales argument comes in). Not that I support any form of Intellectual Property violation, as I depend on IP for my living (I don’t even generally download music – since I don’t pirate, and am boycotting the RIAA), but the case for it being directly equivalent to theft in most cases seems harder to make. Dilution of a trademark, though, to me, seems to be a more cut-and-dried harm, and you are directly taking something from them: public recognition of their branding.