Gates' Commie quote inspires the masses

Last week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates likened some of the more vocal anti-intellectual property advocates to latter-day communists. "There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist," he said.

Since then, individuals have created propaganda-style desktop art in the Soviet style in sarcastic homage. In one, a backwards copyright symbol, in yellow, floats upon a red flag, similar to the old Soviet flag. In another, Soviet deco giants lock arms in front of a map of the globe.

We'd tell you who the artists are, but, frankly, they might use the notoriety to further their careers, which would allow them to indirectly profit from intellectual property, which in turn would undermine their arguments. And they certainly wouldn't want to do that.