Yup, every country is anti-IP when it's behind the technology curve and pro-IP when it's ahead. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-02-01/piracy-and-f

Yup, every country is anti-IP when it's behind the technology curve and pro-IP when it's ahead. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-02-01/piracy-and-fraud-propelled-the-u-s-industrial-revolution https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-02-01/piracy-an... "The first U.S. Patent Act encouraged this policy. Although the law safeguarded domestic inventors, it didn’t extend the same courtesy to foreign ones -- they couldn’t obtain a U.S. patent on an invention they had previously patented in Europe. In practice, this meant one could steal a foreign invention, smuggle it to the U.S., and develop it for domestic commercial applications without fear of legal reprisal."