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Does it surprise anyone that China would copy someone else’s IP?

• ada1981 8y ago
  Downvotes because China has amazing respect for IP, or something else?
  • iforgotpassword 8y ago
    Down votes because "China" is a country of 1.4 billion people and not a single hive minded unit. Also this was clearly a simple scam to rake in investor money, they just told people what they wanted to hear so they'd throw money at them. Has never happened in the west huh?
    • ada1981 8y ago
      Admittedly, I don’t know the details of this particular situation outside of “yet another copyright / IP scam in China”. Culture is bigger than any individual. IP & Copyright are not part of Chinese history or culture and were largely impositions from The west within the last 50 years. Something like 90% of all business software running in China is stolen. Additionally, Marxist ideas of collective ownership have left their mark. https://www.cio.com/article/2444480/it-organization/understanding-chinese-attitudes-towards-intellectual-property--ip--rights.html https://www.cio.com/article/2444480/it-organization/understa...
  • coldtea 8y ago
    Well, it wasn't in China where the ideas that "software patents are evil" and "copyrighted software is wrong" spurted a whole movement...