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The tech was stolen by a Korean company and sold to a Chinese company. China is famous for stealing Western tech. The "IP is evil" crowd on HN think this is uto
by javajosh 8y ago
The tech was stolen by a Korean company and sold to a Chinese company. China is famous for stealing Western tech. The "IP is evil" crowd on HN think this is utopia. The rest (like me) think it's terrible. But the fact that Chinese tech companies routinely steal tech is not in question, and it's not even objectively a smear.
- pas 8y agoI think copyright and IP in general is important and both extremes are bad. Sadly this is one area where there are seemingly no easy solutions. Fashion seems to cope well without IP protection except trademarks. And arguably a lot of human endeavors could be done less adversarially (such as pharma research, battery research, etc) but the lure of potential future profit drives a lot of R&D there. So maybe the solution is to reserve IP for things that seem to work well only in a market race setup, but drop it to a few years in all other areas. And as we set up X prizes, a regulator/committee could designate specialized R&D races. (Or other kinds of IP incentives.) Though who knows. Would Netflix produce new series/content without the 70 years of copyright? Well maybe not, but probably there wouldn't be a Netflix either if all that content were just p2p available from the Library after 4-5 years.