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While true that the US is no saint in this regard, the scale of IP theft by China is industrial, and well known.
by remarkEon 8y ago
While true that the US is no saint in this regard, the scale of IP theft by China is industrial, and well known.
- vkou 8y agoIf history is any indication, once countries start becoming net exporters of IP, and net importers of low-skilled labour, they very quickly adopt the same neo-liberal trade and IP policies that are currently championed by the developed world.
- ben_jones 8y agoYes imagine if Thomas Edison had had his inventions stolen! American ingenuity stands on our patent system.
- vkou 8y agoImagine if Thomas Edison built his inventions off the ideas, and prototypes of others... Without crediting, or compensating them. Which he did. [1] [1] He even engaged in outright theft - copying, and selling bootleg movies, for Pete's sake's! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon
- fredkorematsu 8y agoEdison himself was stealing ideas from others. Not to mention the slave labour and free natural resources of a new continent that americans used while enforcing chinese exclusion act. Ip theft from china is western imagination.
- screye 8y agoBad example buddy.
- KorematsuFred 8y agoEdison was the biggest thief of IP during his time. Of course when western societies steal it is not theft but "manifest destinty" "braveness" and a lot of other BS. But Chinese company's rise is purely because of theft. Is it ?