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I doubt this claim very much. How was such a calculation made?

• wendyshu 6y ago
  It was in the book "Dawn of the Code War".
• mindslight 6y ago
  The same way the MPAA sues single mothers for quintillions of dollars. Copyright, patents, and trademarks are all just customs to facilitate creation. They run counter to the obvious Schelling point of information being easily propagated. Bundling these customs up into "IP", attempting to cement them into some iron-clad property regime, and then complaining when that is not respected is mostly just a symptom of western corruption. The immediate remedy is tariffs that compensate for the lack of royalties for goods imported back into the western market. The longer term solution is to accept the reality, and hope that as China develops they will want to buy into the paradigm.