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Seems rather pointless since it would be totally unenforcable. As if North Korea, the #1 producer of counterfeit US currency worldwide, is going to respect IP
by dralley 6y ago
Seems rather pointless since it would be totally unenforcable. As if North Korea, the #1 producer of counterfeit US currency worldwide, is going to respect IP rights. Likewise with Russia and China.
The same logic applies to the US too, by the way. I don't think the NSA thought too hard about e.g. whether backdooring Cisco routers was in violation of any IP laws - I doubt they'd care much about the contents of LICENSE.txt. Complete exercise in futility.
- Nomentatus 6y agoMuch more enforceable than you'd think, since trade treaties don't allow countries to widely violate licenses. Not to mention that products can't be shipped from rogue countries to the rest of the world with such software, say an embedded OS. What doesn't have a chip in it, now?
- realityking 6y agoHow many treaties like this is North Korea a signatory of? And if they are a member of any, how much do they care about breaching them considering they‘re already under comprehensive sanctions?
- Nomentatus 6y agoRussia, China, Iran - all still rely heavily on international trade treaties. North Korea not so much, true.
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