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Except that the response would be that any product with that IP will be banned from EU/USA. That is a huge hit to take.
by ayende 5y ago
Except that the response would be that any product with that IP will be banned from EU/USA. That is a huge hit to take.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoWell suffering sanctions and being left without foundamental technology is already a huge hit
- londons_explore 5y agoBut it's pretty hard to know what devices even contain that IP... Does that Amazon Basics optical gaming mouse contain an ARM CPU? It would probably take weeks of decapping the chip and reverse engineering the CPU to be sure, and even then, figuring out if that CPU is licensed or not is non-trivial. Is customs really going to do that for every item that comes through the border?