I have an issue with the suffocating IP regime (videos being copyright stricken for simple use of works, DRM, rent seeking, patent trolls, etc). And if non-West

I have an issue with the suffocating IP regime (videos being copyright stricken for simple use of works, DRM, rent seeking, patent trolls, etc). And if non-Western countries want to construct or use their own notions of intellectual “property,” then so be it, if it is their own software and their own creations. But Russia is specifically saying you can pirate software from countries supporting sanctions i.e. Western software made under Western ideas of IP and an expectation of profit for their work. If Russia wants to allow pirating Russian software, then I don’t see the issue. But to buck another country’s legal framework is a step over the line. If Russia wants to use Western software (Photoshop, Microsoft Word, cloud providers), they need to respect the Western terms of use. Take the .cat domain for Catalan. It is Catalonia’s right to make the terms of use of that domain such that the user must support Catalan translations. If you don’t want to agree by these terms, it is not your right then, to say “well that’s a Western idea of cultural integrity and I don’t agree with that and I’m gonna use the domain anyways.” It’s their domain, their software, not yours.