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Call me a pessimist, but I don't see IP law in general ever getting any better.
by beedogs 15y ago
Call me a pessimist, but I don't see IP law in general ever getting any better.
- ma2rten 15y agoCall me an optimist. But I think some time soon there will be such a ridiculous lawsuit, that even politicians/the electorate will see that it's time to review IP laws.
- JonoW 14y agoI think the problem is that all the companies involved (Apple, Microsoft, Google etc) are American; if the products of one American company are banned somewhere, another American company will invariably benefit. I think if an American companies products were being banned in the US to the benefit of a non-US company, only then will US law-makers start raising their eyebrows.
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoI'm not necessarily thinking that the laws will change, just that we'll go back to the situation of a few years ago where enforcement was a little less vigorous. Merely the potential for dumb rather than the ongoing implementation of dumb.