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Interesting tidbit of history, but not sure I get your point. This pre-dates international IP conventions and the flourishing of innovation in the modern age, a
by aneth4 13y ago
Interesting tidbit of history, but not sure I get your point. This pre-dates international IP conventions and the flourishing of innovation in the modern age, and this was a single technology over which China had a monopoly hundreds of years.
Nobody is saying the west never steals anything. There is a difference between pointing out one occurrence of a technology being "stolen" 500 years ago and a modern policy of government supported IP theft through hacking, trickery, and contract violation.
- nefreat 13y agoYou may be interested in learning how Hollywood came into existence (http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf) or America's roles in industrial revolution (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/piracy-and-fraud-propelled-the-u-s-industrial-revolution.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/piracy-and-fraud-pr...). Most of the industries that vigorously support intellectual property now benefited the most from public domain knowledge and blatant piracy of ideas.
- gioele 13y agoThere are plenty of "stolen" inventions, you can start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions Talking about and "government supported IP theft", the "They" in "They took the crops and silk production infrastructure, and deported all the workers to Palermo" from the excerpt I quoted refers to "the Norman king Roger II of Sicily" and "Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos". Those were surely _govern sponsored_. My point is an easy one: history repeat itself.