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Sure, China has less strict IP laws and less strict enforcement, as well as possibly a government policy of looking the other way when they can acquire tech fro
by lazaroclapp 11y ago
Sure, China has less strict IP laws and less strict enforcement, as well as possibly a government policy of looking the other way when they can acquire tech from abroad. But there is a huge difference between that and labeling those activities as state sponsored economic espionage in all cases.
Morris Cohen giving the U.S.S.R the plans for the atomic bomb? Espionage.
Two professors doing a startup in China with tech that was probably under NDA/copyright/patents of their former employer? Not espionage.
Really, if this was all happening internally inside the U.S. it would probably be a civil lawsuit at most... and only news in Techcrunch, not NYT.
- o0-0o 11y agoThat sounds a lot like minimizing the issue here. I can't recall a single case where U.S. citizens stole Chinese high technology, brought it back to the U.S., started a company, and then sold it the U.S. government. That is what this is about - cut and dried.
- dba7dba 11y ago@ lazaroclapp I never mentioned state sanctioned theft of IP. You brought it up first.
- lazaroclapp 11y agoDidn't mean to imply you did. That comment was about how it's being reported in the media in general, should have made it more clear. Edit: I think I was more reinforcing your point than challenging it, basically "the main issue is different standards of IP protection laws; without (an unusual level of) malice involved.", but it's being reported as a movie plot heist...