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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Patents and copyright law won't survive for long. They seemingly don't even exist in the 2 most populous countries in the world. It is just a smallish elite from a few countries that subject its citizens to such dumbness.
How about patenting stone bricks by the sharpness of their edges?
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Actually China already starts seeing how the lack of these two are hampering the development of local industries. And if you infringe a well connected CHINESE company's patent then you are in big trouble. It is just the foreign patent holders that have problems. You need connections.
They would also like changes on copyright for music, and have started by clamping down on the most popular download websites. Again, China has realized that due to the lack of real patent- and copyright protection creativity is almost non-existent. Of course, for political reasons China doesn't care about having strong copyrights for books and encouraging authors, they want to keep total control.
The economy can't depend on low-cost factories producing OEM products (and adding little value in the process) or knock-offs anymore.
And as the people have more money to spend, they are increasingly getting exasperated with having no protection against paying good money for fake goods.