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Re:Revisiting the West's view of China internet censorship by yumraj on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:46PM (#18491301)
Yes, it does. IP has value.

You create IP to generate value from it. When someone steals IP you lose value that you should have derived from it.

Theft is theft, whether of IP or otherwise. And a thief is a thief, whether of tangible product or IP.

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Re:Revisiting the West's view of China internet censorship by throwaway4799 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:07AM (#18493226)
You're literally wrong. Intellectual property can't be stolen by definition. You're probably referring to copyright infringement which is a completely different thing from theft, whose application is completely different from country to country and is not sentenced the same way.
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Re:Revisiting the West's view of China internet censorship by code_duck on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @05:06AM (#18492819)
The key word is ‘entirely’.

One may derive benefits from creating something that does not depend on monopolizing it.

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