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Re:The Real Class War by AlexandrB on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:14AM (#21638915)
I really hope they don't. Western IP laws have become suffocating to innovation (life of author +70 years copyright, software patents), and need to be weakened. Perhaps if China is successful with weaker IP laws it will get some politicians off their ass on the issue.
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Re:The Real Class War by triceratops on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:37AM (#21639850)
How is theft of trade secrets going to undermine draconian copyright laws? Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Re:The Real Class War by Nasrudith on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:19PM (#21640337)
Trade secrets are even worse than draconian copyright laws arguably. The copyright at least calls for preservation. Trade secrets keep the knowledge from circulating and laws encouraging it do it more so if someone bypasses them for more competition.
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Re:The Real Class War by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @12:17PM (#21640314)
Two almost completely unrelated wrongs don't make anything.
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Re:The Real Class War by triceratops on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:07PM (#21640893)
Trade secrets and copyright are both types of intellectual property. They aren't unrelated.
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Re:The Real Class War by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:29PM (#21641144)
Well, they're both lumped into this bucket called "intellectual property". Indy cars and unicycles are both vehicles, too. They share the property of having wheels. That doesn't make them particularly related.

The laws for copyright and for trade secrets are quite different. In fact, when someone talks about "intellectual property" rather than about one of the specific kinds (patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets), they often wind up reaching wrong conclusions. They try to apply concepts from one kind of IP on another kind, and it doesn't work.

So: Theft of trade secrets isn't going to fix draconian copyright law, not only because two wrongs don't make a right, but also because copyright and trade secrets don't have all that much to do with each other.

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Re:The Real Class War by aaron_m04 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @03:53PM (#21642559)
What makes you think there are two wrongs?
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Re:The Real Class War by nyolfen on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:47AM (#21639259)
i would settle for not having our businesses hacked by their state
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