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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by dmoy on Thursday February 13, 2020 @07:10PM (#22322684)
US theft of UK IP back in the day (early 19th century textiles especially) was a big deal.
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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by chillacy on Friday February 14, 2020 @02:03AM (#22324549)
Hollywood exists in California because Edison's patents weren't respected there https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51722/thomas-edison-drov...
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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by tatrajim on Thursday February 13, 2020 @07:40PM (#22322872)
Why not mention the rest of the story: that the U,S. and Great Britain engaged at the time in two bitter wars? Are you claiming that China is justified is stealing U.S. IP because the two nations are at war currently?
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Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering by dmoy on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:37AM (#22327412)
The specific timing on your allegations is off. A lot of the IP theft occurred in peacetime. The US and UK were at war for a total of like 11 years, and there was a period many decades of IP theft. It wasn't as state sponsored as it was during the period between the two wars, but it still happened.

Hell as late as 1850 the US straight up didn't recognize copyright of non US citizens. I forget exactly when that changed.

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