Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering
by sneak on Friday February 14, 2020 @05:40AM
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The concept of IP is a relatively recent invention, created by legislatures to prop up specific industries hurt by copying of data, and, as is being demonstrated, not everyone agrees that it should be treated the same as existing systems of physical property.
You wouldn’t download a car. But I would. I don’t think it’s possible to steal information.
Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering
by jariel on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:11AM
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This history of IP is not relevant. China knows the rules and they broke them. Therefore, there must be consequences.
Re:The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering
by dependenttypes on Saturday February 15, 2020 @01:07AM
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> China knows the rules and they broke them
So did Turing.
To somehow equate the direct theft of IP and innovation as just 'shared culture and knowledge' completely avoids the material criminality at hand.
Huawei is charged with literally incentivizing their employees to steal knowledge and IP, and of directly copying designs, on a systematic and widespread scale. These activities are instituted far beyond just Huawei.
This is not a situation of the natural flow of industrial knowledge, it's direct theft.