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Re:Hollywood is losing the battle for China by rektide on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:39PM (#35722215)
Part of me hopes the total lack of IP protection makes this only an economic protection & an entirely useless cultural barrier.

Stop adjusting for closed societies! They never get better! Be your own good open society! Hope, help coax the barriers lower. But be brilliant & yourself. And stop trying to appease the unappeasable closed totalitarians.

Re:Hollywood is losing the battle for China by 1MachineElf on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:24AM (#35723292)
I think I understand and agree with what you're saying, but I needed a moment to really make sure I understood it. These are the questions that came up for me:

>Stop adjusting for closed societies! They never get better!

Is the closed society Chinese society under the CCP, or American society under the DCMA?

>Be your own good open society! Hope, help coax the barriers lower.

Is the good open society the IP protection-less Chinese one under the CCP, or the American one? Which has more innovation?

>But be brilliant & yourself. And stop trying to appease the unappeasable closed totalitarians.

Is it the communists or the capitalists who are the totalitarians?

Re:Hollywood is losing the battle for China by dtx1 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:57AM (#35723807)
> Is the closed society Chinese society under the CCP, or American society under the DCMA?

It's the one building large scale concentration camps in an effort to wipe out a minority part of their society.

Re:Hollywood is losing the battle for China by throw_away1525 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:07AM (#35726817)
Yeah look we're all upset about what's happening on the southern border and that Biden didn't close the camps but calling them 'concentration camps' is a bit much, don't you think?
Re:Hollywood is losing the battle for China by tkwkfkcnsnci on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:04AM (#35724740)
What makes capitalists totalitarians?

Capitalists are under a lot of restrictions and regulations. You can't buy everything with money.

Also, there are IP protection in China. However, if the IP is not within China, it's not well respected

Re:Hollywood is losing the battle for China by rektide on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:35AM (#35728776)
Closed CCP government (not a fairly minor DMCA which also includes colossal opening factors like section 230).

Good open society where the government doesn't monitor all communication systems for wrong think & have reeducation camps.

The communists are the totalitarians, being a one party system & suppressing minority cultures & using vast force & subversion to illegally take control of Hong Hong against agreed terms & being a sore child about every little geopolitical issue they can.