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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by Gasp0de on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:12AM (#43570904)
Why not? Multiple politicians have already mentioned IP as a possible method of retaliation. Also, the goal is to hurt Trump, his voters and his allies. Tech Bro's are Trumps allies nowadays.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by stirlo on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:28AM (#43571149)
Denmarks largest export is Ozempic. Ignoring IP rules will hurt EU producers too.

How do you plan to ignore IP to hurt American tech companies. I guess if you allow piracy of all of netflixs content that would work (but same thing would hurt spotify).

Most tech companies are not protected by IP but by network effects and vendor lock in. It would be far simpler to simply implement a minimum tax on revenue or advertising spend in country to extract value.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by kubb on Thursday April 03, 2025 @01:21PM (#43572772)
Phase out Facebook, Instagram and Xitter, 200% tax on Google ads, subsidize local cloud providers, phase out Amazon.

Make piracy legal for downloaders, and stop enforcing the criminal law for seeders.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by sam_lowry_ on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:17PM (#43575548)
Also pirate Microsoft, like in good old times.
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