U.S. Directly Blames China’s Military for Cyberattacks

Re:U.S. Directly Blames China’s Military for Cyberattacks by aneth4 on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @08:51AM (#5667828)

Interesting tidbit of history, but not sure I get your point. This pre-dates international IP conventions and the flourishing of innovation in the modern age, and this was a single technology over which China had a monopoly hundreds of years.

Nobody is saying the west never steals anything. There is a difference between pointing out one occurrence of a technology being "stolen" 500 years ago and a modern policy of government supported IP theft through hacking, trickery, and contract violation.

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Re:U.S. Directly Blames China’s Military for Cyberattacks by nefreat on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @10:07AM (#5668199)

You may be interested in learning how Hollywood came into existence (http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf) or America's roles in industrial revolution (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/piracy-and-fraud-pr...).

Most of the industries that vigorously support intellectual property now benefited the most from public domain knowledge and blatant piracy of ideas.

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Re:U.S. Directly Blames China’s Military for Cyberattacks by gioele on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @04:33PM (#5670587)

There are plenty of "stolen" inventions, you can start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions

Talking about and "government supported IP theft", the "They" in "They took the crops and silk production infrastructure, and deported all the workers to Palermo" from the excerpt I quoted refers to "the Norman king Roger II of Sicily" and "Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos". Those were surely _govern sponsored_.

My point is an easy one: history repeat itself.

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