Post AriDNU36LtfnwfszmC by yacc143@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ari3aEb07RooF0BRU8 by icing@chaos.social
       2025-03-04T08:19:37Z
       
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       @pluralistic on the current things: US intellectual property rights have negative value for countries hit by US trade wars.https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/friedmanite/
       
 (DIR) Post #AriDNU36LtfnwfszmC by yacc143@mastodon.social
       2025-03-04T11:40:57Z
       
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       @icing @pluralistic The problem is that the WTO/WIPO made enforcing IP rights a fundamental requirement of trade law for >160 countries.Trust me, I looked for a place from which to sell some nice dedrm tools online, but DMCA style anti-circumvention legislation is embedded worldwide in local law.Even if Canada would go rogue (which would be great), other countries would be legally forced to stop these things at their borders.(Including payments.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AriDNVLZWi2fyFXGCm by joosteto@mamot.fr
       2025-03-04T12:54:59Z
       
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       @yacc143 @icing @Isn't that why @pluralistic suggests the EU to start? We'll be able to trade the liberated tools between ourselves.Also other nations then could join the EU.----"The first country or bloc (hi there, EU!) to do this will have a giant first-mover advantage, and could become a global export powerhouse, dominating the lucrative markets for tools that strike at the highest-margin lines of business of the most profitable companies in the history of the human race."
       
 (DIR) Post #AriDNVyZBjEZvBmOzA by yacc143@mastodon.social
       2025-03-04T13:07:45Z
       
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       @joosteto @icing @pluralistic The EU is too legalistic for that.Related to the fact that it's not sovereign. It only exercises the sovereign powers the MS have delegated to it, in the way the treaties say. So it's a legalistic entity by its very nature.Its political side is only slowly developing. (OTOH, you have to admit, von der Leyen managed to organize her Asia trip surprisingly quickly after #Trump started his Crazy Redneck play.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AriDNWeOgCh80vLoBc by joosteto@mamot.fr
       2025-03-04T13:12:12Z
       
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       @yacc143 @icing @pluralistic I agree that huge steps like scrapping IP protection are currently unthinkable for the EU to take. But as @pluralistic writes, with the Trump manufactured crises that are likely to come (tariffs etc), the unthinkable might actually happen:"Friedman had an answer: 'In times of crisis, ideas can move from the fringe to the center in an eyeblink. Our job is to keep good ideas lying around, in anticipation of that crisis.'"