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China Defends Its IP Practices, Says 'We Paid Up'
hackingbear writes "Countering accusations that China's high-speed rail technologies are knockoffs, the head of China's Intellectual Property Administration in a conference said (paraphrasing): "We bought technologies from German, Japan, France, and Canada. We paid up. It is perfectly legal. We then innovate on top of them like most other inventions in the world. Why is that pirating?' (Link is to a Google translation; here is the original.) He cited China's ability, the world's first, to build high-speed rail in a high mountain area as an example of additional innovation."
I don't know why we are relying on a Google translated article when Xinhua News Agency (state run [wikipedia.org]) offers their own English translations [peopledaily.com.cn] (second copy [beijingnews.net]) of this exact news release.
Maybe because trusting the "official translation" of a despotic tin-pot dictatorship with delusions of world domination just, possibly, might be a bad idea?
I have never met nor heard of a more dishonest group than Chinese. They cheat in all of my classes and get away with it because most of us do not speak Chinese. My professors have caught a couple different groups of them copying eachothers work on several occasions. Homework and tests that is. Pair this with how often you hear lies and obfuscation of truth from their ruling class, and how often Chinese manufacturers come over here and steal American ideas at trade shows (as happened to my father) or through corporate espionage, and how often they totally ignore international copyright laws, and how they actually manipulate financial markets like pegging their money to ours to gain an unfair advantage. I don't think all Chinese are bad, but their actions are certainly shady. I think they probably are more honest and fair when amongst their own people but they show contempt for the rest of us.
That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
"Stolen"...
When OSS uses patented technology that is "patents are evil !"
When China uses patented technology that is "China is evil !"
I mean... China IS evil, for a lot of reason. The fact that they ignore IP laws is certainly not one of them.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
"discussion with an american"
try evaluating people as individuals. when you assume things about people based on nationality, you are the genesis of the all the sins you yourself hate. you are tribal chest thumping asshole, and a hypocrite to boot
make a list about what you hate about americans. look in the mirror: you are a tribal thinking prejudiced person. therefore, you are guilty of the sins you dislike
finally, you are a moron, based on your precedigin comment. low iq, ignorant. stupid
and i don't need to know your nationality to know that honey. you are certainly no credit to whatever nationality you are
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it