Russia Looks at Legalizing Software Piracy to Offset Sanctions

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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Oh man, those countries already shit all over copyright laws. When I was in college I was friends with dudes who'd buy entire collections of an artist for next to nothing. It was like Napster already downloaded to a CD.

[–]ricksonaroll 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Snowden's still there. I can't imagine they were enforcing any hollywood d-bags take down notice.

[–]aaarrgh 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

In times like this, when you have the whole (western!) world against you, you have to be creative. In the long run this will certainly pay off, it can only get better with Russia.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

India stopped following pharmaceutical patent rules for a time and made loads of progress because of that which benefited everyone.

Having a few places which are a bit wild west is actually a great thing for civilisation.

[–]xpat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But they have a reputation for their pills being very low quality though they are cheap

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

One of the things manufacturers use patents for is to maintain quality and thereby there's and the product's reputation.

But before India scrapped patent laws people with HIV were taking 20-30 pills a day and now they only have to take 3. That's clearly better.

The patents meant all the separate drug companies wouldn't get together and find a way to combine their pills but without them suddenly combined pills are the next big profitable product everyone wants to find.

If you are just trying to produce something which already exists at a cheaper price then you aren't going to get the same benefit.

[–]asterias 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I thought they had their own version of Linux, so why do they need pirated software?

[–]Salvador6feet6 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It’s mostly for video games, movies, office and other specific paid softwares it’s like they will be able to use their spotify thing without all western artist without being forced to pay them.

[–]adultmanhwa 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Related article : https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-817-corbett-intellectual-property-doesnt-exist/

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

/s/AlternativeEconomics
/s/CopyrightActivism
/s/DecentralizeAllThings
/s/piracy

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Corbett report is the best.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The west should follow suit.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

A technicality at best. Most likely they just announced this to mock the (((studios))) for thier boycotts.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

What if Microsoft sends them a malicious update?