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Russia Looks at Legalizing Software Piracy to Offset Sanctions
submitted 2 years ago by Drewski from gizmodo.com
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[–]aaarrgh 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun - 2 years ago (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 - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun - 2 years ago (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 - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (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 - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (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.
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[–]aaarrgh 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun - (3 children)
[–]jet199 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun - (2 children)
[–]xpat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - (1 child)
[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - (0 children)