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[Chas]

Fine, but civilized countries have laws regarding theft of intellectual property, unlike criminal enterprises like China.

Whether or not America constitutes a civilised country is a whole other argument, and certainly not one that is dependant on it's intellectual property laws.

It's not just the U.S.

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Fine, but civilized countries have laws regarding theft of intellectual property,

Well....that is one way to look at it.


The other is that some less-than-civilized countries have governments which have been corrupted by rich corporate motherfuckers who bribe lawmakers to protect their profit margin by criminalizing things which should be civil matters.

Theft is a civil matter? It's criminal behavior.