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[WTE_Galway]

Sadly when you combine the SOPA and PIPA government enforced corporate greed with US courts happy to grant companies patents on more and more stupid basic things, for example Apple getting a patent on the user clicking on an icon while also making a call (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_1...-during-calls/), the situation can only get worse.

Add to this the ability of US courts to now have people deported for alleged crimes that are not even illegal in the country they live in and we will be lucky to see any flight sims under $500 once the royalties are paid.

EDIT:

Forgot to mention that whereas intellectual property rights for everyone else in the world eventually expire, US corporations (after a recent Disney test case over Mickey Mouse of all things) have the ability to renew copyright/patents etc indefinitely. Unlike anyone else in the world, US corporations now have unlimited rights that never expire.

[HundertneunGustav]

country of freedom to restrict freedoms...
XD
US of A... Fail.

[MaxGunz]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Sadly when you combine the SOPA and PIPA government enforced corporate greed with US courts happy to grant companies patents on more and more stupid basic things, for example Apple getting a patent on the user clicking on an icon while also making a call (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_1...-during-calls/), the situation can only get worse.

Add to this the ability of US courts to now have people deported for alleged crimes that are not even illegal in the country they live in and we will be lucky to see any flight sims under $500 once the royalties are paid.

EDIT:

Forgot to mention that whereas intellectual property rights for everyone else in the world eventually expire, US corporations (after a recent Disney test case over Mickey Mouse of all things) have the ability to renew copyright/patents etc indefinitely. Unlike anyone else in the world, US corporations now have unlimited rights that never expire.

And then it goes to Japan where a 5% improvement grants a patent and full use under their laws with the new thing selling back to guess where nobody there can compete because of the first patent?
Is it any different with EU?
AFAICT the people who get boned the hardest by USA lawyers are in the USA. But if you have factories and partners outside it is just a positive boon! And yet another industry closes doors or leaves the country while low-tax on investments goes to mainly support those who leave and the ever-lovin MIC.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by MaxGunz

And then it goes to Japan where a 5% improvement grants a patent and full use under their laws with the new thing selling back to guess where nobody there can compete because of the first patent?
Is it any different with EU?
AFAICT the people who get boned the hardest by USA lawyers are in the USA. But if you have factories and partners outside it is just a positive boon! And yet another industry closes doors or leaves the country while low-tax on investments goes to mainly support those who leave and the ever-lovin MIC.

Copyright is one area where criticism of the US attitude is not just anti-American hate stuff.

Just look at IL2. In most other parts of the world, including Russia, aircraft manufacturers saw providing historical technical information as showing a respect for history and even possibly a bit of publicity bonus. It was only in the US that companies saw it as a way of raking in more money.

What is especially interesting is that after corporate greed had plunged the US into a recession, the response was to bail out those same corporations with grants and try and protect others with counterproductive legislation like SOPA and PITA.

[MaxGunz]

Hey the corporate greed that tanked things most and continues to leech the economy anemic is most of all in the "Finance Sector" and has no national boundaries. The same ones that manipulate here manipulate over much of the world and destabilize economies for fun and loads of profit. Say hello, Rupert Murdoch, AIG, etc, etc. They produce nothing and take well over half of everything. They have no real allegiance except to themselves.

What kills me is how many of the 99% support and emulate them out of their own greed. The Shark wants to be an Orca, the Tuna wants to be a Shark, the Salmon wants to be a Tuna, the Haddock wants to be left the hell alone!

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by MaxGunz

Hey the corporate greed that tanked things most and continues to leech the economy anemic is most of all in the "Finance Sector" and has no national boundaries.

+1

Greed is not exclusive to any nationality.

[BadAim]

This might well be true, but the USA is an easy target for those who don't care to think.