Cory Doctorow’s article on why we should fight back against tarriffs with throwing out IP rights for these american companies is excellent. If we get tariffs put on Canada then we have no reason to respect american IP laws.
Build a Canadian market available to all the world to sell jailbreaking for IP locked products like John Deere farm equipment and Mcdonald’s ice cream machines so they can be fixed without having to take them to the overpriced dealerships to be gouged by subscriptions and no choice.
I agree overall, but there is the lingering issue that the problems with IP laws is much more international than simply changing things locally. Most of the world has agreed to respect US IP laws and modify their own local laws accordingly.
That said, this can also be the start of a movement to create a new standard which is independent on US IP laws. If we can get the support of EU or any other one major world power, it wouldn’t matter what the US’s laws are. Lots of US companies already make separate products just to meet EU regulations, and if better IP laws that don’t lock down critical equipment like agriculture or medical tools, most likely even US companies will have no choice but to base their products on such a standard due to the lost opportunity cost of making multiple products at such a large scale.
Cory Doctorow’s article on why we should fight back against tarriffs with throwing out IP rights for these american companies is excellent. If we get tariffs put on Canada then we have no reason to respect american IP laws.
Build a Canadian market available to all the world to sell jailbreaking for IP locked products like John Deere farm equipment and Mcdonald’s ice cream machines so they can be fixed without having to take them to the overpriced dealerships to be gouged by subscriptions and no choice.
I agree overall, but there is the lingering issue that the problems with IP laws is much more international than simply changing things locally. Most of the world has agreed to respect US IP laws and modify their own local laws accordingly.
That said, this can also be the start of a movement to create a new standard which is independent on US IP laws. If we can get the support of EU or any other one major world power, it wouldn’t matter what the US’s laws are. Lots of US companies already make separate products just to meet EU regulations, and if better IP laws that don’t lock down critical equipment like agriculture or medical tools, most likely even US companies will have no choice but to base their products on such a standard due to the lost opportunity cost of making multiple products at such a large scale.