• @[email protected]
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    Do it! Do it! Do it!

    We’ll destroy American companies with Regulation 654/2014, aka a trade war kind of “Order 66”, which, among others, will void all IP rights of US companies in Europe.

    Free piracy and many billions of losses for US companies. All because of Trump’s stupid big mouth. I’d love to see that!

    Explanation: https://feddit.nl/comment/15162357

    • JustEnoughDucks
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      121 day ago

      This would open up so many opportunities for innovation that has been stifled by corporation patent trolling BS!

    • @[email protected]
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      117 hours ago

      Wouldn’t that also destroy everything European itself? So if I cancel Disneys & hollywoods copyrights and we could totally pirate every american movie like we want, who would pay to see a french one? Would local TV stations even produce their own content anymore?

      • @trougnouf
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        French people only watch French-speaking content, and I find dubbed content awful. I think it would greatly benefit them to redirect resources into local contents.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 hours ago

        Honestly, I don’t actually know what the IP stuff means. Maybe it will only be applied to patents?

        I’m not a lawyer, I just read that this 654/2014 is the bazooka with which the EU will hit back, and I know that much more knowledgeable people than me seem very confident that the EU will hit back so hard when tariffed that Trump probably won’t do it. This regulation must be a big part of that.

        No idea how it will actually be implemented but the EU Trade Bazooka is real.

    • macniel
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      will void all IP rights of US companies in Europe.

      scorched earth. Trump doesn’t know who hes fucking with.