[zach43]

> punishment for stealing hundreds of billions of dollars of IP

I feel like its more the other way round...the American IP system is overly expensive and outdated, and should be reformed instead. The repercussions of this are felt most heavily on domestic industries too.

[flyingcircus3]

I concur. There seems to be a common thread in entrenched entities when their hegemony erodes before their very eyes and their well worn levers of power suddenly stop bearing fruits.

It's like when someone loses their wallet, and their first instinct is to completely discount the possibility they just misplaced it, and jump straight to the conclusion that someone stole it.

Start at your only acceptable conclusion, and work backwards to construct a plausible scenario that you can parade around as the obvious culprit.

[cakeface]

Right! If we adopted a chinese approach instead of trying to force ours on them we might actually improve intellectual property laws.