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> in the country he was living in, violating patents for personal use was okay Looks like context missing. In jurisprudence exists definition of negligible case, meaning, harm is too small to run full-featured juridical machine. Same thing considered for example, when tax regulations ignore tips, because it need much more resources to administer than could gather as taxes. So, laws usually ignore, when you do something prohibited, but nobody harmed, like if you violate patent but don't tell anybody about this.
Unfortunately, this also means, you cannot involve other people or make business on this, so this activity will not scale to level, when we here could talk about affordable 3D printers. BTW, this is opportunity for AI, to use artificial agents instead of people workers, but this is very different context for now, and it is not researched good enough to talk about. |