BOOM! - Russia legalises intellectual property piracy

[Resurgence]

The Russian government decided on Monday (7 March) that intellectual property rights should not be paid to patent holders from “unfriendly countries”, which include, among others, all the 27 members of the EU.

Under international law, not paying patent holder rights is considered intellectual property piracy.

Russia adopted on Saturday a list of “enemy countries” including all the 27 EU member countries plus Monaco, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and San Marino, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Micronesia.

From the Western Balkans, Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia are included, but not Serbia, an EU candidate country that has refused to enforce sanctions against Russia and continues to nurture friendly ties.

According to Rossiysaka Gazeta, on Monday, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree according to which changes are made to the methodology for determining the compensation paid to the right holder when deciding to use the invention without the holder’s consent.

According to the document, in relation to patent holders from “unfriendly countries”, the amount of payment is 0% of the actual proceeds from the production and sale of goods, performance of work and provision of services, if the relevant inventions, utility model or industrial design are used for this.

According to previous reports in the Russian press, the Russian government has been working on various measures to respond to the Western sanctions adopted in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

It was reported that one of these measures could be the abolition of criminal and administrative liability for the use of pirated software “from countries that support sanctions”.



https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-...ty-piracy/

[RobertX]

Don't know what to think of this.

On one hand, I don't like the current leadership of Russia, on the other, it's a good thing that piracy survives on a major part of the world.

I really don't know what to think.

What about you, Resurgence?

[RodneyYouPlonker]

On one hand, I don't like the current leadership of Russia

I can't say for myself that I know this man, however he seems to know what he's doing.  Looks to me like a very clever businessman.  I know that Ukraine is under attack but they are after everything it has including massive amounts of natural gas worth Trillions of Dollars.  No wonder he has started a war, if he can get rid of the current government in Ukraine he could hit the jackpot.  Like I said the other week everything they are doing is based around taking as much money as they can for the country.  Mother Russia looks after their own, if you have to get rid of the few on the way then I guess that's worth for the prize!

[Resurgence]

What about you, Resurgence?

[3Jabs2MasksIsNormal]

Nice!

Basically makes every kind of software available to every Russian at zero cost, legally. Curious to see how Microsoft, Adobe etc etc... will take these news.

[RodneyYouPlonker]

Russians don't use Microsoft, they have their own operating systems that they replaced with instead.  It's been a few years now since Russia ditched MS because they felt that they didn't have any kind of privacy when it came to using their products so they was all ditched.  As far as I'm aware that when I visited Russia myself a few years ago, I was told they don't really care about Copyright laws anyway as it's a different way of life out there and if you want to download music there is no problem because everything in that respect is totally free anyway.  Their Russian torrent site, rutracker.org, has been supplying Russian people with lots of copyrighted works for years now but Russia cares none about that which is probably why the West don't like how they do things...

[3Jabs2MasksIsNormal]

Yeap, agreed, it's just that this time it is going to be with the 100% support of the government. I think that changes things because based on international law it would be illegal, but in Russia it would now be legal, so how to decide? Sounds like the Pirate Bay story all over again but with Russia in the place of Sweden. Also don't forget that Russia is 145 million people. Not all of them would be OK by doing something that is technically illegal. Now this technicality is gone so theoretically way more people would consider piracy of expensive products.

[RobertX]

Back to the IP theft, I guess that we shouldn't sell our souls to a megalomaniac that cares nothing for the people just because he exercises a practise that most of us here are in love with.

Besides, I live in Canada and I can pirate all I want, with the only price being that I don't disclose it to everyone I know.

Maybe I should abstain from now on!

[Resurgence]

Back to the IP theft, I guess that we shouldn't sell our souls to a megalomaniac that cares nothing for the people just because he exercises a practise that most of us here are in love with.

Besides, I live in Canada and I can pirate all I want, with the only price being that I don't disclose it to everyone I know.

Maybe I should abstain from now on!

As the article states, the decree was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.



Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.




Russia is involved with humanitarian work in Ukraine in addition to the military intervention. I have posted four news reports about that humanitarian work that is ongoing.

The military intervention in Ukraine was launched for several reasons, but one reason that should be recognized is that the leaders and the people of the Donbass republics specifically asked Russia for help. Since 2014, it is estimated that between 13,000 and 14,000 people in the Donbass republics lost their lives due to Ukraine shelling those territories. More than 500 children have been killed or crippled. In addition to the loss of lives, consider the property damage from those actions. The people were living in fear. Right before the military intervention, those attacks increased and Donbass residents had to be evacuated to Russia.

Also, the people of the Donbass republics and Crimea were subject to terrorism from militant ultra-nationalist groups in Ukraine. Those groups have been labeled "neo-Nazis." They certainly use that symbology, but how much their nationalist ideology aligns with National Socialism is not clear. One thing is for certain, they won't hestitate to use violence. Not too long ago, I posted a news article about one such group, known as Right Sector, that was caught by FSB in Crimea planning to blow up an Orthodox church. That incident happened right before the military intervention. When Putin stated that he wanted to de-Nazify Ukraine, he was referring to such groups.

The perception of the people of the West that I don't understand in all of this is that they say they are concerned about the well-being of Ukrainian citizens, but they turn a blind eye to the suffering and concerns of the people of the Donbass republics and Crimea.

[CaptButler]

Russia is involved with humanitarian work in Ukraine in addition to the military intervention. I have posted four news reports about that humanitarian work that is ongoing.

[. . . blahski, blahski, blahski . . .]

The perception of the people of the West that I don't understand in all of this is that they say they are concerned about the well-being of Ukrainian citizens, but they turn a blind eye to the suffering and concerns of the people of the Donbass republics and Crimea.

Yet more of your barrage of Putinist war propaganda that has nothing whatever to do with the ostensible topic of this thread (IP piracy).  What a shock.

As to whether anyone other than people connected to what is left of the Russian internet will benefit from this new policy, time will tell.  Russia is becoming isolated on the net as it is in so many other areas.