If EU did that, it would probably result in equal retaliation. It would mean that all patents and IP would become local. Stealing these things from others continents would become fair game, which would make patents and IP almost completely pointless.

Could we please try that out? Sounds like an interesting scenario.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stop, I can only get so erect!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Right? That’s not a threat. Lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

"Please, God, it would be so fucking funny"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Parents and IP would become local

You're telling me we could have more diverse innovation that catered to the needs of individuals if we allowed people to create tools that help them and their neighbors instead of saying "some guy decided a hundred years ago, on the other side of the planet, that this is what this tool looked like. If you call something else by this name we'll sue you and if you call something that looks like this something else we'll sue you for that too"?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, because someone else will file for the exact same patent locally at the exact moment the law is invoked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you imagine how much harder it would be to be a corrupt asshole if instead of screwing over millions unnamed people, you had to go and look all 30 of the relevant people in your life in the face and go "I wanna suck the money out of you by becoming the sole proprietor of this tool"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The EU represents roughly 450 million people. I can hardly think of a patent that might affect only 30 people, given this number.

Also, psychopaths exist on either side of the Atlantic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's kind of part of my point. Make it even more local than the EU. Make it local to your town or even smaller

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Literally the best thing that could happen to the world