tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post4537826266297972024..comments2024-03-28T09:05:22.006+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Can Counterfeiting Be Justified: the Case of the KoreasVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-60240480498278120052010-12-06T09:57:38.423+00:002010-12-06T09:57:38.423+00:00This reminds of the related point that has sometim...This reminds of the related point that has sometimes been made about unlicensed copies of Microsoft Windows (which, as Steve Ballmer has pointed out, is the world's second most widely-used operating system, after <em>licensed</em> Windows). <br /><br />It's suggested that, while unlicensed copies of Windows cost MS money, widespread used of unlicensed copies in developing nations (where people couldn't afford licensed copies anyway) has the effect of getting people locked into the Microsoft ecosystem in those countries as most people are in the west - rather than using legal alternatives such as Linux. <br /><br />See also the allegations some years ago about certain cigarette companies' complicity in tobacco smuggling (so called "General Trade"). At the very least, it seems that some companies were taking into account the brand-building effects of sales of contraband tobacco as part of their marketing strategies.John Haltonhttp://lawinthecloud.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-11930458697444801792010-12-06T00:09:33.391+00:002010-12-06T00:09:33.391+00:00I'm reluctant to pose this question to lawyers...I'm reluctant to pose this question to lawyers, but here goes: what, I wonder, would Lord Bingham have had to say about a tunable "Rule of Law"?<br /><br />You might have a view about N Korea but why stop there? IMHO, justice should stick to being blind and keep out of politics, it's less short sighted.Gentoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05063939954837162413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-66989636655379061392010-12-05T22:40:24.947+00:002010-12-05T22:40:24.947+00:00Very thoughtful and worthy of this wonderful blog ...Very thoughtful and worthy of this wonderful blog - but it's Sunday and I miss AmeriKat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com