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countries have always engaged in IP theft so long as they weren't leading in IP. the history of innovation and progress is also a history of piracy.
the United States has been stealing IP since its inception and blatantly stole British IP in order to give US industry an advantage during the 19th century. in fact, The Founding Fathers of the US not only tolerated intellectual piracy, they actively encouraged it. in his 1791 “Report on Manufactures,” Hamilton advocated rewarding those bringing “improvements and secrets of extraordinary value” into the country. and according to historian Doron Ben-Atar, in his book, Trade Secrets, “the United States emerged as the world's industrial leader by illicitly appropriating mechanical and scientific innovation" at the time.
for example, under the Patent Act of 1793, the United States granted dubious patents to Americans who had pirated technology from other countries at the same time that it barred foreign inventors from receiving patents. “America thus became, by national policy and legislative act, the world’s premier legal sanctuary for industrial pirates," writes Pat Choate in his book Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization. “Any American could bring a foreign innovation to the United States and commercialize the idea, all with total legal immunity.”
bongbro here is rightfully incensed.
