Comment Re:Wow, (Score 0) 1079
I think you are missing something else there. If Bob won't sell you a widget until you do something stupid then, if you had any balls, you would find someone else to sell it to you. It's certainly within your capability and sovereign right to do so. It's considered fact that USSR and PRC have done their fare share of stealing technology.
And this also means you, as a sovereign nation, can decide that following some lame IP law preventing someone else from making it without coercion can and should be ignored. IP is actually one of the most damaging things anyone has come up with since the pointed stick. If ideas were truly free, then we might actually be able to be creative, progressive, and productive. But since you have to have a license to think in this country it's not likely that much will get done.
Up to this point in history, no nation has yet been regime changed for ignoring something like DMCA or IP laws. The only reason any nation follows these is by choice.