[liberationtech] pre-textual IP enforcement internationally?

[Don Marti]

begin David Rizk quotation of Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 03:08:44PM -0700:

> I'm curious whether you can help me think of some cases in which pre-textual or bogus intellectual property claims were advanced, either by a private party or by a government, for some improper motives, outside of the U.S.?

Here's one:

  Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html?_r=4&ref=global-home&pagewanted=all

  Microsoft Changes Policy Over Russian Crackdown
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/world/europe/14raid.html?_r=2&src=twt&twt=nytimestech


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