In a reflection on the global intellectual property struggles, today's offering is an article clearly on one side of an emerging argument. Kenneth Brown identifies intellectual property with a nation's economic strength, coupling outsourcing and global piracy in one combined threat:
Our haste to embrace globalization is one of the clearest culprits. In the name of globalization, the U.S. has relentlessly pursued business partnerships with countries that are home to relentless intellectual property (IP) theft. It almost seems as though the more evidence there is of piracy in a country, the more IT business and investment we bring in. The relationship is simple: unpunished IP theft coupled with an increase in IT abroad has exponentially increased the overall amount of IP theft. Simply put, the more there is to steal, the more will be stolen.
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