Mar 09
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The Pirate's Dilemma
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The Pirate's Dilemma is a very good book that covers a lot of the ground that we discuss on this blog. (Tip of the hat to Colin Seeger for pointing me toward the book).
Here is an excerpt that I thought was pretty interesting:
“Another pirate nation that began in a fashion similar to Sealand is the United States of America. During the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution, the Founding Fathers pursued a policy of counterfeiting European inventions, ignoring global patents, and stealing intellectual property wholesale. “Lax enforcement of the intellectual property laws was the primary engine of the American economic miracle,” writes Doron S. Ben-Atar in Trade Secrets. “The United States employed pirated know-how to industrialize.” Americans were so well known as bootleggers, Europeans began referring to them with the Dutch word “Janke,” then slang for pirate, which is today pronounced “Yankee.””
You can download the book at Matt Mason's (the author) website.
