IMPI Mexico: Piracy more serious than drug trafficking

During the day's celebrations of the intellectual property of the new director of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property, Rodrigo Roque Diaz , told the radio station Radio Formula that piracy is a bigger problem than drug trafficking.

The issue of piracy is very serious [...] brutal to Mexican society and the world. The figures we have from the World Economic Forum indicates that illegal trade represents 10% of world trade.

We use ingenuity to violate the law.

The issue of piracy is more important than the drug issue. The issue of piracy costs billions of dollars to the world. The economic impact is very important.

You have to understand that piracy is like stealing a house or steal something, not something called intellectual property.

The full audio interview with Roque Díaz , which also speaks of patents and generic drugs at the end of the note at the site of Radio Formula.

It is incredible that a government administrative agency, with its legitimacy in tatters thanks to regulatory capture in which it is, "make these statements when Mexico is in a delicate situation, where the controversial war on drugs launched by the government, has claimed some 40 000 lives and counting.

Life: No bags, tennis and movie DVDs. Life: children, women, men, people of flesh and bone with a history and a name.

Indeed, the slogan of the day of intellectual property was "designing the future, like that?." Compared with the property life designing the future?

Independent investigators Social Research Council documented the work of the industry to connect the war against drug trafficking and the fight against piracy in Mexico. Who are they kidding?

It is even more incredible that the definition of piracy for a manager is a simple metaphor as a home or steal something, when in addition there is no static definition is a problem of prices and competition, piracy is not a moral issue, is a market problem.

Again we see the charge of intellectual property management at the administrative level to avoid the political discussion around the back and reducing it to moral ignoring what MPEE report says bluntly:

Piracy has always been about the market opportunity of another, and the border between the two has always been a subject of political and social negotiation. The history of copyright is a story of struggle against disruptive innovations in the markets.

Disruptive not mean anything bad , it refers to the social, political and economic change incrementally, but technology makes it exponentially. This is innovation, which by the way on behalf of "state law", industry and legally distort its allies to stop their favor, not to encourage it.

I ask again, Is it possible that someday the industry and its servers to defend their interests in a positive way?

Equate to piracy - or say which is worse - that the drug trade, a conflict that is devastating effect death is not only stupid but a lack of respect.

By killing one exercise any human right, and conversely, is demonstrably irreparably affects the human right to life of another person.

Copyright and patents are not a human right , is a privilege granted by the State.

A tip:

Piracy of intellectual property is that drug prohibition is the drug trade. The ball is in their court.

The Mexican government always, always FAIL.

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IMPI Mexico: Piracy more serious than the drug written ALT1040 April 29, 2011 by geraldine
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