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> why did you steal all their intellectual property?

Just as a side note the American industrial revolution was built on intellectual property theft [1]. So was the Byzantine empire [2]. The British empire (and it’s tea production) also did well out of IP theft [3].

[1] https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_i...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fortune




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