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    [–] InternetTubes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Funny thing, patents aren't really international, more like agreements between different patent systems internationally. There are places that will ignore certain patents, and like The Pirate Bay showed, there only needs to be one place where the IP laws don't jive for it to be available for anyone who wants it - but that's not the goal of a business, who wants to access as many markets as it is able to sell their product.

    [–] TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago

    That's, for example, how VLC can use patented codecs. France doesn't allow for software patents, meaning that as VLC is produced it France, they can use all the codecs they want...