from Hacker News

Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Movies, Music and Software of ‘Unfriendly’ Nations

by baptiste313 on 1/9/23, 11:26 AM with 3 comments

  • by fabbari on 1/9/23, 1:47 PM

    There is a caveat: license and usage fees for using the protected media have to be paid to the Belarus patent office. If a copyright holder will claim their rights they may be getting a minimum of 80% of those profits, provided that the Belarus patent office finds them entitled.

    That said: not a great fan of the MPAA, but a dictatorship scares me a bit more when it comes to taking profits out of their hands.

  • by bradhe on 1/9/23, 11:35 AM

    Any Belarusian data centers we in the west can rent compute in?