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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No they won't.

They will sue you if you take your neighbors pesticide resistant seeds, sow them, douse them in pesticide so only the resistant ones survive, and sow your entire field with them.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

Yes, they will.

You're taking the approach of an independent farmer that didn't sign a contract with Monsanto. What you said mostly aligns with that scenario.

For the farmer that did sign a contract with Monsanto, that is a standard and required clause, and they do enforce it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Classic piracy. The original product is still there; you're just making a copy.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, I totally agree with all forms of breaking IP law on ethical grounds. But I also recognise that it's still breaking the law right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You getting downvoted for stating what's factually correct while still disagreeing with it is classic shooting the messenger.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The messenger is getting shot for not bringing receipts. I was about to shoot them too, then I retrieved a receipt: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/01/05/dissecting-claims-about-monsanto-suing-farmers-for-accidentally-planting-patented-seeds/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have read these receipts and literally the first story is about Percy Schmeiser, a farmer who used seed from plants grown on his own land that had been "contaminated" with genes from a neighboring farm. He had never signed any contract with Mansanto and didn't take the seeds from his neighbor. Plants on his property were "contaminated" through natural means.
It then ends with a brief note about 700 farmers who settled out of court and lumps them under the guilty umbrella because they settled.
But worst of all, this site that this article is posted on is a propaganda mouth piece for Monsanto. It is owned and funded by the same guy owns and funds Monsanto's PR company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sure, I don't disagree. The difference is I had a source to criticize. You know what info I was working with and can guage how reasonable my claim is. If you go around to people convinced of something and say "Nuh uh", it doesn't matter if you're correct, you'll be laughed out of the room.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Why "but"? Why are those two statements viewed as contradicting each other in tone?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Isn't classic piracy boarding ships and taking all their shit at gunpoint?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You should be allowed to do that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I agree, but you aren't. I think all IP law is stupid, but until i'm president of the universe, it's still the law.