(Yesterday, 10:46 AM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote:(Yesterday, 12:20 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Does that mean the government has to pay you royalties if they seize your digital assets? I ask because I can't imagine any government or corporation paying any attention at all to any such law.
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Interesting question that I hadn't thought about. That may go on without them noticing, esp. if it is pennies.
It might be an interesting way for the CIA to launder funds for dark operations. They seize your assets, then pay the royalties, which of course go into the seized account without anyone noticing, and then quietly re-extract those royalties from the seized accounts to quietly funnel them back into pet projects, all the while appearing to obey the "letter of the law" while in reality laundering funds...
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