Digital piracy against ‘unfriendly countries’ legalized in Belarus
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2. "royalties should be paid to the patent[?] organization where it would be stored until reclaimed by the owner of the rights (but no more than 3 years)"
It is very strange form of piracy where you still need to pay for the "pirated product" and the owner can receive these funds.
https://pravo.by/document/?guid=12551&p0=H12300241&p1=1&p5=0
I wonder if Putin convinced Lukashenko this was a good idea somehow (Lukashenko is a complete dummy), while at the same time knowing full well this is another step for Bielorussia away from the west and towards Russia.
He's by no means a great man, but he has done his job quite well, when you consider just how badly other countries suffered.
"It allows the Belarusian authorities to seize money, assets and property rights of foreign citizens and companies."
Legally seizing assets from third party companies.
Also, this is just a formalization of what is already an unwritten rule in Belarus and Russia.
Not just copyright, hacker groups have free reign as long as they don't operate in countries within the Russosphere. Many ransomware and malware products check for the existence of Cyrillic keyboards just for this reason:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...