ORIGINAL: Tired Old Man

There is no punishment for making the copies. That's where the problem lies. Since they own most of our debt our government, and the U.N., will not initiate any type of enforcement activities against them. The only protection our industry has is to prevent the release of information or products they can use or copy, which is why our R/C engine research and development is now becoming limited to UAV operations, which are controlled under rules and regs from the State Department.

They manage to eventually steal the stuff anyway, but at least those inventing the stuff get to make exclusive use of it for more than a couple weeks. They've even managed to make copies of some of the stuff I work with. There's doesn't work for chit though