Question Former Samsung Engineer Gets 7 Years in Prison After Selling Core DRAM Secrets to China’s CXMT for $2 Million

[whoshere]

The original news piece.

I understand it's the law and all that, and it's about protecting IP and so on, but if you squint hard enough, it reeks of protecting your insane profits at the expense of smaller people.

What do you think?

 

[jamesdsimone]

First off, 2 million for technology that probably is worth billions? The Chinese commies foundation is industrial espionage.

 

[mindless1]

Mixed feeling. I like most of my Samsung products and wouldn't want them to do less than flourish due to Chinese products undercutting them whether they are using stolen IP or not, but on the other hand, for the consumer, more, higher quality DRAM in the market right now would be a good thing.

Companies should be able to protect their IP investments and get ROI, but then I don't think that IP should be protected as long as it is in many cases, and it is an unfair advantage to companies massive enough that they have employees who aren't even actually inventing something, just trying to reserve the IP of the more obvious portions of upcoming tech.

 

[gdansk]

Personally seems very low. IP maximalists are wrong but when an individual transfers technology at below market rate to companies who are also IP maximalists there is no "moral superiority" they're simply stealing for cash.

Now if they had released it all to the public, that could warrant some leniency in my estimate.