<story><title>Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto</title><url>http://en.mercopress.com/2016/04/15/argentine-government-favors-farmers-in-dispute-with-monsanto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hodwik</author><text>If you don&amp;#x27;t like Monsanto&amp;#x27;s work, don&amp;#x27;t pirate it. If you like it, pay the royalties.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really very simple; if you don&amp;#x27;t uphold their ability to defend their intellectual property you destroy the business model, and you&amp;#x27;ll lose the research.&lt;p&gt;The US Government needs to step in here -- exactly the same as they would if Chinese companies were selling computers with pirated copies of Windows into US stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rauljara</author><text>The problem here is that Monsanto had defacto pressured Argentine shipping companies into inspecting cargo and demanding documentation from farmers.  Monsanto just doesn&amp;#x27;t have the right to do that, and Argentina is absolutely right to make that clear.  It&amp;#x27;s the same way record companies don&amp;#x27;t have the authority to hire private police to break into your home and check if you have pirated mp3&amp;#x27;s on your computer.</text></comment>
<story><title>Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto</title><url>http://en.mercopress.com/2016/04/15/argentine-government-favors-farmers-in-dispute-with-monsanto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hodwik</author><text>If you don&amp;#x27;t like Monsanto&amp;#x27;s work, don&amp;#x27;t pirate it. If you like it, pay the royalties.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really very simple; if you don&amp;#x27;t uphold their ability to defend their intellectual property you destroy the business model, and you&amp;#x27;ll lose the research.&lt;p&gt;The US Government needs to step in here -- exactly the same as they would if Chinese companies were selling computers with pirated copies of Windows into US stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1_2__3</author><text>&amp;gt;  you destroy the business model, and you&amp;#x27;ll lose the research.&lt;p&gt;Okay. Let&amp;#x27;s try that for awhile and if that doesn&amp;#x27;t work we can go back to acting as if companies are saving the world every day and if just us stupid constituents would acknowledge that everything would be awesome.</text></comment>