Tencent announce protection of intellectual property in China (Shocking)

[Jeffrey Jung]

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This is a first because i was under impression that China doesn't give any flying fuck about copyrights

[Top Box]

LOL this is funny because it's tencent

 

to quote from their wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

 

 

 

Controversy[edit] Copying claims[edit]

Many of Tencent's software and services are remarkably similar to those of competitors. The founder and chairman, Huateng "Pony Ma" Ma, famously said, "[To] copy is not evil." A former CEO and President of SINA.com, Wang Zhidong, said, "Pony Ma is a notorious king of copying." Jack Ma of Alibaba Group stated, "the problem in Tencent is no innovation; all things are copies."^[83]

As of 2009, the company holds 400 patents.^[84]

Anti-malware software cheating allegations[edit]

In 2015, security testing firms AV-Comparatives, AV-TEST and Virus Bulletin jointly decided to remove Tencent from their software whitelists. The Tencent products supplied for testing were found to contain optimizations that made the software appear less exploitable when benchmarked but actually provided greater scope for delivering exploits.^[85] Additionally, software settings were detrimental to end-users protection if used. Qihoo was later also accused of cheating, while Tencent was accused of actively gaming the anti-malware tests.^[86][87]