#brazilian history isn't written by its people it has a full blown script writer

[adrianastrix]

From the same directors of "Elderly Alex-Jones-like-TV-host-turned-politician man breaks chair on far-right-on-sneakers-incel-like wet noodle on electoral debate", I present you:

- Horrible life insurance fraud scheme involving the murder of homeless people is commited by a criminal group headed by **Hitler da Silva Angelo**.

- NoFake, an IP Protection agency, has the owners arrested by protecting IP... by copyright-striking small artists and crafters that make football-team-themed cakes, party decorations or niche memorabilia on their platforms and demanding some "settlement money" to not pursue them in court. Police around here investigated them and found proof of extortion and money laundering on their operation, to the shock of exactly no one.

(Context after the break, in case you feel like IP holders demanding settlement fees on copyright breakers shouldn't count as extortion in this situation)

So, for context: when I say small, I mean SMALL tumblr-sized comission artists. People who struggled to pay the 1000 reais settlement NoFake sometimes asked for (strictly speaking, 200 dollars, but remember that, on average, the minimum wage in Brazil is 240 dollars/month or 1,5 dollars/hour, and the average family makes just two times as much - heck, I'm considered someone who has 'a good salary' and I only earn about three times the minimum wage, or 960 dollars/month or 4,5 dollar/hour).

Another important context is that NoFake clients were worried about companies mass producing fake sports memorabilia that compete with the original memorabilia they sell, and that's who they asked to be struck down. But, since Brazilian law allows (and sometime requires) independent workers and small business with only one employee to register as "micro-companies", NoFake could extort those small creators and still legally tell their employers that they were striking only companies.

Yeah, IP law might allow IP owners to strike anyone that infringes their IP, no matter how small the offense is, so the artists in that situation are breaking a law, and settling matters out of court with a fee is legal, but... firstly, NoFake would almost exclusively go after those people who couldn't fight back, and since football team emblems is one of the only themes that adult Brazilians comission consistently, taking that option down their menu flat out bankrupted those creators, while football team owners are often millionaires (or billionaires even) with very dubious origins for their money.

Secondly, those football teams don't have any interest in entering this cakes and party decorations small-scale business and don't offer any reasonable way for people to license their IP unless they run huge business. Heck, they routinely reblog and celebrate this kind of artisanal use of their brand, as it's central to their popularity and to sports fan culture.

Thirdly, I think that the concept of "intellectual property" is hilariously dumb, and we should conceptualize the rewards for designs and identities in a less capitalistic (as in big-factory-owner) way to work out a better system to reward creators fairly.

In the end, at least our police, for once, took the weaker (and illegal) side of things, only to confirm that - whoops! - people who use the law to bully others for breaking it by the letter (but not in spirit) are, as a rule, shady.