] Idris described how he had heard of children dying after
] using counterfeit baby shampoo and warned of the
] potentially disastrous consequences of relying on
] machines that had been made using an illicitly duplicated
] model.
]
]
] Last month, the World Health Organisation said that up to
] 25 percent of medicines consumed in developing nations
] were believed to be counterfeit or substandard, and it
] warned they could be useless, harmful or even deadly.

Perhaps if the machinery and medicines weren't priced out of the reach of developing nations, their people wouldn't have to resort to substandard replicas. I wonder if Mr. Idris has stories about how many people die because medicine and equipment is simply not available, because the companies that make them refuse to narrow their profit margins or relax their licencing terms...

Feel free to take the stand that IP is IP and needs to be protected and enforced, but don't you dare trot out the health risks of using pirate copies of medicine or equipment or whatever in places where the alternative may be death or sickness from lack of treatment of any kind. That just seems callous to me.

Intellectual property piracy is form of terrorism: WIPO chief