Being a US citizen permanently living in a foreign country, paying taxes to that country and not paying US taxes.
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Don't you have to make >6 figures to have to pay the US anything in taxes, if you're earning the money overseas?
FEIE is like $125k usd
Torrenting 84TB of books for a megacorp.
Taking the seeds of certain produce and growing them in your backyard for your own consumption
This is not illegal in the EU. There are no patents on plants in the EU.
I think they’re talking about weed
produce usually means fruits and vegetables
Felt euphemism-y but you’re probably right
Hmm fair enough
And trees usually means trees. Who knows with these guys
Depends on the country tho
How is that illegal? So you're telling me in your country you can't buy a tomato from a store and then throw it in some soil at home?
Corporations have patents on their varieties. This isn’t defending the practice, just explaining it
To expand on that, they likely aren't going to come after a private household. It's to keep farmers in their pocket. They will go after a commercial farm though. It borders on a subscription service to seeds. Fucking dystopia.
certain housing associations won't let you plant such things in the ground, but if it's in a box or container it's okay
The US has patented GMO wheat and corn. Agrotech companies have sued farmers for growing wheat from seeds that blew into their fields from a neighbouring property.
That is wild!
No, it's engineered.
It's not based on country either. If lays catches you growing their patented strains of potatoes without their consent, they'll come after you no matter what country you are growing the potatoes in.
Will Lays corpos kidnap me from my country to drag me in front of a US court?
I mean, at this point, it wouldn't surprise me. Just thought Disney would do it first.
Maybe not Lay's but Monsanto will and has a history of winning in court.
Certain produce
Water.
Especially collecting rain water on your own property.
I don't know if you're in the US, but if so, it's probably not that anyone purchased those rights, but rather that under, as I recall, Western US water right conventions, where land is more arid, if someone is a pre-existing user of water, you can't go upstream from them and block off water from flowing to them (which people would probably tend to do, otherwise).
kagis
Yeah. Apparently the legal term is "prior-appropriation water rights".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_rights
In the American legal system, prior appropriation water rights is the doctrine that the first person to take a quantity of water from a water source for "beneficial use" (agricultural, industrial or household) has the right to continue to use that quantity of water for that purpose.[1][2] Subsequent users can take the remaining water for their own use if they do not impinge on the rights of previous users. The doctrine is sometimes summarized, "first in time, first in right".
Prior appropriation rights do not constitute a full ownership right in the water, merely the right to withdraw it, and can be abrogated if not used for an extended period of time.
Origin
Water is very scarce in the West and so must be allocated sparingly, based on the productivity of its use. The prior appropriation doctrine developed in the Western United States from Spanish (and later Mexican) civil law and differs from the riparian water rights that apply in the rest of the United States. The appropriation doctrine originated in Gold-Rush–era California, when miners sought to acquire water for mining operations. In the 1855 case of Irwin v. Phillips, Matthew Irwin diverted a stream for his mining operation. Shortly afterward, Robert Phillips started a mining operation downstream and eventually tried to divert the water back to its original streambed. The case was taken to the California Supreme Court, which ruled for Irwin.[3]
EDIT: Oh, though they do say that the rights can be sold, so maybe someone did purchase them.
Gay Marriage. I know I'm wrong, but not for long.
Ripping a DVD I own to my hard drive for my personal use.
That absolutely depends on local laws.
Here in Sweden that is absolutely 100% legal, it is called privatkopiering, private copying, we even pay a fee on storage media and phones to compensate for the potential loss of revenue that an artist may suffer from us doing it.
You may even share the copy within your family, but no further.
In the US, because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to defeat any sort of digital copy protection. That's why it's ok to rip CDs to your iPod, but you can't rip DVDs to your computer.
Visiting a country of your choosing.
Weed
Legal in some places
Yeah. Some places.
Like, entire countries.