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Ukraine Tries to Avoid U.S. Trade Restrictions
GMFTatsujin writes: "In response to the threat of US trade sanctions, the Ukraine parliament hastily passed an anti-piracy bill aimed at reducing the bootlegged CD problem. I especially liked this quote from this Wired article: '"We are deeply disappointed that Ukraine has not passed an effective law and instead is rushing through an ineffective law," said Eric Schwartz, vice president and special counsel of the International Intellectual Property Alliance." This is a follow-up to our story of two weeks ago about Ukraine not complying with U.S. demands for 'an optical media licensing regime.'
As a former Soviet republic, doesn't the Ukraine have any nuclear weapons that they can use to argue away sanctions? And what's so important about CD piracy? We don't have trade sanctions on Taiwan or China or Russia, do we?
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Starve their citizens by withdrawing from trade between our two countries. The U.S. is the single largest consuming market in the world. To keep a country's goods out of this market effectively cuts their economy in half.
Yes. Lets starve the poor so that the uber-rich can get richer. So what if they work just as hard? We're rich! They don't deserve to eat! They *listen to pirated Britney Spears albums!* GOOD GOD MAN! WILL SOMEBODY THINK OF THE POOR CHILDREN! EVIL PIRATES!!!
Though listening to any of that trash is generally proof enough that you have no life of your own anyway...
It's been a long time.
Yes. Let them starve. The U.S. is an empire (Pax Americana), it's about time we started flexing our muscles.
Only if you're willing to shut your trap and quit whining about terrorism when somebody decides to flex back.
It's been a long time.
In America, women are forced to perform sexual favors on police officers for driving above the posted speed limit.