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.'

Comments

Original mistake..

[Axe]

..I guess their first mistake was to give up all those nukes.. ;-)) Now gotta play by the rules..

Oil sanctions against Ukraina

[Rupert]

[among other things]

Of course the US is raising the tariff on oil imported from Ukraina. Neither Bush nor Cheney own any wells over there.

[-1: Cheap shot]

Well of course!

[FunkSoulBrother]

Of course we need to restrict the Ukraine, otherwise the Red team will be able to connect its European horde with its ten-army piece in the Ural Mountains!

Re:former Soviet republic

[Peaker]

"Ukraine has launched 5 nuclear missiles towards the United States as a response to the sanctions"

Software Pirates, look what you've done!

Thankful for Ukrainian CD's

[Anonymous Coward]

I've seen Ukrainian CD's for sale of material that the U.S. music companies no longer sell at all. If the U.S. companies are too lazy to bother to sell the music, they shouldn't complain at all when the Ukraine steps in to fill the demand.

Re:Am I the only one

[Sj0]

Nope, the moment read that, I envisioned some sort of RIAA nazi germany.

Lackey:"gutentag! Ze pitiful ukranians vill fall before us now!"

Adolf Spears:"Excellent. Vill zey get avay vith pirating our CDs? NEIN!"

Lackey:"Heil Spears! Heil Spears!"

Just a humorous fantasy. It'd be best if you simply ignored it. :)