File-Swapping Internationally

Mr.Happy3050 writes "Here's an interest over-view of other court systems handling the file-swapping saga. This area will be so balkanized that it will take nothing less than international treaties to resolve this issue."

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Re:The US to the rescue.

[Mr.Happy3050]

My guess is that other nations with strong music lobbies (European Union, Japan, Taiwan) will want to settle this. The interesting countries to watch out for will be the "developing" ones. The People's Republic of China probably won't sign on because they make money off of boot-legging. With China having many computer's, it will only be a matter of time before a Chinese Napster steps up and gives the people what they want. Also, China probably won't extradite to the US, EU, or Japan over something like this. Especially since the US, EU, Japan keeps playing hardball on other topics ("human rights")