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UK Becomes Sixth Country to Implement EUCD
orbital3 writes "The UK, as of October 31, 2003, became the sixth nation to implement the laws required to comply with the European Union Copyright Directive with its Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 legislation. This is a short little article about it and here is a copy of the law itself."
Riiight. I know things aren't perfect in the UK but at least we haven't set up anything like what you have at Guantanamo Bay, where the usual notions of justice don't even apply
It's funny, the US locks up a few terrorists and the Guardian-readers whine to the high heavens, but when their Socialist brother Castro locks up dozens of journalists for daring to criticize his regime, there's not a word.
As bad as the Apartheid regime in South Africa was, it never nerve gassed one particular ethnic group and Western lefties still held protests, boycotted products, called for sanctions. Yet when the Ba'ath (it means "Socialist Arab Rebirth") party gassed the Kurds, not a whisper of dissent from said Westerners.
That's the funny thing, the "Big Protest" movement will let any government get away with anything, so long as it's basically Socialist. So quit whining about "freedom" in the Western world; over here you can openly criticize your government in the press, on the TV, on a public web site without the slightest fear of reprisal. Try that in the "worker's paradise" of North Korea.