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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."
The British Prime Minister is so far up Bush's arse that it should be no surprise that he wants to copy US legislation. It will not be long before the UK becomes the 51st state.
This would be a good thing if the US was setting a good example but at present I would think that there could not be a worse time to follow the US lead.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
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.
I don't particularly care about these stupid laws. Nor do I care for any other stupid EU laws as in the near future they are destined to become void anyway as the British National Party is taking control of the UK - http://www.bnp.org.uk. So all unreasonable laws, gays, immigrants and paedophiles will become null and void.
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