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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."
We saw an episode of MI-5 (aka Spooks) in the last month on A&E that covered something similar. I couldn't help but think they were making fun of the Americans and all their silly labels and OTT melodrama. Even after watching that, I don't suppose the Americans will understand what it is about their attitudes and actions that annoy people elsewhere.
"We have no written Constitution, in the sense that the US does, so the usual mechanism for overturning silly laws across the pond is out"
What does the form of the US consitution have to do with it? So the US constition is codified in to one single document whereas the UK one is several documents, case law, etc. I'm guessing it's because it takes a constitutional expert to really understand it... what did you mean? Personally I'm glad that the UK doesn't have a signle document - the constitution remains flexible enough to reflect the current world rather than being stuck in the past. Just listen to the Americans arguing incessantly over ideas that belong in the wild west (i.e. the past) such as gun ownership. Drives me bonker.
America DEFINITELY doesn't have enough terrorist problems. What have you had, 2 or 3 attacks in living memory? It's time you joined the rest of the world and felt the cleansing sting of terrorism, rather than just using the CIA to inflict it on everyone else.
That was classic intercourse!
- What the heck does Bittorrent have to do with anything? Blatant karma whoring attempt, even though it is completely irrelevant.
- Who says you'll be fine if you host a BitTorrent site? Who says they can't come and try to take you down? Torrentse.cx and ByteMonsoon (in its original form) disappeared because of threatening letters from lawyers.
- Pingular is Sir Haxalot , the most useless karma whore/troll ever.
Please don't mod this crap up! PLEASE!