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Australia To Adopt U.S.-Style Copyright Laws
An anonymous reader submits "Australia has just announced that it has finalized a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Included in the treaty is an agreement for Australia to implement American-style DMCA copyright laws, extensions to the term of copyright, and an agreement to move towards American-style patent and trademark laws (and we all know how well those work, don't we.) I suppose this is the misery-loves-company school of treaty negotiation."
Togeather, we shall drink Fosters, make fun of women, and pirate CDs. Well blokes, here from the US to down unda!
Wait a minute! Are we just following the lead of the British? Sending our worst criminals, the dregs of society, to Austrailia?
Don't do it Aussies! It's a trap!
this insignificant little Australian just wants to know if he'll get a vote in the Presidential elections. You know, now that we're a fully fledged 51st State.
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That is the best first post I've ever seen. I applaud you. *wipes away a tear*
We're Australian, we have no freedoms.
If you lived here (in Australia) you'd mod that as "Informative", not "Troll".
Your "business" is a travesty of every artistic intention the authors of those works had.
It'd be a ton of fun to lock a copyright nut like you and an anti-IP nut like Stallman in a room with observation windows and see what happens.
May we never see th
Yes, because we all know that both major parties really need the geek/penguinhead vote.
but seriouly, does any country have happy farmers?
Columbia?
You never hear them complaining about access to markets and free trade barriers.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Uh, maybe you should find a new friend, since that one obviously screwed you by selling your stuff on the street.
Your story just doesn't seem right.
Fight for your digital freedom, join the EFF *now*: http://www.eff.org/support/
Well it's a lot more fun living in a country founded by criminals than a country founded by puritans.
...And all I got was this lousy trade agreement.
Well, Australia is an anagram for....
A Trial USA
I am thinking of moving to China... At least there you KNOW the government is out to screw you.
Sorry, the Walt Disney discussion is two threads over that-a-way -->...
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?
That's "giving" as in hepatitis not "giving" as in Christmas.
Never confuse volume with power.
There is a reason behind this though. When World War III kicks off, you'll be glad of the locally grown food. "Yes, we have no bananas" as the song said.
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The U.S. Government has been rounding up guns for years, and the result was the DMCA and everything else. Where they haven't succeeded in actually taking our guns, they've succeeded in making anyone who owns one feel isolated and powerless.
Australia starts outlawing guns, people give them up without a fight, and wham... a couple years later you have a puppet government. Coincidence? I think not!
We don't, the electoral college does.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
The U.S. Government has been rounding up guns for years, and the result was the DMCA and everything else.
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act has something to do with weapons now? Is this to prevent people from making MP3s out of my M16?