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RIAA Sets Their Sights on Russia

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the biting-off-more-than-you-can-chew dept.

Conor Turton writes to tell us that the RIAA has set their sights on Russia for their newest push into anti-piracy. A recent bill was sponsored in the Senate to deny Russia's entrance into the WTO (among other things) if they did not take major action against piracy. From the press release: "The effective protection of American intellectual property has been sorely lacking in Russia. This resolution is significant because it expresses the will of the U.S. Congress that Russia must take effective action against those who would steal America's knowledge-intensive intellectual property-based goods and services. We must not enter into political arrangements with countries ill-prepared to adequately protect our greatest economic assets."

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  1. China and WTO by mikejz84 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hummm.....Why did this never come up when China was being admitted into the WTO???

  2. Re:Talk about two faced liars. by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Informative

    They recently agreed to remove all agricultural (export?) subsidies by 2013 or something like that.

    http://news.google.com/news?q=wto+remove+agricultu ral+subsidies+2013

    So, yes, they like to ignore the WTO, but when the threatened sanctions were large enough, even the U.S. caved.

    BTW, this is considered a fairly significant win for the WTO

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  3. Re:So this is it? by owlnation · · Score: 4, Informative
    For reference, the latest list of non-signatories that I could find is: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Oman, San Marino, Tonga and Yemen. I would not want to live in any of these countries, and the ability to pirate music to my heart's content would not make up for the other issues.


    Not sure what anyone could have against San Marino or its government. Or why anyone wouldn't want to live there, it's a very beautiful little collection of villages. You do know where it is, right?

    Unless of course if you were Swedish, since the longest state of war (technically speaking) in European history existed between San Marino and Sweden, only to end in about 1992.

    I've always loved this imagery, a tiny group of villages in the mountains of Italy fighting a country of 8 million famous for their very safe cars, social democracy, Abba and nice pine furniture.

    Hail Freedonia!