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US Removes Piracy Sanctions From Ukraine
An anonymous reader writes The US has restored Ukraine to their preferred trade partner status after requiring the country to crack down on piracy. The United States had also imposed 100-percent import duties on $75 million worth of Ukrainian exports since 2002." From the article: "Concern over high piracy rates prompted the Bush administration to suspend Ukraine from the program in 2001. At that time, Ukraine was the largest producer and exporter of pirated CDs and DVDs in Europe, USTR said."
To say that Ukrainian Holodomor was "merely famine" is a very loaded statement. What kind of widespread draughts or plagues were there at this time? The answer is none. It is hard to evaluate how much it was caused by inept but well-wishing policies and what part was deliberate revenge against so-called kulaks but in either way the blame solely lies to Soviet officials who seized the crops and restricted the movement of people out of affected areas. What to speak of trying to help those people with providing food by apealing for help in their own country or internationally.
Russia has a lot to atone for, and you are not even trying...
Don't take this stupid troll for the voice of Russia whole.
I feel for the hunger victims and the purged, were they in Ukraine, Russia or Poland. In a sense, one might say that Russia too was occupied by a hostile force, but... oh well.
My exception safety is -fno-exceptions.
...And we have a new piracy-related industry here since the USSR broke down: so-called "Computer Clubs"... It's interesting to see how it evolves.
Imagine an Internet-Café without the Internet. A bunch of computers set up specifically to play games on, connected to a LAN with servers filled with pr0n, muzak and warez. Basically, this is it. You may come to play some games, bring your HDD / iPod / pack of DVD-R's or amuse yourself with the most interesting feature: the pirated Windows that says it is not Windows.
The clubs' owner usually cooperate in order hire several cracker who RES-EDIT an MSWin distribution - change the interface, icons, text and sometimes rewrite the EXPLORER.EXE to look entirely different - it is almost a tradition to use Borland Dephi for this.
Here are the screenshots: http://tinyurl.com/9ddgo
One of the popular "pre-modified" distributions in "BedOS 2 [Tanya]" - a heavily hacked Win98. Yet the computer illiteracy of the "copyright protectors" lets people who run the "Computer Clubs" to get past the law by claiming that what they are using _is not actually Windows_ (!). See http://winbeos98.km.ru/ for further deteil