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Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights
Skleed refers us to the NYTimes for an article on the high-stakes case the US is losing before the World Trade Organization. So far the US has lost an initial hearing and two appeals on its policies regarding Antiguan offshore gambling sites. Now the lawyer pressing the case has asked for a rarely invoked, but codified, recourse under WTO rules: letting Antiguans copy and distribute American music, movies, and software. The game may be to get Hollywood and Microsoft, et al., to pressure Washington to cut a deal. But their influence may not be sufficient to move lawmakers on the question of online gambling. From the article: "But not complying with the decision presents big problems of its own for Washington. That's because Mr. Mendel, who is claiming $3.4 billion in damages on behalf of Antigua, has asked the trade organization to grant a rare form of compensation if the American government refuses to accept the ruling: permission for Antiguans to violate intellectual property laws by allowing them to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, among others."
Intellegence indicates WMD hidden in Antequa. Marines sent to investigate.
Hey Pirate Bay! You just got your island!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Fry: "What do we care? We live in the United States."
Leela: "The United States is part of the world."
Fry: "Wow, I have been gone a long time."
Thankfully, that is a transcript from the future, and America is not yet part of this "world" of which the UN speaks of
On the other hand, all those Al Queda terrorists that are using off-shore gambling in Antigua to launder their death money might provide the Whitehouse Junta plenty of ammo to freeze Antigua's assets that are in or pass through US banking.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Anyone offering odds on the outcome?
My god, man, we're talking about pirates here! High seas battles, raped women and children, missing gold, plunder at the bottom of the sea, "arg matey" and worse!
Those cretins are almost as bad as terrorists.
Unless you want to have your next sailing trip interrupted by these cannon-toting freaks, you'd better support a war!
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
ON DELETE CASCADE
It would be amazing. Science and culture would flourish like mad. The creation of art would explode, with new forms appearing at a never before seen rate. Businesses would boom with all the new opportunities. We can only hope this becomes our future one day...
That, and congress is full of ninjas. It's true.
On the plus side, with this sort of motivation behind Hollywood they might turn out to be good movies.
Of course you can't see them, they're Ninjas!!!
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
You know, compared to a Vista install disc, Sarin doesn't seem so bad.
Redundancy is good And also good.
Except that would ruin their economy and the world's too.
Other than being completely wrong though, you have a point.
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.