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Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site

Posted by timothy on from the mouse-that-roared dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Government of Antigua is planning to launch a website selling movies, music and software, without paying U.S. copyright holders. The Caribbean island is taking the unprecedented step because the United States refuses to lift a trade 'blockade' preventing the island from offering Internet gambling services, despite several WTO decisions in Antigua's favor. The country now hopes to recoup some of the lost income through a WTO approved 'warez' site."

11 of 377 comments (clear)

  1. disney will object by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    if they call the site "Pirates of the Caribbean"

    1. Re:disney will object by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

      if they call the site "Pirates of the Caribbean"

      Well, if cannibalism were legal and Caribbean were in the EU, they could ask for a Protected Designation of Origin and Disney would be left out in the cold, since they are not in the Caribbean and Antigua is.

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      Ezekiel 23:20
  2. NOOOOOOO! by cristiroma · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's goatse!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. Did you pay for that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or did Jamaica copy of it?

    Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
    Put my music on computer chips,
    Minutes after it came out
    Dey had da dvd rips.
    But my encryption was made strong
    And de tracker updated nightly.
    We download in this generation
    Triumphantly.

    Emancipate yourselves from license slavery;
    None but ourselves can free our minds.
    Have no fear for music industry,
    'Cause none of them can stop the files.
    How long shall they make their profits,
    While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
    We need movies and songs and games
    Don't forget e-books

  4. Re:Who loves USA by Bearhouse · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I hear the Pakistanis are REAL fans..

  5. Re:Payment processors by localman57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All that just because of $21 million yearly revenue loss of the US media industry (which is what the WTO allowed Antigua)?

    Can the Antiguans set their own prices? Maybe 1000 movies for a penny? That would let them sell 2 trillion downloads. Not a good way to make money, but kind of a funny way to make the Yankee media companies take it in the shorts...

  6. Time for US to assist with democratic reform by detain · · Score: 4, Funny

    It sounds like a great time to install a pro-US democratic leader. Clearly the people are not being represented here by corrupt Antiguan monarchs and need our help. God bless America.

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    http://interserver.net/
  7. Re:Payment processors by localman57 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe 1000 movies for a penny? That would let them sell 2 trillion downloads.

    In other news, Market Analysts made note of a number of very large stock buys today by the Antiguan National Retirement Fund (ANRF). The buys seemed largely to target hard drive and blank media manufacturers.

  8. Re:Who loves USA by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

    have any evidence of that, idiot?

    if anything, it's the reverse: at the present rate of incarceration, every US citizen will be a convict by 2076, which is basically how Australia started out

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    how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
  9. Tom Lehrer said it by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do we do? We send the Marines!
    For might makes right,
    And till they've seen the light,
    They've got to be protected,
    All their rights respected,
    'Till somebody we like can be elected.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  10. Re:Who loves USA by Tagged_84 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's AUSSIE!!! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! :D We don't go around biting off bat heads you dingo!