Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report 310
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Trade Representative released its annual Special 301 Report yesterday, unsurprisingly including Canada on the Priority Watch list. While inclusion on the list is designed to generate embarrassment on target countries, Michael Geist explains why this year's report should elicit outrage. Not only is the report lacking in objective analysis, it targets some of the world's poorest countries with no evidence of legal inadequacies and picks fights with any country that dare adopt a contrary view on intellectual property issues."
A Band (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:US, nobody gives a shit (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like it's time to build the B Ark. We just have to make sure that we sanitize our own telephones.
Re:A Band (Score:4, Funny)
Re:US, nobody gives a shit (Score:5, Funny)
I live in Asia. Our entertainment is going out with people and socializing.
That sounds too much like socialism for the US.
finally an excuse to bomb canada (Score:5, Funny)
we tried to conquer your worthless country twice before, but you finally gave us an excuse for a third time
Re:Canada should be embarrassed (Score:5, Funny)
They're lying, again. They've lied about every. single. point. they made during the election, and there's strong evidence that even the election results themselves are a lie.
They want to have it on the books so that if Beardo is at a protest or starts to make trouble, they can see what Beardo's been doing online and put him in jail or bankrupt him or hell, just embarrass him. Ripping a DVD is a $20k fine and 5 years in prison. Unlocking your nook? Same thing. Installing Ubuntu? Yep, prison. (Okay, you deserve that last one.) Any digital lock on any media cannot be bypassed or that's the penalty. That's not fear-mongering, that's what is in the law. If you buy a DVD and rip it to play on your unlocked iPhone, you're looking at 10+ years in jail. If you burned down Parliament with everyone inside, you'd get out on parole sooner than that.
"We're not going to do this!" means "We don't want you to complain until this is the law."
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Re:A Band (Score:5, Funny)
No, those were just guys he picked up at Home Depot to redo his deck.
Re:finally an excuse to bomb canada (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Canada should be embarrassed (Score:5, Funny)
When Unity came out as the enforced default UI.
Re:US, nobody gives a shit (Score:4, Funny)
We did that ages ago (Score:5, Funny)
The B-Ark idea was done centuries ago, however it was decided two were needed to get rid of all the undesirables. One was named Australia, the other America.
There they would die an agonizing dead, removed from all culture essential to any human. Who knew the dregs would adapt to do without culture?
Re:US, nobody gives a shit (Score:2, Funny)
As a consumer, fuck you right back. You're here to entertain me, monkey.
Now clap those cymbals in time so I can syncopate my chewing.