Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site 377
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."
disney will object (Score:5, Funny)
if they call the site "Pirates of the Caribbean"
NOOOOOOO! (Score:5, Funny)
Did you pay for that? (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
Re:Who loves USA (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I hear the Pakistanis are REAL fans..
Re:Payment processors (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...
Time for US to assist with democratic reform (Score:5, Funny)
Re:disney will object (Score:4, 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.
Re:Payment processors (Score:5, 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.
Re:Who loves USA (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
Tom Lehrer said it (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.
Re:Who loves USA (Score:5, Funny)