Estonia Next In Line To Receive US 'Encouragement' To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws - Polidicks

The thing about the party system in America is that there can't be any additional parties. The funders towards the two main parties own mass media. People still watch TV for fucking news and theyre not so sure about that scary internet thing.

If there were only [I]one[/I] government that stood up and gave the US govt the finger in Europe I'd cry tears of joy.

Stop it stop it [I]stop it STOP IT STOP IT![/I] I'm tired of this shit! Here, there, everywhere, why the hell are we in everyone else's shit?? I sure hope this stops sometime soon, this stage of a media source's evolution is plagued with bullshit like this. It happened to the movie industry when it first caught on, happened to music (and kinda still is), happened with VCR, DVR, DVD, hell it even happened with Adobe Acrobat Reader. It will eventually grow out of it... but until it does we're gonna be stuck with bullshit like this.

I don't know why everyone is mad at "America." Why not the American Government? We hate them too.

Well ain't this a spiral of fucking disaster. When the US starts pressuring countries here, everyone will bend - it's not just your government that's full of corrupt fucks, ours are too. They'll do anything to look presentable. [editline]3rd February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Deaglez7;34521653]I don't know why everyone is mad at "America." Why not the American Government? We hate them too.[/QUOTE] Because we don't live there. To us, America as a whole is what it presents itself to be. And guess what?

America, stop trying to whore the internet.

[QUOTE=Stopper;34522363]Because we don't live there. To us, America as a whole is what it presents itself to be. And guess what?[/QUOTE] So you see us as a whole? So the people of America make these stupid laws and gets in other country's business? I thought it was the government, but nope, it's the people.

[quote]However, as an excellent post on the Estonian Public Broadcasting site explains, the letter's underlying assumptions about lack of enforcement are simply wrong: They claim, for instance, that there is poor intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement in Estonia. However, Estonia’s IPR laws and enforcement, at least in the commercial space, are quite adequate. Operations, including websites, that exist for commercial exploitation of unlicensed rights, are already illegal and get shut down. The operators can be imprisoned for up to three years. The article goes on to point out one of the likely casualties of any harsher approach to copyright enforcement in Estonia: if suing for non-commercial infringement is allowed, sooner or later, the pubs, restaurants and hotels offering free WiFi will be receiving legal threats and fines because someone downloaded something via their connection. It will be simpler for businesses to close their free internet access points, rather than face the legal harassment and risk of huge crippling fines that could result from one of their clients downloading something illegally. When that happens, the Open Internet, an item of national pride in Estonia, will effectively be dead.[/quote] This brings hope, but until there's any kind of official statement, i wouldn't bet on anything.

[QUOTE=5killer;34518853]And this is what I don't understand. Nowhere in that letter did it call for sanctions or threats or anything of that nature. You guys are acting like the US is saying "ACCEPT THIS PIRACY LAW OR WE WILL MAKE YOUR COUNTRY A CRATER." The US is not screaming, or acting like a child. What I get from these reports is that delegates are pushing and pulling like they have done since the beginning of these international relations. All countries want a little more for their own places and give a little less. It's like diplomacy is some new fangled concept and when countries try to talk about an issue like global piracy, and not just the digital form but also counterfeit goods, it's suddenly a big issue. That reaction is bizarre to me.[/QUOTE] It does not say it but we all know it. No country has the balls though to try it and see what they do as it has the potential to fuck with their own economy or topple their government.

Estonia is supposed to be a very democratic and I.T heavy country, fuck off America.

[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;34518921]God we need a revolution [IMG]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-black101.gif[/IMG] (Too bad most people here are too caught up with their own shitty lives that they think this stuff won't affect them, and thus, don't care)[/QUOTE] Or how about people use their democratic rights instead? It's simple. If you don't agree with the policies of your current representatives, vote against them. If the majority of the people in the United States want this or that to happen, then those things will happen. Don't stop there, start petitions for causes you believe in, write to your representatives and explain why you think this or that and why they should be representing you and others, after all its people power that put them in office anyways. The United States doesn't need revolutions, it needs the people to understand their democratic rights.

[QUOTE=k-nie;34512267]Because our leaders are less corrupt.[/QUOTE] Id rather say less dumb than less corrupt. But in the end, corruption is everywhere.