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Story: US announces global intellectual-property plan

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Dear US Backer,

I didn't start the "your country needs my country because your country basicly sucks and is full of thieves as well" bullshit contest. Someone else did.

Also I don't agree well with companies that first have a policy to allow pirated software because it helps crushing the competition to then, some years later, whine about how much dreamed up revenue they're missing out on. How about taking responsibiliy for your own actions first, eh? Clean up your own mess and all that.

If you want to protect your intellectual-property rights in country A then by all means make use of the relevant laws of that country and the (legally allowed) technology available to you. What you don't do is cook up some foony figures and push that country A should adopt country B laws to solve a problem you helped create. That's like wanting someone else to do your dirty work for you.

Echelon was used to intercept lucrative contracts in the making that involved companies situated in non-English speaking countries and pass that information on to certain companies in English speaking countries so they had a headstart and insight information leading to lucrative advantages for them at the expense of others. This has been on the EU agenda and all. Strange that the US, so far ahead in the eyes of some, needed to resort to such practices.

Certain countries will have to adjust certain local laws to make the US announced global intellectual-property plan work in full. This is so obvious that I don't care to explain it any further.
Maybe not in the eyes of some that seem to think that local laws that allow the use of illegally pirated software might actually exist.

The global tax I'm referring to is the so called Microsoft tax (in response to your, quote, 'screw you', unquote, and other comments). The same Microsoft which happens to be a strong (co)funder of pushing the US software patent system and laws into a worldwide spanning reality. The real reasons for that are best known by themselves I gather. Fact is that what Microsoft wanted to happen in the EU was booted out. Very convinient that the US is now announcing a global intellectual-property plan.

As for jobs depending on software innovation protection laws, don't worry, already taken well care of by means of copyright laws and such. What's still lacking though are enough solid and quickly enforced anti-monopoly abusing laws.

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