U.S. pushes Russia in WTO talks to close MP3 site
Russia should shut down a pirate music Web site that is robbing U.S. recording companies of sales if it wants to become a member of the World Trade Organization, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.Read whole story.
"I have a hard time imagining Russia becoming a member of the WTO and having a Web site like that up and running that is so clearly a violation of everyone's intellectual property rights," U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab told reporters after a speech to a services industry organization.
Schwab's call for the allofmp3.com Web site to be closed came as the United States and Russia are trying once again to reach a deal on Moscow's 13-year-old bid to join the WTO.
Found at The Bulldada Newsblog
posted by Chardman at 7:46 AM
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I hear you Moog.
Our government's priorities are all about protecting big business and little else.
And despite what they like to call themselves, the bastards in power here aren't conservatives; they are free-market radicals. They have found a way to harness the righteous indignation of christian conservatives with the interests of the nation's uber-capitalists to spawn this Pax America bullshit - planting a corporate/state flag wherever we see resources and declaring anyone who'd oppose us as terrorists. Our president recently ended the process of Habeas Corpus, declaring that he can jail anyone at any time, indefinitely.
America is currently controlled by a tiny, superwealthy minority who enjoy total representation by our major media system. So while nearly 70% of our population despises Bush, the media continues to do damage control for his failing presidency.
It's looking hopefull for our next two election cycles, but at best we will still get candidates that our only marginally better than Bush.
Al Gore's movie on global warming is playing to ever-increasing audiences all the time (which is nice), but even he seems to let big business off the hook in this movie and makes it seem like all the burden of tackling CO2 emissions and oil consumption are on the average consumer, rather than big industry.
I'm sure he didn't want to alienate the business community in order to get such wide circulation.
On thing that needs to happen in America is for more people to get out and vote. Less than half of our electorate bother to do so. This is the kind of representation we get.
People here also need to turn off the TV and read books and think, go out into the community and engage one another. I really cringe when I think that people outside of Fort USA watch our TV programming. It is a constant barrage of fear and want that says "You don't have enough, you aren't good enough and you're in constant damger".
I am glad to see that not everyone thinks that we are reflections of our ignorant and dangerous leadership, but also understand people outside of the US's frustration towards us in terms of how we could allow this to happen.
if you ever use any of the russian mp3 sites, get a one time use credit card number. there is a lot of credit card fraud.
Yes, Anon, I am more than a little paranoid about that myself. I noticed that some RUMP3s are starting to take (or maybe they always have) direct credit card payments in leiu of a third party pay system (PayPal, ChronoPay). I wonder if that's a good idea. I scrutinize my bill monthly for that very reason, and make sure that no new cards have been issued in my name.
It's a scary thing.
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