US attacks world+dog
Stop making stuff cheaper than us
THE FORMER BRITISH colony of Virginia has launched a handbags at dawn fight against China, Russia and pretty much everyone else on the planet over intellectual property (IP) rights.
The United States has claimed that China and Russia are IP hell holes flooding the world with cheap knock-off DVDs, designer bags, medicines and software.
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said that IP was one of the central challenges facing the world. She said that the pirates and counterfeiters didn’t just steal ideas. Jobs were threatened and the health and safety of workers was at risk.
Schwab's report was not just slagging off the Chinese and the Russians. It did say that the authorities there had done a bit to pull their imitation Lacoste socks up, but still had serious concerns about them.
Russia is apparently the place for large-scale production and distribution of IP-infringing DVDs and Internet piracy.
The report lists 46 countries as being bad places for copyright problems. These are Algeria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
We are not quiet sure why Bulgaria was not included. We guess the US has forgotten it exists again. µ
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This list slightly reminds me of a list of countries not yet recognizing Kosovo. Bulgarians did their HW so the Yankees may "forget" to include them in a couple of lists ;-)No sign of Antigua ?
Oh, of course, that's right, the World Trade Organisation suspended any obligations they had to respect copyrights, trademarks and any other intellectual property rights as a result of illegal restriction of trade (ref: gambling) made by the USA.Pirate Bay...
So the pirate bay [i.e. sweden] obviously isn't considered too big a threat to ip rights afterall!largest pirate nation
f**k off wit your IP, you steal basic science, other national resources for what??? sell your crap, overprice product and say it, "my IP product". your peopel just crybaby coward that want a bunch easy money without workEh?
Didn't Borat admit Kazakhstan sent him to America to steal all their ideas?Challenges To Mankind .. The Dumb Know-It-All
When Infinity cannot be grasped, defined, nor understood [no matter how rich you are emotionally, materially or intellectually/mentally], why are idiotics & lunatics always referencing others relative to themselves.? When you cannot fathom something that is much, much [ad infinitum] larger & [tru;y & absolutely] more intelligent than you, why then are you trying to replace that essence with your ego & conditionings? Because you are free to express your greed [and fear, not to mention other relativities] and call that “democracy”. An aspect/quality that is absolute, but through one’s relativities, degenerates to something that is relative to one’s idiocy & lunacy. And these types can think [i.e emote, act & react] for others? Not to mention the ”exposure” of others’ evil? When a human finally BEGINS to realise his true infrastructure, will he then starts looking [introspecting, not self-deprecating] at his own true nature otherwise he’ll always look at others’ nature first. And when you’ve finally decided to always act to promote your own evolution [and not devolution], you won’t feel the need to compare with/to others. That is the one and only challenge to mankind, idiots & lunatics included. Until then, help yourself to others’ emotional, material and intellectual resources because your idiocy & lunacy demand/pre-ordained it … NOW !!!!Tools.
Maybe source code, movies, IP's... (and otherwise) should just be given out for free to anyone who wants to copy it.It's easy to point, laugh or grumble until it's your own country that it happens to.
The funny thing is, the prices that you're seeing when products are shipped to you from the US, are half tax/tariff caused by your own country.
I'm not glorifying the fact that quite a bit of shit in the US is way overpriced, but more about the fact that it's "OKAY" to pirate from places you don't care about... just don't do it from us.
Knowledge irresponsability
Isn't it unfair, (virtually) "IP" is a right only to countries that at this moment do have the resources to investigate.Isn't it unfair that this knowledge will be forever restricted to developing countries?
Much to say about it
Forgetting Biometric Data
Can I protect my ID with a Trademark to avoid it being copied, transferred, and shared by certain officials from contries who are not my won, without my consent?Isn't the biometric data that the americans want from all the foreigners some kind of "Intelectual Property" that they want to steal?
If in the future they decide to clone or use genes from some random european guy, will they pay the rights to do so?
USA Government
Hey, don't get down on the regular working class people of the USA. We and the government are not the same. The government taxes us to death and sends out money and jobs overseas. Our economy is on the verge of collapse and corporate america is still buying the government and politicians to get even more. We have exported out technology overseas so greedy corporations can make a few extra dollars at the expense of the citizens of our country and now the corporations are getting the government to whine about other countries using that technology to compete with them.ha ha I have meet a lot of folks from other countries and we are all pretty much the same. With the same needs and desires. Our government used to be for the people by the people but now it is plain control the people and dumb down the citizens to create a cheap workforce and let corporations steal all the money they can from the people and government.TRIPS Trap?
Our economists like to point to what they call the "Smiley Face" curve which shows that all the value add is at the front (design, marketing) or back (sales, service) or a product. The bit in the middle is a low value subcontract culture that just does the legwork of putting the product together. All the value in a product is in branding and part of this is vaguely defined and wide ranging IP claims (like we've all seen with S/W patents).Like the RIAA who also feel its all about sales and marketing when projections don't match reality -- because like music its really about the actual people who make the stuff -- they immediately start carping about IP theft. Its not. Its their curve is all ass-backwards -- the value is in knowing how to make stuff, they're just the middleman, the shopkeepers, and ultimately they're expendable.
Cheaper R Us
Subhed: "Stop making stuff cheaper than us"Perhaps you meant, in the language of Sheakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer and Magee, "... cheaper than we do."
Unless you meant you really are inexpensive, in which case I'll take a dozen, though Lord knows what I'd do with you.
China....
"Jobs were threatened and the health and safety of workers was at risk"....
Well, not for the Chinese and Russian workers, for them it creates jobs, and, as it turns out, stealing from other countries is beneficial to their own economy.
Yep, i'm sure China will stop real quick, especially since they have created absolutely no IP worth mentioning...
I think Chinas motto is 'why play by the rules when you can't make me?' and, of course 'all your base are belong to us!'
And let's not forget Chinas officially mandated development cycle:
1.) Most demanded IP?
2.) Espionage
3.) Cloning
Iraq
Why didn't she mentioned that USA invaded Iraq to steal their oil, which makes the americans a burglar nation at an official level