Edward Teach was also known as Blackbeard the Pirate. He sailed the Caribbean water in his ship Queen Ann’s Revenge robbing American and other shipping. The scene is set for another Caribbean pirating run. The Antigua-Barbuda bazaar may soon (relative) be offering you a copy of Windows Vista or your favorite new flick at a huge discount.The one putative action the World Trade Organization (WTO) can give the country is a release from copyright protection. Software, DVDs and CDs could all be then sold at a discount by them to recover damages to their economy. The wheels seem to grind slow but they grind on.
Another reason for this reminder is that even more is happening on the UIGEA front — compliments of little Antigua-Barbuda actions.
The European Union (EU) commissioners involved with trade are doing some new saber rattling. The commissioner, Charles Mcreevy, notes that the Bush administration’s approach to the WTO finding against them was to abrogate their treaty obligations. In the realm of unintended consequences this is huge for the EU.
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