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The current political and legal sell-out to the US makes me, and I believe many fellow-Europeans, increasingly angry in a way that is fundamentally different fr
by rickmb 15y ago
The current political and legal sell-out to the US makes me, and I believe many fellow-Europeans, increasingly angry in a way that is fundamentally different from any anti-American feelings for instance during the Bush-years.
Disagreeing with US foreign policy is one thing, but being on the receiving end of US meddling through political and legal corruption in a way that undermines our civil rights cuts way deeper.
- cmelbye 15y agoIt wouldn't be possible if you government didn't cooperate. They're just as much to blame in this case.
- andylei 15y agothat's exactly what rickmb is talking about. he says > sell-out to the US
- hastur 15y agoThe UK made a nice gift to the US on the eve of Cameron's visit.
- jterce 15y agoIt makes many Americans increasingly angry as well.
- seanp2k2 15y agoUSA acts like they own the world, and they must be stopped. See also: USA prison industrial complex figures out how to break into the international market.
- hastur 15y agoRemember PG saying in a recent essay that you start an innovative product by luring the hackers first? I think the same applies to ideas, as exemplified by the RFS to Kill Hollywood. Well, so here is a great way the US is luring the world talent: By alienating the smart people with brainless and predatory policies like this. Don't host your startup with a US company or at a European data center belonging to a US company (e.g. AWS or Linode in Ireland). And preferably not in a country that is a US copyright/IP colony (UK, AU, NZ, CA). Otherwise you're putting your users and yourself in danger.
- ryanhuff 15y agoAttacking these policies by boycotting US companies seems much to indirect to result in much progress. Instead, petition your (their) own elected governments to bring change. If people are sufficiently outraged, then change should come. If not, then its up to you to educate your fellow citizens.
- bh42222 15y agoIf people are sufficiently outraged, then change should come. If not, then its up to you to educate your fellow citizens. This is an utterly useless truism. How do you fire up a significant portion of you fellow citizens over copyright issues is the question. Stating, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Just do it." does not help in any way.
- henrikschroder 15y ago> How do you fire up a significant portion of you fellow citizens over copyright issues is the question. Talk to your local pirate party. Join them. Vote for them.
- nitrogen 15y agoTalk to your local pirate party. Join them. Vote for them. ...and find yourself the subject of outspoken and unspoken discrimination for your political affiliations. Hollywood "owns" the word "pirate." It's too easy for them to make up some story about how all pirate party members are simply criminals looking to justify their evil, greedy theft of content. Most people will stop listening and join in the hatred as soon as an authority figure gives someone an easy-to-dismiss label like "pirate" or "criminal."
- voidr 15y agoYou mess with a US copyright maffia, your judge gets bribed you go to jail in the US where you have no means of defending yourself. Makes me think the US is no different from all those neo-communist governments in Europe.
- gaius 15y agoThe extradition treaty between the US and UK is massively unbalanced - the UK needs proof to extradite an American, the US only needs suspicion to extradite a Brit.
- mc32 15y agoNot according to this finding by the UK Govt: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15351357 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15351357 "But Sir Scott's 486-page report finds: "In our opinion, there is no significant difference between the probable cause test and the reasonable suspicion test." "There is no practical difference between the information submitted to and from the United States."