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One of the EU's backstop "Fuck Trump" options is to stop enforcing America's IP rights. Maybe this USB stick full of MCU movies isn't the highest possible qual
by tialaramex 4mo ago
One of the EU's backstop "Fuck Trump" options is to stop enforcing America's IP rights.
Maybe this USB stick full of MCU movies isn't the highest possible quality and two of the Thor movies are missing for some reason, however it cost less than €20, so who cares ? Oh it's illegal? Well my government said they don't give a shit about that until you get rid of the orange lunatic
In a world where American media companies are also trying to fuck over consumers that sort of action could probably get a rotting corpse re-elected in a landslide, that's one of the reasons it's on the backstop threat list - dry policy responses don't connect with voters, but "make as many copies of their stuff as you like" is incredibly popular.
- gunsle 4mo ago[flagged]
- zarathustreal 4mo ago[flagged]
- tavavex 4mo agoThis is hilarious. Should we stop criticizing all politicians because we don't know them personally? These are not just some guys, you know. These are the most powerful people in the world. You will be affected - everyone has a 'real stake' in what they do. Frankly, the amount of scrutiny and consequences of said scrutiny that powerful people receive are at all-time lows - there should be more. For Trump specifically, almost everyone is affected. Even if you're not an American, all the war-starting, economy-wrecking, relationship-souring, international-meddling 'work' of the US is affecting you. Unless maybe if you're from North Korea. There's nothing that better exemplifies the way how Trump supporters specifically and Americans in general have checked out from everyone else's reality than this comment. In the eyes of most of the Western world, the time for debate was 10 years ago. We're no longer in a land of hypotheticals and 'virtue signaling' that far-rightists smugly talked about back then. They are already ruling us - the world has already tasted the far-right's medicine, and many people are enraged as things keep becoming more bleak. Suggesting that countries stop enforcing US IP would be a ludicrous suggestion in 2016 that would be laughed out of the room as terminally online daydreaming. In 2026, this starts seeming like a real source of possible leverage, exerting power over a nation that thinks it can dictate the rules of the world in perpetuity. I suggest you update your worldview a bit before this or something equally extreme lands on some actual politician's desk. A few more years of this and there will no longer be any good will left from the rest of the world.
- cindyllm 4mo ago[dead]
- mittensc 4mo agoWhat's there to like about Trump? And how do those compare against all the negative things he's done/caused so far?
- account42 4mo agoThere is disliking Trump and then there is thinking that Trump is so bad that the EU would break international copyright agreements just to spite him.
- mittensc 4mo agoYou're saying that like it's not a possibility. What could push EU to do that? Arbitrary tarrifs? Invasion/threats of invasion? It wouldn't be out of spite, nothing ever is, it would be a response and it is a valid concern seeing as Trump has done the above Do you think otherwise?
- someonebaggy 4mo agoTo be fair he did say he was going to invade the EU.
- account42 4mo agoAnd then the government will give everyone free beer and a unicorn and everyone will live happily ever after.
- tialaramex 4mo agoUnlike imaginary animals, ceasing to enforce IP rights is less work rather than more.