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It's a bit disingenuous to pretend that the EU acts as a whole and thus can be considered a single economy. A Cyprus Euro is not a German Euro. If Estonia dec
by chakalakasp 13y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to pretend that the EU acts as a whole and thus can be considered a single economy. A Cyprus Euro is not a German Euro. If Estonia decides to throw away the Berne Convention and legally allow wholesale piracy, the Germans ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H EU will happily throw them under the bus. Happy fun time with America is worth a lot more than indulging some minor political party's crazy sauce in some inconsequential EU state.
- vidarh 13y agoWhich is presumably why his article is talking about what it will take to achieve majority support within the EU, and focusing on Germany as way of increasing support on EU Commission level, rather than talking about "indulging some minor political party's crazy sauce in some inconsequential EU state".
- chakalakasp 13y agoThe thing is, Germany doesn't just manufacture things, they design them as well. It seems unlikely to me that they would adopt a stance on IP that ran counter to their own interests. Honestly, it's hard for me to read TorrentFreak articles, because they always seem to come from the assumed standpoint that normal people want IP to go away and that only oppressive corporations with outdated and unfair business models want to keep it. This is far from the truth.