This is the effects of globalization. No one will partake in it unless there is a regress process and this is sadly what it is. I don't like it one bit but the powers to be on both side recognize that there has to be a process to address business issues on both sides of the ocean. No one rushing to vote for this setup probably ever considered this as a result but it is what it is. Big business will continue to run things I'm afraid.

It is troubling (in the USA at least) that intellectual property has become so important that many times it is now (somehow) a criminal offense instead of a civil issue.

I hate to think that people in other countries need to be careful of breaking US law when they are in their own (supposedly) soverign nation....
This guy is likely getting extradited to the US for a link sharing site, the government where he lives does not think it's worth prosecuting, but they will ship him off to the USA for some good old fashioned justice... :(

Our IP laws seem to be getting quite broad in their interpetation and enforcement...
-Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
-The Great Martin Luther King Copyright Conundrum ($10.00 to see I have a Dream historical speech)
and so on and so forth...

Its quite a big story here, as what he did is not even an offense in the UK...

Thank Mr Blair for signing the most one sided treaty in history, not including those of a defeated country, although that's moot.....

This means if a modder makes a Grumman aircraft model for CloD one day and it is used on a server located in the USA or published on a US website, he can be extradited to the USA for prosecution.

Does EU have the same agreement?

No, only Britain, they weren't as far up George's arse as Tony was. To be fair, neither was George's underpants.

I thought this was a good read:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23797

"Yesterday's internet-wide protest may not have killed Congress's anti-piracy efforts completely, but a lot of legislators (including some co-sponsors) suddenly can't run away from the bills fast enough. According to Ars Technica's count, 18 Senators, mostly Republican, have withdrawn their support for the Protect IP Act in the last 24 hours, including seven former co-sponsors. Roy Blunt of Missouri (pictured), is another one of the co-sponsors who turned on the bill, following Marco Rubio's lead. Most are now calling PIPA "flawed" or "not ready for prime time," but since they didn't seem to feel that way on Tuesday, it's pretty clear that Wednesday's public protests have had at least some of their desired effect." :)

http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-ba...121420287.html

I think the issue is over as I read that President Obama announced that he will block the law.

~S~