Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law
On Thu, 10 May 2007 19:50:53 +0200
Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl> wrote:
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> Joe wrote:
> > Joe Hart wrote:
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> >> So you're saying we're going to be the UESSR and not the USE? Oh no,
> >> people will start calling us the commies. ;)
> >>
> >
> > No, I didn't mean to say that's what it will be called, just that the
> > EU has very much more in common with the USSR than with the USA, and
> > that it could be seen as quite offensive to use the term 'United States'
> > in relation to Europe. The EU Constitution is about as far away from the
> > US Constitution as it is possible to get.
> >
> > There's been a few murmurs from some old USSR satellite countries now
> > in the EU that they thought they'd got away from that kind of thing...
> >
> >
> Well, the EU constitution has not been ratified, and I agree with you
> that it is a bad thing. That's why I (and the majority of the Dutch and
> French people) voted against it. Some European countries have not had a
I understood that much of the French opposition to it was due to their
wanting to *preserve* certain aspects of their current socialistic
system and the EU rules would have forced them to add more freedom to
their economy. Am I mistaken?
> referendum specifically because they are afraid their populous will vote
> against it.
>
> However, going so far as to say that it is closer to the USSR than to
> the USA is going quite overboard. As for freedoms, can you go anywhere
> in the world you want to? Oh, that's right. You cannot enjoy legally a
> Cuban cigar, nor can you legally visit the pristine beaches in that country.
Lovely. When we slapped the USSR with the Jackson-Vanik sanctions
because of its civil rights offenses, did that upset you because your
freedoms were thereby restricted?
> Really, I have seen both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, I lived 30 years
> in the USA, and I know the laws, and I thought I was free when I was
> there. It is just in the last few years I have come to realize that the
> American propaganda machine was in full swing. It still is. Tell me,
> why is the World News dominated by American news when it comes on the
> television? Why is CNN International different in the US than it is in
> Europe?
What does the news coverage have to do with freedom? Are you alleging
government control of the media here? And you *still* haven't really
explained why you feel so much freer there than here, other than your
ability to ask your doctor to kill you, and before that, to download
libdvdcss. [I'm not convinced the McCarthyism situation here is as bad
as you think it is.]
> Joe
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