About the WTO case - Page 2

Zele · #11 10-02-2006, 08:56 PM

A lot of people might be concerned about buying Antiguan knock-off drugs, but amazon.ag should do a brisk business.

iron81 · #12 10-02-2006, 08:58 PM

Earlier WTO thread.

Cliffs notes: The WTO is an out for us. The problem is we have to find a government (not a poker site) that wants to go to bat for us and is big enough that the US has to worry about trade sanctions.

Zele · #13 10-02-2006, 08:59 PM

If Jay Cohen wants to start a new WTO thread every 3 hours, I vote we let him.

meleader2 · #14 10-02-2006, 09:03 PM

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And why would the U.S. care if Antigua violates U.S. intellectual property or otherwise imposes countervailing sanctions on the U.S.? The U.S. economy is so huge in comparison to Antigua's that that effect on the U.S. would be marginally above zero.

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are you kidding? what kind of boost in Antigua's economy do you think it would get by selling ripped DVD's, knock off Nike's, ADIDAS, A&F, ripped music, hell...FREE music with terabytes full of servers with adspace .01 cents a click, among countless other things due to this?

above the adspace a simple message "DOWN WITH FRIST. CLICK HERE"

i'd click 30 times.

boohaa12 · #15 10-02-2006, 09:11 PM

WTO is a good thing for us players. But remmember US created GATT > GATT created WTO. US could tie any santions made against US by WTO up for years,

PocketAces · #16 10-02-2006, 09:12 PM

Are you aware that if someone tried to buy that stuff over the net it would get confiscated by Customs when it arrived in this country?

vinyard · #17 10-02-2006, 09:32 PM

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And why would the U.S. care if Antigua violates U.S. intellectual property or otherwise imposes countervailing sanctions on the U.S.? The U.S. economy is so huge in comparison to Antigua's that that effect on the U.S. would be marginally above zero.

[/ QUOTE ] Yeah, you're right. Nobody would be pissed at all if Antingua invested the minimal capital to make a DVD-ripping facility and, say, converting a chemical plant to make Generic viagra, levitra etc and sell it at 25 cents on the dollar.

meleader2 · #18 10-02-2006, 09:34 PM

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Are you aware that if someone tried to buy that stuff over the net it would get confiscated by Customs when it arrived in this country?

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are YOU aware that you can buy hallucinogenic mushrooms online, marijuana seeds, opium poppies and countless other contraband that aren't confiscated by US customs?

graydot · #19 10-02-2006, 09:43 PM

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Are you aware that if someone tried to buy that stuff over the net it would get confiscated by Customs when it arrived in this country?

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are YOU aware that you can buy hallucinogenic mushrooms online, marijuana seeds, opium poppies and countless other contraband that aren't confiscated by US customs?

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Links?

hedxcold · #20 10-02-2006, 09:45 PM

also they'd be able to set up their own allofmp3.com with WTO approval.
maybe even an allofdvd.com