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"The UK was among 19 nations that initially supported the law."

That's quite rich, ain't it? It's OK, after Brexit UK will become a colony of US anyway since they will rapidly do bi trading deals and implement US style anyway. You know, the style that allowed stuff to halt for 20 years because Disney want it in 1999.

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>UK will become a colony of US

What? No.

The idea kind of reminds me of Yahoo's Alibaba investment. It was successful. So successful that, in the end, it completely negated anything else that was going on at Yahoo.

You could make a fun argument that colonizing America had a similar kind of effect on Britain.

> You know, the style that allowed stuff to halt for 20 years because Disney want it in 1999.

You are aware that the copyright extension law was passed in the US to align it with the EU's length, right?

And you are aware that US still want Kim Dotcom to be extradited to US for copyright infringement for stuff he didn't do it, just because he pissed off Disney with his services, right? I mean a dude who never set foot on US, never did business with any Americans is higher on DoJ list just because Disney said so.

Well, that and running a "file sharing service" as a cover for one of the largest organized commercial piracy services on the Internet, a fact the DOJ was able to establish in Schmitz's own words from the contents of mails he and his team exchanged --- which you can read for yourself in the long-public indictment.

But I'm sure Donald Duck and Jafar from Alladin don't like him much either.

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