US threatens trade sanctions aganst Sweden over TPB

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6DBn0BncMk

 

Soo... what the hell? The MPAA is getting our government to threaten trade sanctions against Sweden because some of their citizens run a service which facilitates technology for pirating movies. The Pirate Bay hosts no illegal content, only metainformation, and the Swedish government has determined that this is legal.

 

Why does the MPAA get priority over US companies who rely on Swedish products? What about US citizens who use Swedish products? Should they all suffer just so the MPAA gets their way?

 

This is absolutely ridiculous. Words cannot express my contempt.

 

I absolutely loved in the interview in the end when the reporter asks "Why are you taking your orders from a lobbyist in Hollywood?"

 

I say we pass a law classifying lobbyists as a subhuman species, then declare open season on them.

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a better question would be, what can we do to make sure this doesn't happen?

 

 

edit: does anybody else think that Swedish sounds like English backwards?