Comments on: When is a pirate not a pirate? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9137 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company news games video games game consoles security marketing DRM Internet radio web radio Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:05:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9137#comment-50813 Reader's Write Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:43:24 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9137#comment-50813 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9137#comment-50657 Reader's Write Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:32:29 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9137#comment-50657 "Don't rich countries pirate poor countries' best scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses and programmers?" The article is right on target, but in the above phrase "music" was left out. American music publishers, with their bag of polished legal trick contracts went south and for nothing or a drink (as Cuban claimed in their legal fight in British court) aquired the musical legacy of the poor countries. As a result the most successful music in the world only benefited the Americans who pirated the music. Real piracy here. To understand the problem, this is a must read: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251 “Don’t rich countries pirate poor countries’ best scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses and programmers?”

The article is right on target, but in the above phrase “music” was left out. American music publishers, with their bag of polished legal trick contracts went south and for nothing or a drink (as Cuban claimed in their legal fight in British court) aquired the musical legacy of the poor countries. As a result the most successful music in the world only benefited the Americans who pirated the music. Real piracy here.

To understand the problem, this is a must read:
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251

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