Here they go again talking as if the entire US senate and congress is in their pockets, perhaps they are ?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28547Early this morning, the U.S. Senate passed a very important resolution stressing that the Russian Federation must provide effective protection of intellectual property rights or risk not being accepted into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and losing its eligibility to participate in the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program. The same resolution, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on November 16, 2005, is intended to help ensure that the Russian Federation adopts and enforces aggressive laws, policies and practices against intellectual property piracy. In response, the Recording Industry Association of America issued the following statement from Chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol.]
“With the passage of this resolution in the Senate, the entire U.S. Congress has made clear that the Russian government must significantly step up the fight against piracy as a condition for both its acceptance into the WTO and for receiving preferential trade benefits from the United States.
I think threatening large countries such as Russia and China with a trade war is stupid talk and they would best be prepared to help build some local infrastructure to bolster legal protection, rather than wave a big stick each time they are told to mind their own business.
