The Bush administration on Monday targeted China, Russia and 10 other nations for extra scrutiny in the piracy of American movies, music, computer programs and other copyrighted materials.
The 12 nations were put on a “priority watch list” in the area of copyright piracy, which costs the American industry billions of dollars in lost sales annually.
“We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity from rip-off artists and thieves,” U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab said in a statement accompanying this year’s report.
The administration earlier this month announced that it was filing two new trade cases against China before the
World Trade Organization. One of those cases charged that China was lax in enforcing its laws on protecting American copyrights and patents.
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Personally I think the United States is starting to loose in their battle to protect intellectual property. The system in place right now in the United States is severely broken copyright and patent system are being exploited by corporations at the expensive of everyone else. Why would any self respecting country support a system that simply does not work.
Plus you simply CANNOT police the internet let alone the entire world. Theres just too many countries and too many people involved and many of them are just plain tired of sending out the army every time the latest Hollywood release hits their streets or websites located there.