<story><title>Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-blocking-is-making-its-way-into-free-trade-agreements-220508/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alwayslikethis</author><text>Russia is currently at a perfect position to fight back against this. I&amp;#x27;m no fan of Kremlin, dictatorship, or wars, but if an ordinary country wants to rebel against the international &amp;quot;copyright&amp;quot; cartel, they would face sanctions. Russia is already under enough sanctions that no more can be realistically added, and it also has an existing pirate culture and a developed network infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;I would be happy to see if they start sponsoring pirate groups to undermine the right holders from &amp;quot;unfriendly countries&amp;quot; as a form of economic warfare.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s already legalized for certain classes of software[1], but I think it has not yet formally extended into other types of content.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kommersant.ru&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;5240942&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kommersant.ru&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;5240942&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>car_analogy</author><text>A perfect example of how &amp;quot;democracy dies in darkness&amp;quot;. They will keep pushing anti-consumer laws through the backdoor of &amp;quot;free trade&amp;quot; agreements, until we stop it by requiring that:&lt;p&gt;Before any international agreement may be ratified, [our country] must pass all the laws needed to comply with that agreement ahead of time, through regular democratic processes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>As a Russian, I can assure you that copyright was never really enforced in Russia in the first place, despite it being a member of WTO for some time. People around me who do pay for software and especially movies&amp;#x2F;tv shows&amp;#x2F;music instead of torrenting do it as a goodwill gesture more than anything else.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-blocking-is-making-its-way-into-free-trade-agreements-220508/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alwayslikethis</author><text>Russia is currently at a perfect position to fight back against this. I&amp;#x27;m no fan of Kremlin, dictatorship, or wars, but if an ordinary country wants to rebel against the international &amp;quot;copyright&amp;quot; cartel, they would face sanctions. Russia is already under enough sanctions that no more can be realistically added, and it also has an existing pirate culture and a developed network infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;I would be happy to see if they start sponsoring pirate groups to undermine the right holders from &amp;quot;unfriendly countries&amp;quot; as a form of economic warfare.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s already legalized for certain classes of software[1], but I think it has not yet formally extended into other types of content.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kommersant.ru&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;5240942&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kommersant.ru&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;5240942&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>car_analogy</author><text>A perfect example of how &amp;quot;democracy dies in darkness&amp;quot;. They will keep pushing anti-consumer laws through the backdoor of &amp;quot;free trade&amp;quot; agreements, until we stop it by requiring that:&lt;p&gt;Before any international agreement may be ratified, [our country] must pass all the laws needed to comply with that agreement ahead of time, through regular democratic processes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>Well, there&amp;#x27;s already rutracker for one thing.</text></comment>