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you think this is a new phenomenon, America clamped down on IP years ago, why do you think the Large pharmaceuticals based in the US are allowed to pedal death to 3rd world countries by blocking cheap generic drugs (IP copywrite).

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what would be interesting is to find out what lobbyists Michael Mukasey has been speaking to lately or recent bank transactions! As i'm sure the IFPI/MPAA would love all IP violations to be a criminal offence so the tax payers had to pay for their mass suits.

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I love how terrorism is the scape goat for everything now. All you ever hear about is terrorism this, terrorism that. Whatever, look at the real underlying problems.

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Zippyisim: The terrorists have given the US government everything they need to set democracy back 100 years.

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I love how terrorism is the scape goat for everything now. All you ever hear about is terrorism this, terrorism that. Whatever, look at the real underlying problems.

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one of my fav zipyisims yet

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Zippyisim: The terrorists have given the US government everything they need to set democracy back 100 years.

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A zippyisim is a misconstrued/warped sentence/word group mixing meanings and themes for humor or to make a point or both or sometimes to just be incomprehensible.

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Originally posted by goodswipe:

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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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Originally posted by goodswipe:

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I love how terrorism is the scape goat for everything now. All you ever hear about is terrorism this, terrorism that. Whatever, look at the real underlying problems.

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one of my fav zipyisims yet

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Zippyisim: The terrorists have given the US government everything they need to set democracy back 100 years.

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A zippyisim is a misconstrued/warped sentence/word group mixing meanings and themes for humor or to make a point or both or sometimes to just be incomprehensible.

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LOL, zippyism..I like that. Yea, I can go on and on for hours about this topic. But this might would be like trying to argue religion. Some people will not listen.

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LOL! Man, what kinda meds are you taking? I need some...you're way too chippy or shall I say, Zippy!

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On December 20, international trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland failed to resolve the major remaining issue on access to generic versions of patented medicines in developing countries to meet public-health needs. All 143 other countries were ready to accept a compromise text negotiated on December 16. But the U.S. insisted on an additional restriction--to limit the agreement to AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and similar major epidemics. Cancer, heart disease, asthma, and hundreds of other illnesses would have been excluded. Developing countries would not accept this restriction, and European countries did not want to re-open the difficult negotiations.

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The US, under pressure from its giant pharmaceutical companies, is trying to undermine the use in poor countries of cheap, copycat Aids drugs, made by "pirate", generic companies but validated by the World Health Organisation, campaigners claim.

US drug companies want the money promised for President George Bush's Aids plan to be spent on their products.

The American department of health and human sciences has now convened a conference in Botswana at the end of the month that will question the WHO's approval process for generic drugs, known as "pre-qualification".

If the cheap drugs, which sell for less than £165 per patient per year, are discredited and the more expensive brand-name drugs are bought instead, the limited money available for treatment will help fewer people

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Brazil's president has authorised the country to bypass the patent on an Aids drug manufactured by Merck, a US pharmaceutical giant.

The country will import a cheaper, generic Indian-made version of the patented Efavirenz drug.

The decision came after talks between Brazil and the US company broke down.

Merck had offered Brazil a 30% discount on the cost of the drugs but the country wanted to pay the same price as Thailand, which gets a larger discount.

Small royalty

Merck offered Brazil almost a third off the cost - pricing the pills at $1.10 (£0.55) instead of $1.59.

But Brazil wanted its discount pegged at same level as Thailand, which pays just $0.65 per pill.

Now, though, it will source Indian-made versions of Efavirenz for just $0.45 each.

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What American policy continually shows is that its only ok for ppl to survive if they pay the US the right to do so!

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@ Mez

i do not mean pedal death by supplying dangerous drugs, i mean that America abuses the life of the earth's inhabitants by constantly trying to block cheap drugs by abusing the WTO, as pharmaceutical drugs fall under IP/Copywrite laws. What American policy continually shows is that its only ok for ppl to survive if they pay the US the right to do so!

U.S. blocks trade agreement on generic drug access in poor countries

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On December 20, international trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland failed to resolve the major remaining issue on access to generic versions of patented medicines in developing countries to meet public-health needs. All 143 other countries were ready to accept a compromise text negotiated on December 16. But the U.S. insisted on an additional restriction--to limit the agreement to AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and similar major epidemics. Cancer, heart disease, asthma, and hundreds of other illnesses would have been excluded. Developing countries would not accept this restriction, and European countries did not want to re-open the difficult negotiations.

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The US, under pressure from its giant pharmaceutical companies, is trying to undermine the use in poor countries of cheap, copycat Aids drugs, made by "pirate", generic companies but validated by the World Health Organisation, campaigners claim.

US drug companies want the money promised for President George Bush's Aids plan to be spent on their products.

The American department of health and human sciences has now convened a conference in Botswana at the end of the month that will question the WHO's approval process for generic drugs, known as "pre-qualification".

If the cheap drugs, which sell for less than £165 per patient per year, are discredited and the more expensive brand-name drugs are bought instead, the limited money available for treatment will help fewer people

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there is more to copywrite than movies and music. courporate media usually does not mention the blocking of "pirate medicine" but this is one of the main forms of IP theft that America constantly tries to block, as they hold most of the patents of drugs, which is why i say "pedal death", you can live if you pay the USA otherwise just die!

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If the movie business would be prepared to supply product at a fair and not vastly over inflated price then the pirates would find it hard to compete..

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Some freedom fighter...

"give unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar"

(apparently {quote} some beardy bloke called Jesus, who wandered around Judea with a gang of big hard men frightening the law abiding populace while running an agenda of telling the masses what they wanted to hear)..

In the context "roman taxes are unfair".. is that money, respect, disdain or the finger??

As for asia where commercial piracy exists on a massive scale (and in the UK).. It's a supply and demand thing. If the movie business would be prepared to supply product at a fair and not vastly over inflated price then the pirates would find it hard to compete..

And yes.. I have profited from pirate movies from. Usually when they aren't available to buy... supply and demand.

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