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Unfortunately, this scenario is being played out all over the world. We had similar revelations in New Zealand a while ago. http://www.nzcs.org.nz/newsletter/article/119

It's disgusting, but not surprising. US has been desperately attempting to export it's draconian grip on copyright to the rest of the world at all costs for quite a while now.

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A lot of these changes actually go beyond what the copyright industry has been able to do in the US. There's no data retention provision in the US, for example.

I think some of this is a two part play against domestic policies. Bully foreign interests to implement, and then push the same policies domestically, using the foreign implementations as part of the argument. ("Compliance", "even they're doing it", "parity", "protect domestic interests", etc....)

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