allfreechips wrote:
You have to look at the global picture. If they succeed this will bring many other casinos to thier local government to force the same actions. Remeber a tiny victory, or even the though of such by an underdog can create a world wide change. Almost like finally saying what everyone is thinking, people wont shut up after it happens.
Very true.
Very true.
Canada, the EU (covering the UK), Japan, Mexico and Taiwan reserved the right to join Antigua in the WTO complaint, so this is not the last we have heard of it.
What this victory will allow A&B to do is to put into place ‘retaliatory trade sanctions’ against companies based in the US. They are currently considering their retaliation to be in intellectual property, i.e to legally ‘bootleg’ DVDs, and music.
So we could be seeing legal ‘super Napsters’ and ‘Film88.coms’ (http://news.com.com/2100-1023-933558.html ) based out of Antigua and Barbuda as early as 2007.