MrMazda is correct. Enforcement is a BIG issue. I am from the USA, but I live in Mexico now. Back home in the USA internet access is already very restricted.. and the average user doesn't even realize it. In Mexico I can access many sites and download/upload material that I simply cannot even access in the USA. In Mexico, I can buy copies of movies (or almost anything), and somtimes, movies not even released yet. In the marketplace is not uncommon to hear people ask "Is this a copy?" Given what I have just said - Mexcio has similair laws protecting copyrights and infringement that the USA has. The difference? ENFORCEMENT.

The governmental bodies within the USA tend to write laws requiring costly self enforcement - increasing the cost of goods, decreasing the number of manufactures, sending jobs outside the USA, or like some products eliminating their manufacture in the USA altogether. If police get a complaint about a particular business, the attitude of law enforcement (not the law itself) is guilty until proven innocent. The marketplace becomes a hostile enviroment to the very business that want to operate there.

In Mexico, laws are made to govern any number of issues, just as in the USA, but generally, nothing is written into the law about enforcement and almost no-one would complain to the police. It is my experience that Mexican laws are good examples of "do as I say, not as I do."  That's partly why I moved here. Less government interference in my life, much less.

As a US citizen living in Mexico, I can only compare and contrast Mexico and the USA. I would like to hear from others. Would the passing of such laws really effect you? Have you considered that maybe OUR governments (speaking as a global citizen) are really protecting themselves, their ideologies, and the business money influencing them? :police: