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Antigua has had the rights to $21M worth of US copyrights since 2005. They'd originally won $4B, but the US got that cut down to $21M.

Frankly, it's about time they started taking advantage of this. It's only been what, 7 years? That's $147M of unclaimed revenue which could have been used for schools and their local economy (it's a small island nation).

Back in the day, I thought it would be cool if they used the ruling to run a private World of Warcraft server. There are other more interesting things besides music and movies that they have the right to copy - e.g. Elsevier journal articles.



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