Honestly the good guy/bad guy thing tends to get overplayed in the US. My opinion/theory is that the US for the past 100+ years runs on a very simply concept: what's best for American business is best for the American people. This also extends to the international level, where US priority comes before fair dealing.RaikuFA said:
For example, the US is so gun-ho about international copyright/IP laws because they are the largest creators and of distributed media. Something like international trademarks on local food brands on the other hand, that protects products such as Kobe Beef or Champagne, American farmers can make money by stealing these name brands and applying it to their own products. Or the recent SOPA fiasco, consider how close the US congress came to possibly breaking the internet for the rest of the world in favour of US Business. Then recently the UN brings up the idea of starting their own internet tax, possibly in an attempt to take control over the internet, and all of a sudden to many of the same people who supported SOPA the integrity of the internet must be protected at all costs!
It's all just one big circle jerk really.
