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    7 hours ago

    Another commenter gave the main point but there’s more: Treaties. There’s a lot of treaties that only work because nearly every county signed on to them and the reason why they signed on is because of promises of aid… USAID.

    Things like the Berne Convention that guarantee that countries will enforce copyright law. It’s because of that treaty that it doesn’t really matter where you upload pirated content… It’ll still be taken down because all these countries (with Internet) signed on.

    If there’s nothing like USAID to help these countries they will likely pull out of the Berne Convention and other treaties and start pirating (and selling) content from other countries like the US.

    Free movies from wherever for all citizens! Pirate anything and everything! Use our country’s YouTube and TikTok equivalents and you’ll never have to worry about your content being taken down!

    There’s other things like not developing weapons of mass destruction, not working with our enemies, providing for the safety of our citizens that visit, etc that will all likely go away along with USAID.