Isn't this why most nations have some sort of seed vault and plant domestication program?

Svalbard was the most recent. However if massive glaciation reoccurs Im not sure who can get to it.

Other countries have found out the hard way for crop failures. Ireland's potato famine (began in 1845), the USA with dutch elm disease, the chestnut blight (1904).

Plants in general have no defense against a rapid ecological or geographic change but do have the advantage over the long run.

I remember the 1980's pushes for anti-pollution. Why are we not still focused on that? Global warming is a possible effect not a proven reality. The rational thing is to name the cause and fight that. Focusing to solve a possibility like Global warming detracts from efforts to grapple with global pollution which comes from human activities and results in learned helplessness, mental and physical disease, overuse of land, poisoning of the food web with mutagenic chemicals and endocrine disruptors.

We shall fart methane but we will also use intellect and will figure something out and survive. And thats the crux of the problem. Humans are the only species hell bent on eugenics.

The Biologists say the _minimal_ replacement value for maintaining a mammal species is just over 2 offspring per couple. The West is hell bound in legislating under global warming subterfuge 1 child per couple. They don't say who will decide who gets to breed. This is the door to GATTAGA. A nice life for those deemed worthy to be useful. Hitler actually went forward with it in his Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (1933) and the T-4 euthanasia program.

For me I want to have as many children as possible so as to ensure my seed survives without the need for a seed vault. More importantly it is that my culture - that which I give to my children will also survive over those who voluntarily castrate themselves.

I pre thank those who have already done this, for my children shall sip their coffee and watch and enjoy today's endangered species when your seed is dead from the earth.

This has already happened. Lack of growers, a major warehouse fire and generally increasing consumption caused a shortage on the spice that which gives beer its flavoring.

In the United States alone, there were an estimated 515 hop growers in 1950; 75 in 2000 and just 45 today[2008], Ward says. In 2006, about 2 million pounds of hops were destroyed in an S.S. Steiner warehouse in Yakima, equaling about 4 percent of the U.S. hop crop.
All the while, beer sales are increasing worldwide by about 1 to 2 percent annually. The craft brewing industry is growing yearly by 12 percent. That economic reality is pushing hop growers back into the fields.

I think your looking for a word in the thesaurus that doesn't exist but really it is a modern problem.
Steven Colbert sensed this with the "product" such as the paste on Hitler mustache for anybody's portrait.

There is not a nice politically correct way to say willfully deride, malign, or intend a vicious and ill parody of person or entity for profit.
Many hide under the guise of sarcasm of a celebrity or public figure but that is not their true intent.

Others instances are not so such as Che Guevera, and the people never get a dime from all those t-shirts did they? But his image "pushes" a lot of "for profit products", to so many hipsters who don't know what he really did or didn't do yet he himself was Marxist.

This is a strange world of legal and human relationships

Why is this even news.
It seems a bit prejudiced on /. to bring up this story. What other news stories of real importance could have been voted up.

The Catholic Church had practices for the protection of seals and other insignia long before some countries were countries or some peoples learned the the rule of Western law.
1) Vatican is a sovereign state.
2) They have a permanent observer status at the United Nations.
3) The Vatican has been more or less willing to send amassadors (Nuncios) to every major Western Nation for the bulk of history.
4) The Vatican respects the legitimate rule of law (as per their moral system which is based on natural law and their Canon system) of other sovereign nations and peoples
5) Some 2.2 billion persons have a relationship to the Vatican

So next time try the litmus test where one inserts one's own race/creed/nation into the sentence and see if it sounds awkwardly prejudiced.
[United Kingdom] Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the [Constitutional Monarchy]
[United States] Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the [Presidency]
[China] Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the [Premier of the State Council]
[Saudi Arabia] Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the [House of Saud]

Doesn't sound alarmist or noteworthy to me for the other ones.

Access to offshore bank accounts for tax evasion is one motivation for sure. Already since US moved from the gold standard in '71 the idea of money has been redefined in such a way that those who control major hubs of wealth generation can redefine value and exchange to anything they want. I always laugh at the $1 salary CEO's tout to the press. Their families expenses being covered 100% by the company covertly somehow.

However I think the problem is more deeply rooted in that the US need to figure out how to quietly adjust the flow of currency to what is "extant" out there in foreign banks minus all the counterfeit bills that have been moving out of target countries since the coldwar and Gulfwars I and II. The US is trying to quietly CYA against global banking collapse due to all the bubbles. If "money" is not flowing its not "working" as intended by the world bank. There are those that horde paper money offshore thinking they actually have something of intrinsic value which it is not.

The project is solely designed to bolster the corporate/industry agenda. Their lack of intent to immediately prosecute show their intent is to datamine to build up their overall case.

Even if it was found that 95% of the traffic was legitimate they would hold up the 5% as proof of the devastating loss to their profits and will ask for more severe legislation and fiscal relief in tough economic times.

Until governments and real people understand the recording industry's practice of not paying the artists in a "normal" arrangement this will continue endlessly.
Really would any engineer just hired at YoyoDyne agree to a 5-10 year exclusive contract, the company immediately deduct all profits off his work to pay off his "advance," be willing to pay for all the publicists, agents, middlemen, nepotism in the exec's office, sycophants of their entourage, etc... Have their evaluation based on popularity polls given by radio/tv/internet which sometimes are skewed with payola.

What is the biggest of the 3 big "sinks" of copyrighted data in the internets - Pirated Binaries, p0rn, or music and associated videos?
We only hear 2 out of three industries most of the time never all three united before the Govenment.

I feel for Prince (whatever his name is now) as he is both artist and producer personally defending his copyrights but most of it is by nameless lawyers on behalf of their clients.
I'd take a few big names to give up a few hours to film some adverts just saying - when you DL my album I thank you, When you pay for that DL I will eventually get paid by the record company so I can pay all the people in the band and that support us in making music (soundstudio, roadies, catering, babysitting, mistress (ahem)...) I encourage you to pay for it and tell your friends to please pay for it else I can not produce more because Im a indentured to the music industry.

For the music industry I meh at their pathetic grasp for money, for the p0rn producers and "artists" I laugh because they can not even do the same thing and are being "driven out of business" will all their copyrighted stuff being the flotsam in the internets.

Many non US governments hold top executives as the responsible party for their corporation. Thus when a lawsuit comes there s not just a bunch of lawyers representing a corporate name but someone is actually hauled in front of the judge. Many Western Executives are unable to travel to certain countries because they have been indicted, tried (sometimes in absentia) and personally found guilty of allowing graft, corruption, carelessness, criminal activities of others (often the locals) in their employment in the Global company. I believe Union Carbide in 84 and IBM Korea in 04 tried to get such testimony.

As an executive with the duty of oversight they were supposed to ensure such acts never happened in the lower ranks.
Probably the Italians think that Google has a local presence that should have caught the video and reported it under local laws.
This is chilling if some foreign government lawyer ever wants to extradite me because I did or didn't click on the inappropriate content button.

But I kind of have to meep Meep at .IT as they as a nation can not even successfully oust Silvio Berlusconi after so much that has happened.
The thought that Lodo Alphoso act for executive immunity could be worked, seems like the guy has a Caesar/Napoleon Complex

If Japan participates in ACTA and other international treaties then this could be a circumvention of encryption controls type of crime which would incur greater penalty than larceny or simple theft.

To the Law outside is there a difference of kind to manufacture lock picks vs to sell them vs being actually caught picking locks vs being searched and having one found on your person?