[von Ryan]

One thing that can be noticed very easily is that the US create mountains of laws to protect copyright. They spend huge amounts of money trying to track down the 15-year-old girls downloading some No Doubt and Jay-Z songs. But they can only do this inside the US.
Meanwhile, in Europe, they pressure the governments to make similar laws. But Europe, as liberal as it is (comparing to the US), refuses to accept those laws, what I think is very healthy.
Brazil is "sitting in the fence", as we say. The laws are not as though as the US ones (and we suffer pressure from them because of that), but I don't think they can be considered liberal as well.
I just hope that when we fix the paper castle that Mercosul has become, we sign a cooperation treaty with the European Union (what has been in the plans of both blocks for a long time... Issues like agricultural subsidies in Europe are pending 9_9)... That way, I hope we can get some "liberalness" on that area here.