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No, the US can't.

Also, Wine does the same since forever for DOS binaries. Or NetBSD with compat_* libreries for tons of Unixlike OSes.




The US uses trade agreements to enforce the rule in the EU. Spain used to be quite lenient with copyright, but the US threatened to block all sales to Spain of movies and music. Then a minister basically implemented new restrictions a week before their term was up.


It's still lenient. You can still legally share movies and music without profit.


Try selling cuban goods in Europe to another European citizens in Europe and let him pay with PayPal (Europe) S. à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A.


Spain does it fine with hotel chains. Maybe not Paypal, but for sure it does commerce with Cuba.




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