The U.S. President Barack Obama continued for one year trade embargo against Cuba. President underlines that punitive measures “comply with the national interests of the United States. Thus, sanctions remain in force until September 14, 2011. Trade embargo in 1962 and aimed to overthrow the communist government of the island, prohibits links to U.S. companies in Cuba. The only exception is allowed for trade in agricultural products and some medicines. The unofficial position of Cuba is that the embargo restricts access to so many products that compels people to resort to piracy, says Reuters. Several weeks after the premiere of the comedy “Murderers” in the U.S., the film can now be seen in the cinemas of communist Cuba about 9 U.S. cents. Strip adventures of Ashton Kutcher as a CIA assassin and is available on DVD. The problem is that the film will be officially released on DVD on September 7 in the U.S. and even then, because the U.S. embargo against Cuba, it can spread to the island. The years of embargo against Cuba cost the American business and countless missed opportunities at the same time the island became a haven for pirated goods. Although the embargo prohibits U.S. companies such as Microsoft’s software export to Cuba, the island’s most computers have installed unlicensed versions of the operating system.
Pirated copies of Windows 7 available for months on the black market, while last hit movie, James Cameron’s “Avatar” is broadcast on Cuban national television in February. “The reality is that American products and services offered in Cuba whether companies that manufacture them, sell them there or not,” said Jack Kolvin, vice president of the National Foreign Trade Council. “Worrying point is that U.S. companies get nothing for it,” he added. According to the Washington-based Business Software Alliance in 2009 63% of software in Latin America worth 6.2 billion dollars was unlicensed. In Cuba, the proportion of pirated software is about 80%, if not higher, analysts indicate. “Until you fix your relationship as the two governments begin to talk and do not establish diplomatic relations, ensuring the rules of doing business, you can not solve the problem of piracy,” says Kolvin. In April, Obama has removed many restrictions on travel to Cuba for U.S. citizens of Cuban origin.