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This resolution is nothing more than an end run to avoid the provisions the various trade treaties which have gone into effect over the last several years. (NAFTA and others.) There is virtually no commodity that a Country cannot claim is intrinsically part of the national culture. (Think French wine). Thus, this resolution allows countries to put bans and quotas on imports of these important "culture destroying commodities". I bet a month's pay that within a couple of years France will put quotas on the import of Californian wines in order to protect France's "cultural identity". Take it to the bank.

There is virtually no commodity that a country cannot claim is intrinsically part of the national culture.

You nailed it. I think this is in part a reaction to an increasing rate of globalization of culture per se, that of the United States being only the villain of the moment. India's turn will come - her representatives voted in favor despite the sizeable income that country receives from a movie industry that puts out more than Hollywood. Good luck, suckers!

I don't really think this sort of insularity is possible in the long run even if the Euros and the other multicultis do manage to fragment the Internet. But they have to understand that this sort of persistent, one-sided anti-American activity is more likely to harden American attitudes toward the sort of internationalist control they're pushing. Continuing to slap us in the face at every opportunity and then bleating "why do they hate us? Oh, it must be because they're imperialists" is childish and self-defeating.