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Best Use of DMCA Yet: Aliens Sue USAF
A reader writes "BBspot, the most reliable source of news in the universe, is reporting that several aliens are suing the USAF over the reverse-engineering of their UFO technology."
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They should have implemented a region code protection scheme, so that their technology is unuseable on earth. Tough luck.
Well, you beat me to it, but here's what I was going to write. I was writing this when you posted you comment.
Recently, God himself has begun a DMCA-based lawsuit against practicers of genetic research.
"I have been disturbed by the lack of respect for my intellectual property. I spent long hours working on an encryption scheme for my 'life' technology, and I wish that these 'hackers' would appreciate that. Instead, they have reverse-engineered my genetic source code, claiming that it was all in the name of 'science'. This is piracy, plain and simple."
God owns several patents concerning this technology, including a method for autonomous reproduction of life forms and a process for imbuing free will into creatures.
"Now, with this new 'DMCA' law, I can finally put an end to the reverse engineering that threatens to destroy my business. It's obvious that the old standby of 'sin and you go to hell' isn't as effective as it used to be. I'm hoping that this will keep people from stealing my work."
"I thought that the last representative I sent to Earth made it perfectly clear that this sort of thing would not be tolerated. My next official will be expecting full compensation for any derivative works from my technology."
Adam was instructed not to access the secrets of the genome on the tree of life, he did and he was punished. People in Babel attempted to build a tower to break into the labratory, the tower was destroyed and the people punished.
Since it took over 5000 years to for man to access the codes in the genome, access would be deemed as sufficently controlled under the DMCA.
Since copyrights were for the life of the owner plus 50 years, the automatic protection of copyright for god would be in place. Even new version of the genome is copyrightable as a derivitive work of the earlier version.
A note for trial strategy, if the case is appealled sufficiently, it ends up being tried before God.
Fight Spammers!
God sues the U.S. Human Genome Project under the DMCA.
"The dot com Andover, owner of the website www.slashdot.org, is being sued by several entities of unkown origin. In their public announcement, which was peiced together over the SETI@home program, these entities stated the following...
"We do not appreciate being called ALIENS. The misuse of this term has become apparent as of late, especially with our lawsuit over the United States of America, Planet Earth, Air Force. We prefer to be called ENTITIES OF OTHERWORLDLY ORIGIN, with no acronym of EOOO acceptable. EOOO is the name of another such entity, wich slashdot has foolishly called ALIENS."
Also added were the following statements/threats
"This Andover entity might do well to heed our demands, and to stop stereotyping us. Else we will be forced to unleash our 31337 H4X0R $KI11$ against them. That is all... Fist Prost, and goodbye."
"Jon Katz was unavailable for comment at this time."
krystal_blade
It will be easy to motivate our fellow man; there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.
they should sue SETI@Home while they're at it for trying to break their encryption (of course i guess they would have to wait until it produced some result)