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FTC and JD Holding Hearings on IP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-your-voice-in-there dept.

hondo77 writes "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department are holding hearings on intellectual property laws over the next few weeks (the first one was Feb 6). They're looking at the balance between IP rights and the free market."

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  1. Nerds are theifs and criminals! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They are, the GPL is just an excuse they can write illegal pirated versions of unix and other tools! Arrest everyone that wears glasses and format their hardrive and put Microsoft DRM OS 2003 on it and make them PAY FOR THINGS Like there SUPPOSED TO DO!

    MP3s and OGGS and XYZs are illegally ripped music and they distrubute it on their underground OPEN networks and they wonder why the RIAA shuts it down and protects their CDS!

    And so on, and on and on! So STOP being l33t HAXORING theives and fucking pay for a fucking real operating system! Windows XP, Mac OS X or a REAL UNIX!

    This is not a troll, its a POINT OF VIEW!