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Encoding DNA as Music for Copyrighting?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-flat-out-slimey dept.

superposed writes "A Silicon Valley executive is proposing that biotech companies could improve on the U.S.'s 20-year patent protection for DNA sequences by encoding them as digital music files (Lame Free Registration required) and using copyright protection, which can last up to 100 years. Right now this is just a suggestion, and for what it's worth, the original author of some of the DNA-to-music software thinks its a bad idea. But it's still disturbing somehow."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am gay. And proud! :)

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Klerck? Is that you? This is your mom.

  2. first post. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp, yo.

  3. Sounds good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Something needs to be done to stop the rampant piracy of music.

    When you download an MP3 that you did not buy, you are taking food off the table from a hardworking professional who needs to be compensated for his efforts.

    Downloading an mp3 is no different from walking out of a record store with a CD stuffed under your shirt.

    1. Re:Sounds good. by V1m+Fuego · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Luckily, we're taking about jack-shit from the artist though. That "hard-working professional" record exec can smell my small one in the meantime.

  4. Troll alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That wasn't even a very good troll. It was off-topic, does not present semi-believable arguments, or anything. If you are going to troll, do so with some skill.

    1. Re:Troll alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I see, so if someone has an opinion different from yours, that person must obviously be a "troll".

    2. Re:Troll alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes. Or they are stupid.