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Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA
forged writes "The Register already reported Alan Cox's involvement against the proposed European Union Copyright Directive before. Today, Alan Cox has issued a wake up call to the Linux community amid concerns that the pending EUCD could stymie open source development.
"The directive, which was approved last year, extends European copyright legislation so that it is even more restrictive than America's controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."" If you haven't joined the EFF (or the equivalent in your country) , now might be a good time.
Umm, like, where is this Europe people keep talking about? Is that like near Canada or something?
My karma reached 50 and all I got was this lousy post.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
Not that I think the U.S. shouldn't be bashed, and in fact, I agree with lots of the international criticism of U.S. policies. But the fact of the matter is that this sort of insidiousness happens everywhere, so next time some harebrained senator tries to slide through a despicable law in America, don't just snicker and shake your heads at the stupid Americans. Start looking around for the traitors in your own government who would sell you out to the highest bidder. I guarantee you'll find one or two if you look.
I'd like to help fight this EUCD, but I'm too busy keeping my own government out of my private life. Good luck, Europe. Hope you're more successful fighting this than we Americans were with the DMCA.
A: They use the internet!
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Here trollie is this close? eval "echo -e `printf "\x066\x055\x063\x06B \x055"`" The confusion is all yours prick.
The May-day riots are about to start here in London, After reading this story I feel like joining - well, you get free McDonalds (happy meal toys are subject to availability - i.e. who evers first behind the counter when the glass breaks:). Everyone says that you should just watch it on TV 'cos they get the best shots and do re-plays and commentary and stuff, but I think you just can't beat being there, with the atmosphere, smell of blood and cheap spray paint.
The best part about this new law is, that people who wouldn't normally waste their time cracking some protection system, will now devote _all_ their time just to make a point. Wow, i feel like smashing stuff "Down with the corporate pigs!!!!!!"
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Come on, you can do better than that. First, it was an obvious joking allusion to the "*BSD is dying" troll. Second, relative to Linux, BSD is dead...look at user base, development activity, applications, any meaningful metric, and BSD trails Linux. So what I said (IIRC, "I don't want Linux to go the way of BSD") is completely based in fact and reason.
you sound like that idiot in the UK years ago who claimed there was no holocaust. stop hyping shit that isn't true
Fuck you and your neo-Nazi analogy. Read my original post, look up how many innocent people were slaughtered during the Holocaust, think for one fucking second, and then reconsider whether you really want to make that comparison.
you karma is going down because it should.
Easy to say for an AC. I'm posting this with my bonus. Plz ks my ass, thx.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)