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Taiwan Rejects US Copyright Extension Demands
An anonymous reader writes "Taiwan has rejected the US's demand to extend copyrights from 50 years to 70 years. Here's the news article on the Mercury News."
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is copyrighted for 70 years??!
Does this mean that I can sue Taiwan for patent/copyright infringement?
The entertainment industry is losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year because of Taiwan and their regressive 50 year limit on copyright. Why, I myself could stand to lose $100,000,000 a year* on copyrights that I own in another 35 years! This is completely unacceptable. I hear that the Congress gave Bush the green light to start wars in defiance of international law, so lets level those bastards in Taiwan while we're at it!
* Based on projections that I would be able to sell 100,000,000 copies of my Master's thesis at $1 per copy.
The U.S. Supreme Court considered on Wednesday whether Robert Frost poems and Mickey Mouse movies made more than 75 years ago should become public property or remain in the hands of their owners for another 20 years.
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``Why should we be blamed for pursuing knowledge?'' a student protester said on television.
Mickey Mouse is knowledge? Let me guess, he teaches people how to wildly swerve a steamboat and whistle....?
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(overheard in deepest, darkest bowels of the White House and/or the Skull and Bones fraternity house) OK, Fine. We were looking for an excuse to let the ChiComs have it anyway. Now we can maintain our short position in semiconductor fabs and get that foosball table we've been wanting. Just make sure to withdraw military support after the election.
I'm not really that cynical. I actually agree with GWB more than half the time. It's just that making GWB jokes in irresistable. I don't really believe there are any such evil conspiracies in the
NO CARRIER
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Perhaps they'll serve as inspiration to other countries.
Yeah, like maybe the U.S.
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Jack Valenti assures me that 50 TB of pirated movies in DivX flows through the Internet each day?
Well it didn't yesterday - I was out. How does Jack Valenti know what I'm doing anyway?! Have the RIAA been haxoring my box?!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
"Anyways, Taiwanese stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever."
"Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 1000 NT dollars (about $30 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her."
So did she smell as well? BTW, I overheard some gangly, pimple-faced kid in my algorithms class bitch about how some Asian girl wouldn't go out with him even after using such romantic lines as "Me lub you long time". You wouldn't happen to be him would you? I'm a generous fellow, so I've devised an algorithm for Asiaphiles like you:
#include "asian porno"
while(yellow_fever) {
hit on girl who looks like Lucy Liu
quote Full Metal Jacket ||
say "ni hao ma" as opening line
if(girl says she's not a prostitute || Asian
guy comes to beat the shit out of you) {
print "Shit!"
exit(1)
}
Interesting how no one used the "Harmony" argument to claim the US should lower its copyright protections to keep them in line with Taiwan...
MSK