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Taiwan Rejects US Copyright Extension Demands

Posted by michael on from the guido-says-you-should-buy-insurance dept.

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."

11 of 295 comments (clear)

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

    Nope. The author is unknown, so it's forfeited to the public domain. Yoink.

  2. WTF!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux kernel prepatch 2.4.20-pre10 was just released the other day and absolutely no mention. Instead we get a story about what some shitty little third world asian country thinks of our laws. who cares? I hate Slashdot.

  3. fizzaaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fizzeeyy fizzoom. fa fa fa.

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

    Agreed. Some days it seems that most moderators are overweight communist hippies with no sense of humor. The rest are probably perl scripts.

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

    Why was my previous most moderated to -1, troll? -1, offtopic I can understand, but a troll?

    Geeze, arn't people allowed to have opinions.

  6. Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Taiwan rejecting a US demand? They must be terrorists!

  7. Re:Listen Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hippys...dirty hippys...they're all around me. They wanna change the world but they just smoke pot and smell. Hippys...

    I am not a dirty hippy communist! I do not want my approximately 10K worth of software on this laptop to be free, because then I could not actually steal it, which I greatly prefer thank you very much.

  8. Re:Wow, nice to see someone showing some backbone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Preserving profits??? is THAT how CAPITALISM works?!? holy shit!!!!!

  9. I agree__o by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  10. I really, really, wonder. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I really wonder exactly how many of all the
    whiny bluffs we get from corporations about
    how devestated they will be if this or that
    law gets passed to protect the environment or
    the consumer.
    They will adapt and still make oodles of money.
    Business is the kid who threatens to take their
    bat and ball and go play elsewhere.
    Whingy bluffers.

  11. Re:Fighting the Man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am the Man, stop fighting me damnit!