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Copyright and Copy Rights

Posted by michael on from the ten-wrongs-make-a-right dept.

neocon writes "Today's National Review Online has an interesting piece from John Bloom of UPI on the origin of Copy Rights (what Copyrights really are) and the current attacks on them in Congress and elsewhere."

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  1. Thimbleright and Thimble Rights by Syllepsis · · Score: 0, Troll

    neocon writes "Today's National Review Online has an interesting piece from John Bloom of UPI on the origin of Thimble Rights (what Thimblerights really are) and the current attacks on Earl of Sandwich in Congress and elsewhere."

  2. Copyrights and Drm by EggplantMan · · Score: 0, Troll

    People like to blow on their horn about their god-given right to copyright and so on, but here on Slashdot, a lot of people get awfully bent out of shape when 'evil corporations' (who also happen to be legitimate copyright holders) try to enforce their copyright. For example there is much maligned Palladium which I feel obligated to defend, since it is in my opinion, possibly the last bastion for intellectual property as we know it.

    First of all, Microsoft's Pallium aims to secure intellectual property from would-be hacker thieves, how can you criticise them for that? In fact you should commend them. As it is right now, the internet is a waistland of pornography, blogs, and hacker filesharing (in leet speek they call it p2p).

    I fully support Microsoft in their efforts to "clean up the trash" and make computers and the internet a safe place to conduct business for reputable, long standing business establishments such as the RIAA. When Trusted Computing becomes a commonplace technology we will all be able to rest at night knowing that legitimate, respectable institutions such as the RIAA and MPAA will no longer be suffering grievous economic losses due to the generally subversive nature of filesharing.
    My $2e-2

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  3. If the article was a slashdot post... by sdjunky · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...It would be moderated as such

    +2 insightful for their noting how copy rights has changed into copyrights
    -1 redundant for repeating basically what was going on a few weeks ago with the supreme court
    +1 funny for the frozen disney remark

    for a grand total of ... +5 offtopic.