Copyright and Copy Rights

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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Thimbleright and Thimble Rights

[Syllepsis]

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."

Copyrights and Drm

[EggplantMan]

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

If the article was a slashdot post...

[sdjunky]

...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.

Senators who supported the DMCA.

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a list of United States Senators who were particularly vocal in their support of the DMCA, and who helped push it through into law. Don't like the DMCA? Write to these people and let them know what you think of them and their tactics.

NAME: Osborne, Michaell E-MAIL: osborm@yahoo.com, dmg@adequacy.org, michaellosborne@netscapeonline.co.uk ALIASES: dmg, Dumb Marketing Guy, Lord Hugh Toppingham

NAME: Sassaman, Esther E-MAIL: esther@antioch.edu, perdida@adequacy.org, reva_altamira@yahoo.com ALIASES: Perdida, Reva Altamira, etc.

NAME: Skinner, James E-MAIL: spiralx@spazmail.com, spiralx@adequacy.org ALIASES: SpiralX, Manifold, Jon Erikson

NAME: Stanton, Matt E-MAIL: matt@madeforchina.com, serf@adequacy.org ALIASES: Serf

NAME: Zikowski, Zachary E-MAIL: zikzak@io.com, zikzak@adequacy.org ALIASES: Zikzak, kp

NAME: ???, Ernie E-MAIL: trollmastah@hotmail.com ALIASES: Trollmastah

NAME: Burdge, Jonathan E-MAIL: jlb@io.com, jlbatdarc@w-link.net, elby@adequacy.org, darc@w-link.net ALIASES: lb, jlb, Elby

NAME: Casillas, Luis E-MAIL: casillas@stanford.edu, em@adequacy.org ALIASES: em, Estanislao Martinez, Sylvain Tremblay

NAME: Corrigan, Barry E-MAIL: barry@bjcorrigan.fsnet.co.uk, bc@adequacy.org ALIASES: bc, ktb (Kiss the Blade), Lover's Arrival, Euroderf, Erbert Paget-Paget, Anya

NAME: Dickson, Craig E-MAIL: crd@inversenet.com, mendaxveritas@yahoo.com, mendaxveritas@pacbell.net ALIASES: mv, Mendax Veritas

NAME: Flickinger, Dan E-MAIL: flikx@geekizoid.com, flikee@xmission.com ALIASES: flikx

NAME: Haberberger, George E-MAIL: ghaberbe@frontiernet.net, George.Haberberger@usa.xerox.com ALIASES: GeorgeHa, Hairy_Potter

NAME: Huston, Bill E-MAIL: bozoman@vlad.geekizoid.com, ALIASES: bozoman

NAME: Johnson, Peter E-MAIL: peter.johnson@voicestream.com, shoeboy@adequacy.org ALIASES: Shoeboy, Peter Johnson

NAME: Lockwood, Scott E-MAIL: wsl3@attbi.com, vlad@geekizoid.com ALIASES: Vladinator, Lonesome Cowboy Burt, Quick Star, Pinkerton Floyd, etc.

NAME: Linwood, Rob E-MAIL: rcl@cs.csoft.net, rcl211@is9.nyu.edu ALIASES: AuntFloyd, Con Troll

NAME: Mann, Warren E-MAIL: broken@warmann.com ALIASES: osm, OpenSourceMan

NAME: McPherson, Craig E-MAIL: craig@laceyonline.com ALIASES: craig, naked&petrified guy

NAME: Nelson, Brian E-MAIL: elenchos@adequacy.org ALIASES: Elenchos