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Copyright Defeats?
Uruk asks: "Over the last few years, we've seen what looks like the victory of copyright and business interest at the expense of the consumer. There's been The DMCA, the UCITA, all of the legal wranging over DeCSS, and so on. Copyright holders can even shut your website down without doing the research about whether or not it was appropriate. Johansen did seem to be acquited of some of what was brought against him as a result of the DeCSS situation, but that was in Norway. Does anyone know of any copyright or consumer victories on the net in the last few years? Something that limits the abilities of these laws, or otherwise acts in the copyright spirit of free use? My hat is off to GNU and EFF, even Project Gutenberg. What is the status of this ongoing battle? I'm looking for the sunny side to a situation that seems littered with defeat."
Reistance is futile. Hillary Rosen will copyright your children's DNA and patent the cold virus they catch that makes them sick.
Expect to pay licensing fees when you make a baby or catch a cold.
I know of a copyright winner, it was this company named ____________
Copyrighted name though, can't talk about it.
The sunny side is that with Kazaa, Direct Connect, etc I've managed to fill up several hard drives worth of copyrighted material that keeps me quite happily entertained!
Victory is ours! muhahahaha
Hey, c'mon, how can CNN be expected to cover a minor story like that when Martha Stewart is about to be indicted?
This post is dedicated to all of those
I'd take the gold only because you can buy the naked chicks later with it.
... that I read not along ago and it went something like this:
"The children of today are lazy, without respect and lacking god."
Sounds pretty common right? This was a rough translation of a tablet from Mesopotamia dated to around 2200 BC. Over 4000 years and ain't a damn thing changed.
--- I do not moderate.
Petitions work! Especially anonymous petitions from the Internet!
You're being unamerican. The FCC says that media consolidation is a Good Thing. Among other things, it'll guarantee that when the millions of tons of WMD are found in Iraq, there won't be any stray reporters looking behind the curtain. That would be dangerous for them; WMD can be dangerous to the untrained.
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
Try compiling this
#include
struct IntellectualMaterial
{
bool canBeCopied;
double copyrightRunOut;
};
class DecentDemocracy
{
virtual void SensibleCopyRight(IntellectualMaterial IP)= 0;
};
class USDemocracy : public DecentDemocracy
{
void DMCA(IntellectualMaterial IP)
{
IP.canBeCopied =false;
}
void UnendingCopyRight(IntellectualMaterial IP)
{
IP.copyrightRunOut = atof("+INF");
}
};
USDemocracy USD;
Isn't it ironic that the last screen of the new Metallica film clip holds the words:
;-)
"For all the people impacted by San Quentin your spirit will forever be a part of Metalllica.
-James, Lars, Kirk and Robert"
I wonder if any of the San Quentin inmates are in there for pirating Metallica off Napster?
Copyright violators are, after all, "Dangerous Criminals".
http://jesus.everdense.com/
...copyrights hold YOU!
Cute. For those of you without compilers handy:
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# g++ a.cc
a.cc:9: warning: all member functions in class `DecentDemocracy' are private
a.cc:25: cannot declare variable `USD' to be of type `USDemocracy'
a.cc:25: because the following virtual functions are abstract:
a.cc:10: virtual void DecentDemocracy::SensibleCopyRight(IntellectualMa
Ha! Technical advances, my foot -- where's your TiVo, man?
(or other equivalent PVR) :)
"Orthodoxy is unconsciousness" - Orwell