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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
Can you imagine how industrious and well-disciplined the first few people must have been?
I have been pwned because my