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DMCA Vs. The Sewing Underground
Roundeye writes "So the folks at monsterpatterns.com dumpster-dive to get envelopes containing discontinued sewing patterns and sell the envelopes via their website. The sewing pattern company McCall invoked the DMCA to get the site shut down. Monsterpatterns is now suing to protect their 'fair use rights' to advertise and sell the discarded patterns. You might recall that this isn't the first time the sewing industry has cracked down on bootlegging grandmas and their suppliers."
courtesy of Steal This Country
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I'm from Illinois though.
I think Sammy Sosa has taught us everything we need to know about fair games in Illinois. We should pass a law to put bear traps in the bottom of every dumpster. That would solve the problem.
PS. I read somewhere that Sammy is dead.. is that true?!
I had no idea it was that high. That's a scandal if I ever heard of one, it's obscene. "Print on demand" for dead tree editions needs to take off more, help solve excessive costs and excessive wastes. Recycling paper sounds good, but it sure borks a huge amount of valuable fresh water, and uses energy. Better to not even have to do it in the first place, methinks, print only what is needed.
I have another pet peeve, and a possible solution to a big problem, going back to fresh water. Homes and buildings have both grey water and brown water waste systems. I see no reason to use expensive clean freshwater to flush away brown water. There should be small tanks installed in homes and other buildings that take the gray water from the house,store a reasonable amount, and use that for flushing. All gray water is, is soapy water basically. We could save literally billions of gallons of clean, treated freshwater a year across the nation with that simple modification, let alone savings at the waste water treatment plants, and from not having as much dumped into private septic systems. We also could go back to real toilets that use a real amount of water that 8works*, as opposed to these 1.5 gallon jobbers mandated bgy law now, that still waste water because they take 2 or 3 attemtpts to accomplish the task! I'd also like to see, where appropriate, a more widespread adoption of the now-advanced dry composting toilets, they work quite well. there are millions of places that could use those most of the time, perhaps as adjuncts to septic systems.