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Judge: Live Performance Copyright Unconstitutional
swiftstream writes "CNN reports that a federal judge has ruled in favor of the owner of a record store in NYC in a copyright case brought against him for selling recordings of live performances. The judge said the current copyright code on live performances is unconstitutional, because copyrights last forever, in conflict with the 'limited time' requirement of copyright law."
wow my penis did get bigger for getting a First Post, now i see why people go for it.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Looks fine to me (0.9.2, XP). Also on my Linux box (forget what version).
Moderators: Don't moderate this. It's for the parent poster. Apparently he likes Bible quotes, however there's more than one Bible
I
1 In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!
2 Open your eyes that you may see, Oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered millions!
3 For I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the "laws" of man and of "God"!
4 I request reasons for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commands.
5 Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!
6 I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: the TRUE prince of evil- the king of slaves!
7 No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
8 I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
9 I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong!
10 I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!
11 I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath!
II
1 Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.
2 I question all things. As I stand before the festering and varnished facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing scorn: "Lo and behold; all this is fraud!"
3 Gather around me, oh, ye death defiant, and the Earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold!
4 Too long the dead hand has been permited to sterilize living thought!
5 Too long right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets!
6 No creed must be accepted upon authority of a "divine" nature. Religions must be put to the question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted, no standard of measurement deified. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands and what man has made, man can destroy!
7 He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief is one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom.
8 The chief duty of every new age is to upraise new men to determinate its liberties, to lead it towards material success, to rend the rusty padlocks and chains of dead customs that always prevent healthy expansions. Theories and ideas that may have meant Life, Hope and Freedom for our ancestors may now mean Destruction, Slavery and Dishonor to us!
9 As environments changes, no human ideal standeth sure!
10 Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne, let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for under the domination of an incovenient falsehood, no one can prosper.
11 Let established sophisms be dethroned, rooted out, burnt and destroyed, for they are a standing menace to all true nobility of thought and action!
12 Whatever alleged "truth" is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies and other useless lumber and wreckage!
13 The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie, the lie everyone believes to be a model truth. It is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and delusions. It is a hydra-headed tree of unreason with a thousand roots. It is a social cancer!
14 The lie that is know to be a lie is half eradicated, but the lie that even intelligent persons accept as a fact, the lie
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