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Public Interest Groups Face Uphill Battle at WIPO Meeting

Patrick Norager writes "As WIPO creates new rights for broadcasters, documents critical of these rights created by EFF and IP Justice were stolen and recovered in a bathroom trashcan." EFF has a general statement on the meeting with links for more information.

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  1. It deserves a +5! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is supposed to be FUNNY! Don't you guys ever get the joke when you see one?! With a big EFF in the organization's initial, it's only a matter of time before someone churning out some abbreviated humours. I wonder what's the bigger joke, the EFFplotiation, or the morons rated it down because they are SO comedically challenged.

  2. Please Save Our Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please, Everyone needs to help, Each and every one of you despite your race, religion, or creed. We must save our planet from ourselves. The extreme concentrations of CO2, a greehouse gas, come FROM OUR BODIES. I Request it, that you stop breathing. To save our country, Our Freedom, Our Equality, Everyone must die.

    --oogle

    1. Re:Please Save Our Earth by hplasm · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      OK!

      gmmmmmmph!

      !

      ....

      !

      GAH!!!

      sorry...

      --
      ...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
  3. Prior Art or Infringment by IBitOBear · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    char * X;
    char * Y; ...
    if (X != Y) { ...
    }

    The above if statement contains "A system, method and computer-readable medium support the use of a single operator that allows a comparison of two variables to determine if the two variables point to the same location in memory." (The quote is the entire abstract of the patent application.)

    I'm sorry, but God needs to destroy the USPTO from space at this point.

    --
    Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
    --"Code Complete" Microsoft Press