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World Intellectual Property Day

Posted by Zonk on from the break-out-the-party-hats! dept.

Dotnaught writes "The Business Software Alliance wants everyone to know that today is World Intellectual Property Day, 'an initiative to educate young people about how intellectual property rights foster innovation, creativity and economic opportunity.' To mark the occasion, CopyNight, a monthly gathering of people interested in restoring balance in copyright law, is hosting a get-together tonight in various cities throughout the U.S."

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  1. Oh, my by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Slashdot is not going to like this one bit.

  2. World Intellectual Property Day by nebaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmm....
    WIPD (whipped).

    Sounds about right.

    Not even subtle.

    Oh well.

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    1. Re:World Intellectual Property Day by cookie_cutter · · Score: 4, Funny

      and it's from the BS alliance ...

    2. Re:World Intellectual Property Day by AdmiralWeirdbeard · · Score: 2, Funny

      did I miss something?

      did they seriously make it WIPD today? ... BS alliance...

      is it april fools day again? whats going on?

      on a tangent... how do you create a World Whatever Day? is there some sort of adjudicating body that approves these days, or is it entirely ad hoc?
      Cause if it is... I declare tomorrow World Fling Feces at Bill Gates and Pirate the Living Shit out of Microsoft Day. Not a catchy Acronym, but i think with everybody's cooperation, we can make WFFBGPLSM Day a roaring success.

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  3. Update!! by peculiarmethod · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was just recently reported that 6 of those cities events were cancelled by an injunction filed by national porn chain, Copy Night.

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  4. Cool! by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    CopyNight, a monthly gathering of people interested in restoring balance in copyright law, is hosting a get-together tonight in various cities throughout the U.S.
    Cool! Does that get-together include a CD/DVD swap session?

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  5. Celibrate by 9mm+Censor · · Score: 4, Funny

    I Celibrated by downloading some music and a couple movies.

    *Cheers*

    1. Re:Celibrate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I raise my glass to you Sir, well done!

      Conjuring up a bunch of fake hype and expecting people to celebrate their oppression is pretty damn Orwellian, imho. For the same reason I wouldnt expect Hermann Goering Appreciation Day to be a raging success in Israel, for example.

      Or are the chains of slavery and serfdom so damn shiney and pretty that noone cares about Freedom anymore?

  6. Software Freedom Day by HenrikOxUK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Amazing! This is almost exactly the opposite of Software Freedom Day!

    1. Re:Software Freedom Day by uberdave · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, hey! Any excuse to party, you know.

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  7. CopyNight by bailster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Strange, I thought "CopyNight" referred to the legendary obscene things people do on the Xerox after returning drunk from the office Xmas party...

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  8. Re:Examples? by McGiraf · · Score: 3, Funny

    SCO Unix sagas ....

  9. HEY, WAIT! by lottameez · · Score: 5, Funny

    World Intellectual Property Day Was My Idea!

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  10. Wow! by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we also have a "jail BSA executive day" as well?

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  11. And after the announcement...... by mangus_angus · · Score: 2, Funny

    32 different companies filed law suites stating that this was infact a violation of something they had patented earlier.

  12. Re:These guys are getting worse by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah - just accuse them of being gay or an atheist - the BSA will deal with them in no time.

    No, you're thinking of the Republicans.

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  13. Re:Copyright is outdated by uberdave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Real programmers have sixteen fingers.

    Real programmers have 0x10 fingers.

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  14. Re:How About A Libre Software Day? by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds fine and dandy, until you realize that the general population only thinks of "libre" as a style of body piercing through one's lower lip.

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  15. Re:BSA ? by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Funny

    They did it to my company one time and let me tell you, it's no picnic. But I got revenge by having Michael Jackson pay a surprise visit during one of their camping trips.

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  16. But of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We already have a World Cancer Day and a World AIDS day, why shouldn't we have a World Intellectual Property Day too? I'd like to give my support to all the victims of Intellectual Property and I'm sure a lot of other people would too.

  17. Fish by junkmail · · Score: 3, Funny

    Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. License a man to fish using your technology and you eat for the rest of his life.

  18. GNU/Hurd by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny
    There is no stable release (but it is still under rapid development).

    Interesting. Please share your definition of "rapid" with the rest of us.

    1. Re:GNU/Hurd by suitepotato · · Score: 2, Funny

      Rapid, *nix defintion: Any timeframe shorter than a Debian stable release.

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  19. Re:Announcing the Creation of Spam Sig Opt Out by MBraynard · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, those free ipod folks suck.

  20. Re:Examples? by muonman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you have just given the World's Best Reason for eliminating copyright.

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  21. Re:Copyright is outdated by haeger · · Score: 2, Funny
    Mickey Mouse is dead? Please say it aint so!

    .haeger

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