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English Premier Football League Sues YouTube
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is reporting that the English Premier Football League has launched a lawsuit against YouTube and its owner Google, claiming unspecified damages. The league is sitting on high-profile content valued at $5.4 billion over the next 3 years in a recent series of auctions. This will be the second major suit against YouTube since Google's purchase."
I never said anything about "fair use rights" or whatever the hell you're talking about.
Google is fighting for their right to distribute whatever the hell their users want them to distribute.
That means, however temporarily, they are on the right side.
How we know is more important than what we know.
You are a member of the chickenshit brigade.
You want to pretend that your actions are somehow civil disobedience.
But you are a thief who lurks in the shadows.
Want to protest the laws in an honorable fashion? Do it in the open, like Rosa Parks, like many patriots have.
You? No, you're just a thief. A thief trying to explain away his crime under some kind of benevolent cover. You are nothing more than a petty thief. Civil disobedience requires publicly and openly disobeying the law with the full knowledge that you will be found in violation and will be jailed. You, sir, are no Rosa Parks and you are a shameful American to try and pretend so.
Sir, the problem is simple.
The *minute* you start to enforce a restriction on information in any way,
is the minute you start to limit free speech. Copyright is a restriction
on free speech, as is censorship. Don't agree? Witness the recent uprising
about a *number* being transmitted *AND SHUT UP*. I value my free speech
far more than I value my right to get paid. Isn't after all, caveat emptor?
Repeal the libel, the slander, the dmca, the copyright, the patents. An idea
or artistic creation should be free to travel unrestricted as it may, to
whomever it may.
Lawyers, go fuck yourselves. You create nothing but misery.
Now mod me up, wankers.