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Uri Geller Accused of Bending Copyright Law

Posted by kdawson on from the more-pliable-than-spoons dept.

JagsLive writes in with a Fox News report about Uri Geller's apparently playing fast and loose with copyright law in order to silence his detractors. "'All it takes is a single e-mail to completely censor someone on the Internet,' said Jason Schultz, a lawyer for the online civil rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing Geller over an unflattering clip posted on YouTube for which he claimed a copyright ownership."

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Looks like he got to /. too!

  2. If you support copyright law in any respect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...you must necessarily support Uri Geller.

    Personally, I don't think copy rights have any basis in reality besides being the product of brute force-based threats; if you do support the concept of copy rights, however, you cannot oppose Uri Geller's stance and remain consistent.

    1. Re:If you support copyright law in any respect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      yes, yes you can. what Uri Geller is doing is abusing the copyright system, you can support copyrights in general and know at the same time the guy is not using the system right.

      Personally, I don't think copy rights have any basis in reality besides being the product of brute force-based threats
      if that is your opinion, then I suppose you don't think the GPL has any basis in reality either. copyrights are supposed to be used to prevent leaching of an innovative company by those that don't do any work to improve the idea. this is unfortunately not how it is used. copyrights as they are today are largely used as weapons to destroy any competition and that is very very bad.
  3. Mod parent down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    An AC expressed an unorthodox opinion which generated responses, so please bury it.

  4. AS A JEW, HIS ACTION IS EXPECTED by soccer_Dude88888 · · Score: -1, Troll

    There are history regarding these pigs.... read on.

    Today, while driving through town, I wound up behind a minivan that had a big sticker on the back. The sticker had an Israeli flag in the middle of it, and under it the quotation from the book of Genesis that reads "I will bless those who bless thee."

    I would like to take this time to list my own reasons for thanking and blessing Israel, our lone ally in the Middle East, for everything she has done for us, since I am quite sure most Americans are unaware of just what kind of friend she has been to us.

    For extorting from me and my fellow Americans $4,000,000,000.00 a year for the last 4 decades, we bless thee.

    For taking our most sophisticated weapons technology and stealing it for yourself without paying the American patent holders, we bless thee.

    For taking that high-tech military technology and selling it to our enemies, such as the Russians and Chinese, thus further endangering us, we bless thee.

    For using that weaponry in a sustained attack against a United States ship, the USS Liberty, in an attempt to sink her, thus preventing US servicemen from revealing to the rest of the world information concerning the war crimes they witnessed you commit against Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Desert during the Six Day War, as well as for the purposes of dragging the US into yet another one of your murderous adventures, we bless thee.

    For killing 35 and wounding 170 American sailors aboard the USS Liberty, we bless thee.

    For bribing the United States government into covering it up, preventing any justice from being done for the benefit of the families of the lost sailors - as well as the American People, we bless thee.

    For sending your agents into Egypt and blowing up American buildings for the purpose of blaming the Arabs in an event known as the Lavon Affair, we bless thee.

    For sending your agents into Libya during the Reagan administration, and broadcasting radio messages in Arabic that were designed to sound like "terrorist cell planning" so that the US would initiate military strikes against Khadafi in an event known as Operation Trojan Horse, we bless thee.

    For withholding information from us concerning the planned attacks against the US Marine barracks in Lebanon, attacks you knew about through your moles in the Islamic world and about which you deliberately refused to warn us in order to further your interests against the Arabs, we bless thee.

    For employing Jonathon Pollard, an American serviceman paid to spy for Israel in order to steal even more of our National Security secrets for your parasitic purposes, we bless thee.

    For blackmailing President Clinton through one of your sayanim, Monica Lewinsky, in order to prevent a coherent peace program from being pushed forward between yourself and the Palestinian people whom you have brutalized and murdered for the last 50 years, we bless thee.

    For breaking every agreement you have made with your Arab neighbors, stealing their land, displacing, murdering, and treating them like the animals you see them as, we bless thee.

    For using your agents within the first Bush administration to involve us in the first Gulf War, causing the deaths of American men and women, and exposing our servicemen to whatever bioweapons were and are responsible which have led to Gulf War Syndrome, we bless thee.

    For your role in the September 11 attacks in this country, and for blackmailing and bribing the US government into deporting back to Israel the 100 or more intelligence agents that were arrested after the attacks, we bless thee.

    For suppressing the information from the American people of your involvement in the September 11 attacks and sending us in the wrong direction in search of answers, we bless thee.

    For using one of your agents in the US Army Weapons Lab to steal anthrax and distribute it into our mail system, terrorizing US citizens and killing several in order to blame the Arabs, we bless thee.

    For using

  5. Fox news is the only clean news channel by soccer_Dude88888 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fox news is the ONLY news channel not subject to the control of jews / zionists. >MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, owner of NY Daily News, US News & World Report and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups. LESLIE MOONVES, president of CBS television, great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion, and co-chair with Norman Ornstein of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton. JONATHAN MILLER, chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner > NEIL SHAPIRO, president of NBC News > >JEFF GASPIN, Executive Vice-President, Programming, >NBC > >DAVID WESTIN, president of ABC News > >SUMNER REDSTONE, CEO of Viacom, "world's biggest media >giant" (Economist, 11/23/2) owns Viacom cable, CBS and >MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and >Black Entertainment TV. > >MICHAEL EISNER, major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol >Cities, ABC. >MEL KARMAZIN, president of CBS > >DON HEWITT, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS > >JEFF FAGER, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS > >DAVID POLTRACK, Executive Vice-President, Research and >Planning, CBS > >SANDY KRUSHOW, Chair, Fox Entertainment > >LLOYD BRAUN, Chair, ABC Entertainment > >BARRY MEYER, chair, Warner Bros. > >SHERRY LANSING. President of Paramount Communications >and Chairman of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture >Group. > >HARVEY WEINSTEIN, CEO. Miramax Films. > >BRAD SIEGEL., President, Turner Entertainment. > >PETER CHERNIN, second in-command at Rupert Murdoch's >News. Corp., owner of Fox TV > >MARTY PERETZ, owner and publisher of the New Republic, >which openly identifies itself as pro-Israel. Al Gore >credits Marty with being his "mentor." > >ARTHUR O. SULZBERGER, JR., publisher of the NY Times, >the Boston Globe and other publications. > >WILLIAM SAFIRE, syndicated columnist for the NYT. > >TOM FRIEDMAN, syndicated columnist for the NYT. > >CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, syndicated columnist for the >Washington Post. Honored by Honest Reporting.com, >website monitoring "anti-Israel media." > >RICHARD COHEN, syndicated columnist for the Washington >Post > >JEFF JACOBY, syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe > >NORMAN ORNSTEIN, American Enterprise Inst., regular >columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS, and >co-chair with Leslie Moonves of the Advisory Committee >on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, >appointed by Clinton. > >ARIE FLEISCHER, Dubya's press secretary. > >STEPHEN EMERSON, every media outlet's first choice as >an expert on domestic terrorism. > >DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, owner of the Village Voice and the >New Times network of "alternative weeklies." > >DENNIS LEIBOWITZ, head of Act II Partners, a media >hedge fund > >KENNETH POLLACK, for CIA analysts, director of Saban >Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY >Times, New Yorker > >BARRY DILLER, chair of USA Interactive, former owner >of Universal Entertainment > >KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch > > >RICHARD LEIBNER, runs the N.S. Bienstock talent >agency, which represents 600 news personalities such >as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer and Bill O'Reilly. > >TERRY SEMEL, CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros. > >MARK GOLIN, VP and Creative Director, AOL > >WARREN LIEBERFORD, Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. >of AOL- TimeWarner > >JEFFREY ZUCKER, President of NBC Entertainment > >JACK MYERS, NBC, chief.NYT 5.14.2 > >SANDY GRUSHOW, chair of Fox Entertainment > >GAIL BERMAN, president of Fox Entertainment > >STEPHEN SPIELBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks > >JEFFREY KATZENBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks > >DAVID GEFFEN, co-owner of Dreamworks > >LLYOD BRAUN, chair of ABC Entertainment > >JORDAN LEVIN, president of Warne