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Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety'
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has declared that copyright infringement 'substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the quality of life and community peace, lawful commerce in the county, property values, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare of the county's citizens, its businesses and its visitors.' You might laugh, but that means they can close up a property for up to one year for violations of the anti-infringement ordinance [PDF] and the owner can be fined $1,000 for each infringing work produced on site. Not to mention the penalties in the PRO-IP Act, which just sailed through the House."
Every time you download a file, a child gets AIDS
Are you sure?
(perfect setup for the response)
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
I'm positive.
"How many companies who currently violate the GPL and LGPL can these new laws be used against?"
Exactly Zero.
Free Software doesn't pay politicians under the table, nor send Paris Hilton to your
weekend get-togethers. RMS is a poor substitute.
is that copyright infringement cures cancer. And the common cold. And male pattern baldness. Also, it can be used to make any car run on water. Clearly, it's a cover-up.
We're HIV-Positive.
Capitalism takes a while to iron out the glitches. We've reached democracy 2.0, we can assure you that these sort of bugs no longer exist.
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
That is okay. Los Angeles is "detrimental to public health [and] safety". This is just another reason to avoid that noxious cesspool.
It is too bad the PRO-IP act is not confined to a similarly avoidable geographical expanse.
All data is speech. All speech is Free.
What now, asshole?
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
I hear your congressmen takes letters. Mine does, but he ignores them.
Because you sign them with 'Anonymous Coward'?
sorry.
"So what changes do we need to make to the constitution to make it work?"
Here's my suggestion, just fuse together all the amendments to the Constitution and simply it into:
Congress shall make no law.
Maybe we deserve this world ?
OFC a carismatic democratic president could go to a democratic congress and say "hey how about you suggest this?" and they will say "how high?"
I'm all with you, but getting copyright reform is going to be hard enough without bringing up marijuana reform too.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Until you stop voting in lawyers into office, you will see no changes. Lawyers are going to first take care of lawyers. In order to see any changes in the future, we have to vote in people who will support the people. So the way to start this is to vote in anybody who is not a lawyer.
It's all these damned kids, I tell ya! They have all these stands set up all over the place selling bootleg copies of Iron Man! Why just yesterday I stopped by this darned place called "Family Video" and believe it or not they were renting copies of all kinds to anyone that walked in and the cops ain't doin' nothin' about it! Don't these people realise that the VCR tapes makes poor Spielberg's kids starve? Didn't they hear Jack Valenti say that he VCR is to Hollywood what Jack The Ripper was to women?
Heck they even have a web site!
Somebody stuck a kiosk in the grocery store with this stolen intelectual pooperty! And the store owner let them!
And... damn it there's some kid setting up a stolen movie stand right there in front of my house! HEY KID, get that intellectual pooperty the hell off my lawn before I call the cops!
mumble grumble disrespectful mumble where's my glasses grumble itellectual pooperty grumble grumble mumble
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
I'm not just sure, I'm HIV positive.