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EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News
suraj.sun writes with news that European publishers are also seeking ways to "protect" their content from the big bad intertubes. Their rant, termed the "Hamburg Declaration," asks the government to step in with a legislative fix. "Most of the statements in the relatively short declaration, which will surely take its place among thousands of other European declarations on intellectual property and other matters that have come out over the past few years, hinge on the idea that 'universal access to news' does not equal 'free.' In this respect, the publishers want to maintain the democratic ideal of a 'fourth estate' that provides news to an informed citizenry, while simultaneously restricting access to that news to those who can pay for it directly. What sets this declaration apart from the other Hamburg declarations out there, or from the various Geneva declarations or Berlin declarations, is that this one is intended to give the publishers' favorite solution to the news-stealing problem, the Automated Content Access Protocol, the force of law."
really???? worse than bush???
cough, cough... ENRON... cough...
millions needlessly dead, war over large parts of the planet, mass alienation and destabilisation, worldwide economic collapse...
i don't think any politician at all is "good", but you'll have to get up pretty early each morning and put in some very long hours to be actually WORSE than bush...
Multi-trillion dollar deficits
inherited from the previous administration, nothing to do with obama...
pardoning the telecos for helping in illegally wiretap citizens.
entirely ordered and operated by the previous administration. condemned, ceased and genuine efforts made to find the best way to put it into the past with the least damage. original controversy nothing to do with obama...
so let me get this straight... your entire criticism is based around blaming every single thing on bush, then saying:
continued flushing of money down the toilet on bailouts to shitty companies
which may or may not be a good idea, but is 100% entirely, confessed by you, obama's best efforts to clean up the mess that bush left america in...
i am waiting for the part where you show obama to be worse...
so the clinton family are the oil family that were filthy with the corruption of that scandal and still to this day have not wiped that particular stink off and the bush family were totally clean, having little to nothing to do with oil investments, right?
yes, millions. i do not count only "allied" soldiers. several million civilians are known to have died.
i always chuckle a little when people like dismiss the idea that the several trillion dollars spent on wars of aggression, surveillance and CIA torture camps could not possible have contributed in any way to the economic meltdown...
it must be the few billion dollars lost in sub-prime mortgages, right? was it even billions? might have been hundreds of millions... a tiny, insignificant fraction of what we have all spent blowing up women and children in the name of cheaper oil... wait, i meant democracy, right?
Help me Slashdot! Me and Steve Jobs were jacking each other off while we dildoed each others' asses with our iPhone 3Gs. Mine got stuck up my ass after I came and then Steve ran out on me! I've been trying to call him to come help me but he won't return my calls. What do I do?!?!!? I'm so scared...
How the hell do you make a call while the iPhail is STUCK UP YOUR ASS?
Is this some kind of super-butt-dialing?
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
you are stating that your opinion is that bush illegally attacked other sovereign nations, illegally invaded them and illegally occupied them...
saddam hussein's alleged crimes are a matter of record and have been for a very long time. it is extremely likely that most of the allegations are true.
likewise the taliban allegedly oppresses women, murders people and practices widescale slavery.
not nice people to be sure.
what did this have to do with the 11/9 attacks???
bush never directly made a link between them, the CIA categorically denied any link...
funnily enough, afganistan had turned down an oil pipeline through its territory for america... a pipeline that started being built pretty much on the day of the invasion...
i always find it strange that americans often believe there was some sort of link between 11/9 and iraq, when i can clearly remember news reports of exaustive MI5, CIA and other agencies checking back in 2001/2002. not just a "whodunnit" investigation, they specifically looked very closely for an iraq link. they did not find one at all (those terrorists groups hated iraq almost as much as they hated the west).
Clinton family was real estate, Bush family was oil.
1: open google
2: type "define: sarcasm" without the quotes
3: hit return
4: read
I still can't figure out why the USA government has so much corruption.
you think that kind of corruption is only in the usa?
how sweet...
name a country, you can be pretty sure there is massive corruption and widescale injustice...
name a politician, it's a safe bet that s/he is a liar and is/has and always will be swindling more money than s/he is entitled to while serving their own interests in the name of the public good...
if we ever have to evacuate this planet, we really do need to make sure all the politicians and lawyers get their own "special" ship... whose course is set straight for the heart of the sun...