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White House Cracks Down On Piracy & Counterfeiting
GovTechGuy writes "On Tuesday the White House made a show of rolling out an expansive new strategy to combat online piracy and counterfeit goods, to the delight of industry groups. The plan emphasizes targeting foreign websites that host pirated software and movies and increasing the number of investigations and prosecutions by the FBI, FTC, and Justice Department. Here is the complete plan, introduced by the new 'copyright czar,' Victoria Espinel."
china with it's lack worker safety / rules did that. Apple with is prices should be makeing there phones and pc's in the usa.
The more I see stuff like this moded insightful, the more I think I need to find a new website. As someone who pays for all his content, this is absolutely helpful to me--it means more content can be produced. It's also helpful for the large number of people who work for those large firms--they wouldn't be large firms if they didn't have lots of employees.
I think there ought to be a mod "+1 ditto".
Let me ask you this, would you want to live in a world where everyone can sell "pain killers" and have it be anything from calcium carbonate to asbestos? That's what Patents and Trademarks protect you from, at least when applied correctly.
That's not even the tiniest bit true.
Required reading for internet skeptics
>>>they were the ones who had bundled it -- they said it was my responsibility to verify that it was compatible
Sounds reasonable to me. When I encounter asshole sellers like that, where they want to charge me 15% restocking or shipping fee for THEIR error, I then return a trackable envelope that's empty. Then I file a chargeback. I figure people who treat their customers that poorly deserve to lose money
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