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Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone

Posted by timothy on from the so-it's-sort-of-a-buzzing-noise dept.

New submitter skipkent writes "Iran's military has started to build a copy of a U.S. surveillance drone captured last year after breaking the software encryption, Iranian media reported on Sunday. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, said engineers were in the final stages of decoding data from the Sentinel aircraft, which came down in December near the Afghan border, Mehr news agency reported."

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  1. Send the MPAA by qbast · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's obviously a copyright infringement. If we are lucky, maybe Iranians will just shoot them.

    1. Re:Send the MPAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're thinking way too small. We can also get Patent attorneys into the fight. Then, if we can get the whole war moved to the Eastern district of Texas, we'll have the home turf advantage.

    2. Re:Send the MPAA by CanEHdian · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's obviously a copyright infringement. If we are lucky, maybe Iranians will just shoot them.

      You're almost right. Terrorists? Oh who cares! WMDs? Sooo 10 years ago. But.... this is copyright infringement! And it is also circumventing an effective protection device ("digital lock")!! That means war! Send in the troops!

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      When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
    3. Re:Send the MPAA by qbast · · Score: 4, Funny

      Who cares about the troops. Send in the lawyers!

    4. Re:Send the MPAA by quenda · · Score: 4, Funny

      Who cares about the troops. Send in the lawyers!

      We need a surge. Nothing short of drafting every lawyer in the US and allied countries, and sending them to Iran will suffice.

  2. DMCA violation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only it were the RIAA or MPAA instead of the CIA, then Iran would be in serious trouble.

  3. Remember the scene in Iron Man 2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where Tony Stark pulls up the footage of other countries trying to duplicate his armor? Why do I have a feeling this is going to go something like that.

  4. The bastards! by golodh · · Score: 3, Funny
    They're infringing our copyrights!

    Now I suddenly understand the strategic importance of ACTA. If they'd signed ACTA, we'd nail 'em when they tried to sell their cheap knockoffs to the Chinese, the Russians, the North-Koreans, the Pakistani, the Venezuelans, the Cubans, the Jemenites, the Hamaz guerilla's, and ... .

  5. Re:goodluckwiththat by sandytaru · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll be thwarted once they discover all the measurements are in Imperial and not metric.

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    Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
  6. Is it just me? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it just me, or does copying a $100m spy drone that you easily captured seem like a bad direction to go?

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    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
  7. Re:First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Iranian Military just announced they are copying this comment.

  8. Want some help with that? by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi Iran, we here at the US DoD notice you're trying to build a Predator UAV. Of course Predators are pretty toothless without Hellfire missiles. So to show there's no hard feelings, we decided to send you some. An entire shipment of Hellfire Missiles should be arriving at your reverse engineering facility in just about ... now.

  9. Re:Open Source by colinrichardday · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, if you give someone a Lamborghini, he/she would spend all of his/her time driving it.

  10. Re:First! by cold+fjord · · Score: 4, Funny

    It must. I see many highly rated comments that are farcical if you know much of anything about the topic under discussion.

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    much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell