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Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools
Modellismo writes "Last week four journalists from Sansai Books were arrested for selling, through the company website, a copy of a magazine published last year (with a free cover mounted disc) focused on how to backup/rip DVDs. They violated Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Law that recently has been revised to make illegal the sale of any DRM circumvention device or software. It's interesting to note that Japanese cyber police could arrest the Amazon Japan CEO, too, as the online giant is selling a lot of magazines, books and software packages for DVD copy and ripping: exactly what put Sansai Books' staff in trouble."
wonder how many enbedded devices produced in japan have this little piece of code in them...
The only country who bows lower to corporations than the US of A.
the point is, those without money should still get quality education, healthcare, and a chance at advancing themselves
but current tax laws in the USA and American social policies advanced by the right are stratifying society, permanently
meaning, if you are poor or middle class, you get inferior education, healthcare, and no chance to advance socioeconomically
the point of life should be to better yourself. not to slave your entire life for someone who already has a lot of money, always will have a lot of money, never suffers for their crimes in the same way as the poor, and lives in a system rigged so that they, their children, and their grandchildren, can never possibly be poor. while those are poor, their children, and their grandchildren, are in such a rigged system they can never possibly be rich
that's wealth inequality. a class society. that's where the USA is headed with the right wing republican political agenda
the USA should be a MERITOCRACY. this is not what we have. what we have are country club boys complaining that the poor don't understand hard work, while they get a cushy job where they hardly exert any effort, just for chumming with the dad of their friend. meanwhile, the poor and middle class bust their ass, sometimes in two jobs, and live paycheck to paycheck, where the smallest of accidents or healthcare emergencies can ruin their entire lives
THAT'S wealth inequality, and it is not a free society
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it