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Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case
Pigskin-Referee writes in with news of the Supreme Court's decision in a dispute between Monsanto and an Indiana farmer over patented seeds. "The Supreme Court has sustained Monsanto Co.'s claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company's patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weed-killer. The justices, in a unanimous vote Monday, rejected the farmer's argument that cheap soybeans he bought from a grain elevator are not covered by the Monsanto patents, even though most of them also were genetically modified to resist the company's Roundup herbicide. Justice Elena Kagan says a farmer who buys patented seeds must have the patent holder's permission. More than 90 percent of American soybean farms use Monsanto's 'Roundup Ready' seeds, which first came on the market in 1996."
But in this case...the product replicates ITSELF.
That's the difference.
If Monsanto doesn't like it..why don't they make their genetically modified crops self-terminating?
Are you for real? Is your next argument going to be "why don't copyright holders make their music uncopyable?" There are plenty of angles to argue against Monsanto (and the court ruling) but saying "well if you want me to stop copying and selling your invention, why don't you make me!" is pretty pathetic.
It violates the right to life. Without food, you die. The use of deadly force to resist this imposition would then be well justified.
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Terminator genes convey an evolutionary advantage? Your full of shit.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
If this is what constitutes infringement, then fuck the law that makes it so with a rusty rake.
All Monsanto and its ilk is doing is raking in profits by holding people by the throats, and throttling progress in the process.