Guess that just means that the EU governments will be moving to open source quicker than they planned. I think they are getting tired of playing M$'s games anyhow.
Bingo. IP is taxed when the owner makes money on it. It's called the Income Tax. Right, but what the article gets across is that the owner could sit there and not sell a thing, but still have rights to that "property." Progress on a global scale is then hindered. So it is more fitting that there should be a tax on mere ownership of the property, in addition to the money you make when you sell your wares.
I'm not sure how the network is set up at other colleges, but my university is not technically an ISP. They buy it from somewhere else, then just serve it to us. So would the university fall into this ban?
only a matter of time before someone puts a vi vs emacs spin on it, since we haven't had that shoutfest for a while either. Not a chance. Everyone knows that emacs is for little girls, anyway.
3. Death of the registered person means death of the copyright (you can't encourage dead people to make new works no matter how hard you try) Yeah? What about Tupac?
Being a college kid, I can safely say that most of my peers will have no idea about this bill until after it has been passed and the DRM tools are in place.
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The only decent one you can think of... and it has Leo in it? What, The Departed didn't make the cut?
Apple has been biting into M$'s market share. Are we really surprised that they've contracted a disease in the process?
And Steve Jobs just loves his new Zune!
Guess that just means that the EU governments will be moving to open source quicker than they planned. I think they are getting tired of playing M$'s games anyhow.
Yeah, because most of us WoW players are running low on spare calories...
I'm not sure how the network is set up at other colleges, but my university is not technically an ISP. They buy it from somewhere else, then just serve it to us. So would the university fall into this ban?
Don't you mean "whom?" *looks at satellite image* UGH! You were right! What the hell is that?
Too bad my race of fire-breathing red staplers will kill your paper clips when they aren't looking. All is fair in love and cube warfare.
I thought we had agreed that it was George Bush that cut the cables. Did everyone change conspiracy theories while I was away?
(With pardons to Eddie Izzard.) Maybe, but Chuck Norris uses vi, and not even big fuck-off boxers fuck with the Chuck. (Yeah, I went there.)
No, no, you just have to grep for pus.... DANG IT!
Being a college kid, I can safely say that most of my peers will have no idea about this bill until after it has been passed and the DRM tools are in place.