As long as there is no invasion of privacy, I don't see a prolem either. IMO this is fair use of data they legally aquire in the course their of operations.
Or maybe we can skip their audit & everyone else's too?
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"Seeing as the whole purpose of IP is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;", it's absurd to hold a copyright on software for 70 or 90 years or whatever the current law holds."
Exactly. The very first version of M$ Word ever produced will be protected under current law for another 50+ years. Anyone that has an option will pay to run a newer version; but what about those that don't?
I can envision current law being used against poor third-world school kids using recycled computers and obsolete software; but it shouldn't be possible because it's not right!!
IP rush. OK--that's a good way of putting it.
A comment a while back mentioned a technology getting way out in front of IP law. ITLR, maybe that; in the form of the distributed processing (DP) business model; is the only realistic way of of getting around recent extensions of copyright protections to works previously in the public domain.
If lots of folks benefit from the buying & selling of CPU cycles, it seems unlikely that any of the western democracies would try to shut the busness model down.
OTOH, everyone participating COULD be liable for "content"; and shut down in a fashion similar to how server admins were pressured recently w/ regard to Napster.
It seems clear to me that the potential economic benefits of DP far outweigh threat of lost profits. I would think that this will cause the center of gravity in development of IP law to start to shift back toward extension of the public domain. We can't all be criminals.
"The law doth punish man or woman
That steals the goose off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose,
That steals the common from the goose."
-Anon. (In 1764, when the "Enclosure Acts" were passed)
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I seem to recall a similar article a few years ago where they were working on a simar technology to be used for the UN-sanctioned inspections in Iraq.
As long as there is no invasion of privacy, I don't see a prolem either. IMO this is fair use of data they legally aquire in the course their of operations.
Or maybe we can skip their audit & everyone else's too?
"Seeing as the whole purpose of IP is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;", it's absurd to hold a copyright on software for 70 or 90 years or whatever the current law holds."
Exactly. The very first version of M$ Word ever produced will be protected under current law for another 50+ years. Anyone that has an option will pay to run a newer version; but what about those that don't?
I can envision current law being used against poor third-world school kids using recycled computers and obsolete software; but it shouldn't be possible because it's not right!!
IP rush. OK--that's a good way of putting it. A comment a while back mentioned a technology getting way out in front of IP law. ITLR, maybe that; in the form of the distributed processing (DP) business model; is the only realistic way of of getting around recent extensions of copyright protections to works previously in the public domain. If lots of folks benefit from the buying & selling of CPU cycles, it seems unlikely that any of the western democracies would try to shut the busness model down. OTOH, everyone participating COULD be liable for "content"; and shut down in a fashion similar to how server admins were pressured recently w/ regard to Napster. It seems clear to me that the potential economic benefits of DP far outweigh threat of lost profits. I would think that this will cause the center of gravity in development of IP law to start to shift back toward extension of the public domain. We can't all be criminals. "The law doth punish man or woman That steals the goose off the common, But lets the greater felon loose, That steals the common from the goose." -Anon. (In 1764, when the "Enclosure Acts" were passed)