If this idea grows and spawns multiple sites, how much time will it pass until the RIAA/MPAA/WIPO/(insert another draconian patents regulation entity here) start shutting them down?
The current worlwide economic crisis it's just a shockwave, created by the explosion of the 90's irresponsible and stupidily greedy ".com" economic bubble. Like all things it will eventually pass away.
Japan was the spearhead of this crisis in the late 80's. One would think that economists, having studied the Japanese downfall would have warned against rapid and unchecked growth but no, they had to wait until the virtual walls started to fall apart on them.
Leaving the economy aside, the IT industry
is one of the most viables to work in. Specially when you work work with Free/OS
software, which I see as a Golem (built from mud,
shape shifting and undestructible).
IANAL, but it seems to me that the lobbying efforts that companies throughout the world are making in order to save their tecnically inept asses, is sending "fair use" down the drain.
Imagine you buy a Ford, and is stops in the middle of nowhere. And you can't even touch the engine because it could be seen as "modding" it.
Hold on people, we are about to face some rough corporate times.
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If this idea grows and spawns multiple sites, how much time will it pass until the RIAA/MPAA/WIPO/(insert another draconian patents regulation entity here) start shutting them down?
The right to read looks more close te reality each day.
There has been talk in the kernel mail list of implementing 9p, the plan 9 distributed filesystem.
Now that is Open Source, I hope it will happen.
The current worlwide economic crisis it's just a shockwave, created by the explosion of the 90's irresponsible and stupidily greedy ".com" economic bubble. Like all things it will eventually pass away.
Japan was the spearhead of this crisis in the late 80's. One would think that economists, having studied the Japanese downfall would have warned against rapid and unchecked growth but no, they had to wait until the virtual walls started to fall apart on them.
Leaving the economy aside, the IT industry is one of the most viables to work in. Specially when you work work with Free/OS software, which I see as a Golem (built from mud, shape shifting and undestructible).
Amen.
IANAL, but it seems to me that the lobbying efforts that companies throughout the world are making in order to save their tecnically inept asses, is sending "fair use" down the drain.
Imagine you buy a Ford, and is stops in the middle of nowhere. And you can't even touch the engine because it could be seen as "modding" it.
Hold on people, we are about to face some rough corporate times.