The US Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, just upheld the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, an act posthumously named after the late congressman who had favored making copyrights last forever. That is supposed to be unconstitutional, as it says in Section 8, clause 8 of the US Constitution: "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." Over the years, this "limited time" has been extended again and again at the behest of the entertainment industry toward the obvious goal of perpetual copyright. When the High Court agreed to hear the challenge brought by Eric Eldred, publisher of an online library of Public Domain works, I had high hopes. I struggle now to find words adequate to express my disappointment.
Except for Justices Breyer and Stevens, the Supreme Court has sold out. They have given their Nihil Obstat to perpetual copyright, and ignored the Constitution, no matter what they say in Justice Ginsburg's majority opinion. We can expect another Copyright Term Extension Act every twenty years. Citing this precedent, the Supreme Court will do nothing about it. I guess I should have expected as much from the Supreme Court that decided to throw out the results of the 2000 election, and coronate Bush.
Soon, no one but historians will know what the public domain even was. We are all the public domain, and have all been robbed. An idea once expressed belongs to us, and is only on loan to copyright holders. Now, the loan can last forever. Copyrights frequently do not even go to the artists, scientists, and inventors who do the actual creating, but to parasites who exploit them. From now on, as the public domain, we should all engage in "piracy" as a form of civil disobedience, and take back what rightfully belongs to us. To hell with unjust laws that the corporations bribed Congress into passing, and bribed 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices into upholding. We, the public domain, must declare them null and void, and ignore them.
Imagine that the perpetual copyrights the corporations have created always existed. The King James Version of the Bible would be copyrighted. To print copies of it, you would need permission from the British Crown, or at least the Church of England, and would also have to pay them royalties. The KJV is so widely published because it is in the public domain, and anyone who wishes to may make copies of it. Now, nothing created after 1923 may ever belong to us all in this manner again.
It seems that Government of the people by the people and for the people has perished from the earth. We are left with government of the people by the corporations and for the corporations. I challenge Congress or the Supreme Court to prove me wrong.
They want everyone to stop trading files, so they fill the networks with garbage. They want us to pay $20 for a CD that cost less than 1 to manufacture, and most of those are filled with garbage. Increasingly, they won't play in a computer because of "copy protection," when computers are they only player many of us have. How do we tell them we don't approve? By boycotting their products. Let CDs gather dust on store shelves.
Don't be fooled by the change in logo. The program has not changed. Total Information Awareness is "The Beast." and Bush's soon to be revived National ID plan is "The Mark"
The Supreme Court, save the two dissenting justices, have sold out. They have given their Nihil Obstat to perpetual copyright, and ignored the constitution no matter what they say. I guess I should have expected as much from the Supreme Court that threw out the results of the 2000 election, and coronated Bush. Government of the people, by the people and for the people has perished from the earth.
Another big problem with vigilantism is that vigilantes usually end up punishing the innocent based on mistaken identity. Also, a worm-killing worm unleashed on the internet, if buggy, could cause more damage than the Nimda or Code Red it is trying to seek and destroy.
The answer may be simpler than that. Electrostatic Discharge, or ESD. A simple shock should fry these chips. Wald on a carpet, and touch any suspect item. POP! No RFID chip. Hopefully, "The Beast" will be as easily evaded.
Indeed. The Berman Bill has not become law, and under the USA Patriot Act, Hacking can be considered terrorism. One thing we sould all do is boycott the recording industry.
Yes, to lay the smack down on the RIAA, we must stop buying CDs. If artists list their addresses on their websites, donating directly to them will be easy, too.
If the US Military is suffering from a bandwidth crunch, how does the Whitehouse expect the Total Information Awareness network to actually function? Do they still think computers are magic boxes that can do anything?
While off brand toner cartridges may give lousy print, leak toner all over the place, and shorten the life of the printer, consumers are free to use them to save some money. What is next? If a Lexmark printer doesn't see their copyrighted watermark on each sheet of paper, the printer won't print? I hope I am not giving them ideas with this ridiculous example. Lexmark is trying to take that away from us, and that is wrong. That is why the EU is about to ban the practice, and this absurd DMCA claim will hopefully not stand. Lexmark used to be part of IBM, and many call IBM big brother, maybe we can call Lexmark "little brother."
The BSA actually gets it that paying customers are not thieves, and shouldn't be caled thieves. Unlike the RIAA, and MPAA they are not stupid. To hell with the stupid ones. Don't buy their products.
Fanfic is a lot of fun, and I think it should be allowed, unfortunately copyright law bans derivative works based upon an original work without permission, except for parody. Technically, fanfic is a derivative work, but most producers leave it alone. If you piss off your fans, soon you won't have any. If Paramount decided to be pricks, they could say that this is a parody.
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So do you work for Verio, or Dow?
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Whether this was parody or fraud should have been a matter for the courts to decide. Thanks to the provisions of the DMCA, they didn't have to get involved for censorship to occur. This is what is meant by the term, "Chilling Effect." As for defamation, printing negative information is not libel if it is true, no matter how negative. A biting satire of the company that continues to ignore their responsibility for Bhopal, and is even suing Bhopal survivors, that appears at first glance to be Dow's real website is a valid exercise in free speech in my opinion. I think that the Supreme Court would eventually agree if they heard this case, as it did in the Larry Flynt vs. Jerry Falwell case. Dow deserves to have the screws put to them. I support the Yes Men, and Greenpeace for doing just that. Dow could have avoided a lot of negative publicity by ignoring the yes men. Now, more people than ever before are learning that Dow is Union Carbide, and people are still dying every day because of their irresponsibility.
We don't have qualms about killing plants, and eating them because they aren't warm and fuzzy, or cute, but they in fact do feel pain. Killing plants is cruel, too. You vegans can knock it off with the Church Lady's "I'm Superior" dance now.
from the article... "Although the Touro team developed techniques for growing white and dark chicken muscle in the lab, without a blood supply the chicken meat grew for just two months before it was dead in the dish. Benjaminson is now submitting another NASA proposal to investigate mechanical or electrical methods of stimulating blood vessel growth."
Indeed! If the disc won't play, it is defective. Take it back, and join the ever-growing boycott of the recording industry. When you take the disc back, demand a cash refund. Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and the customer is always right.
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Cool! I will have to take the time to read all of those, and I won't pay for it, or ask permission. I may even print a hard copy of each.
Except for Justices Breyer and Stevens, the Supreme Court has sold out. They have given their Nihil Obstat to perpetual copyright, and ignored the Constitution, no matter what they say in Justice Ginsburg's majority opinion. We can expect another Copyright Term Extension Act every twenty years. Citing this precedent, the Supreme Court will do nothing about it. I guess I should have expected as much from the Supreme Court that decided to throw out the results of the 2000 election, and coronate Bush.
Soon, no one but historians will know what the public domain even was. We are all the public domain, and have all been robbed. An idea once expressed belongs to us, and is only on loan to copyright holders. Now, the loan can last forever. Copyrights frequently do not even go to the artists, scientists, and inventors who do the actual creating, but to parasites who exploit them. From now on, as the public domain, we should all engage in "piracy" as a form of civil disobedience, and take back what rightfully belongs to us. To hell with unjust laws that the corporations bribed Congress into passing, and bribed 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices into upholding. We, the public domain, must declare them null and void, and ignore them.
Imagine that the perpetual copyrights the corporations have created always existed. The King James Version of the Bible would be copyrighted. To print copies of it, you would need permission from the British Crown, or at least the Church of England, and would also have to pay them royalties. The KJV is so widely published because it is in the public domain, and anyone who wishes to may make copies of it. Now, nothing created after 1923 may ever belong to us all in this manner again.
It seems that Government of the people by the people and for the people has perished from the earth. We are left with government of the people by the corporations and for the corporations. I challenge Congress or the Supreme Court to prove me wrong.
They want everyone to stop trading files, so they fill the networks with garbage. They want us to pay $20 for a CD that cost less than 1 to manufacture, and most of those are filled with garbage. Increasingly, they won't play in a computer because of "copy protection," when computers are they only player many of us have. How do we tell them we don't approve? By boycotting their products. Let CDs gather dust on store shelves.
Don't be fooled by the change in logo. The program has not changed. Total Information Awareness is "The Beast." and Bush's soon to be revived National ID plan is "The Mark"
The Supreme Court, save the two dissenting justices, have sold out. They have given their Nihil Obstat to perpetual copyright, and ignored the constitution no matter what they say. I guess I should have expected as much from the Supreme Court that threw out the results of the 2000 election, and coronated Bush. Government of the people, by the people and for the people has perished from the earth.
Another big problem with vigilantism is that vigilantes usually end up punishing the innocent based on mistaken identity. Also, a worm-killing worm unleashed on the internet, if buggy, could cause more damage than the Nimda or Code Red it is trying to seek and destroy.
They knew better than to lauch Rosetta after what happened to Contour. The aliens would just blow it up, too.
The government could do this to everyone, but tattooing bar codes would be cheaper. The government loves to steal ideas from urban legends.
The answer may be simpler than that. Electrostatic Discharge, or ESD. A simple shock should fry these chips. Wald on a carpet, and touch any suspect item. POP! No RFID chip. Hopefully, "The Beast" will be as easily evaded.
Indeed. The Berman Bill has not become law, and under the USA Patriot Act, Hacking can be considered terrorism. One thing we sould all do is boycott the recording industry.
Yes, to lay the smack down on the RIAA, we must stop buying CDs. If artists list their addresses on their websites, donating directly to them will be easy, too.
If the US Military is suffering from a bandwidth crunch, how does the Whitehouse expect the Total Information Awareness network to actually function? Do they still think computers are magic boxes that can do anything?
While off brand toner cartridges may give lousy print, leak toner all over the place, and shorten the life of the printer, consumers are free to use them to save some money. What is next? If a Lexmark printer doesn't see their copyrighted watermark on each sheet of paper, the printer won't print? I hope I am not giving them ideas with this ridiculous example. Lexmark is trying to take that away from us, and that is wrong. That is why the EU is about to ban the practice, and this absurd DMCA claim will hopefully not stand. Lexmark used to be part of IBM, and many call IBM big brother, maybe we can call Lexmark "little brother."
HP is going down because Carly Fiorina is and IBM Mole. Read more.
They don't need no stinkin' satelites! They use the V-chip. Not to worry. Tin foil can fix that, too!
The BSA actually gets it that paying customers are not thieves, and shouldn't be caled thieves. Unlike the RIAA, and MPAA they are not stupid. To hell with the stupid ones. Don't buy their products.
Fanfic is a lot of fun, and I think it should be allowed, unfortunately copyright law bans derivative works based upon an original work without permission, except for parody. Technically, fanfic is a derivative work, but most producers leave it alone. If you piss off your fans, soon you won't have any. If Paramount decided to be pricks, they could say that this is a parody.
So do you work for Verio, or Dow?
Whether this was parody or fraud should have been a matter for the courts to decide. Thanks to the provisions of the DMCA, they didn't have to get involved for censorship to occur. This is what is meant by the term, "Chilling Effect." As for defamation, printing negative information is not libel if it is true, no matter how negative. A biting satire of the company that continues to ignore their responsibility for Bhopal, and is even suing Bhopal survivors, that appears at first glance to be Dow's real website is a valid exercise in free speech in my opinion. I think that the Supreme Court would eventually agree if they heard this case, as it did in the Larry Flynt vs. Jerry Falwell case. Dow deserves to have the screws put to them. I support the Yes Men, and Greenpeace for doing just that. Dow could have avoided a lot of negative publicity by ignoring the yes men. Now, more people than ever before are learning that Dow is Union Carbide, and people are still dying every day because of their irresponsibility.
We don't have qualms about killing plants, and eating them because they aren't warm and fuzzy, or cute, but they in fact do feel pain. Killing plants is cruel, too. You vegans can knock it off with the Church Lady's "I'm Superior" dance now.
New Dawn Biotech solved this problem. They have meat that grows on trees, and they are about to take it to market. This is the same company that created Chick'N, and is working on F'sH.
Funny that you should mention a catapult. NASA, not the Chinese, plan to try that one.
This article about the Glass and Panes lawsuit does not require registration.
Indeed! If the disc won't play, it is defective. Take it back, and join the ever-growing boycott of the recording industry. When you take the disc back, demand a cash refund. Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and the customer is always right.
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