In the Netherlands sharing a file is already a crime. The directive will not change that. The same situation may exist in other member states of the Community.
This directive is about forcing the member states to criminalise certain behaviours. They may go further themselves. It is important to keep the directive proportional, otherwise broad criminalisation will be all over the Community (Europe), and it is impossible / very hard to turn that back.
Inciting an infringement is not an infringement, but it will be a crime, as far as the EP Legal Affairs committee is concerned.
Offering insurance against softwarepatents is difficult. Ian Lewis of Miller Insurance company said at the Brussels' FFII conference that a company lost 3000 times the premium. For every pound premium it received, it had to pay out 3000 pounds.(74th minute)
National parliaments do matter. You can still send e-mails to fi the parliament's commission for economic affairs. They can then put some pressure on the minister (secretary of economic affairs). Do create some stir. Especially if you are in one of the 10 new members too.
Nokia is actively campaigning pro software patents in Europe, and spreading misinformation doing this.
Software patents are bad. They do not protect huge investments in research, they protect trivial ideas. The European Parliament reached a good compromise. The parliament's decision to limit software patentability has the support of more than 300.000 citizens, 2.000.000 SMEs and dozens of economists and scientists.
For consumers, software patents lead to higher prices, less choice.
For (Open Source) developers, investors and users alike, software patents would mean legal uncertainty:
a patent minefield. With the current flood of trivial patents legalized,
software innovation would become a dangerous enterprise in Europe.
The Council of Ministers is pushing for unlimited patentability of software, heavily lobbied by patent lawyers. Here Nokia is very active, campaining pro software patents, and spreading misinformation doing so. Nokia's behavior is irresponsible. Do you want to buy products from a company that is untrustworthy? I would say no.
I call upon everyone around the world not to buy Nokia products.
You may copy this page.
Imagine many copies of this call for action against Nokia on the web. Nokia makes much more money selling phones than it can from software patents. Nokia is vulnerable: it needs to be hip. It is not hip. It needs to choose. Pro phones, against software patents.
For Nerds only: unite!
Nerds are often in an advising role. Advise against Nokia. Be proud. Use legal ways. And win. Don't let the dinosaurs win. Is this the information age, or not? Defend your freedom. After the Boston Tea party, the Brussels Tea party. Stand up. Make this a revenge of the nerds.
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This directive is about forcing the member states to criminalise certain behaviours. They may go further themselves. It is important to keep the directive proportional, otherwise broad criminalisation will be all over the Community (Europe), and it is impossible / very hard to turn that back.
Inciting an infringement is not an infringement, but it will be a crime, as far as the EP Legal Affairs committee is concerned.
See also: http://www.ipred.org/
http://action.ffii.org/ipred2/
Besides this all we have strict civil law.
See http://wiki.vrijschrift.org/Doneren
Consider the FFII: http://action.ffii.org/ipred2 http://www.ipred.org/
Offering insurance against softwarepatents is difficult. Ian Lewis of Miller Insurance company said at the Brussels' FFII conference that a company lost 3000 times the premium. For every pound premium it received, it had to pay out 3000 pounds.(74th minute)
Sony and Philips own the Intertrust DRM patents. So, with a standard based on these patents, they will make a lot of money.
National parliaments do matter. You can still send e-mails to fi the parliament's commission for economic affairs. They can then put some pressure on the minister (secretary of economic affairs). Do create some stir. Especially if you are in one of the 10 new members too.
Nokia is actively campaigning pro software patents in Europe, and spreading misinformation doing this.
Software patents are bad. They do not protect huge investments in research, they protect trivial ideas. The European Parliament reached a good compromise. The parliament's decision to limit software patentability has the support of more than 300.000 citizens, 2.000.000 SMEs and dozens of economists and scientists.
For consumers, software patents lead to higher prices, less choice. For (Open Source) developers, investors and users alike, software patents would mean legal uncertainty: a patent minefield. With the current flood of trivial patents legalized, software innovation would become a dangerous enterprise in Europe.
More info on software patents at FFII.
The Council of Ministers is pushing for unlimited patentability of software, heavily lobbied by patent lawyers. Here Nokia is very active, campaining pro software patents, and spreading misinformation doing so. Nokia's behavior is irresponsible. Do you want to buy products from a company that is untrustworthy? I would say no.
I call upon everyone around the world not to buy Nokia products.
You may copy this page.
Imagine many copies of this call for action against Nokia on the web. Nokia makes much more money selling phones than it can from software patents. Nokia is vulnerable: it needs to be hip. It is not hip. It needs to choose. Pro phones, against software patents.
For Nerds only: unite!
Nerds are often in an advising role. Advise against Nokia. Be proud. Use legal ways. And win. Don't let the dinosaurs win. Is this the information age, or not? Defend your freedom. After the Boston Tea party, the Brussels Tea party. Stand up. Make this a revenge of the nerds.
Nokia is out.
Spread the word.
Well, PERL was made for this. So, PERL is prior art.
A few years ago I wrote a Poem Generator.Possibly it applies as prior art. You can find it here. Source and all.