If I were American I'd rather be seeing my tax dollars going towards something like this....
NEWS TODAY
RIAA declared to be an illegal terrorist organisation....police have frozen the RIAA's assets and all actions initiated by the RIAA have been postponed....
Perhaps only in that world of might-have-been.
Professor Lawerence Lessig describes the situation of file sharing quite neatly:
"A. There are some who use sharing networks as substitutes for purchasing
content.
B. There are some who use sharing networks to sample music before
purchasing it.
C. There are many who use sharing networks to get access to copyrighted content that is no longer sold or that they would not have purchased because the transaction costs off the Net are too high.
D. Finally, there are many who use sharing networks to get access to content that is not copyrighted or that the copyright owner wants to give away."
Lessig goes on to say, as everyone BUT the RIAA seems to realise, not all of these intentions for file sharing are illegal.
I'm right alongside those who say that the practice of intellectual property law has become distanced from the ideals originally embodied in that law. You only have to look at the actions of the RIAA to know that this is true. And what's the result? In all these wide-action law suits from the RIAA it's more than likely that more innocent people will be prosecuted than "copyright pirates".
I think every geek and nerd has experienced this kind of panic at least once.
Don't stress, there are girls out there who actually like nerds.
Disclaimer: yes, I am female, no, there is nothing clinically or physically wrong with me, no you cannot have my phone number.:P
MS is just pissed off because OSS looks like piracy but unfortunately for MS, it isn't.
In days of yore when someone started doing things like OSS, it was easy for groups like MS because all they had to do was declare OSS a bunch of copyright pirates and take them apart with the help of every legal mechanism available.
But when the "pirates" use the same language as the "privateers" (see GPL using the language of copyright back against MS, and everyone else) then it's on for everyone. Good luck to MS with the rhetoric, because that is, in reality (and unsubstantiated SCO totally aside) all they've got to use.
Well as a Law student writing a 20,000 word honours thesis about copyright, software and the Internet, a document like this would be a big plus.
Unfortunately it might finished a bit late for me.
In think though that something like this will be valuable in the future, both for academic and practical reasons.
SECONDED.
And another warning: because both alcohol and caffeine have diuretic effects with vodka and red bull you lose twice the amount of water and so the resultant hangover hits you twice as hard.
Personal recommendation from experience: double vodka and red bull is a favourite of mine, but keep the water coming too. The hangover I got from the first time I did a night on these was MONUMENTAL.
Doubtful when the WIPO seems to share a common set of values with the WTO. WIPO also supports the TRIPS Agreement, something which seems to me to be a vehicle for propping up dated systems like US patent law.
That said, I hope that this latest development in EU patent law will make the international entities see that not everything is in favour of the US approach and some sort of compromise between the larger trading blocks is going to be essential in the development of international standards for intellectual property.
Read: we don't know what it is, we can't understand it, but we don't think it's a parallel universe because....because...we just don't think it is, okay?
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If I were American I'd rather be seeing my tax dollars going towards something like this....
NEWS TODAY
RIAA declared to be an illegal terrorist organisation....police have frozen the RIAA's assets and all actions initiated by the RIAA have been postponed....
Perhaps only in that world of might-have-been.
Lessig goes on to say, as everyone BUT the RIAA seems to realise, not all of these intentions for file sharing are illegal.
I'm right alongside those who say that the practice of intellectual property law has become distanced from the ideals originally embodied in that law. You only have to look at the actions of the RIAA to know that this is true. And what's the result? In all these wide-action law suits from the RIAA it's more than likely that more innocent people will be prosecuted than "copyright pirates".
I think every geek and nerd has experienced this kind of panic at least once. :P
Don't stress, there are girls out there who actually like nerds.
Disclaimer: yes, I am female, no, there is nothing clinically or physically wrong with me, no you cannot have my phone number.
MS is just pissed off because OSS looks like piracy but unfortunately for MS, it isn't.
In days of yore when someone started doing things like OSS, it was easy for groups like MS because all they had to do was declare OSS a bunch of copyright pirates and take them apart with the help of every legal mechanism available.
But when the "pirates" use the same language as the "privateers" (see GPL using the language of copyright back against MS, and everyone else) then it's on for everyone. Good luck to MS with the rhetoric, because that is, in reality (and unsubstantiated SCO totally aside) all they've got to use.
Well as a Law student writing a 20,000 word honours thesis about copyright, software and the Internet, a document like this would be a big plus. Unfortunately it might finished a bit late for me. In think though that something like this will be valuable in the future, both for academic and practical reasons.
SECONDED. And another warning: because both alcohol and caffeine have diuretic effects with vodka and red bull you lose twice the amount of water and so the resultant hangover hits you twice as hard. Personal recommendation from experience: double vodka and red bull is a favourite of mine, but keep the water coming too. The hangover I got from the first time I did a night on these was MONUMENTAL.
Me for one. Why not use something no one will miss - like corporate lawyers.
What about buying some shares in the US company who's patents your EU company would infringe if you sold your stuff in the US?
Doubtful when the WIPO seems to share a common set of values with the WTO. WIPO also supports the TRIPS Agreement, something which seems to me to be a vehicle for propping up dated systems like US patent law. That said, I hope that this latest development in EU patent law will make the international entities see that not everything is in favour of the US approach and some sort of compromise between the larger trading blocks is going to be essential in the development of international standards for intellectual property.
In news today, Sasser Worm creator sues creator of Dabber Worm for breach of copyright.
for those pesky and elusive WMDs.
Read: we don't know what it is, we can't understand it, but we don't think it's a parallel universe because....because...we just don't think it is, okay?