The European copyrights expire faster in Europe. It's entirely possible that a work by an American author would be PD in Europe but still controlled in the US. That could get interesting.
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The European copyrights expire faster in Europe. It's entirely possible that a work by an American author would be PD in Europe but still controlled in the US. That could get interesting.
Already done. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6689
if the alternative is having to pay to view content. More power to the "masses" who keep the internet largely free for the rest of us. You may not have noticed this but Slashdot carries ads. If ad-filtering capable software like Firefox (which I use myself, don't get me wrong) become predominant it'll mean more subscription based content. At the end of the day someone has to pay for all this.
...used Python extensively. The console was actually a Python interpreter. (And with the Circle of Eight patch it's a reasonable RPG now.)