"The US, Japan, Canada and other nations said last year that they would begin negotiations on an agreement aimed at cracking down on counterfeiting of such goods as watches and pharmaceuticals"
How dare those sickly peasants get the medicine they need at an affordable price!
Although I support OSI (Open Source Initiative), I would like to point out a difference from my knowledge between Copyright and Patents to some open-source zelots since I seem to see some bashing of 'copyright' here.
Copyright simply says "you made this" and is usually used to prevent people from altering or using an item in some fashion without permission unless otherwise stated like in the case of GPL.
Patents on the other hand completely restrict everything based on an idea or similar design whereas copyright just protects the actual item itself.
Patents are the real enemy here, not copyright. Patents were ment to allow an inventor to be able to profit from his creation for a certain period of time before allowing the public to make similar creations however in this day and age patents have become the enemy of progress and are tools of the rich and powerful to stomp on the little guy.
I believe in IP and OSI however unlike most OSI people, I also believe people have a right to properietary rights and everything shouldn't be open source by default as some OSI supports evangalize, infact this is the reputation OSI has by the general public because of this. I only believe something should be open source if it was open source in the first place or if it were made open source.
Another way it might know if something is illegal if it has a "definition" file like Norton-AntiVirus for example and has a list of CRCs of illegals or the other way around, CRCs or legals or something a legal song's file header that makes it appear to be valid.
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Thank you for your correction, however, I believe that the outrageous cost of medicine fuels the market for counterfeit medication to some extent.
"The US, Japan, Canada and other nations said last year that they would begin negotiations on an agreement aimed at cracking down on counterfeiting of such goods as watches and pharmaceuticals"
How dare those sickly peasants get the medicine they need at an affordable price!
Ahoy mateys! I be celebrating this day by blasting Alestorm broadside from my speakers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7sHLjI1sQE
Although I support OSI (Open Source Initiative), I would like to point out
a difference from my knowledge between Copyright and Patents to some open-source
zelots since I seem to see some bashing of 'copyright' here.
Copyright simply says "you made this" and is usually used to prevent people
from altering or using an item in some fashion without permission unless
otherwise stated like in the case of GPL.
Patents on the other hand completely restrict everything based on an idea
or similar design whereas copyright just protects the actual item itself.
Patents are the real enemy here, not copyright. Patents were ment to allow
an inventor to be able to profit from his creation for a certain period of
time before allowing the public to make similar creations however in this
day and age patents have become the enemy of progress and are tools of the
rich and powerful to stomp on the little guy.
I believe in IP and OSI however unlike most OSI people, I also believe people
have a right to properietary rights and everything shouldn't be open source by
default as some OSI supports evangalize, infact this is the reputation
OSI has by the general public because of this.
I only believe something should be open source
if it was open source in the first place or if it were made open source.
haha, I love BTTF!
Another way it might know if something is illegal if it has a "definition" file
like Norton-AntiVirus for example and has a list of CRCs of illegals or the
other way around, CRCs or legals or something a legal song's file header that
makes it appear to be valid.