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It's not the Gates, it's the bars
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright opinion politics
Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now.
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What Colour are your bits?
ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php, posted 2008 by peter in copyright toread
The law is not Colour-blind.
It makes a difference not only what bits you have, but where they came from.
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The real ACTA threat (it's not iPod-scanning border guards)
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080602-the-real-acta-threat-its-not-ipod-scanning-border-guards.html, posted 2008 by peter in copyright politics
This provision, unlikely to be deployed against individual file-swappers and those who rip movies from their own DVDs, seems clearly targeted at sites like The Pirate Bay and other major hubs, which don't always operate to make money.
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MPAA Defeats TorrentSpy
www.slyck.com/story1686_MPAA_Defeats_TorrentSpy, posted 2008 by peter in copyright dinosaurism p2p
A Los Angeles Federal court has rendered a $110 million judgment against Valence Media, the company which operates the now defunct TorrentSpy. This judgment represents the culmination of a lengthy decline for TorrentSpy, which was slowly strangled to deat
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Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright environment food patent toread
As interviews and reams of court documents reveal, Monsanto relies on a shadowy army of private investigators and agents in the American heartland to strike fear into farm country.
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Feds lie about link between software piracy and terrorism
blogs.computerworld.com/feds_lie_about_link_between_software_piracy_and_terrorism, posted 2008 by peter in copyright msm news propaganda terrorism usa
Attorney General Michael Mukasey claims that terrorists sell pirated software as a way to finance their operations, without presenting a shred of evidence for his case. He's doing it to push through a controversial piece of legislation that's bad for you.
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IP hypocrisy: US likes WTO rulings only when it wins
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-ip-hypocrisy-us-likes-wto-rulings-only-when-it-wins.html, posted 2008 by peter in copyright politics usa
But the US comes in for its share of IP-related criticism from other countries both small and large, too. When it happens, though, we're not nearly so quick to change our ways.
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PC game developer has radical message: ignore the pirates
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080320-pc-game-developer-has-radical-message-ignore-the-pirates.html, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright opinion
The pirates weren't customers, they might never be customers, so spending money to try to stop them serves no purpose.
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If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?
techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458.shtml, posted 2008 by peter in copyright politics
It's become common language to call it intellectual property, but that leads to various problems -- most notably the idea that it's just like regular property.
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History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause
arstechnica.com/articles/culture/copyright-crusade.ars, posted 2008 by peter in copyright history politics
Sooner or later, Congress will have to do for the copyright system what it did for property rights in the 19th century: change the law to bring it back into line with peoples' moral intuitions.
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