____/ Mark Kent on Friday 16 November 2007 22:25 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ High Plains Thumper on Thursday 15 November 2007 10:45 : \____
>>
>>> http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/10/27/regarding-copyright-infringement/
>>>
>>> This is an interesting story. I think the legal system in the US
>>> has gone mad. No one no longer knows what is truly right and
>>> wrong. I feel the same way with software patents that do not
>>> accompany and control or acquire data from a hardware device.
>>> Much of it reflects the gobshite against the Linux operating system.
>>>
>>> [quote]
>>> Posted on Sat 27 Oct 2007 at 1:20 pm PST. Filed under Politics.
>>>
>>> This story made the rounds yesterday. A lady is suing Universal
>>> for requesting the removal of her 0.29? sec youtube family video
>>> that had a Prince song as a background score. Now, according to
>>> the law, that WAS a copyright infringement (no, there is no ?fair
>>> use? for plain consumers, get over it).
>>>
>>> However, what she has a problem with ? and I agree with her
>>> wholeheartedly ? is what this country has become: essentially, a
>>> policed nation. Her own words regarding what?s going on her mind
>>> when she shoots a family video:
>>>
>>> ?I?m constantly thinking about what?s going on in the background,
>>> what?s on the TV, what?s on the CD player, the characters on my
>>> kids? clothes, the characters on the toys that they are playing
>>> with. I?m cognizant of what?s going on at every step, instead of
>>> focusing on my kids, which is where my attention should be.?
>>>
>>> I am sorry, but she?s right. This copyright thingie just gets in
>>> the middle of our lives, it just takes away the fun factor. It?s
>>> just too much fucking shit to take into account each time. You
>>> can?t even take a dump anymore in this country without thinking
>>> if you are allowed to take a prank picture of it, in fear of
>>> using inappropriately and without permission the image of the
>>> designer toilet your ex-wife had installed.
>>> [/quote]
>>>
>>> Someone dancing to a poor quality by recognisable background
>>> sound, illustrating home life to be considered a copyright
>>> violation is simply mad. US is becoming a police state.
>>
>> Look at the bright side. The judge who sud for tens of millions over a pair
>> of pants have just gotten fired. Welcome to America. (oh, and cover that
>> aperture... and the microphone shaft too)
>>
>
> What I find the most amazing is how few yanks seem to see anything wrong
> in the whole situation. Yesterday, I was reading in the Standard that
> investigations are going on into the professional lobbyists in the UK,
> as Downing Street has become concerned. This is excellent, and is what
> *should* happen. That's not to say that there isn't or won't be
> corruption, but when it's under your noses, why on earth wouldn't you
> complain about the smell?
>
> No entiendo.
Professional lobbyists = legalised bribery.
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