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Lending someone a lawn mower is not an infringement of any kind.
WC is right in saying that analogy is a complete fail.
I knew that would go over your head.
Lending someone a lawn mower is not an infringement of any kind.
WC is right in saying that analogy is a complete fail.
Lawn mowers are pretty basic in design, so there would have to be patented parts/designs that were copied.
Doubtful though that Sears would ever find out and then go after Joe Mower for building an exact copy of a Craftsman mulcher for his neighbor.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398391,00.aspThe Church of Kopimism, whose principal tenent is the right to file-share, has been formally recognized as a religious organization in Sweden.
The Swedish government agency Kammarkollegiet registered the Church of Kopimism as a religious organization in late December, just before Christmas, the group said in a Wednesday statement. Members of the church applied three times in their more than year-long quest to have the religion formally recognized in Sweden.
Sweden is now the first and only country to recognize Kopimism as a religion, the group said.
"For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament," it said in a statement. "Information holds a value, in itself and in what it contains, and the value multiplies through copying. Therefore, copying is central for the organization and its members."
Lawmakers seem intent on approving SOPA, PIPA
Early this year, the U.S. Congress appears likely to move forward with two controversial copyright enforcement bills, even with vocal and widespread opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the Internet community.
The two bills, SOPA and PIPA for short, appear headed toward approval this year, unless opponents can change the minds of many lawmakers. Dozens of lawmakers have voiced support for the bills, despite reports from digital rights group Fight for the Future that more than 1 million people have sent email messages to Congress in opposition.
oth bills have strong support in Congress and among some segments of U.S. industry. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Motion Picture Association of America, two powerful trade and lobbying groups, are among the 400-plus organizations supporting the bills. Other supporters include the National Football League, Time Warner, L'Oreal, and the Fraternal Order of Police.
Several supporters of the two bills declined to make predictions, but it's hard to ignore the numbers in Congress so far.
PIPA has 41 co-sponsors in the 100-member Senate. The votes of just 19 more senators would be needed to override a filibuster from Wyden and his allies.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-indus...pa-pipa-183328
My point exacly. This whole subject is complete fail.
You can't stop people from sharing music,ideas,lawn mowers,etc....
You close one door and two others open up. Shut down the WWW and two others will appear.
The Internet is like Radiation it's not going anywhere.
sharing a lawn mower is nothing like illegally downloading music
Actually, it's inversely related to radioactivity. Mull it over.
So did Lamar clean up his website or not?
I don't see the picture in question any more so I guess that's a yes?
If so, then the le of the previous article is a bit misleading.
the bit comes from a blog, not the newspaper proper, but the reporter would do well from the standpoint of accuracy to change the headline. probably gets more clicks this way, though.
Doesn't hurt that the blogger's name is jamie lee curtis
Does it make any difference? If I download unauthorized MP3's and delete them an hour later it's still infringement...
As stated earlier, it makes a difference for the le of the blog, imo.
Nothing more.
Although, I would say the le is misleading in a different way. It's very unlikely Lamar Smith wrote even a word that makes up the SOPA legislation...
Lamar Smith is no dummy, but he plays one on TV.
not at all
agree 100% with El Nono, btw
none of these lawmakers write laws. they do get to gang it later with party poohbahs and advisors, but that's a whole other movie.
Did they just post this? They were the most fervent supporters of DNS crippling.
BTW, the latest news about SOPA is that it will be watered down:
DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA
"Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the biggest backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act, today said he plans to remove the Domain Name System blocking provision. 'After consultation with industry groups across the country,' Smith said in a statement released by his office, 'I feel we should remove (DNS) blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [U.S. House Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision.'"
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