Comments on: CBC Search Engine: copyright questions

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:38:01 +0000

We don’t comply with the DMCA nor we try to enforce it because like the patriot act the DMCA is
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Most US citizen just ignore the DMCA.

A law that encroach the US constitution is null ant trying to enforce it is a crime punished by heavy fines and prison long sentences,

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:48:57 +0000

Copyright and fair use are defined in terms of the end to which a material is used (e.g. for education, parody, or critique) and not in how it is distributed (e.g. borrowed, rented, or copied). How are DRM protections, which enforce restrictions on copying, supposed to enforce a law which is based on how materials are used? How can they determine if copying or modifying content is being used for education, parody, or critique?

THE ANSWER

By having Fair Use defined by corporate America that’s how.

And by letting them do away with the following four safety valves intended to insure copyright achieve it primary objective.

1 Idea/Expression Dichotomy
2.Fair Use
3 .First Sale use
4 Public Domain

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:53:27 +0000

I have used open source programs (Ubuntu) on my personal computer since last winter, and have grown to love the philosophy behind open source. MPAA’s use of snort, etc is an appalling violation of the intent of this software.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:01:41 +0000

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14135

“A huge security hole has been uncovered in an application custom-built to boost the Hollywood effort to seriously interfere with education at American universities across the land a la the RIAA —- only more effectively.”

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:55:07 +0000

sorry could not find a submit story link so ill just put it hear.

MPAA have released a server toolkit for university’s to spy on there students. http://universitytoolkit.org/

it uses open source GPL and GPLv2 code (and others) but they have not released the source code for there changes as they must do under the licenses they agreed to by using the software. e.g MPAA have comited Intellectual property theft.

please incurage people to report this to the fsf.org or eff.org

ps. they also seam to commit trademark violations but that is a problem for ubuntu.com