Comments on: ACTA, the Hollywood dream: CIPPIC

By: Markos

Markos — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:32:45 +0000

A wet pipe dream if you ask me... and i hope one that will never become a reality as that will just make me lose
whatever little faith i have left that theres at least ONE person in govt who's not a clown.

Cheers!

By: Ogre

Ogre — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:15:44 +0000

could it be that she and lobbyists are pushing for this to happen before the end of 2008 is they know that with a new administration in office
in Washington that they going to be out of a job and hopefully sane people will replace them

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:35:00 +0000

Does this mean the police will arrest personal at sony? they after all distributed DRM software which infringed on GPLed source code.

By: Ken Pierce

Ken Pierce — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:09:25 +0000

In addition, people may even buy if I were not charging an obscenely unrealistic price, which varies according to geographic location, but I don’t care about that. I’m also selling them the tools to pirate it, as I can see there’s also a big market for that. Then I can hire a legal team and happily go around suing users all over the world for the rest of my life, since this is more profitable than my income from the tight fisted users, (thieves and criminals) who pirated it. This all suits me fine. Isn’t life wonderful? For number one, that is.

By: Ken Pierce

Ken Pierce — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:58:29 +0000

So if I create a software program, I should not only expect people to buy it, but also vigorously harass and prosecute all programmers of free versions, and also require royalty payments ad infinitum from everyone who advertises it for me. Even though that wouldn’t be legal, since I’ve grown wickedly powerful through income, I can threaten, bribe, and extort to get “out of court settlements” or else bankrupt many victims. On top of all this corruption, I can also vigorously lobby for legal changes to suit my position through bribery and co-ercion. None of this is unscrupulous, as in the context of business practice it is termed “enterprise”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:29:46 +0000

“All who share our ambition and commitment to stronger IPR enforcement are welcome.”

That leaves out 99.9+ percent of the people. That is the percent of people that receive no royalties for their IP work.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:24:44 +0000

Idiots, the lot of them.