Google wins Biopiracy award
p2p news / p2pnet: Google can add another distinction to its list.
It’s been voted Biggest Threat to Genetic Privacy in the Captain Hook awards.
The award write-up goes like this:
Google: Indexing Your Genes
For teaming up with J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet so that individuals and pharmaceutical companies alike can ‘google’ our genes – one day bringing the tools of biopiracy online.
Biopiracy, "refers to the monopolization (usually through intellectual property) of genetic resources and traditional knowledge or culture taken from peoples or farming communities that developed and nurtured those resources," says the site.
(Thanks, Wart and slashdot ; )
March 30th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Yup, the pharmas have moved in on 6000 years of Iraqi cross breeding seeds and claimed them their own. Once they genetically remove their ability to reproduce, their people will be locked into purchasing from monopolies who have also lobbied intellectual property laws. Bush is opening the doors of progress like never before.
March 31st, 2006 at 2:28 am
I say we fight against that bull crap and shut down New World Order efforts piggybacking on google. they can go to hell along with other control freak conglomerates.