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And you thought the DMCA was bad

 
 
Molly Shortcake
22:58 / 07.02.02
quote:New York state has sued the maker of McAfee antivirus software alleging it is restricting free speech by barring customers from publishing product reviews without its consent, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced Thursday.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Network Associates Inc., placed restrictions on software diskettes and on its Web site, from which users download software, that explicitly prohibit customers from criticizing products without permission, Spitzer said.


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Molly Shortcake
00:20 / 08.02.02
Don't sell products anymore. Sell licences that include limited product usage. Absolutely brilliant. (Evidence that we really are in post-capitalist society?)

BTW I'll be going to jail soon for my review of Super Mario Advance.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
06:29 / 08.02.02
yeah well the arguments against napster seemed to suggest the same thing -- we don't buy a physical cd, we buy the limited right to use the music. which makes me believe that record labels ought to replace my skipping cds free of charge, since all i bought was the right to hear it.
 
 
Molly Shortcake
23:05 / 08.02.02
quote:record labels ought to replace my skipping cds free of charge, since all i bought was the right to hear it.

There is no such clause in your contract, that you never read or signed, but was affirmed when you exchanged currency for said liscence.

quote:British firm sues to protect hyperlink patent

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Imagine if one company held the right to collect a fee each time an Internet user clicked on a Web site link and jumped to another Web page.

It may sound far-fetched, but a U.S. federal court will hear preliminary arguments next week to determine if this most elemental of Internet activities is the business property of a lone company, protected in the form of a patent.


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I'm trying to get a patent on breathing. Imagine the royalties! You can patent biology and processes, why not biological processes? I'm still waiting for word on the phrase "Kiss my ass."
 
  
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