US ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12

[Reindl Harald]

Am 17.03.2012 19:22, schrieb Temlakos:
> On 03/17/2012 02:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 17.03.2012 18:45, schrieb Dave Ihnat:
>>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 06:24:08PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>> what exactly let you imagine taht this has ANYTHING to do with OpenSource?
>>> Well, playing _Advocatus Diaboli_, what if some moneyed software company
>>> claims Open Source software being hosted for download is violating their
>>> copyrights, and uses this excuse to shut down archives?
>> sorry, but this is simply bullshit in any context
>>
> 
> Actually, it's been done. Remember /SCO v. IBM?/ The only reason that failed was that /SCO/ went bankrupt, the
> investors grew outraged, and they went out looking for a new company president. But not before /SCO/ tried to
> extort licensing fees from everyone using Linux. Darl McBride even went to Congress to try to suggest that the GPL
> was unconstitutional, because it somehow defied the power of the United States Congress to grant patents and
> copyrights.

your memory is corrupt

that some idiots paid money to SCO for nothing does not
change the reality - nothing has been done

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