US ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12

[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.

Temlakos
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