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Censorship in Hungary

lundi 25 juin 2018 à 02:00

Censorship in repressive Hungary now aims to ban a theater production because it has a homosexual protagonist.

Encryption back doors

dimanche 24 juin 2018 à 02:00

Australia's politicians plan a law that would require back doors in encryption software, but they pretend it would not.

Drawings of beetles

dimanche 24 juin 2018 à 02:00

Volkswagen issued DMCA takedown notices three times on drawings of beetles. Insects, that is. It took a lawyer's letter to get the matter corrected — that's how unfair the DMCA takedown system is, in practice.

IANAL, but I don't think it would have changed matters if they were drawings of Volkswagen cars. As I understand it, there is no US copyright on the shape of a car (it is not a sculpture), so Volkswagen would have no copyright grounds to object to someone else's drawing or photo of those cars.

The DMCA applies to copyright law and only copyright law, not to the bogus category of "intellectual property" which does not correspond to real laws. If you use that term in your thoughts (or worse, your words), it is confusing you.

Eugene Debs

dimanche 24 juin 2018 à 02:00

The US put Eugene Debs in prison for a radical speech 100 years ago that opposed war and inequality.

My views are not as radical as his, but people should not be imprisoned for stating political views.

Puerto Rico and the banksters

dimanche 24 juin 2018 à 02:00

Puerto Rico, under the rule of the vampire banksters, is cutting medical care so they can take more blood.

The banksters' motto is, today Puerto Rico, tomorrow the United States.