Re: ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

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Rob wrote:
On Friday 16 July 2010 12:04, James Morris wrote:
How would you feel then, if you were a farmer, about being prosecuted
for growing plants from the seed of the plants that grew from the
seeds purchased from international seed company X?

Or for growing plants from the seed of the plants that grew from seeds purchased from international seed company X... and then blew onto your farm from a neighboring farm. Which was an actual case such a company was allowed to bring, not against the wind, but against a farmer who wasn't a customer of theirs. The farmer lost. All because said company was allowed a patent on the genes of a living thing. They made billions before such a thing was possible, but billions weren't enough; they needed control over people who weren't even their customers.

"Intellectual property" has spun way, way out of control. The only workable tactic I can see when faced with multi-billion-dollar corporations with an interest in things getting worse rather than better is to advocate for it all to be thrown out so that the people advocating for a less extreme approach to copyright/patent/trademark reform will seem like reasonable people willing to compromise. The other guys are doing the same, but to them, cutting off families' Internet access based on an unproven accusation and making copyright infringement a criminal act (or the facilitation of possible copyright infringement, even if no actual copyright infringement takes place) are examples of things they think *are* reasonable compromises.

Hmmm, it seems to me that if ISPs can prove copyright infringement, they're monitoring their traffic contents, so they're no longer just common carriers. Which means WE should be able to sue them for letting spam arrive in our mail boxes! ;-)

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