Just to refer slightly to today's election a nice cartoon I found a while ago about file sharing, piracy and such,... let's say it's about modern culture and modern language and of course the misuse thereof. :-)


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ganz guter Artikel: Wer ist hier der Pirat?

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Universal: You don't own those promotional CDs we gave youIs throwing a record label's promo CD in the trash an "unauthorized distribution" of the music? According to Universal, the answer is yes. The claim surfaced as part of a legal case against an eBay reseller who offered Universal promo discs for sale in violation of the "not for resale" label ( Read more... )

DVD piracy too rife among police to prosecuteHUNDREDS of police officers across South Australia caught using their work computers to illegally copy movie DVDs will escape prosecutionThe activity - strictly banned under federal copyright laws - was detected during an audit conducted by the information technology branch of SA Police ( Read more... )

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As most of you know, Software piracy is this world's virus. Not rape, not murder,.. hundreds of billions of Dollars are lost to the Industry, which is why our unemployment rate is so incredibly high. If people would just understand, that if they bought Software, they'd sooner or later get a job, it's all a matter of time, and their money will flow ( Read more... )

copying music - a felony? a new law in the making:Permits wiretaps in investigations of copyright crimes, trade secret theft and economic espionage. It would establish a new copyright unit inside the FBI and budgets $20 million on topics including creating "advanced tools of forensic science to investigate" copyright crimes. [...]
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