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Old 01-19-2012, 02:26 PM
von Pilsner von Pilsner is offline
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It is troubling (in the USA at least) that intellectual property has become so important that many times it is now (somehow) a criminal offense instead of a civil issue.

I hate to think that people in other countries need to be careful of breaking US law when they are in their own (supposedly) soverign nation....
This guy is likely getting extradited to the US for a link sharing site, the government where he lives does not think it's worth prosecuting, but they will ship him off to the USA for some good old fashioned justice...

Our IP laws seem to be getting quite broad in their interpetation and enforcement...
-Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
-The Great Martin Luther King Copyright Conundrum ($10.00 to see I have a Dream historical speech)
and so on and so forth...
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