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I hate this guy: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6478691/site/newsweek/
He is the physical manifestation of litigious dystopia far more frightening than anything envisioned by William Gibson and the cyberpunk crowd. Cyberpunk saw the rise of the mega corp, to the point of being essentially their own form of government. While logical, the current trend is actually worse.
'The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."' To advance the arts and sciences, one must learn and build upon the existing works.' - Justice O'Connor in 1991
Now lawyers get paid for fiction and ownership shell games. The system is broke. These lawyers are the zero contribution social parasites that kept Marx up at night. Crap, I've had over ten spelling errors in this, I'm too irked to vent at work.
He is the physical manifestation of litigious dystopia far more frightening than anything envisioned by William Gibson and the cyberpunk crowd. Cyberpunk saw the rise of the mega corp, to the point of being essentially their own form of government. While logical, the current trend is actually worse.
'The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."' To advance the arts and sciences, one must learn and build upon the existing works.' - Justice O'Connor in 1991
Now lawyers get paid for fiction and ownership shell games. The system is broke. These lawyers are the zero contribution social parasites that kept Marx up at night. Crap, I've had over ten spelling errors in this, I'm too irked to vent at work.