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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on November 19, 2006, 07:37:24 pm

Title: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Kosh on November 19, 2006, 07:37:24 pm
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/11/19/2214254.shtml
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Mefustae on November 19, 2006, 07:40:14 pm
****.
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Bobboau on November 19, 2006, 08:40:33 pm
'happy birthday to you' has an active and aggressively protected copyright?!? :wtf:
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Turey on November 19, 2006, 09:19:52 pm
HA! Who's got the stupidest government NOW?!
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Hippo on November 19, 2006, 09:37:24 pm
Quote from: Bobboau on November 19, 2006, 08:40:33 pm
'happy birthday to you' has an active and aggressively protected copyright?!? :wtf:

the ****?
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Descenterace on November 20, 2006, 12:29:52 am
Dust off and nuke the world from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Taristin on November 20, 2006, 10:20:05 am
Quote from: Bobboau on November 19, 2006, 08:40:33 pm
'happy birthday to you' has an active and aggressively protected copyright?!? :wtf:
Yep. Some woman copyrighted it back a long time ago (I was told, atleast it was a woman) and ever since it has been under copyright. Hence why in every movie, you never see that song sung, but always a variation, or something entirely different.
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Hippo on November 20, 2006, 10:21:29 am
That's retarded.
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Ashrak on November 20, 2006, 10:50:03 am
soon saying any word out loud is copiright infrigiment :(
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Hippo on November 20, 2006, 10:51:50 am
dont forget that :-( is copyrighted too
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Woolie Wool on November 20, 2006, 11:41:46 am
The problem is that much of the population has been brainwashed into thinking "intellectual property good" without actually understanding what copyrights really are and how they affect them. So they just let laws like this pass with complete non-understanding of what the consequences will be. And this is what happens.

Australia has reaped what its people have sown. Not a very nice harvest.
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Charismatic on November 20, 2006, 12:50:02 pm
Quote from: Hippo on November 19, 2006, 09:37:24 pm
Quote from: Bobboau on November 19, 2006, 08:40:33 pm
'happy birthday to you' has an active and aggressively protected copyright?!? :wtf:

the ****?

Lol whos government is stealing away privicies and rights from their people now?
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Setekh on November 20, 2006, 02:58:34 pm
:blah:

That's... bizarre.
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Bobboau on November 20, 2006, 03:29:20 pm
Quote from: Charismatic on November 20, 2006, 12:50:02 pm
Lol whos government is stealing away privicies and rights from their people now?

that would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's government, as he was the guy in charge when the song was copyrighted for a hundred years.
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Ulala on November 20, 2006, 03:56:09 pm
Glad to see people placing copyrights on human traditions.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Goober5000 on November 20, 2006, 09:57:37 pm
One page of spam deleted.

The purpose of copyright is to promote the arts and sciences, not to secure profit.  Copyright for longer than the life of the author is ludicrous IMHO. :sigh:
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Black Wolf on November 20, 2006, 11:39:16 pm
Well **** this.

Chrissakes, if Labor don't win the next election...
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Ace on November 22, 2006, 05:10:33 pm
Quote from: Goober5000 on November 20, 2006, 09:57:37 pm
One page of spam deleted.

The purpose of copyright is to promote the arts and sciences, not to secure profit.  Copyright for longer than the life of the author is ludicrous IMHO. :sigh:

Liberal leftist atheistic lies! PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT JESUS! PROFIT!

Hallowed is the LORD OUR SAVIOR AND CEO AND INTELLESHUAL PROPERTAHS!

DEATH TO THE COMMUNISTAS WHO BELIEVE IN ART AND DEVIL SCIENCE.

SCIENCE IS SATAN, PROFIT IS LOVE. GOD IS LOVE.

ALLAH ACKBAR!!! DURKA DURKA PROFITJIHAD!

Ahh crap, I forgot to toss in something screaming that Pelosi is evil and France sucks. Oh well.
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Goober5000 on November 22, 2006, 06:19:57 pm
:wtf:
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: Grug on November 22, 2006, 08:48:10 pm
Quote from: Black Wolf on November 20, 2006, 11:39:16 pm
Well **** this.

Chrissakes, if Labor don't win the next election...

Public uprising?
If they made voting uncompulsary in Australia I'd bet a great vast of John Howards stupidity votes would be cast down due to laziness. Then again, would anyone bother to vote?
Title: Re: new Australian anti-piracy copyright law coming
Post by: phoenixemperor on November 24, 2006, 10:28:21 pm
We get 80% turnouts for national elections in New Zealand without compulsory voting.