On Jan 21, 4:48*pm, notbob > wrote:
> On 2012-01-21, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
> > I never heard of Cooks Source before. *If it was
> > discussed here, I missed it. *But apparently there
> > was a flamewar on Facebook over their thievery.
> > Too bad the web is Balkanizing like this. *It used
> > to be that every flamewar had some presence in
> > Usenet newsgroups.
>
> We've not even begun to Balkanize!
>
> You need to keep abreast of the reality that is currently copyright
> law and how it is and will effect us in the future. *Are you aware
> that our own US Supreme Court has jes ruled it's now OK to now
> re-copyright material that's long been out of copyright and in the public
> domain for years? *What do you think SOPA/PIPA is all about? *It's jes
> one tip of many of a huge iceberg that is aimed at decreasing your
> freedoms and rights under the 1st Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
>
I agree. The USA intellectual property obsession is absurd, just as
absurd as the other extreme we see in countries like China.
>
> nb

--Bryan