On Jan 21, 9:20*pm, Bryan > wrote:
> On Jan 21, 4:48*pm, notbob > wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > We've not even begun to Balkanize!
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> > 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.
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> I agree. *The USA intellectual property obsession is absurd, just as
> absurd as the other extreme we see in countries like China.
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Newspapers are the worst. To read a seven-year-old article on the web,
the Globe wanted to charge me $5.