Derek Lowe covers the Research Works Act in detail. Great background and detail. I’ve already complained to my representatives about this one. I worry that there are just too many very bad things working to throttle innovation that we can not stop all of them.
Here's an idea: instead of putting cartoons on top of avatars and websites, call and email your damn representatives. There's way too much whining and not enough effort. It would take less time to make the call than to add the cartoon on top of your cartoon.
EFF has a tool to look up your representative's contact info.
Let's get this straight, now that SOPA appears to be loosing steam and GoDaddy has been threatened with a user revolt, they are no longer supporting SOPA but are in favor of similar legislation. Seems likely that they will just support whatever the next anti-internet legislation the Big Media shills cook up with their congressional employees. I hope Ben Huh doesn't buy this turnaround and still moves his domains. GoDaddy are a bunch of jokers that abused their lead in the market.
What’s an appropriate penalty for large scale data theft?[1]
I’m not a lawyer, nor do I claim to be an expert in a legal field. I’m a U.S. citizen that lives daily with the understanding that there are penalties for breaking contracts and laws. We live in a country where a corporation is considered to have the rights of an individual so I’d like to examine a few laws and their associated penalties for individuals and then come to an estimate for how these same laws should be applied to corporations.
Just staggering. Half of everything produced in the U.S. Everything.
"Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.
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They had no clue that one bank, New York-based Morgan Stanley (MS), took $107 billion in Fed loans in September 2008, enough to pay off one-tenth of the country’s delinquent mortgages.
Warren Buffett is rapidly becoming my favorite big-mouth rich guy.
By way of Chairman Gruber
