Tag Archives: Intellectual Poverty

‘This is hypocrisy’: Sanjay Gupta on the federal medical marijuana patent

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“CNN contributor Dr. Sanjay Gupta followed up on his reversal of course regarding medical marijuana in an interview with Anderson Cooper on Tuesday by slamming federal policy regarding medical marijuana. ‘The U.S. holds a patent [on marijuana] on one hand, and on the other hand, same government says it has no medical applications,’ Gupta told Cooper. ‘Journalists are trained to hate hypocrisy. This is hypocrisy. I’ve never seen it quite like this.’ The Department of Health and Human Services, Gupta explained, holds a patent on medical marijuana as ‘a protectant for the brain’, giving voice to an argument made by medical marijuana proponents.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/14/this-is-hypocrisy-sanjay-gupta-tells-anderson-cooper-about-the-federal-medical-marijuana-patent/

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On 10th anniversary, Pirate Bay launches PirateBrowser to evade filesharing blocks

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“The PirateBrowser website explains that the application combines Tor client Vidalia – which anonymises data connections – with the FireFox Portable Edition browser, the FoxyProxy add-on and ‘some custom configs’. The site also claims that the browser is an anti-censorship tool rather than purely for piracy, citing countries including Iran and North Korea alongside the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland as places it expects PirateBrowser to be particularly useful.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/12/pirate-bay-celebrates-10th-anniversary-with-launch-of-piratebrowser-to-evade-isp-filesharing-blocks/

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Dotcom: Surveillance and Copyright Extremism Will Cost United States Dearly

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“‘The US government and the other Five Eyes partners (UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) have an agreement to push for new spy legislation that will provide them with backdoors into all Internet infrastructure and services. The NZ government is currently aggressively looking to extend its powers with the GCSB and the TICS act, which will force service providers with encryption capabilities to give them secret decryption access,’ Dotcom explains. ‘The US is on a path of destroying its massive lead in the Internet economy. Mass surveillance and copyright extremism will cost the US economy more than any terrorist attack or piracy,’ Dotcom says.”

http://torrentfreak.com/dotcom-surveillance-and-copyright-extremism-will-cost-united-states-dearly-130809/

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HBO says Game of Thrones ‘piracy’ is better than an Emmy

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“According to Time Warner CEO Alan Bewkes the ‘piracy’ buzz around Game of Thrones is a good thing, so good that it’s better than an entertainment industry award. The firm was talking about its latest financial results when it was asked about the so-called ‘piracy’ problem. ‘I have to admit it, I think you’re right. The much discussed fantasy series is HBO’s most popular TV show, and if you go to people who are watching it without subs, it’s a tremendous word of mouth thing,’ he said, according to the Game of Thrones website White Harbour.  In April, HBO programming chief Michael Lombardo said that ‘piracy’ should be taken as a compliment.”

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2287969/hbo-says-game-of-thrones-piracy-is-better-than-an-emmy

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Will Disney Soon Be Able to Break into Computers… Legally?

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“Something called The IP Commission Report (subtitled A Report Of The Commission On The Theft Of American Intellectual Property) just crossed my desk. This new and very impressively produced report, authored by seven sets of hyper-impressive credentials, informs Congress that they should change US laws to go far, far beyond anything that has been authorized previously.  On page 6, (by the report’s internal numbering), we get a bit of an overture – a foretaste of what’s to come. It says this:  ‘Companies that experience cyber theft ought to be able to retrieve their electronic files or prevent the exploitation of their stolen information.'”

http://www.freemansperspective.com/break-into-computer/

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Obama administration task force wants to make unauthorized streaming a felony

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“The U.S. Department of Commerce wants to crack down on the unauthorized streaming of video and audio content by reviving a provision of the Stop Online Piracy Act. In a report released last week, the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force called for the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted works to become a felony. ‘While the willfully infringing reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works can be punished as a felony, willful violations of the public performance right are punishable only as misdemeanors,’ the report stated. ‘This discrepancy is an increasingly significant impediment,’ the report continued.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/06/obama-administration-task-force-wants-to-make-unauthorized-streaming-a-felony/

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Top 20 Hollywood Donors Have Already Shelled Out $1.45 Million To Parties in 2013

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http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/the-top-20-hollywood-donors-have.html

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Bill Gates: Flip-Flopping IP Hypocrite

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“A couple decades ago, Bill Gates seemed to have some appreciation of the damage wrought by patent law.  Yet over the years Microsoft relied on the other major form of intellectual property—copyright—to dominate aspects of the software industry, and then to use the monopoly profits to accumulate thousands of patents. These two forms of IP are then used together to squelch competition. Now that Gates has used state-granted IP monopolies to acquire billions of dollars that he can then use to be a bigshot philanthropist, he is all for patents (as my friend Rob Wicks says, Gates is ‘America’s wealthiest welfare queen’).”

http://c4sif.org/2013/07/bill-gates-flip-flopping-ip-hypocrite/

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The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish

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“A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hole-in-our-collective-memory-how-copyright-made-mid-century-books-vanish/278209/

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Nintendo kicks “Let’s Play” videos off YouTube then slaps ads on them

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“Now, it looks like Let’s Play videos are one more piece of content that’s being caught up in YouTube’s Content ID system. It’s an automated copyright-enforcement system that’s been glitchy from the start and often criticized for taking down legitimate content. Remixes of cultural icons have been taken down with no good explanation, as well as NASA content that should be in the public domain. Political satire didn’t stand a chance either. Until October, there wasn’t even a meaningful appeal system for owners of wrongly removed videos.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/nintendo-kicks-lets-play-videos-off-youtube-then-slaps-ads-on-them/

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