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Old 07-04-2014, 06:32 PM   #1
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LXer: Qualcomm fires DMCA shotgun blast at alleged code thieves on Github including itself


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Takedown notices issued to dozens of accountsA company claiming to represent Qualcomm has shut down a number of repositories on source-code sharing site GitHub under provisions of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) – including at least one repository belonging to Qualcomm itself.…

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Old 07-04-2014, 06:52 PM   #2
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Aother trip around the intellectual property maze, with no exits and moveable walls...

The scam of intellectual property is an obscenity and ought not be tolerated by sentient beings.

These are not "abuses" of intellectual property law, it is intellectual property law itself that is the abuse.

There is no solution or balance to be reached in its application. Its abolition and the prosecution of those who have promoted and profited by it is the only solution.

The human species cannot advance so long as the concept of intellectual property in any form exists.
 
  


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