Best Use of DMCA Yet: Aliens Sue USAF 68
A reader writes "BBspot, the most reliable source of news in the universe, is reporting that several aliens are suing the USAF over the reverse-engineering of their UFO technology."
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The former Soviet Union collapsed in the Summer of 1991. It is well known that the Communist hard liners fled the country in search of safer soil. Many ended up in Finland, and took up residence in the universities.
Anyone who knows the history of Linux also knows the Summer of '91 was when Linux first started working on his project.
It would not have been much of a stretch for the Communist party members to start conversations with Linux. The Communists wanted to regain their control, and decided to win their war not on the streets, but through a long term disinformation campaign. They saw the forthcoming technological revolution as their wargrounds, and what better catalyst to world domination than through this medium.
Perhaps seeing the great success US software companies such as IBM were having, they decided to apply their Communist ideals to this arena. The long term plan was to destroy the American economy through any means possible. What could be more Communist than giving away something for free for everybody, and something that everybody had worked on no less! Why is this not at the heart of Communist ideals? Everybody gets an equal share and contributes to the project! Since the computing industry was about to take off, why not give away something that runs on computers?
Seeing promise in the young Linux Torvoldes, the Communist party recruited him and his software. The software was to be given away for free, and the entire "commun"ity of developers the world over (including the despised USA) would help with the project. Clearly after time, this software would rival anything put out by US corporations, and since technology was to be the leading sector of the economy, the entire US economic system would be thrown into a tailspin. In addition to this, the brainwashing of the US developers would persuade the USA's own government to take action against its great national treasures, the giant software companies (now is this sounding familiar?).
The spawn of the Communist leaders would become the so called leaders of the open source movement. They were to carry on the ideals of their forefathers and bring the US to its knees by turning its own government against its corporations and trying to provide a better product for free.
These ideas manifest themselves today in the GPL (Gorbachev's Public License), the GNU (Gorbachev's Not a Unich ) Project, amongst others.
It isn't too late. America, upon realizing this sinister plot, can stop prosecuting its pride and joy and instead rejoice that the best software companies reside here. Also, with this plot exposed, it might finally be proven:
ALL LINUX USERS ARE COMMUNISTS.
Thank you for your time.
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I wonder (Score:1)
Elvis spotted in Alien court case... (Score:1)
Maryln was quoted as saying "This tactics are wrong like Scientology or Cowboy Neal winning all those polls."
The Church of Scientology then kicked the shit out of her and Cowboy Neal and the undead corpse of the late President Kennedy screaming something like "We kick ass for Hubbard!"
Elvis, however, intervened taking them all out and quietly retiring back to travelling back to the backwoods and living in a trailer park.
The Alien lawsuit is still pending.
Re:Trade secret. (Score:2)
Well, I hear the guy downstairs has a pretty good reputation.
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It's amazing how ignorant Americans are about politics. The former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics never claimed to be a Communist state; it claimed to be a state which aspired to, and sought to work towards, Communism. The particular flavour of Communism which it sought to work towards was Marxist, but Marx didn't invent Communism as an idea; it had wide currency in his period (see e.g the Paris Commune [nwu.edu], and comtemporary papers by Anarchist theorist, Peter Kropotkin [pitzer.edu]).
In Marx's time Communism was already over a thousand years old, and had been a feature of many of the heretical groups [online.no] of the middle ages, and of extreme factions during the English Civil War [britannica.com]
So, in summary, 'Communism' does not mean the Soviet system; 'Communism' does not mean Marxism-Leninism; and 'Communism' does not mean having a gun held to your head.
Is Open Source [opensource.org] a communist idea? Yes, I'm perfectly sure it is. But it is most certainly not a Soviet idea or a Marxist idea.
Re:Trade secret. (Score:1)
"Death is a motherfucker. Death is the end of this known existence."
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"I get very angry whenever somebody compares open source to communism!"
Communism is where you must share what you have produced, with a gun to your head. If you refuse, you are thrown into jail or killed.
With open source, you have the FREEDOM to share what you make with others, and the FREEDOM to use freely what others have decided to give away.
Big difference, forced vs. voluntary sharing.
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Told you so (Score:2)
Re:Important question (Score:1)
If you have, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't -- go watch it now!
Beat me to it. (Score:4)
Well, you beat me to it, but here's what I was going to write. I was writing this when you posted you comment.
Recently, God himself has begun a DMCA-based lawsuit against practicers of genetic research.
"I have been disturbed by the lack of respect for my intellectual property. I spent long hours working on an encryption scheme for my 'life' technology, and I wish that these 'hackers' would appreciate that. Instead, they have reverse-engineered my genetic source code, claiming that it was all in the name of 'science'. This is piracy, plain and simple."
God owns several patents concerning this technology, including a method for autonomous reproduction of life forms and a process for imbuing free will into creatures.
"Now, with this new 'DMCA' law, I can finally put an end to the reverse engineering that threatens to destroy my business. It's obvious that the old standby of 'sin and you go to hell' isn't as effective as it used to be. I'm hoping that this will keep people from stealing my work."
"I thought that the last representative I sent to Earth made it perfectly clear that this sort of thing would not be tolerated. My next official will be expecting full compensation for any derivative works from my technology."
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Re:Trade secret. (Score:1)
But you're forgetting, its been more than 50 years since Nitzeche (sp, surely?) declared God dead. Case dismissed.
Jurisdiction? (Score:1)
If the twain never meet, there is no juridiction for any court to find unlawful use. So there.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page [cavalrypilot.com]
Trade secret. (Score:5)
Adam was instructed not to access the secrets of the genome on the tree of life, he did and he was punished. People in Babel attempted to build a tower to break into the labratory, the tower was destroyed and the people punished.
Since it took over 5000 years to for man to access the codes in the genome, access would be deemed as sufficently controlled under the DMCA.
Since copyrights were for the life of the owner plus 50 years, the automatic protection of copyright for god would be in place. Even new version of the genome is copyrightable as a derivitive work of the earlier version.
A note for trial strategy, if the case is appealled sufficiently, it ends up being tried before God.
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Re:Trade secret. (Score:3)
Err, trade secrets aren't 'protected' by anything. It's up to the holder to keep it a secret. You'll notice that Coca-Cola hasn't patented its recipe since once it expired they'd have no control over it.
Since it took over 5000 years to for man to access the codes in the genome, access would be deemed as sufficently controlled under the DMCA
Doesn't matter how sufficiently controlled it is. Just look at CSS. Effectively controlled? I think not, yet the MPAA is moving heaven and earth to keep it from being public. And even if that were the case, all Adam had to do was eat an piece of fruit and all was revealed to him.
A note for trial strategy, if the case is appealled sufficiently, it ends up being tried before God
Conflict of interest. He can't be both judge and plaintiff. And where do you think he's gonna get a lawyer from?
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C'mon, flame me!
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Let's see... God has juristiction over the universe... but some athiest defence attorney may argue God's non-existance... but knowing our Judeo-Christian domiance in the USA, God will win
Slashdot using disparaging terms (Score:4)
"The dot com Andover, owner of the website www.slashdot.org, is being sued by several entities of unkown origin. In their public announcement, which was peiced together over the SETI@home program, these entities stated the following...
"We do not appreciate being called ALIENS. The misuse of this term has become apparent as of late, especially with our lawsuit over the United States of America, Planet Earth, Air Force. We prefer to be called ENTITIES OF OTHERWORLDLY ORIGIN, with no acronym of EOOO acceptable. EOOO is the name of another such entity, wich slashdot has foolishly called ALIENS."
Also added were the following statements/threats
"This Andover entity might do well to heed our demands, and to stop stereotyping us. Else we will be forced to unleash our 31337 H4X0R $KI11$ against them. That is all... Fist Prost, and goodbye."
"Jon Katz was unavailable for comment at this time."
krystal_blade
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Sanchi
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just wait for the RIAA (Score:1)
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Bullshit. Communism is the collective ownership of ressources and means of production, which are availiable to all. Transforming something that is free doesn't make it proprietary. So yes, you have to share what you produce, but not with a gun to your head. It's simply that you can't take what belongs to all and claim it solely yours. So it will be taken back if you try. But this doesn't prevent possession in all of it's meanings. For exemple, your clothing is yours to keep, the clothing manifacture is everyone's.
A communism system has never existed, yet. Not in Rusia, not in Cuba or anywhere else. And a communist government is an oxymoron.
Yes, OSS is what resembles the most to communism in this world. And that is a GOOD THING! It's why I like so much!
My country is under siege [wtoaction.org]! Help [a20.org] us [sommetdespeuples.org] stop [indymedia.org] them [americascanada.org] !! It will affect you, as well.
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It had to happen... (Score:2)
Viv
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And Jeff Goldboom is Appealing (Score:1)
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Who is this? (Score:2)
Oh, and you know what else? Linus' father helped VP Lyndon Johnson assasinate John F Kennedy. It was an attempt to highten the Vietnam war, so that many of our men would die and allow the Soviets to conquer us that much easier.
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Re:To all /.ers who actually BELIEVE: (Score:2)
China : send in the IP Lawyers (Score:2)
Just thinking aloud....
Reverse Engineering is illegal under the DMCA.
In international law a air-plane is considered sovereign territory.
US law applies onboard the electronic warfare plane being held in China.
The Chinese military are reverse engineering the equipment.
The Chinese military are therefore breaking the DMCA.
Um, send in the Lawyers...
Why not the Russians? (Score:1)
To all /.ers who actually BELIEVE: (Score:3)
The notion of reverse engineered alien technology is laughable, of course,
they put it under the Monty Python foot and all that.
However, do remember that many people, geeks among them, feel that alien visitation is a credible excuse for much of the malicious government activity out there.
This is misinformation, propaganda, a straw man that isn't scientifically supportable and that plays directly into the interests of the Air Force and other government agencies. These interests are the groups that divert much of the technological and scientific knowledge and energy on this earth to destructive and controlling means.
It is in our interest to ignore the "aliens" and to engage those who run around proselytizing about them in debate
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Somebody had to say this... (Score:2)
US Air Force : What you say!!
Aliens == RIAA?! (Score:1)
*Now* that's what I call out of this world... oh yeah, known devil maybe better than unknown anegl, but hey! anybody's better than RIAA, MPAA, blah blah...
"...Fear the people who fear your computer"
Jeopardy Before and Aft Q: What is Copy Left Wing (Score:1)
I'm not a communist, but I believe good things should be free (state funded):School, Healthcare, Software. Socialism 2.0!
Hey really - what about that sweet Yahoo (YHOO) stock which runs BSD right? Or the rest of those dot com's (I hate that term) who are making a fortune while running 'free' software.
When I bought Linux-Mandrake in the store people all over were getting paid.
LINUX, THE PEOPLE'S OS.
The OS is just a tool, Microsoft made it a Rip-Off.
The author of the post is a tool.
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April 1st was bad enough.... (Score:1)
"News for Geeks" does not mean "National Inquirer level humour."
Slow day huh? (Score:1)
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