Comment What about the Satellites? (Score 3, Insightful) 34
US weather satellites are rapidly dying... these need to be replaced
I don't see how it's "entirely fan-made". Under current law, a translation of an audiovisual work's original script into another language is a derivative work.
At what point... lets take something famous... "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"... at what point does copyright kick in? Maybe the whole thing? part of it? maybe "Frankly my dear, I don't give a"? or maybe "Frankly my dear?" or how about "Frankly"? What about if i changed it to "Honestly my dear, I don't give a damn"
Even though neither site is located in the UK, police believe that sites’ operators are committing crimes there.
Wonder how the UK police would feel if China, Iran, or North Korea accused them of commiting crimes against them... even though theyre in the UK
"Police have been told they must search everything they seized from Dotcom and hand back what is not relevant to the US extradition claims."
Justice Helen Winkelmann told police their complaints about the cost and time of the exercise were effectively their own fault for indiscriminately seizing material in the first place.
> This is the same DOJ that...spends thousands going after
So what the heck is wrong with going after this sort of stuff? Trademark infringement is seriously bad news. Ask anyone who has gotten fake merchandise thinking it was genuine.
How would you think it'd go down if China, Iran or Russia started seizing random domains claiming they broke THEIR laws, without due process?
Or even say, France, Germany, the EU maybe... or... Fiji?
One possible reason that things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan in the first place.
