Consider someone who stood inside France and shot an arrow into Germany. That arrow strikes a Kraut and kills them. Did the murder occur in France or in Germany?
If it isn't a crime in France to launch arrows at other people, then maybe Germans should just stand back from the border.
If Ethiopia (reasonably IMHO) declared it a crime to knowingly allow starvation (by hoarding your own surplus), would you consider *your* extradition just?
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So private individuals are prohibited from profiting from mash-ups involving large numbers of original works?* I thought we were trying to solve the problem of IP owners (to the detriment of society) vetoing further progress?
*At least, until they set up puppet companies that resell (to the parent company) minor derivatives of the original works individually, for negligible gross price (effectively renegotiating the license away). And even in the best case, the whole idea only benefits creators if the derivative works are not also distributed gratis.
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It's true that wiping out mosquitoes could be a cascading ecological catastrophic (consider how many species directly depend on aquatic mosquito larvae at some point in their own life cycle), but this device is an ideal solution because it only blocks mosquitoes from feeding specifically on humans (without affecting those mosquitoes in wild habitats).
The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both wins and losses. The Guru doesn't take sides; she welcomes both hackers and lusers.
