While artists and such do deserve a right to be able to make a fair shake on what they produce, why should patentable items only have a 20 year shelf life while a song have 100+ years of protection?

This is insane.

That should give the entertainment/content industry pause, if there was a strong united Internet demand for fair copyright terms.

That should give some pause to those trying to hijack the production and distribution of ideas.

Artists and such do deserve a right to be able to make a fair shake on what they produce.

However, why should patentable items only have a 20 year shelf life while a song have 150 years of protection?

A "reasonable" counter-position is to demand that copyright retroactively returns to reasonable periods such as a 20 years and that's it, no extensions. That would put most of the fun stuff in public domain where it belongs anyways. Hence the copyright bargain between those who create and those who consume gets rebalanced.

That should give the entertainment/content industry pause, if there was a strong SOPA-bashing united Internet demand for fair copyright terms.

That should give some pause to those trying to take over the production and distribution of ideas.

If the toilet was nicknamed the crapper due to the invetor
do we now go to the bathroom and take a giant gates?

I think they (RIAA) should have their draconian utopia. However the range / length of copyright should only hold for 5-10 years maximum retroactively. Why should the song "happy birthday" still be raking in money when patents only range about 20 years and cost a fortune to maintain. Public domain exists for a reason, otherwise you have lock-in on all ideas.

They can take a long walk of a short pier.

However unlike a demo which is free, if I don't like the game, do I get my money back?

Sorry folks,

We really should stop posting all the MPAA crap on this site. No one is doing anything about it. Where are the protests? Where are the letters being written to your elected official?

If you, that means You reading this, are not willing to do anything about it then I'm tired of hearing about it.

When we were going to get a DMCA like act about to be passed we crashed the Xmas party of the Minister in charge to get our point out.
So either put up and fight back or shut up.

Why not fat tax recliners and comfy couches along with any channel that shows the NFL all day on Sunday (and Beer too)?

I'm sure that will help the slightly older generation also get out there and be fit.

Thats nice,

We have been doing exactly this in our lab at the University since 2005 with magnetic fields and have the publications to prove it.

We have been using and developing our system for rehabilitation since the Wii and even that controller cannot be used properly for that purpose. Yes I've seen them in hospitals but they only have limited use.

They are of no use when it comes to fine movement rehabilitation.

When did these guys file their patent?