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Submission + - Artists asking for sanity in copyright law

MotorMachineMercenar writes: Effi (Electronic Frontier Finland) has arranged an art exhibit (in Finnish) with several artists as part of a grassroots copyright reform campaign. A citizen-written petition (in Finnish, summary in English) on an official government site — similar to the White House petition site in the US — asks for "sanity in copyright law". It has 40,000 signatures, with 10,000 more required for consideration by the the Finnish parliament. There is one more week to gather signatures until deadline.

The coordinator points out that the exhibit does not advocate piratism, since artists "need to get paid" for their art. Instead, the exhibit features works which question the sanity of punishing pirates with similar harshness as aggravated assault, for example. Related, the petition calls for reducing the classification of piratism from a crime to a misdemeanor.

Submission + - Congressman Wants to Repeal Patriot Act (techdirt.com)

korbulon writes: New Jersey congressman Rush Holt has submitted legislation to repeal both the Patriot Act and FISA Amendments Act in an attempt to curtail the expansion of government infringment of citizens' rights and privacy. In a press announcement Holt stated: "My bill would restore the probable cause-based warrant requirement for any surveillance against an American citizen being proposed on the basis of an alleged threat to the nation." In an interesting twist, Holt is currently running for a U.S. Senate seat, giving NJ voters have a chance to indirectly voice their opinion regarding NSA surveillance and eavesdropping .

Comment Re:Buying is worse (Score 1) 261

Cables are nautical units. You go 600 nautical miles out in a horseless carriage, you're likely to be going several cables down as well. Hogsheads of what, by the way? Different liquids have different hogsheads. This is why the rest of us switched. A length is a length, a volume is a volume, and a mass is a mass. It shouldn't matter what you're measuring.

Submission + - ACLU Study says Police Cameras create Database of our movements (startribune.com)

puddingebola writes: The ACLU has published a study saying the widespread use of police and traffic cameras has made it possible to track individual's movements, even across multiple jurisdictions. From the article, "While the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that a judge's approval is needed to use GPS to track a car, networks of plate scanners allow police effectively to track a driver's location, sometimes several times every day, with few legal restrictions. The ACLU says the scanners are assembling a "single, high-resolution image of our lives." "There's just a fundamental question of whether we're going to live in a society where these dragnet surveillance systems become routine," said Catherine Crump, a staff attorney with the organization. The group is proposing that police departments immediately delete any records of cars not linked to any crime."

Comment Re:Why H8? (Score 1) 6

I expect the search function is still worthless garbage

No site needs an internal search engine, anyway. searchterm site:slashdot.org works far better than any site's internal search.

Comment Re:Next big thing (Score 1) 181

Your pedantry is misplaced. You could say that something is 0.6 centuries old. That doesn't make it centuries old, or even a century old. "Centuries old" when used without a quantifier implies many centuries (some would argue even more than two). When used with a quantifier, like 1.9 or 0.6, it becomes more of a scientific measurement and less of a "poetic" measurement. It's two different contexts.

Comment Re:Buying is worse (Score 1) 261

Sorry, the only one I can give you is the Gold Rush one (although, the titles I listed were all getting older, so why you'd jump on a not yet released movie is beyond me). IMDb does not have a direct link to watch it now (but you can add it to a watch later list). There is a direct link to watch a trailer, and a link to purchase from Amazon, but nothing about rental.

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