Journal MarcoJROM's Journal: Putting it all together...two years of great piracy quotes! 3
Here's some quotes to get that old piracy noggin churning:
"Piracy is a cancer which, if unchecked, could spread throughout the world, jeopardizing the future of the recording industry."
--Nicholas Garnett, director general of the IFPI
"The GPL's viral nature poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organisation that derives its products from GPL source,"
--Craig Mundie, S.V.P. Microsoft
"Napster is unfair to the artists and musicians who have invested their time, effort and money to create music."
--RIAA
"The MPAA estimates that domestic video piracy costs the motion picture companies more than $250 million a year in potential revenues."
--MPAA
"When Congress sits idly by in the face of these activities, we essentially sanction the Internet as a haven for thievery."
--Senate Commerce Committee chair Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.)
"For my part, I take no position on what content should or should not be prevented from copying, or from redistribution on the Internet. That is a decision that will be made by individual content owners, their distributors, and, most of all, by consumers."
--Jack Valenti
"If web site operators know that the offending code is available at linked sites and offer the links with the intent to facilitate the spread of the code they are in violation of the anti-trafficking provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act(DMCA)."
--Lewis A. Kaplan, NY State District Court Judge, on decss
"It is essential to the Net that there is an implied license to link to other Web sites, otherwise, any site that aggregates links would be guilty of copyright infringement."
--Ira Rothken, MP3Board's attorney.
"Text is mainly what the Net offers...not much (legal) material is out there that's chock full of graphics and in a consumer-friendly format to create the need for a cable modem or a digital subscriber line (dsl)."
-- Jack Valenti...again
"Of course it was humourus watching the Microsoft reps. kissing up by keeping the hosted bar open for hours after its scheduled shutdown. As if we will forget that quick...."
--Kevin Stiles, Technology Dept. Paso School District.
"Piracy is a cancer which, if unchecked, could spread throughout the world, jeopardizing the future of the recording industry."
--Nicholas Garnett, director general of the IFPI
"The GPL's viral nature poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organisation that derives its products from GPL source,"
--Craig Mundie, S.V.P. Microsoft
"Napster is unfair to the artists and musicians who have invested their time, effort and money to create music."
--RIAA
"The MPAA estimates that domestic video piracy costs the motion picture companies more than $250 million a year in potential revenues."
--MPAA
"When Congress sits idly by in the face of these activities, we essentially sanction the Internet as a haven for thievery."
--Senate Commerce Committee chair Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.)
"For my part, I take no position on what content should or should not be prevented from copying, or from redistribution on the Internet. That is a decision that will be made by individual content owners, their distributors, and, most of all, by consumers."
--Jack Valenti
"If web site operators know that the offending code is available at linked sites and offer the links with the intent to facilitate the spread of the code they are in violation of the anti-trafficking provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act(DMCA)."
--Lewis A. Kaplan, NY State District Court Judge, on decss
"It is essential to the Net that there is an implied license to link to other Web sites, otherwise, any site that aggregates links would be guilty of copyright infringement."
--Ira Rothken, MP3Board's attorney.
"Text is mainly what the Net offers...not much (legal) material is out there that's chock full of graphics and in a consumer-friendly format to create the need for a cable modem or a digital subscriber line (dsl)."
-- Jack Valenti...again
"Of course it was humourus watching the Microsoft reps. kissing up by keeping the hosted bar open for hours after its scheduled shutdown. As if we will forget that quick...."
--Kevin Stiles, Technology Dept. Paso School District.
the microsoft quote is relevant... (Score:1)
Redhat's view on SSSCA (Score:1)
"Without question, Red Hat strongly opposes the bill. We believe it encroaches into the first amendment rights of individuals. It could also have harmful effects on open source software if the fundamental right to copy the software is restricted. In addition, the bill's definition of digital technology is far too broad and could be used to refer to almost any digital technology."
Redhat: OpenSource:NOW - Legislative Alerts [redhat.com]
So now the RIAA controls your private networks too (Score:1)
--Frank Creighton, RIAA's director of anti-piracy, who said the RIAA got a tip about IIS via an email. [bayarea.com]