I think it's pretty f-ed up to say a company has to give their IP and trade secrets to their competitors (aka, your friends) so they can take their business, and then call it fairness. It isn't, it's theft.
Kinda sounds like China's business model, eh?
However, why couldn't Google just yank their servers out of the EU..and station them all around the EU. Sure, there might be a little performance hit, but at least they'd not be compelled to follow the EU rules, and I doubt the EU will firewall all things google, you know?
"She's got huge tracts of land!"
Wait....is that, is that...Sir Lancelot I see in the distance, running towards our castle....?
A life support unit for a cunt.
Unfortunately, the pleasurable part of that equation always comes with the other unpredictable part.
They have personality, and actual affection.
Like to see America...
It's not just up to them, it's up to copyright law.
And why do you think you speak for all book authors over all time?
People like you think libraries should be shut down, fair use removed, and no one allowed to resell a book they read.
Literally the logical conclusion to your post.
I suppose I need to pay you every time I point someone to you works to?
Do I have to pay you when I finish you book and give it to someone else?
Did they ever mention copyrights on Star Trek???
Why would that even come up?
We would absolutely have a form of copyright post scarcity. Because post scarcity one of the thing that differentiate people is what they created.
Any you got your law degree from...? and you have read all the contracts.. when? and where in these contract violation in the contract?
Don't tell me you are some ignorant blowhard spewing nonsense that fits your bias?
Yes, it does in America. Please read US copyright code. fair use is a things. I can give you a used book for free, and you can read it and give it to someone else for free and so on. No copyright violation. Yu can access works for free through Libraries.
Copyright expires.
"It is not a court case you'd win; the details taken from the Disney version are beyond excessive."
We have decades of court cases that show you are wrong. STFU.
"beyond excessive."
based on what?
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
