Re:This is rediculous! (Score 1)

Explain, please. How has last Friday's decision changed the way we will be allowed to process and store information? Last Friday's decision, from a legal perspective, was not a surprise. If you were surprised, or perceive that somehow the decision changed the rules, that speaks more to the disconnection between one's perception of what is allowed, legally, and what the law does allow.

You oppose blocks on "communication in its free form"--may I assume you do so on grounds of free speech? If so, recognize that the First Amendment (which, provides, probably, the broadest legal protection of speech of any law, in any country) has not been interpreted to require that one relinquish ownership and control over one's own speech. One implication of your statement is that you oppose the right of a copyright holder to determine whether, how, when, and under what circumstances the copyright holder's speech is communicated. That is not a right I wish to relinquish, and it has nothing to do with money.

You might be interested in this November 1999 decision, from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which held in favor of Martin Luther King's Estate in its lawsuit against CBS for CBS' unauthorized use in a documentary of video footage of King's 1963 "I have a dream" speech: Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v CBS, Inc.