It seems that every day we are hearing about more and more situations where businesses prove to be not only unreliable, but untrustworthy as well. Recently the RIAA has started a 3-strikes project. They would have ISPs ban users from connecting to the internet after they have been accused of piracy three times. The plan [...]
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Today I read something that instills a little more hope and faith in our current society. Research in using genetically altered microbes to produce drugs quicker and cheaper has yielded a very affordable production method for a highly effective malaria cure. This cure, prior to this research, has been unaffordable for the millions of poor [...]
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As absurd as it may sound, it turns out patents really can kill people. This is a first for me, but I found an appaling story about an abuse of the patent system that violates intellectual property rights, consumer rights, human rights, justice, and can lead to more deaths. Now you may be thinking just [...]
This is one of those times where I say we should just kill patents on the use of something AND make it so that software process patents should have the source code patented, not the process itself. That way if more than 60% of the code is different then the lawsuit is automatically dropped. The [...]
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This article is a response both to an article I found on TechDirt and the comments from an IP thumper that commented on the article. What this article talks about is some genetic researchers were blocked from doing research into genetically modified crops because of IP patents that a greedy company that makes genetically modified [...]
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