Intellectual property Toolkit

Story: Making IP infringement a crime

Posted by: M (Monday 1 August 2005, 8:04 PM)

It's basically 'IT Terrorism'.

- The European Commission makes the bombs (easily abused laws).

- The corporations place them on the victims (developers and users of free software) .

- The courts press the button (hand out the prison sentences).

- Everyone becomes afraid of being a victim (stops developing and using free software), thereby creating an afflicting blanket of fear throughout a community (terrorism).

This is only being done because there's no point in a giant corporation suing someone (free software developer) who doesn't have a lot of money. The Corporations need another threat to maintain their monopolies, and the European Commission seems happy to oblige ...again.

What do the EC do anyway? Apart from make a bad name for themselves by causing unjustified grief to good people (Open Source Movement), whilst blatantly protecting the bad (MS). We need to get rid of them, they're a waste of our taxes.