A Penguin wrote:
>In the UK, for instance, one has to purchase a license to
>use a receiver (you know, some Sony Walkman). This is, in my
>opinion, extremely repressive. It would be nice for somebody
>to start suing the BBC (and others) to recover damages for
>the criminal trespass of "their" radio signals onto private
>property. After a few such lawsuits, the ownership of such
>broadcast signals would revert to the public, just like in
>the US.
You need a licence to drive a car and a licence to operate a
computer - now that's really repressive !
(M$, GPL or roll your own, it's much the same..)
An Other Penguin wrote:
>Patents and copyrights need to be fixed, not destroyed.
hear, here.
harry.
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