"When our fiber deployment project is completed it will reach to each and every borough, neighborhood, boulevard, avenue and street, without regard to the demographics of a particular area.
That sounds awesome! Oh... you're not actually going to do it? Are the guys who built the water, power, gas, sewer, and roads available?
Don't most adverse possession laws require you to occupy the property continuously for between 7 and 20 years? Someone get her a rocket so she can put her feet on the "ground".
While I think I understand your explanations of "transformativeness" I have an issue with this rationale. It comes off as "fair use is for famous people." If I had done this same thing, no one would have paid anything for it; does that make it less legitimate fair use?
I know nothing about it, but it seems like the "controlled disruption" would have been larger if the target had actually been a pressure bomb and not empty cookware.
Then you should be thanking this woman for doing what you, and probably I, are too cowardly to do. Assert her rights in the face of acts that violate our constitution and way of life. Without people standing against unlawful exhibitions of power, there will be no impetus to change these illegal policies and practices.
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Nope. But the book/music/program that you license, and don't own and can't modify, should be available to you for the duration of the license agreement.
They love to play that trick though, when you try to sell or modify it "sorry, that's not your property just a license" but when it breaks or is lost or stolen "bad news, your property needs to be replaced".
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They're ABusing the DMCA
Not that it's all that hard to do, the DMCA lends itself very nicely to stripping consumer rights in the name of copyright protection. Just slap some DRM on there and yell "infringement" and suddenly you have absolute power.
I'm no expert, but you'd think these DRM geniuses could come up with a "golden DRM" that lets them stop infringement while not trampling all over our ownership rights. /s
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Except that it's still abusing unrelated laws to exert control over property that they've ostensibly sold to someone else. You can scrape off any and all logos from your property and any trademark suit they throw at you for NOT displaying their logo on your things is laughable.
Just like a copyright infringement suit for changing your property to NOT use their copyrighted program should be laughable.
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Again, it's copyright not modificationright. They're using laws designed to prevent the illegal act of duplication and commercial distribution, i.e. copyright infringement, and applying them to the completely legal arena of editing or changing my copy.
I usually go back to buying a print of a famous painting. I own this copy. I can paint a mustache on it, change the background, blank it out with white paint, rip the frame off and use it on other art. I can even sell it to someone else. I'm not allowed to duplicate it and sell copies.
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Who will help deploy the broadband?
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Secret warrants hurt someone.
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You can't just STEAL pieces of the article, it won't make any dammed sense if there are parts missing.
/endsarcasm
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They love to play that trick though, when you try to sell or modify it "sorry, that's not your property just a license" but when it breaks or is lost or stolen "bad news, your property needs to be replaced".
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I'm no expert, but you'd think these DRM geniuses could come up with a "golden DRM" that lets them stop infringement while not trampling all over our ownership rights. /s
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Just like a copyright infringement suit for changing your property to NOT use their copyrighted program should be laughable.
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I usually go back to buying a print of a famous painting. I own this copy. I can paint a mustache on it, change the background, blank it out with white paint, rip the frame off and use it on other art. I can even sell it to someone else. I'm not allowed to duplicate it and sell copies.
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