kameraadpjotr’s Comments

• Oct 15th, 2010 @ 10:43am

  League of Nations

  on Would US Officials Really Decide Not To Sign ACTA?
  The U.S. refused to become member of the League of Nations, while it was an idea of their president (Wilson), so there is a precedent.
• Aug 6th, 2010 @ 10:16am

  Re:

  on How The Pentagon's Reaction To Wikileaks Is Like The RIAA's Reaction To Napster
  Perhaps the government should remember one of their most-used quotes when it comes to invasions of privacy. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
  
  And it is indeed true, onfortunately, that the 'leaker' will be arrested; but the Wikileaks people probably not. Not all of them are citizens of the U.S., and while the U.S. has seen no problem in abducting citizens of other countries to "try" them, these are not Muslim "terrorists", so there will be internation outcry and such. The fact that Wikileaks is in the center of the attention will probably protect them.
• Jul 6th, 2010 @ 5:27am

  Moral high ground

  on Teenager And Composer Argue Over File Sharing
  As long as authors/songwriters/... continue to defend copyright terms of 70y after their death, they have no right whatsoever to claim a moral high ground.
• Jun 30th, 2010 @ 2:26am

  Re:

  on ACTA Negotiators Respond To Questions About ACTA; More Of The Same
  In Belgium, children are learnt the following: "If everybody would jump in the Scheldt (a major river), would you jump after them?", if they are doing something stupid "because everybody else does it". Unfortunately, our politicians seem to have forgot this lesson, probably the same moment they forgot that they are "Representatives of the People", not "Representatives of the Money"...
• Jun 23rd, 2010 @ 12:36am

  Re: Re: Re: I'm starting to see the side of the copyright abologists

  on Terrible News: Court Says It's Okay To Remove Content From The Public Domain And Put It Back Under Copyright
  Creative Commons licenses (and the GFDL for that matter) are non-revocable ("[the] Licensor hereby grants [the user] a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license to exercise the rights in the Work [...]")
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ARevocation_of_our_licensing_is_not_permitted#The_i nability_to_revoke
• Jun 21st, 2010 @ 8:50am

  Re: Re:

  on If Your Brother Was Arrested For A Crime, Does It Violate Your Privacy When They Store His DNA?
  My DNA *is* copyrighted. If it is used without my permission, I will have no other option than to sue.
• Jun 15th, 2010 @ 1:21pm

  Capital Punishment

  on CEO Of UK Collection Society: We Don't Want Gov't Handouts, But The Gov't Must Give Us Everything We Ask For!
  Perhaps we should "invent" (the same way they "invented") a new crime: A crime against our freedoms. As this would be an offence even more serious than "piracy", a even harsher punishment should be applied, in line with the glorious European revolutionary tradition when the citizens saw their rights violated. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants."
• Mar 10th, 2010 @ 12:01pm

  Re: Re: Election Time? (as Pieter De Praetere)

  on Overwhelming Majority Of EU Parliament Votes Against ACTA
  They blocked the SWIFT-treaty in a similar way.
• Jan 7th, 2010 @ 1:27pm

  Re: Optimism (as Pieter De Praetere)

  on France's Latest Plan: Tax Google, Microsoft And Yahoo To Fund Record Labels
  As Churchill once said (after the invasion of the USSR) "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."