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    Cy>   Re: Re: Wikipedia   
    Cy>   By: Ajk to Interloper on Wed Jan 18 2012 06:44 pm   
      
    > Wikipedia's leadership team are playing a fine line between being the   
    > most trusted and comprehensive knowledge resources and playing in US   
    > politics. Do we want our encyclopedias to have poilitical views?   
      
    > --   
    > Cheers,   
    > Alex Kemp (ajk) telnet://norbertbbs.org   
      
      
    Cy> Piracy is a problem (and to those who don't agree with me based on   
   Piracy was for something long ago and had no concept of a globally   
   interconnected community with a medium that can be readily duplicated with   
   perfection and re-used similarly to how I can copy a formula and reuse it or   
   learn a song in my head and repeat it (spread information). I'm certain if I   
   could copy a bar of gold or other element or even food for that matter to feed   
   the world nobody would stand for it to be stopped by who in my view are similar   
   to the mob. 0101 is really easy to copy. "Piracy" as it is termed with   
   computers will never ever ever ever ever go away, and trying to stop it is a   
   waste of time and resources. Its been tried over and over again, so some folks   
   want to put people in jail for the bits on my computer in my home on my   
   hardware that I own. So lame. I hope the idea of copying and sharing evolves   
   and the others die out.    
      
    Cy> "industry" cases we've grown weary of, consider cases where the GPL is   
    Cy> violated by companies attempting to use open-source GPL code in a   
    Cy> proprietary product). SOPA/PIPA, however, were/are NOT an acceptable   
    Cy> answer, given the amount of damage they do to the very essence of the   
    Cy> Internet.  This is a little off topic, but I might suggest checking out   
    Cy> an effort known as OPEN (   
    Cy> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399070,00.asp ), which is a much   
    Cy> more tolerable attempt at curbing piracy/counterfeit products while   
    Cy> maintaining the infrastructure of the Internet.   
      
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