JHoagland opened this issue on Jul 05, 2007 · 92 posts
ockham posted Sun, 08 July 2007 at 11:19 AM
Ditto Jugoth ... the most irritating thing about all of these copyright / patent
clampdowns is that China doesn't give a damn. Big American and Euro companies
are busily destroying small American and Euro companies, while China cheerfully
knocks off everything from music to movies to machine guns.
Even more irritating is the Palestinian Mickey Mouse suicide bomber
character. It's a near-perfect knockoff of Mickey, but Disney hasn't
protested publicly or sued. If anyone dared to make a pro-Western
use of Mickey, they'd be bankrupted in a Hollywood millisecond.
We have to assume, by its behavior, that Disney approves of Hamas
more than it approves of America.
In other words, "When fair use is outlawed, only outlaws will copy."