From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 09:29:39 MDT
Michael S. Lorrey <retroman@turbont.net> Wrote:
> GATT has IP provisions, I suggest you read it.
It may have IP provisions, maybe, but I doubt anybody pays any attention to them.
And as the USA is the most important member I doubt it has anything in it that would
violate the first amendment as this would. The second any attempt was made to actually
do something rather than just write a pretty treaty a USA court would shoot it down.
And is it even there? Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places but I've been unable to find
anything that supports your claim that "countries that refuse to accept WIPO rulings get
electronically embargoed". No country has ever been "electronically embargoed", not China,
not Cuba, not Iraq, not Iran, not North Korea, if information was restricted it was done from their
side not our side. I find it impossible to believe all countries would agree on such a ruling, even if
they did I find it impossible to believe all would agree on the interpretation of such a ruling,
even if they did I find it impossible to believe they'd be able to enforce it. All it would take is
for one other country to use a liberal interpretation of the word "restriction" and the floodgates
would be open.
>remove those countries top level domains from recognition on
>servers and routers
.com .org .net
>bill the software author for all royalties unpaid as a result of people
>using his/her software.
Are you saying that if piracy was impossible people with tons of illegal software
would have gone to the store and bought the stuff ?!
>>Me:
>>Are you going to jail the maker of a word processing
>> program because somebody used it to write a ransom note?
> That is not what we are talking about, and you ought to know that.
That's exactly what we're talking about and I do know it.
> People that write software like napster, which their main function is to
> facilitate IP piracy,
Napster is a new way to distribute information, nothing more. I was just reading in
Science about using a Napster clone for scientific data instead of MP3's.
Any program can have legal and illegal uses.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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