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Security quotes of the week

Posted Sep 7, 2012 10:14 UTC (Fri) by Tjebbe (subscriber, #34055)
In reply to: Security quotes of the week by josh
Parent article: Security quotes of the week

right, the fundamental problem there is that it is 'guilty-until-proven-innocent' and not the other way around.

It's also one-directional; there do not seem to be any penalties if the 'rightsholders' make false claims (automated or not). So there is no incentive for them not to overshoot.


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Security quotes of the week

Posted Sep 7, 2012 13:03 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

The fundamental problem here is people assume that "Intellectual Property Law" is legitimate just because it's a law or that 'people have a right to make money from their work'.

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