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Old 11-04-2011, 08:07 AM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by RycEric View Post
So which side are you on?
neither i want balance

i want the penalty for stomping on fair use to be equally great as the penalty for TRUE infringement.

if you want laws so strong that they could be abused to kill innovation, and fair use
because you need them to protect your legitimate business interests

then they should totally wipe out the scum bag copyright holders who try and abuse them to destroy legitimate competition.

as i said before

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remember you completely blunt all of the objections to the bill by having such a clause

if someone says in can be abused to .....

yes but only once, after that copyright holder will lose all copyrights and never be able to do it again.

Every other copyright holder will know the penalty and be very very careful to never abuse free speech.
the only people who object to such a balance are those people who know they are going to abuse the laws to kill competition and innovation.

If they truly believe the "fucked up" interpretation of fair use are not valid, then they shouldn't have a problem with rolling the dice because they know the courts would never accept them.
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