Thanks to a pointer from Shelley, I got my comic relief fix today at Better Bad News‘s latest hilarious send-up entitled Tech Conference Floats Open Intonation Standard / Code Name / Yellow Submarine. It occurs to me that I should visit their site more often.
BBN‘s latest skit has a sharply barbed stab at copyright law and the lengths to which established (read: corporate) interests will go to defend it. Their idea is, if it’s going to be possible to sue the makers of file-sharing software that’s used to pirate entertainment, then perhaps it will also be possible to sue the makers of firearms. As BBN suggest, download-software is file-sharing software, and a gun is bullet-sharing hardware. So why not make the manufacturers responsible if that bullet-sharing device is used in a criminal act? Hey, RIAA, makes sense, don’t it? And as someone pointed out in comments, why not hold automobile manufacturers liable, too?
I know: why not just put everyone in jail, prophylactically?
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I also thought of the posibility of suing makers of guns, alas the internet has not yet created a competing delivery method for bullets. No competition no reason reason for the Supreme Court to get involved.
Yeah, it’s the freedom of the internet they appear to have it in for. The internet is certainly a huge part of my sense of freedom (to learn, to get information, as well as to disseminate information [and nonsense, as the case may be]), whereas I could never imagine that a daily dose of wielding a gun would give me that sense of access, connectedness, and (yes:) power.
Your blog is realy very interesting.
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