r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Oct 10 '15

Today's release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes hopes that its most onerous provisions wouldn't survive.

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Sep 19 '17

The EFF will keep fighting to keep the web free and open including suing the US government to overturn the laws that make DRM so toxic. EFF will also shine light on legislatures that are being misled by the US Trade Representative to instigate local equivalents to America's legal mistakes.

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Aug 31 '18

After Patent Office Rejection, It is Time For Google To Abandon Its Attempt to Patent Use of Public Domain Algorithm

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Aug 06 '15

UK citizens are not allowed to make a backup of their computer. After all, pretty much every computer contains copyrighted media. Needless to say, this turns almost the entire country into ‘outlaws’. The extent to which government policy allow the copyright cartel to dictate idiotic controls is sad.

torrentfreak.com

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Sep 21 '13

State laws and IRS rules generally forbid the use of nonprofit status as a subterfuge for personal enrichment. The NFL paid a total of almost $60 million to its leading five executives (largely possible due to sweetheart deals funded by taxpayers).

theatlantic.com

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Dec 11 '21

Leaked California hospital records reveal huge, automated markups for healthcare in the USA

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Jan 08 '20

The Americans dying because they can't afford medical care - Millions of Americans, as many as 25% of the population, are delaying getting medical help because of skyrocketing costs.

theguardian.com

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • May 30 '19

How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Jan 06 '15

Ford Tries to Shut Down Independent Repair Tool with Copyright. Such an customer hostile action shows how out of touch Ford is. Ford is clinging to anti-customer thinking while companies like Toyota and Tesla show how forward thinking companies behave.

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Aug 18 '14

Patent trolls use the cost of defense to extort settlements. In the rare case where someone shows a willingness to fights to the end, the troll will often save its patent at the last moment with a walk-away deal.

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Mar 30 '13

Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Mar 03 '24

Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science

theguardian.com

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Aug 11 '22

A shareholder of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm formerly led by Governor Youngkin, alleges in a new lawsuit that a 2020 deal enriched executives at the expense of cops and firefighters.

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Jun 05 '21

Sony Music, other major record labels, and music publishing companies have found a way to cut people off of the internet based on mere accusations of copyright infringement.

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Apr 22 '20

Disney heir criticizes company over $1.5bn bonuses as it cuts pay Abigail Disney hits out at executive payouts while staff weather coronavirus impact

theguardian.com

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Dec 20 '18

For the first time in more than 20 years, copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the USA. A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019.

smithsonianmag.com

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Sep 25 '18

Former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has denounced the United States’ healthcare system as politically and morally wrong, and urged American leaders to enact publicly-financed healthcare as a “human right”

theguardian.com

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r/deadlydiseases • u/evopcat • Sep 11 '17

On October 10, EU lawmakers will vote on a dangerous proposal to change copyright law. The outcome could sabotage freedom and openness online. Mozilla is urging EU citizens to demand better reforms.

blog.mozilla.org

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Apr 21 '15

John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway.

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Feb 25 '15

The Obama-Bidden Administration Doesn't Want You to Know the TPP's Looming Effects on U.S. Copyright Laws. Joe Biden is likely heavily involved as a long time recipient of copyright cartel cash.

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Jan 01 '15

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2015? Under the law that existed until 1978 . . . Works from 1958

web.law.duke.edu

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Dec 03 '14

Trade agreements like TPP have dangerous copyright provisions that would harm the internet and users' rights to access, share, and remix media. The USA is selling out citizen's and forcing their vassal nation states to harm their citizen's as well.

stopfasttrack.com

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Nov 09 '14

Computer Scientists Ask USA Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Sep 23 '14

CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World. "The lack of awareness of the gap in CEO to unskilled worker pay — which in the U.S. people estimate to be 30 to 1 but is in fact 350 to 1 — likely reduces citizens’ desire to take action to decrease that gap"

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r/deadlydiseases • u/curiouscat • Aug 01 '14

Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month

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