By: Barry Belmont
By: Barry Belmont
Today, Judge Denny Chin ruled against Google‘s plans to make available some 12 million books in a digital library that could be accessed by anyone with an internet connection. “While the digitisation of books and the creation of a universal digital library would benefit many,” Chin wrote in his decision, Google “simply go[es] too far, [...]
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Tagged copyrights, Google, Intellectual Property, intellectual property rights
Tagged copyrights, Google, Intellectual Property, intellectual property rights
22Mar11
In God We Trust
By: Barry Belmont
If you haven’t yet heard, Representative Randy Forbes (R-Va) has put forth a House Resolution to reaffirm the national motto as ‘In God We Trust’ by posting this motto on many public buildings including court houses, schools, and practically all governmental buildings. The bill has over sixty co-sponsors and is advancing to the floor of [...]
28Feb11
Breast Milk Ice Cream
By: Barry Belmont
Yep, you read right: breast milk ice cream. While arguing about the more sensible issue of organ donation markets, my debating partner claimed that you are not currently legally allowed to buy or sell human breast milk because the FDA would have no way to regulate it (citing this as a reason why there shouldn’t [...]
8Feb11
Insight Into Abolish ASUN
By: Barry Belmont
Insight Magazine just published a story about our recent push to “Abolish ASUN.” The story is so fresh that they haven’t yet uploaded it to their website. However, being the free market innovators that we are, we wanted to present the story to you here (of course, you could always just go find yourself a [...]
17Jan11
A Bicycle Tax?
By: Barry Belmont
I know most of us libertarians aren’t much for riding bicycles (I’m looking at you John in your giant ManTruck), but as always, that ambivalence is trumped by a distinct loathing for unnecessary taxes. Introducing, The Bicycle Tax. An Assemblyperson in New Jersey by the name of Cleopatra Tucker (D-Essex) introduced legislation a little over [...]
By: John Russell
Check this out - A new iPhone app developed by ‘Citizen Concepts’ (a company formed by insider DHS employees) calls upon our inner patriot to snitch on our fellow Americans: For $1.99 from the iTunes store… PatriotAppTM deputizes your iPhone or iPad! It is the world’s first app that allows citizens to assist government agencies in creating [...]
27Nov10
The Future of Net Neutrality
By: John Russell
For those of you who believe that net neutrality is anything more than a government power grab of the internet intended to censor sites that they deem bad, then let me introduce you to a list of websites where this is already a reality. These websites were blocked because they were deemed bad from our [...]
25Oct10
End the War.
By: John Russell
This is a heat map of every death that was contained within the leaked Iraq documents posted on Wikileaks. … and people wonder why I don’t vote?
11Oct10
FREE TROJES
By: John Russell
