"phartz...@gmail.com" <phartz...@gmail.com> escribió:
US Chamber of Commerce cites #19 rank, wants tougher IP laws http://tinyurl.com/lkcdsh
IP laws won't be effective in the US until the copyright and patent laws are rewritten to be in compliance with Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. Intellectual property belongs to the creators not to the distributors. Fake IP schemes like the DMCA, and extending copyrights to corporations and heirs, hurt artists/creators/inventors, and should be deemed unconstitutional. Naturally the CoC wants more of the same anti-IP legislation.
Can we blame CoC for being #22 and #15 too? -------- The embarrassment of American broadband In the country that invented the Internet, why is Net access so bad? by Jonathan Seff, Macworld.com The Internet was born and and raised in the United States. Yet—thanks to slow speeds, inconsistent availability, and bandwidth caps—we now lag the rest of the world when it comes to broadband Net access... ...According to Point Topic (a UK-based market-research company), there were 79 million broadband subscribers in the U.S. at the end of 2008—that’s 19 percent of the world’s total, second only to China’s 83 million. (The report defines broadband as anything faster than 256Kbps.) However, at roughly 26 percent, the U.S. ranked 22nd out of 113 countries in terms of broadband penetration by population...in a separate study, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) recently estimated that (as of June 2008) 25 percent of the U.S. population had broadband access, ranking the U.S. 15th out of the OECD’s 30 member countries...The speed and price of broadband in the U.S. is shameful as well... http://snipurl.com/s06zl ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
