Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw(a)users.sf.net> writes:
They have pretty decent pipes and they don't care
much about foreign
copyrights.
Taiwan is a signatory to the Copyright Treaty. What you suggest is illegal.
How about that ?
Well, accepting your completely inaccurate premise for a moment...
You're offering me all the knowledge of the world, freely and legally
available to everyone with internet access, modulo their own countries
censorship laws (and capabilities)?
I would consider that an insanely great idea.
Really, completely, astoundingly insanely great.
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Now, suppose there was a place facts could not be copyrighted, (but
expressions of fact could) but where photographs of factual events
could not be copyrighted, or could be freely used in reportage.
We'd be able to create a free encyclopedia into which all the knowledge of the
world could be poured without any constraint, and illustrate historical events
with photographs, where appropriate.
I would consider that an insanely great idea, too.
And to, a reasonable approximation, it exists.
It's called the USA, with the "Fair Use" provision.
Now, why are you against that?
--
Gareth Owen
"The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity"
-- W. B. Yeats forsees the standard of debate on wikipedia-l