Friday, July 01, 2005

Sairah's new favourite joke

A history professor and a psychology professor are sitting outside at a
nudist colony.

History professor - "Have you read Marx?"

Psychology professor - "Yes, I think it's from the wicker chairs."

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

BBC NEWS | File-sharing ruling fuels worries

Over in the States, the Supreme Court has overturned an earlier ruling, and has ruled that file-sharing networks are liable to their users copyright infringement. Which is a step in the right direction, provided this same statute is applied to weapons manufacturers and the tobacco industry, I feel. Otherwise, there will be a bizarre situation:
  • A company profiting from software used for copyright infringement can be sued for billions of dollars by, um, companies who already have billions of dollars.
  • A company profiting from the manufacture and/or distribution of small, easily concealable guns used for muggings and murders, or of semi-automatic assault rifles used for the systematic destruction of (say) a school's populace, have nothing to fear.

There's something wrong there... just can't think what.