Re: Moglen's subbatical--what is he doing?

[RJack]

On 7/17/2010 7:17 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:

> Chasing copyright violators, he says, is a waste of time and energy.
>  “We’re all connected. You’ll spend more putting barbed wire around
> the thing you’re protecting than it is worth.”

Yes. Yes. A "waste of time and energy"  Just like ...

Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. v. Best Buy Co., Inc., Samsung
Electronics America, Inc., Westinghouse Digital Electronics, LLC, JVC
Americas Corporation, Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Robert Bosch
LLC, Phoebe Micro, Inc., Humax USA Inc., Comtred Corporation,
Dobbs-Stanford Corporation, Versa Technology Inc., ZYXEL Communications
Inc., Astak Inc. and GCI Technologies Corporation.

Oh the delicious hypocrisy! LMAO.

Sincerely,
RJack :)

"Licenses are not contracts: the work's user is obliged to remain within
the bounds of the license not because she voluntarily promised, but
because she doesn't have any right to act at all except as the license
permits." --- Eben Moglen
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/lu-12.html

"Although the United States Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C.  101-
1332, grants exclusive jurisdiction for infringement claims to the
federal courts, those courts construe copyrights as contracts and
turn to the relevant state law to interpret them."; Automation by
Design, Inc. v. Raybestos Products Co., 463 F.3d 749, (United
States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 2006).
http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/463/463.F3d.749.05-1172.html