[pp.int.general] Bullshit EU consultation

[Amelia Andersdotter]

We made an answering guide for citizens: 
http://ameliaandersdotter.eu/ipred-konsultation/

It /is/ useful answering to these questions. The more we answer, the 
harder we are to ignore. Especially now that we can sort of follow up on 
these consultations straight from Brussels.

best,

Amelia

On 2013-01-03 04:49, Richard Stallman wrote:
> http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2012/intellectual-property-rights_en.htm
> is a sleazy propaganda attack on patent law in the EU.
>
> The central premise of this consultation is that copyright law and
> patent law (and several other laws) should be treated alike (or at
> least, more alike than now).  It establishes this premise by taking it
> for granted in the act of llumping them together.  It rehearses people
> in this misguided conceptual practice by having them answer dozens of
> questions, each of which is based on lumping them together.
>
> I think this needs to be denounced as brainwashing.  Is anyone
> interested?
>
> The questionnaire is aimed primarily at those enforcing copyrights,
> patents, and various other unrelated privileges -- so there is no use
> responding to it.
>