[pp.int.general] Bullshit EU consultation

[Justus Römeth]

Just saw that the German guide is not up yet. Do you need help with that (quality control, spelling checks etc.), or is it an internal issue?

-J

On 03.01.2013, at 12:58, Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
> 
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