It would seem [1] that few American law firm employees scored well in their respective geography courses. If I were to become a managing partner of a law firm I would definitely require applicants- and interns of my Intellectual Property Group to produce transcripts back to middle school (7th-8th year of education in USA) for all geography inclusive courses.

While I, too, would remove copyright violation of the clear intent to pirate, per se, I would engage a solicitor (correct UK term?) to defend pastebin against having to monitor- or be responsible for content filtration given the SELF EVIDENT nature of the beast.

I do enjoy receiving hate-mail, cease and desist orders, and the like. I have not yet received a fascist DMCA demand.

I strongly believe in the “freedom to tinker” that the DMCA would like to bludgeon to death with a bit of chalk.

It’s woeful how IP firms, especially patent prosecutors themselves, remain willfully ignorant about the history of patent development, per se.

On a similar note I could care less if company X, in this case TI, would not want ME to use the calculator I PURCHASED in a way other than TI intended..

TI’s behavior is extremely antithetical to the American way.

..and further if they would balk at me sharing my creative usage with others. If I want to hack my calculator into an expensive etch-a-sketch then there’s little legal recourse available to TI. If they want to outfit their devices with a transponder to alert their thought police division that a tamper might be in progress have at; I can use a Faraday passport enclosure with all future calculators. The same applies to making the device of a particular flavor function better than it had originally.

Consumer devices with open firmware tend to sell in greater volume. Gee, why ever could that be? (dd-wrt)

@ TI consider the events surrounding your founding and contrast that attitude with the one you have displayed here most recently. Any twinge of remorse?

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http://geographyforlawyers.pastebin.com/f7cd5dc65