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if you live in utah, now is the time to join the Pirate Party. sign as a statement of support, or volunteer to collect signatures. here's your chance to tell Orrin Hatch how you feel about having your computer remotely destroyed by copyright holders.

voters in Utah are now one step closer to being able to voice their opinions on the key issues our party stands for.

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today is fair use day. celebrate your freedom by exercising it. quote someone. post a screenshot from a movie. use your TiVo to fast forward through a commercial, or record your favorite show and watch it tomorrow.

if we don't use it, we might lose it.

i have my own personal number: 57 5F F4 E1 E6 62 9F 1E 2D 83 27 E9 E8 1A AB B5. you can't use my number. even knowing it constitutes a violation of the DMCA. don't think i won't sue you...

if you haven't been following the DRM news, there has been a bit of fuss recently about whether the movie industry can own a number.

sam over at GThing got a great response when he posted his own 128 bit private number.

It seems like almost everyone is taking creative liberties with intellectual property these days. One of my favorite abuses of the system is the "patent troll." A normal person (or corporation) will obtain a patent to protect their own manufacturing or research interests. But a special subset of patent owners, known as "patent trolls", enforce patent rights against supposed infringement, even though they don't manufacture products or supply services related to the patent. Their entire business model is based on broad enforcement of intellectual property rights that they don't even use.