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| Re: What a fucking hero. JUST LIKE YOU PAUL by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/05/2014, 4:35pm PDT | ||||
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Eurotrash wrote: Okay, proceed to justify your opinion. Banhaf disagreed with the idea of cigarette companies broadcasting advertisements and fought to use the law to remove them from broadcast. (He looked at the law and realized that as such, under the "equal time rule" for controversial opinions since cigarette commercials represent an opinion on a serious, controversial subject, broadcast stations - as a result of being licensed to use public airwaves - could be required to provide a contrasting viewpoint. This made cigarette advertising on radio and TV expensive since they'd have to give time away, so broadcasters simply arranged to make cigarette commercials illegal so they wouldn't have to deal with them. Then Banzhaf realized that a computer program is just as much copyrightable material as a poem or a book, proceeded to prove it, and because now people could protect computer programs through copyright they could sell them in multiple copies, which caused the software market to bloom, and ended up starting a multi-billion dollar industry. From mainframe software to PC applications to web-based systems to apps for iPhone and Android today. So exactly why is John Banzhaf III an asshole for doing these things? You must have reasons unless your comment is just pure bullshit or you're trolling. So if you do have actual reason(s), explain it (them) to me. I'd like to understand what exactly is (are) your reason(s) for your opinion. |
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The man who stopped tobacco advertising started the software industry by 04/05/2014, 3:42am PDT  Minor Correction by 04/05/2014, 3:48am PDT What a fucking hero. JUST LIKE YOU PAUL by 04/05/2014, 10:02am PDT Re: What a fucking hero. JUST LIKE YOU PAUL by 04/05/2014, 4:35pm PDT |
