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Although I have lived in the US, and love it for many reasons, I have to say that this stuff is "Only in America"..Here is my rant on this..

US is all about the money, screwing up someone, suing someone and going to court. It is one big capitalistic system that hurts only the people worldwide. Everything is messed up, starting from IRS, government, army and politics, education, food, patents, and especially things like this - "copyright". Yes, my life goal is to make someone rich. How about some honor and doing something for the society without "profits first"?

I almost puked when I saw that John La Grou smart power outlet - we will save lives etc...and we filed many patents. Save lives? Give the technology as free, and build other means around it for sustaining own costs.

Should have Tesla patented his inventions with the US approach, most of the world would have been in the dark ages, where computer is not possible, Internet doesn't exist and healthcare is power-less. Should he have dictated the progress of the world? No. The world as we know it, is made from minds that think of social progress, not this invented thing called money. US dishonored Tesla, (most even think Tesla is a car now!!), and named a nice little corner in NYC, instead of teaching real values in schools.

Laws do support growth of startups indeed, but that is the side-effect which truly should be taken as an example. Everything else, plain wrong.

I do not think reproducing material or sharing is something that is wrong. People in the US just wrote that it is, while in nature of the Internet it is not. Let me guess, downloading youtube video is also illegal? Than sue my browser's cache.

I really feel sick when reading stuff like this, for goodness sake, this is not the first time nor the last, meaning something there is broken, so change it.

I am boycotting buying CDs from those retards calling themselves artists. They are all about the money, not art. Real artists do things for the love of it, not the money. And when I see that, I feel great donating my money directly to them to hear more of that.

Disclaimer: I am some nationality as Tesla, but that is no reason why I mention him. He is the most important scientist of all times.




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