Re: [Patents] MEPs calling for "strong sanctions" against "any intellectual property infringement"

[iriXx <iriXx@iriXx.org>]

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Alex Macfie wrote:
> At 12:57 27/03/03 +0100, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
>
> > An appeal launched by UK Labour MEP Arlene McCarthy links copyright
> > infringement to terrorism (a favorite topic of the UK Patent Office,
> > usually as groundless as the links between Iraq and Al Qaida) and calls
> > for "strong santions against any intellectual property infringment".
>
>
> This is the sort of thinking that drove another infamous bearer of the 
> name "McCarthy", indeed it is called "McCarthyism" for precisely that 
> reason. When I see the name "McCarthy" in these emails I tend to 
> immediately think of that man. Now it appears it's not just the name 
> that's similar.
>
> > Arlene McCarthy MEP, Janelly Fourtou MEP, Toine Manders MEP,
>
>
> Nice to see another familiar name cropping up...
>
> Alex


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