posted on Aug, 21 2013 @ 03:14 PM
I would guess all the information is safe somewhere. From another standpoint, I find it hard to believe that the NSA can claim any 'Intellectual
right' to the information they 'stole' from individuals, (I'm talking online here) since that information like e-mails for instance, is not copyright,
or at least I don't put a copyright on any e-mails I send. From that view it is in the public domain, and anybody can copy it. So, if from now on, we
all put a copyright on everything we write, e-mail, phone calls and texting blah blah, and the NSA/NCTC take a copy of our scribings, then they are in
fact behaving illegally by flaunting copyright. So they can either cough up the dough on the royalty that the writer asks, or leave it alone, or in
fact steal it. If they get catched, they have no comeback.
Sounds childish doesn't it? Yet the very same thing has already been done to hundreds, perhaps thousands of music enthusiasts who's passion was making
midi files, (wholly digital sounds) of their favourite songs who had to take down their online collections that they created, or pay a royalty to
whoever owned the song rights, something that started in Americas music industry out of greed more like.
I should add, this forum has the copyright of all the material on it, so is not in question here.
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