• Re: When will ROR happen? A healthy dose of paranoia

    From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Kalevi Kolttonen on Sun Feb 18 17:50:40 2024
    On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:21:10 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

    The so-called Woke folks are keen on banning
    music and movies that we like. I'm now wondering
    when will the ROR movement happen?

    It was supposed to happen 1975 with the introduction of the 6502, but
    then didn't happen due to a bug. Thus it happened early 1976 in a
    revision of said CPU.

    "ROR" stands for "Restore Our Rights" and could
    be the battle cry of the Copyright Mafia.

    No, it stands for ROtate (bits) Right.

    The ROR folks might join forces with The Woke movement and start
    persecuting retrogaming fans.

    Commodore didn't knew what woke means.

    Did you know that Copyright for Mickey Mouse
    has now expired and companies like Disney do not
    like that at all?

    Oh, you're not talking about CPUs. ;-)

    Well I don't know for "Restore Our Rights". They'd probably need to have
    the power to change expiration laws. As far as I can tell not even the
    mighty Disney company was able to prevent Steamboat Willy from falling
    into public domain earlier this year.
    --
    Andreas

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@3:770/3 to Andreas Kohlbach on Mon Feb 19 14:02:30 2024
    Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
    Well I don't know for "Restore Our Rights". They'd probably need to have
    the power to change expiration laws. As far as I can tell not even the
    mighty Disney company was able to prevent Steamboat Willy from falling
    into public domain earlier this year.

    It is admittedly a good sign that Mickey Mouse
    is now in public domain, despite Disney Company's
    contrary wishes. The Copyright lasted for 95 years.

    However,remember that many things are going quite
    crazy now. Disney has banned at least two Don Rosa
    comics:

    https://www.cbr.com/disney-bans-don-rosa-uncle-scrooge-mcduck-stories/

    A couple of weeks ago I heard that one Carl Barks
    story is banned, too. That story involves some kind
    of a zombie.

    br,
    KK

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@3:770/3 to Kenzo on Mon Feb 19 17:40:26 2024
    Kenzo <kjambrose@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 6:02:32 AM UTC-8, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
    Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
    Well I don't know for "Restore Our Rights". They'd probably need to have >> > the power to change expiration laws. As far as I can tell not even the
    mighty Disney company was able to prevent Steamboat Willy from falling
    into public domain earlier this year.
    It is admittedly a good sign that Mickey Mouse
    is now in public domain, despite Disney Company's
    contrary wishes. The Copyright lasted for 95 years.

    However,remember that many things are going quite
    crazy now. Disney has banned at least two Don Rosa
    comics:

    https://www.cbr.com/disney-bans-don-rosa-uncle-scrooge-mcduck-stories/

    A couple of weeks ago I heard that one Carl Barks
    story is banned, too. That story involves some kind
    of a zombie.

    br,
    KK
    And don't forget to wear your aluminum foil hat to
    protect from those alien mind probes! And even
    more important, aluminum foil underwear to prevent those alien port probes too!

    Did you follow the link I posted? Disney company has
    banned two of Don Rosa's comics stories, refusing to
    release them ever again. Carl Barks, the duck master,
    has suffered a similar fate.

    The Woke folks now ban movies, music and comics. It
    does not stop here.

    br,
    KK

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