Re:How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling ju...
by AutoCorrect on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @10:21AM
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or even criminal negligence, since their seed contaminated your crop, then the contamination was used in a shakedown.
Re:How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling ju...
by TheAmazingIdiot on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @01:09PM
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I'm more akin going for cumulative fines and/or jailtime for the executive board.
Trespassing in Indiana can be fined up to $1000 and 6 month jail sentence. Each of these seeds are "their" property. Lets say that a contaminated field is 500,000 seeds. $1000 per seed is $500 Million.
Of course, if Monsanto abandons their "property", or lays no claim to it, there wouldn't be a judgement on trespassing.
The whole PS3 removal of otherOS is a plain "computer crimes" law. Charge Sony with 1 count per device. Nice criminal case there.
Next we have Monsanto, who runs around finding seeds contaminated with roundup resistance. If you, a farmer, try to save seed, you will get bit by this. Since Monsanto argues it's their patent and their seed, I say we agree with them. And when their property is elsewhere, that sounds like trespassing...for.every.seed.