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This time I am on your side No_ax.
Stealing is stealing, and piracy is piracy. I think the the real issue is your DNA is yours, mine is mine, and having it turned over to a for profit operation to recieve needed medical treament with no compensation is nothing short of armed robbery. The medical release information and release agreement is even worse than the MS Eula (and I hate Microsoft). At least with MS I can refuse and go open source, at the hospital my other option is to die, which I find particularly unattractinve at this juncture. They have "intellectual property", I give them that. The history of my life and my medical records, and particularly the DNA of my body is my property, and if they want it I should be justly compensated. Seems to me we have a pack of thieves fighting over the booty here. Where are the rights of the person who actually owns that DNA?
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I think this group is a little confused  tic swayback | 03/30/06
Check the award  genewatcher | 03/30/06
Dig deeper  tic swayback | 03/30/06
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Which Planet  xuniL_z | 03/31/06
Which Planet  plumnilly | 03/31/06
another agency in the works  xuniL_z | 03/31/06
Greed  OhMyGosh | 03/30/06
Notice  xuniL_z | 03/31/06
zdnet confused  aayub@... | 03/31/06
So let me get this straight...  lawryll@... | 03/30/06
camron  camron | 03/30/06
Google accused of biopiracy  ACCIPITER1 | 03/30/06
Yeah right.  mone_dog | 03/30/06
What about private sequencing?  gardoglee | 03/30/06
Greed  rjriley | 03/30/06
Yeah right  clockmendergb@... | 03/31/06
Agreed  TLG_z | 03/31/06
who cares  dhagey | 03/30/06
Just the thinking people...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/06
genetics and cognition  humble99 | 03/30/06
Piracy is everywhere and everyone does it everyday.  ccisat1dxj | 03/30/06
WRONG, thieves pirate everyday.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/06
Thieves like BIll Gates and Steve Ballmer?  tic swayback | 03/30/06
This time I am on your side No_ax.  Seenidog | 03/30/06
You do own it.  xuniL_z | 03/31/06
Yarrr Biopiracy?  jobert48@... | 03/30/06
Shiver me Timbers!  astroguy@... | 03/31/06
Maybe I didnt get the point but...  sscarfo | 03/30/06
this is about access  genewatcher | 03/30/06
They can have mine if they want.  Narg | 03/30/06
Main Stream Media???  jackyuzynko_z | 03/30/06
Google's move is a good one and beneficial to human knowledge  elitmik | 03/30/06
Golddiggers & Thieves  rjriley | 03/30/06
YET ANOTHER TOOL THAT THEY WILL RUIN!  brojnmrule | 03/30/06
All the human genes on earth?  Bill4 | 03/30/06
HIPPA  dsusysmgr | 03/30/06
it's HIPAA and even if it did make it illegal ...  zzuto | 03/30/06
This is all good to know..  xuniL_z | 03/31/06
MEDICAL WORLD NEEDS DATA BASE FOR RESEARCH  JLKJackson | 03/30/06
I agree - treat the problem, not the symptom  zzuto | 03/30/06
I agree because  BlazeEagle | 03/30/06
Opportunity  rjriley | 03/30/06
How do they plan on obtaining their information?  vendingdreams | 03/30/06
it's HIPAA, and it's not really based on just humans  zzuto | 03/30/06
What's the beef?  suejoel | 03/30/06
Google Genetic Database, "Biopiracy?" Individuals' data available???  Transaction7 | 03/30/06
Good, bad, ugly  zdnet reader | 03/30/06
Good Bad Ugly.  clockmendergb@... | 03/31/06
I'll have to eat this one!  zdnet reader | 05/19/06
hahaha  Mr.44 | 03/30/06
Bird flu genetic sequences could save lives.  EagleRiverWoman | 03/30/06
Not applicable  bigtex1969 | 03/31/06
real pirates  slave6oy | 03/31/06
Has anybody noticed the date?  jrothwell97 | 03/31/06
Maybe a Little Skewed?  MyChangedLife777 | 03/31/06
eGraverobbers?  reedjjjr | 03/31/06
WiFi is bad, too...  pablito@... | 03/31/06
Google accused of biopiracy? Baloney.  Scotius | 03/31/06
genitic piracy?  vehikl | 03/31/06
Sheesh...  DNSB | 03/31/06
Biopiracy  okItsfree2 | 04/01/06
What the hell -  neophyte1 | 04/03/06
USE WEBCRAWLER - NOT GOOGLE!  neophyte1 | 04/03/06
Google Biopiracy?!?!  Dumber_z | 05/21/06

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