{"id":192,"date":"2004-10-28T22:45:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T05:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2004-10-28T23:17:32","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T06:17:32","slug":"yahoo-news-homeland-security-agents-visit-toy-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/28\/yahoo-news-homeland-security-agents-visit-toy-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=816&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20041028\/ap_on_fe_st\/toy_store_homeland_security\">Yahoo! News<\/a> reports via the AP that a store owner in St. Helens, OR was recently called upon to remove a Rubik&#8217;s cube knockoff from her shelves by a pair of agents from the Homeland Security Office.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said agents went to Pufferbelly based on a trademark infringement complaint filed in the agency&#8217;s intellectual property rights center in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the things that our agency&#8217;s responsible for doing is protecting the integrity of the economy and our nation&#8217;s financial systems and obviously trademark infringement does have significant economic implications,&#8221; she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The copyright of the Rubik&#8217;s Cube, however, has expired, so the claim is false. As a matter of fact, items such as these have been in the market for several years now, so I&#8217;m wondering why the HS Office decided they needed to flex their muscles now. One wonders if this isn&#8217;t merely the first step in a broader campaign of control.<\/p>\n<p>Your government needs to be hit upside the head with a cluebat, folks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/writerep\/\">Write your Representatives<\/a> today and tell them you won&#8217;t stand for this kind of bullshit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! News reports via the AP that a store owner in St. Helens, OR was recently called upon to remove a Rubik&#8217;s cube knockoff from her shelves by a pair <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/28\/yahoo-news-homeland-security-agents-visit-toy-store\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}