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• On the post: RapidShare Hires Big DC Lobbying Firm To Convince Politicians That The RIAA/MPAA Are Lying About It

  

  Liam ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2010 @ 05:17am

  Re:

  Can't stop infringing material from being uploaded, they have takedown requests and do act upon them.

• On the post: How Wikileaks & Operation Payback Have Exposed Infrastructure That Should Be Decentralized, But Isn't

  

  Liam ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2010 @ 02:34pm

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  A p2p datacenter is an oxymoron.

• On the post: Apple Forces Removal Of Steve Jobs Action Figure

  

  Liam ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2010 @ 01:20am

  While apple didn't have stop these being produced, they do have a very defined brand image (high quality design, simplicity etc), and these figurines really do not fit in with that, and selling them in the apple stores would damage the brand image.

• On the post: As The Pirate Bay Guys Lose Their Appeal, When Does Google Regret Not Coming To Their Defense?

  

  Liam ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2010 @ 05:34am

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  As jay stated DMCA is an American law that applies to American companies. Suggesting TPB follow it is basically saying America as the right to impose it's laws around the world as it sees fit.

• On the post: Denial Of Service Attacks On RIAA & MPAA Are A Really Dumb Idea

  

  Liam ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2010 @ 05:49am

  Only a dumb idea...

  You need to assume the /b/tards are actually doing this for anymore then the lulz.

• On the post: A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose… Until Police See It On CCTV, Say It's A Knife & Throw You In Jail For 3 Months

  

  Liam ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2010 @ 08:56am

  Re: Thrown in jail for carrying a knife?

  yep, unless you have a good reason for it (part of job etc)

• On the post: A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose… Until Police See It On CCTV, Say It's A Knife & Throw You In Jail For 3 Months

  

  Liam ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2010 @ 08:55am

  Re: Re: Re:

  *threw
  
  I'm English and I have no idea what the hell a strumpet is..

• On the post: Iranian Government Running A Warez Server?

  

  Liam ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2010 @ 08:09am

  Re: Re: passworded

  I'm sure if they named the cruise missile "happy time flying dohicky" then that would make it better? a cruise missile is a cruise missile.

• On the post: The Car That's Driven 2.8 Million Miles

  

  Liam ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2010 @ 06:24am

  125 mile commute! I won't work 5 miles away from my home... lol

• On the post: UK Supermarket Starts Making Its Own Movies

  

  Liam ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2010 @ 02:28am

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  "Advertising seems to move wherever the attention is being paid."
  
  insightful stuff :p

• On the post: Oscar Winner Sues BBC & CBS For Copyright Infringement Of His Photo

  

  Liam ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2010 @ 04:54am

  Re: Re:

  Sorry to burst your bubble but one of my dad's friends was making his own 3D models and animations and the like in the early 90's. This was at home with only a personnel computer.
  
  Heck, before then with the amiga we had raytracing renderers.
  
  People seem to regularly exaggerate how far computing has come in the last 15 years.

• On the post: Is Emulating How A Piece Of Software Functions Copyright Infringement? UK Court Doesn't Think So…

  

  Liam ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2010 @ 06:39am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reverse Engineering Should be Infringement IF

  I don't know what sort of programs you are decompiling but if you are getting code back that is nearly identical to the original then you have got to be working on some pretty badly coded things.
  
  You would fine someone 10x the cost of the program for running it through a decompiler? Aren't you a nice guy.

• On the post: Is Emulating How A Piece Of Software Functions Copyright Infringement? UK Court Doesn't Think So…

  

  Liam ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2010 @ 06:36am

  Re: Re: Re: Reverse Engineering Should be Infringement IF

  But that was not the original source code, just what the decompiler created. It is impossible to get the original source code. No copyright on decompiled source code.

• On the post: Is Emulating How A Piece Of Software Functions Copyright Infringement? UK Court Doesn't Think So…

  

  Liam ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2010 @ 04:44am

  Re: Reverse Engineering Should be Infringement IF

  It's impossible to take an executable file and get the original source code. You can view it as assembly and see how it works, but you can never get to the original source code. So no copyright has been broken in reverse engineering software.

• On the post: Yet Again, Real Police Called Into Virtual World Over (Not Really) Theft Of Virtual Items

  

  Liam ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 09:16am

  Re: Virtual Insurance

  and more people start trying to get into other peoples accounts as a user can request new items based on their insurance, also, insurance scams would be laughably easy.

• On the post: Yet Again, Real Police Called Into Virtual World Over (Not Really) Theft Of Virtual Items

  

  Liam ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 08:55am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  but for habbo to work at all an artificial scarcity has to exist, for a lot of players a big part of the game is trading, and working with the rareity of items etc.
  
  There are many problems that arise if habbo would just give people the furniture back, ie what if someone traded with the scammer, and now they loose the furniture because it was "stolen goods", how do they get re compensated? This world is designed for young teenagers, how many false reports do you think would happen of they thought they could get free items?
  
  Virtual doesn't mean easy to fix without breaking the game dynamic..think this stuff through or at least learn what habbo is, what it does and who the users are before brushing it all off as "virtual".
  
  The lines are not blurred at all, real world money.

• On the post: Yet Again, Real Police Called Into Virtual World Over (Not Really) Theft Of Virtual Items

  

  Liam ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 08:20am

  Re: Re:

  how exactly? Also, it's only technically a game, it's simply supposed to be a graphical chat program, monetised through the sale of virtual items.

• On the post: Yet Again, Real Police Called Into Virtual World Over (Not Really) Theft Of Virtual Items

  

  Liam ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 07:59am

  Re: Re:

  Erm, if someone stole your ipod do you take it up with apple? Don't be ridiculous.
  
  real cost = real problem

• On the post: Yet Again, Real Police Called Into Virtual World Over (Not Really) Theft Of Virtual Items

  

  Liam ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 07:55am

  Re:

  At least someone understands the issues at hand here.
  Virtual doesn't mean free.

• On the post: Yet Again, Real Police Called Into Virtual World Over (Not Really) Theft Of Virtual Items

  

  Liam ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 07:51am

  Re: Bad programming

  Got nothing to do with the database.
  
  Trading is part of the game, if someone logs into your account and then transfers your furniture to another account, tell me how this is because of an insecure database.

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