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• On the post: Nathan Myhrvold: It's Ok To Kill Innovation If You're Also Killing Mosquitoes

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:15pm

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  Myhrvold probably forced some six year old into litigation and then claimed the cake as "justifiable compensation because....mosquitoes!"....

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:11pm

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  They AREN'T the same? then how come when I downloaded a movie every DVD of it on the planet suddenly turned blank?

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:10pm

  Later on Harold decides to buy a Zune (you at the back don't snigger).
  
  That gets stolen at the mall, and then Apple sues Microsoft and Harold because "Your product is just copying our ipod's stealability features"

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:07pm

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  British Police officers don't extradite people for ipod-related matters, they only beat middle aged men to death and then bribe the judge and the coroner to find them all not guilty.

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:06pm

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  It really depends.
  
  If the thief just stole your ipod, he goes to prison.
  
  But if he then throws the ipod at a woman in a nightclub, beats her senseless and then tries to blame her for "being in the way", then they just introduce you to Chris Browns agent and a four album deal...

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:05pm

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  I'd have thought the MPAA would just introduce a "mechanical theft-performance right" where you owe them $500 for having your ipod stolen.....

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:03pm

  Re: Re: Typo

  I wouldn't fix it...
  
  Prefects (in UK universities such as Oxford) tend to be spoiled rich kids who'd still steal your ipod just "because".

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:02pm

  Re: Sue

  You could, but apple will countersue because you are partially made of rounded corners......

• On the post: If I Were The MPAA… How I Would Deal With My Car Break-In

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:02pm

  so

  You wouldn't break into Harold Felds car on his driveway and steal his ipod...so why download a movie?
  
  There..that makes about as much sense as a typical RIAA press release..............

• On the post: It's Never Enough: Both RIAA & MPAA Aren't Satisfied With Google Punishing 'Pirate' Sites

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 03:00pm

  I remember

  A few years back, the CEO of British Telecom (Sir Peter Bonfield) pretty much summarized the entire attitude of the RIAA/MPAA.
  
  HE said (this is a quote) "Computers are a passing phase, soon everyone will go back to pencil and paper"
  
  He erased BILLIONS from BT's share price...and he's exactly the type of luddite that the RIAA and MPAA etc have on their board of directors.

• On the post: It's Never Enough: Both RIAA & MPAA Aren't Satisfied With Google Punishing 'Pirate' Sites

  

  hmm ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 02:57pm

  well

  Step 1. Get google to move "pirate" ranks downward
  
  Step 1b. Get google to ERASE "pirate" links entirely
  
  Step 2. Declare anyone who insults the RIAA/MPAA (i.e. techdirt) declared as a "pirate" site, and therefore removed from google.
  
  step 3. ?????
  
  step 4. Profit (when magically somehow everyone starts buying vinyl records/CDs etc again)

• On the post: Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK

  

  hmm ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2012 @ 05:38am

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  Did you complete the permission slips for asking for forgiveness?
  
  NO? didn't think so....have a lawsuit

• On the post: Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK

  

  hmm ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2012 @ 05:36am

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  You DO realize that that racist comment came from an EMI IP address right?
  
  Trying (and failing as they do at everything including the music business) to derail the conversation...
  
  Lord, how many times must Sony, EMI and Universal try to push unwanted topics off-track before they realize people will just vote them down into obliteration?

• On the post: TPP Text On Fair Use Leaks; US Proposals Are Really About Limiting Fair Use, Not Expanding It

  

  hmm ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2012 @ 05:12am

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  How absolutely disgraceful is it that most of the population has to resort to sneaking around to avoid their own government's ire?
  
  The US government no longer represents the people, and you know what the constituion says is a citizens duty when THAT little situation arises........

• On the post: TPP Text On Fair Use Leaks; US Proposals Are Really About Limiting Fair Use, Not Expanding It

  

  hmm ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2012 @ 05:09am

  easy way to win the election

  Simply run with a primary aim that ANY law or treaty that ISN'T made public before its signed/ratified isn't legally binding on the population.(a new constitutional amendment)
  
  This would obliterate pretty much all ACTA/TPP/SOPA type backroom deals, as it doesn't matter at all what happens, because the process isn't publicly available (including unredacted text) it wouldn't be constitutional.

• On the post: Not Wise: French T-Shirt Company Tries To Trademark Anonymous Logo

  

  hmm ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2012 @ 04:08pm

  Re: One more thing.

  Let's imagine Anonymous is a bear.
  HBGary is a small girl lost in the woods.
  
  Ignoring the bear won't work, because the little girl just wrote a massive thesis (using tree bark) on how she planned to disguise herself as a bear, sneak into the bears cave and skin any cubs she could find and sell the fresh, dripping skins to the local woodsman.
  
  The bear being smarter than the average - and also apparently able to read (suspension of disbelief is a wonderful thing) decided to beat the head of the little girl into mush before she could carry out her dastardly plan.......

• On the post: Not Wise: French T-Shirt Company Tries To Trademark Anonymous Logo

  

  hmm ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2012 @ 04:01pm

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  and make the RIAA weep bitter tears of frustration....yay!

• On the post: Not Wise: French T-Shirt Company Tries To Trademark Anonymous Logo

  

  hmm ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2012 @ 04:00pm

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  ACCUSE neo-nazi's of being closet homosexuals? you'd need to pry them apart from each others asses with a crowbar first........
  
  I eat yellow snow cones....mmmm lemon :)
  
  You don't need to go to North korea...buy a Kim Jong Il statue from amazon and shit on it from the comfort of your own home!
  
  As for crossing the border with Columbia's best are you referring to strapping yourself up with VHS tapes of the Care bears Movie and Mall Cop? because I'll shoot you myself before you get 3 feet outside Mexico City.....

• On the post: Not Wise: French T-Shirt Company Tries To Trademark Anonymous Logo

  

  hmm ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2012 @ 03:52pm

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  just hijack an existing lawsuit and change the wording on the court servers...................

• On the post: Not Wise: French T-Shirt Company Tries To Trademark Anonymous Logo

  

  hmm ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2012 @ 03:51pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Popcorn time...

  What would be awesome is to get a bunch of maybe 300 friends together who have similiar likes/dislikes.
  
  Then for each movie, ONE person goes to see it, and the others refuse to go if they think its crap then someone else takes a turn for.....oh wait people are doing that already?
  
  Damn now I can't copyright/patent and trademark the concep....oh wait yes I can, thank god for retarded IP laws........

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