When they say that people who infringe IP are terrorists, isn't that just the same as when the police shout "stop resisting" when they're aggressively subduing someone who isn't resisting arrest?
I recently had the cracked screen on my iPad replaced in a local repair shop. This is in England, and cost me GB£80. If I had got Apple to fix it the cost would have been a billion times that. I knew it wasn't a genuine Apple screen, and the glue they used to stick it all back together hasn't proved to be anything like that used by Apple, but it was very much a deliberate act on my part to not engage Apple and their stupendous pricing in getting my device repaired.
$275,000 to a Muslim heathcare center in Detroit
$150,000 an Arab American Museum in Dearborn
$25,000 to the lead plaintiff
$250,000 for attorney's fees
Why would anyone be surprised that the lawyers did everything they could to get Moughni to shut up and stop complaining.
If home.dk think that The Home Office are a commercial competitor, then yes, they can be expected to misuse this misguided web blocking system. It's just corporate protectionism.
I wonder whether the story of Pastor Mimi Asher has something to offer - she dismantled a London gang by feeding them and showing motherly love.
I appreciate there are a million differences between this and radical terrorists, but the idea is to confront something you hate with love instead of more hate.
After hearing that the prime minister of New Zealand gave away $150,000,000 of public money to Warner Brothers in exchange for a toy sword so that they can be freed up to earn $3,000,000,000 from The Hobbit I think you'll agree that we shouldn't castigate Richard O'Dwyer - relative to that little bit of trickery he ranks somewhere between Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the Archangel Gabriel.
Is it possible to simply apply a "Mike" filter when I'm browsing the comments on Techdirt. Every comment that starts "Mike" seems to be written by some fucking nutter who should go out and get a proper job.
As for me, I'm going to go back to the important job of stacking the cat muzzle shelf at the Glastonbury Tor gift shop.
The IQ Block Country Wordpress plugin allows you block traffic relating to a particular country. As a form of protest it would be pretty easy for people to deny visits to their website from people in Germany.
The biggest thing that comes out of those numbers is that bands who make money out of merchandise and concert tickets should absolutely love people who do p2p - they are the customers who will make the bands rich - they should do everything they can to encourage them and show they love them in every possible way. Any hint that they dislike them would directly cut into their profits.
Having briefly looked at their website I see that the NLA is a private company created by UK's eight national newspapers to protect their interests that arise from copyright law. They don't seem to have powers delegated to them by parliament. The thing that worries me is that I don't see what's stopping them from saying it's not just copyrights relating to physical newspapers - they also control rights relating to their online equivalents. And it's not just music, it could relate to any area of interest in which they publish. And why stop with PR agencies? At which point, if you Tweet the headline of an article from an online paper, then would the NLA expect to charge you for having published that Tweet?
Weirdly, Apple seem to think that if they employ some mildly clever technical bullshit to take the piss out of the judges that they will never realise. They seem to think that the army of savvy techies out there will side with them. But they are actually siding with the judges and pointing out every tiny detail of the way they are being mocked by Apple.
Everyone is getting out the popcorn waiting to see in what way the judges demonstrate their authority. And they have to - the judiciary can't tolerate being held in contempt.
But Apple's big miscalculation might be that they are turning their own customers against them. They are sabotaging the Apple brand.
If everyone in a club were to wear headphones playing their own music, but synced to a timecode that unifies the beat would GEMA have any basis on which to levy charges?
Surely someone can invent a way of letting the party continue?
I don't get this...
If someone hovered a drone outside my bedroom window I'd knock their block off!
Stop resisting!
When they say that people who infringe IP are terrorists, isn't that just the same as when the police shout "stop resisting" when they're aggressively subduing someone who isn't resisting arrest?
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I recently had the cracked screen on my iPad replaced in a local repair shop. This is in England, and cost me GB£80. If I had got Apple to fix it the cost would have been a billion times that. I knew it wasn't a genuine Apple screen, and the glue they used to stick it all back together hasn't proved to be anything like that used by Apple, but it was very much a deliberate act on my part to not engage Apple and their stupendous pricing in getting my device repaired.
$250,000 attorney's fees
Wow:
$275,000 to a Muslim heathcare center in Detroit
$150,000 an Arab American Museum in Dearborn
$25,000 to the lead plaintiff
$250,000 for attorney's fees
Why would anyone be surprised that the lawyers did everything they could to get Moughni to shut up and stop complaining.
Here is an infographic explaining why the lawyers should have received more.
Re: The UK has....
If home.dk think that The Home Office are a commercial competitor, then yes, they can be expected to misuse this misguided web blocking system. It's just corporate protectionism.
Pastor Mimi Asher
I wonder whether the story of Pastor Mimi Asher has something to offer - she dismantled a London gang by feeding them and showing motherly love.
I appreciate there are a million differences between this and radical terrorists, but the idea is to confront something you hate with love instead of more hate.
It is a matter of the greatest regret
that I bought Hurt Locker on iTunes before I realised that such a terrible company was behind it.
Re: Re: NOT IN STOCK
How droll.
NOT IN STOCK
2XL DMCA Tee - not in stock. I have never found it to be in stock.
Re: NETTED ONLY an illegal L125,000 then!
After hearing that the prime minister of New Zealand gave away $150,000,000 of public money to Warner Brothers in exchange for a toy sword so that they can be freed up to earn $3,000,000,000 from The Hobbit I think you'll agree that we shouldn't castigate Richard O'Dwyer - relative to that little bit of trickery he ranks somewhere between Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the Archangel Gabriel.
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I plan to donate £10 a month to Richard O'Dwyer.
Re: Gov't spying IS bad, and "Dotcom" IS a grifter! Not mutually exclusive.
Is it possible to simply apply a "Mike" filter when I'm browsing the comments on Techdirt. Every comment that starts "Mike" seems to be written by some fucking nutter who should go out and get a proper job.
As for me, I'm going to go back to the important job of stacking the cat muzzle shelf at the Glastonbury Tor gift shop.
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Am I the only person who doesn't think Kim Dotcom is a slimeball?
Block country?
The IQ Block Country Wordpress plugin allows you block traffic relating to a particular country. As a form of protest it would be pretty easy for people to deny visits to their website from people in Germany.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Selling a vinyl copy is more TV show staging, not relevant.
Commercial scale is when someone notices that you are earning money and wants it for themselves.
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The sole purpose of the USPTO is to stifle progress.
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The biggest thing that comes out of those numbers is that bands who make money out of merchandise and concert tickets should absolutely love people who do p2p - they are the customers who will make the bands rich - they should do everything they can to encourage them and show they love them in every possible way. Any hint that they dislike them would directly cut into their profits.
(untitled comment)
Having briefly looked at their website I see that the NLA is a private company created by UK's eight national newspapers to protect their interests that arise from copyright law. They don't seem to have powers delegated to them by parliament. The thing that worries me is that I don't see what's stopping them from saying it's not just copyrights relating to physical newspapers - they also control rights relating to their online equivalents. And it's not just music, it could relate to any area of interest in which they publish. And why stop with PR agencies? At which point, if you Tweet the headline of an article from an online paper, then would the NLA expect to charge you for having published that Tweet?
(untitled comment)
Weirdly, Apple seem to think that if they employ some mildly clever technical bullshit to take the piss out of the judges that they will never realise. They seem to think that the army of savvy techies out there will side with them. But they are actually siding with the judges and pointing out every tiny detail of the way they are being mocked by Apple.
Everyone is getting out the popcorn waiting to see in what way the judges demonstrate their authority. And they have to - the judiciary can't tolerate being held in contempt.
But Apple's big miscalculation might be that they are turning their own customers against them. They are sabotaging the Apple brand.
(untitled comment)
If everyone in a club were to wear headphones playing their own music, but synced to a timecode that unifies the beat would GEMA have any basis on which to levy charges?
Surely someone can invent a way of letting the party continue?