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  • On the post: Pure Scamming Copyright Troll Implies It's A Gov't Agency And That You Will Face Jail Time If You Don't Pay Up

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2013 @ 11:55am

    Seems like legal scamming mastermind Alan Cooper is up to his old tricks again... I feel bad for Brett Gibbs and poor John Steele who are clearly the victims in all of this. David Walsh is probably just another of Cooper's aliases. Perhaps Prenda can hire Tara Carreon to do a little PR and try to get their image back on track.

    Shame on you Mr. Cooper!

  • On the post: RIAA: Google Isn't Trying Hard Enough To Make Piracy Disappear From The Internet

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2013 @ 10:40am

    Re: Re: It's just a search engine

    As long as those hundreds are the label heads of the RIAA members and their pet politicians, then I fully support this plan and would be willing to invest to help get the ball rolling! ;)

  • On the post: RIAA: Google Isn't Trying Hard Enough To Make Piracy Disappear From The Internet

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2013 @ 10:36am

    Re: Re: Re: Deja vu all over again: "Yesterday, we pointed out that..."

    This!

    I rarely agree with our resident special olympics winner, but OOTB is on point with the spying allegation, albeit with an additional dose of zealotry. I also do what I can to minimize the information that Google can collect about me, because I have no idea who they are selling it to, and what those 3rd parties are doing with it. I think it's a shame that the average computer user has no idea that a lot of this data collecting is even happening much less the extent of how personal the information actually is.

  • On the post: Dead Kennedys Guitarist Joins Crusade Against Ad Networks & YouTube Despite Understanding Neither

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2013 @ 05:26pm

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    LMFAO

    I can actually see you frothing at the mouth while you mash through keyboard after keyboard trying to get the post complete. AAARRRGGGHHH MASNIK!!!1!!

  • On the post: Dead Kennedys Guitarist Joins Crusade Against Ad Networks & YouTube Despite Understanding Neither

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2013 @ 02:53pm

    Re:

    That's a pretty decent attempt at trolling...

    7 out of 10

    Misplaced sarcasm - Check
    Link to something irrelevant to what the actual article is discussing - Check
    Google hatred - Check
    Ad Homs against the author - Check, Check, Check, and Check
    Buzzword: Sycophants - Check with a bonus point for bringing it back from last years graveyard

    Needs more Big Search and a little more hate against the rest of the techdirt community. Most of us unwashed heathens don't even know what a sycophant is... Also, more current buzzwords and throwing in 2 or 3 would be required to get a perfect score... Keep trying, though. You'll get there, tiger!

  • On the post: Illinois Politician Seeks To Outlaw Anonymous Comments (But Allow Anonymous Gun Ownership)

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 01:32pm

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    http://www.amazon.com/Hydrofarm-SLPSG400-Peruvian-Seabird-Pounds/dp/B002JLCFBA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361309519&sr=8-2&keywords=guano+fertilizer

    :D

  • On the post: HADOPI May Be Succeeding — In Driving French Customers To Dotcom's Mega

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 12:02pm

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    I don't think the word "obsessed" means what you think it means...

    If you are asking why it's newsworthy, well that's pretty obvious to even a moron in a hurry. When a country passes draconian legislation based on lobbying and not research, and that legislation is costing millions in taxpayer's dollars, and the legislation is shown to not have the effect that it was intended for, this is newsworthy... period. French citizens should be interested in this article as it shows a complete waste of their tax dollars in addition to a curtailment of their rights at the expense of a dying industry, and the rest of the world should be interested as well before they decide to waste the tax dollars of their citizens on a similar proposal equally destined for failure.

    Hopefully that clears it up for you, but if even those words were too large for you to comprehend, next time I can try explaining it with a popup book.

  • On the post: Google Looks To Cut 'Funding' To 'Illegal' Sites It Doesn't Fund In The First Place

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 10:27am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Correction... he's a wanna be lawyer that is supposedly still in law school but based on his post history he has almost no grasp of actual legal concepts and he seems to study at the Monty Python School of Arguing...

  • On the post: Bestselling Author Of Children's Books Accuses Public Libraries Of Stealing His Paychecks

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 09:52am

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    I was kind of thinking the same thing. Maybe we should all go to the libraries, check out his books, and then not return them and pay the fine to make sure he gets less exposure... security through obscurity!

  • On the post: New Research: Extending Copyright Massively Increases Prices, Limits Dissemination Of Knowledge

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2013 @ 01:57pm

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    This was the way the original copyright system worked... You filed for copyright and paid a fee if you felt the work could be successfully monetized. 14 years later, if you felt you could still monetize the content, you could pay another fee and renew the granted monopoly rights. This made sense. Hell, I wouldn't even mind if you could continually renew the copyright for as long as you felt you could monetize the work provided you have to actively renew it and pay a non-trivial fee for each renewal.

    There is so much culture no longer being monetized that is locked up from the public, removing their ability to build and expand upon it, and those that would lock up this culture are granted this ability automatically and for free. This is a perversion of the original intent of copyright, wouldn't you say?

  • On the post: Obama Administration, Once Again, Says $222,000 For Sharing 24 Songs Is Perfectly Reasonable

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2013 @ 09:53am

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    1000 x This!

    As an ordinary person who is not a lawyer, the only thing that I can say with absolute certainty is that if the law allows for this punishment to be permissible, then the law is wrong and needs to be fixed. No amount of defending this verdict is ever going to make the public agree with it or respect copyright any more than they already do.

  • On the post: Teri Buhl Threatens To Sue Us And Others; Still Seems Confused About The Law

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2013 @ 02:54pm

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    Duh... She's a "journo". Now prepare to be added to the lawsuit for libel for daring to insult her and and her work as journalism!

  • On the post: Patent Troll Says It Owns Podcasting; Sues Adam Carolla, HowStuffWorks

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2013 @ 10:37am

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    Please stop calling the Diamond Rio an ipod, and please never capitalize a letter directly following a lowercase "i".

    Thank you, that will be all.

    (PS - I agree with your analysis of the frivolity of this patent's issuance. The prior art to these claims is so ridiculously obvious the only explanation is that all USPTO examiners must be required to have been Amish hermits immediately preceding their USPTO appointments.)

  • On the post: How Much Does HBO Pay MarkMonitor To Send DMCA Notices Removing Its Official Content From Google?

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2013 @ 01:31pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    lmao... check your snowflake, sweetheart ;)

  • On the post: More Prenda Insanity: Lawyer Claims Defendant Erased Infringing Activity Using A Registry Cleaner, Citing A Single EHow Submission

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2013 @ 04:02pm

    Op Gibbs?

    Am I the only person that is beginning to think there is no real Brett Gibbs and this has all been an elaborate trolling operation by 4chan or reddit? You seriously can't make this shit up!

  • On the post: One Of The Funniest S#*$r B$@l Ads You'll See This Year Makes Fun Of NFL Trademarks

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2013 @ 02:09pm

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    Better call Saul! We'll turn your addiction into a prescription!

  • On the post: Richard Marx And How Not To Act In The Internet Era

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 01:50pm

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    See, he said he didn't have a problem with you insulting his music, just with insulting him directly...

    You have a limp dick, Marx!

    FTFY :D

    And, yeah... anytime I hear his music my testicles crawl up into my stomach and won't come out if they see their shadow.

  • On the post: NZ Copyright Tribunal: Accusations Are Presumed Infringement, Despite Denials

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 01:42pm

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    The problem with your presumption is that let's say she didn't admit to the single infringement because she didn't actually do it... She could say I didn't download those files. They could check her hard drive and see that they weren't there. She still would have been found guilty based on the explanation given by the tribunal because they basically said that accusation equals infringement. This is what we're reacting to.

  • On the post: 10 Years Later: Antigua May Finally (Really) Set Up Official 'Pirate' Site To Get Back What US Owes In Sanctions

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2013 @ 01:52pm

    Re: Re: Be transparent...

    I was thinking the same thing. Since 21 Million is a drop in the bucket to a national economy, and since the loses to Antigua's economy was probably an order of magnitude higher, I'm hoping they use this site as a big FU to the US and make it something ridiculous like a dollar a month, or even a year. Ensuring that the most amount of people access the most content possible before hitting the 21M limit should be their only priority.

  • On the post: Aaron Swartz's Death Leads To Public Attention Towards Prosecutorial Overreach

    Franklin G Ryzzo ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2013 @ 01:30pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    And beyond that, the moderation is community driven and not done at the whim of administrators. My understanding is that once a comment gets enough votes it becomes funny, insightful, or reported unlike other comment sections where the moderators or authors blatantly censor what they don't want to see. We as a community at techdirt decide when something should removed and then it's still just a click away.

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