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• On the post: Patent Holders Trying To Drag 3rd Parties Into Patent Disputes

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2011 @ 06:29am

  Patent,Trademark, Copyright, License

  A 12 year old girl opens a lemonade stand, and uses a picture printed from a Google search of lemonade. The photo shows a bottle of Mike's next to a lemon. The girl sets up her stand, copying the layout from the Sunkist site, and using her parents Iphone, she advertises the stand hours on Craigs List. A sex offender sees the ad and comes by, the parents tell him to move on.
  The police come and shut down her stand for not having a license, then discover the Mikes picture and the Craig's list ad and prosecute Mike's Hard Lemonade executives and her parents for child endangerment. It makes the local news. Mike's takes note and her parents are sued for trademark violations. Patent and copyright lawyers from Sunkist subpoena the parents for business process patents and copyright violations.The prosecutor decides that Craig's list should be criminally liable for endangering the 12 year old and goes after them as well, when they discover someone has commented about the 12 year old advertising with her parents account, the user is summoned to court to testify on computer fraud, hacking, and the parents are hauled off to jail. Later the user that commented arrested for contributory negligence. HTC is sued by Apple for no reason. HTC sues HP for no reason.

• On the post: SEC Told Pandora To Be More Explicit In Its IPO That Its Business Is Likely Unsustainable Due To Crazy Licensing Rates

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2011 @ 05:06am

  Music

  I've bought more tunes listening to Pandora than at any other time. Pandora, Netflix - The business models that would actually work for the RIAA and the MPAA, being shot down by the lords of idiocy.

• On the post: If Even The Death Penalty Won't Stop Infringement… Perhaps A Different Approach Is Needed

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2011 @ 12:24pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  You do know that the French were pivotal in the American revolution? Without them, we would still saying things like "Jolly good!" and "I say old chap!".

• On the post: California Appeals Court Strikes Down Law That Required DNA Samples From Everyone Arrested

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2011 @ 06:31am

  Re:

  It seems like correlation is all we need these days.

• On the post: California Appeals Court Strikes Down Law That Required DNA Samples From Everyone Arrested

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2011 @ 06:27am

  Re: Can't have a proper police state without it.

  Jeebus. Did you see the missiles hit the WTC too?

• On the post: Google Being More Aggressive About Bad Patents; But Should It Go Even Further?

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2011 @ 07:41am

  GOOD NEWS!

  Techdirt has had some very upbeat news lately. I hope it keeps rolling. Still waiting for Netflix to announce they've bought HBO.

• On the post: Irony: FBI Says Apple Letting You Remotely Kill iPhones They've Taken Is 'Big Brother-ish'

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2011 @ 07:10am

  Firehose

  I have a "firehose". But it's biological data, and the only way the Feds can have it is by swallowing.

• On the post: The Absurdity Of Comparing Copying To Stealing

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 10:18am

  Re: Re: If Copying is Theft

  King James that is.

• On the post: The Absurdity Of Comparing Copying To Stealing

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 10:16am

  Re: If Copying is Theft

  The bible is a translated copy.

• On the post: The Absurdity Of Comparing Copying To Stealing

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 10:00am

  Theft

  "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
  
  Winston Churchill
  
  Mine now.

• On the post: Kim Kardashian Sues Old Navy For Hiring Actress Who Looks Like Her

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2011 @ 09:52am

  Re: Is this now a gossip blog?

  Why are you here?

• On the post: Celine Dion Shuts Down Blog Of Ridiculous Pictures

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2011 @ 09:46am

  Re:

  How much thought did you really put into that critique? I mean really? It's to find a relationship to a blog being taken down because of publicity rights, and Techdirt?

• On the post: Celine Dion Shuts Down Blog Of Ridiculous Pictures

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2011 @ 09:42am

  Re: So sad. So important. So in keeping with your charter:

  Need to go bitch on government sites, replacing "charter" with "constitution".

• On the post: After Watching This Video, Can Anyone Say That Remix Isn't An Act Of A Musician?

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2011 @ 06:21pm

  Re:

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  Did not watch the Remix video

• On the post: After Watching This Video, Can Anyone Say That Remix Isn't An Act Of A Musician?

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2011 @ 06:17pm

  Re: ugh

  The 1970s are calling. Gibberish, hello?

• On the post: Copyright Troll John Steele Insists That 70-Year Old Is Responsible For Porn Downloads… Even If Someone Else Used WiFi

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2011 @ 05:49pm

  Re: Re:

  Open wifi, third party usage, what's the difference if you don't even know what open wifi is? This is something the courts generally recognize, outside the contract. If a bunch of real pervs tried this defense before, millions of times, it might make things hard for her.

• On the post: Court Refuses To Issue Injunction Stopping Secret Web Spycams From Running On Rental Laptops

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2011 @ 11:30am

  Moon

  Use webcam special effects software and overlay a pic of a very hairy moon, or ball sack. A gif would be even better.

• On the post: Who Do You Trust On Whether Or Not PROTECT IP Will Break The Internet? The Guys Who Built It… Or The MPAA?

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 11:15am

  Re: So....

  It remains. Just like the universal tax...

• On the post: Vague Law + Vindictive Law Enforcement? Hide Your Veggies!

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 07:27am

  Video

  What about imbedding a video showing how to plant a vegetable garden in their front yard? Double trouble!

• On the post: How The Patent System Is Like A Broken Web Cache

  

  Howard the Duck ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2011 @ 07:27am

  Innovatards

  Do they have a integrated board where we can call the innovators names and blow the discussion up?

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