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• On the post: Toronto Mayor Wants Residents To Report Graffiti Via iPhone, And Pay For The Privilege

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2012 @ 06:14am

  Re: TO has much larger problems to deal with

  Mmm, yes, I can see that the lack of success in sports is by far a bigger problem than graffiti.

• On the post: What Do You Get When You Strip Patent Illustrations From All Context?

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2012 @ 04:49am

  I need these on a t-shirt like, now.

• On the post: HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 02:45pm

  Re:

  So what I'm getting from the previous comments is.. No sorry, I don't understand. What is it that HBO doesn't have? The previous 20+ posts were unclear. Perhaps another 30 and I might understand what the replies are getting at.

• On the post: Why Do Copyright Industry Profits Get To Be The Yardstick For Civil Liberties?

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2012 @ 02:01pm

  Put simply - I don't give a damn about your profits and I don't see why I should.

• On the post: Court Says That Copying Code Is Not Really Theft Under The Law

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2012 @ 01:51pm

  Re: Re: Bend over and grease it up greedtards

  de?prive/diˈprīv/
  Verb: Deny (a person or place) the possession or use of something.
  
  Me? None of it. You, however, seem a bit confused.

• On the post: Court Says That Copying Code Is Not Really Theft Under The Law

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2012 @ 01:15pm

  Re:

  Looking past your assumption that everyone here is a pirate, I must point out I don't rip people off. If I was going to buy the stuff, I would've bought it. There's times I've bought the DVD then damaged it/lost it/it was stolen and as I'm not going to pay for the same thing twice, pirated it. Or moving house and I don't want to cart all the clunky DVDs and cases around, I pirate stuff I ALREADY LEGALLY OWN for convenience.
  
  I download pre-synced Rifftraxed films in a torrent. I already bought the original DVD (or got it as a present) and I buy the Rifftrax mp3 from their site. The only reason I torrent it as well is because I'm lazy and can't be bothered to sync it all up. How am I ripping people off when I legally obtained both items?

• On the post: Copyfraud: Techdirt Book Club Selection For April, Part Two

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2012 @ 04:14pm

  Mashups.. now we're talking! Girl Talk is an interesting example though - while his songs use samples that last just a few seconds and so could be considered fair use, there are plenty other mashup producers (myself included) who use samples that are substantially longer, most of the time the full song. Of course, one can (and does) argue that they are derivative, non-commerical uses of the original works, but I've no idea how well that'd stand up in court. Interesting area, to be sure.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2012 @ 01:08pm

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  So the fact that the copyright laws (according to your logic) effectively never benefit the nation any more (life + 70) is by the by, then?

• On the post: National Highway Transportation Safety Agency Says You Can Keep Your GPS — As Long As It's Completely Useless

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 11:23am

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  Complicated? Psshh.. perhaps in the days of yore when you had to double-pump the clutch to change gear, maybe. But with todays syncros, it's really quite easy..
  
  Heheh..

• On the post: National Highway Transportation Safety Agency Says You Can Keep Your GPS — As Long As It's Completely Useless

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 10:12am

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  At least in the UK, if you have an automatic licence, that's all you can drive - it's illegal to drive a manual on public roads. The other way round (manual licence, auto car) is fine though.

• On the post: National Highway Transportation Safety Agency Says You Can Keep Your GPS — As Long As It's Completely Useless

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 09:58am

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  And the meatspace dynamic map of reality.

• On the post: UK Entertainment Industry: Fair Use Hurts Economic Growth

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 08:07am

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  The only thing that's improved in those centuries is the availability, amount, and ease of ways of RECORDING creativity. The 1200s weren't exactly known for their DVDs and stuff, whereas now, we can immortalise creativity in just about any way - on a DVD, a CD, in a book, a text file, a photograph, a painting, a song.. the list is endless.
  
  The only reason there's more recorded creativity in the latter years is because of the abundance of recording mediums the former century lacked. Are you seriously suggesting that literally, the only creativity in the 1200s is what was recorded?

• On the post: UK Entertainment Industry: Fair Use Hurts Economic Growth

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2012 @ 06:07am

  While this plainly ridiculous and absurd and I roll my eyes and everything, the thing that stood out most to me was your comment about mashups. Mainly because I'm a mashup producer. May seem stupid, but I grinned like a Cheshire Cat when I read that..

• On the post: In The UK They Jail People For Being Obnoxious Jerks On Twitter?

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2012 @ 11:44am

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  But then, he also said "To hold a pen is to be at war" so god knows what he's on about.
  
  (ignoring the fact that he probably never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it")

• On the post: The Trademarking Of Trayvon Martin: A Sad Statement Of Our Times

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2012 @ 09:30am

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  And the fact that people think someone has to is good because...?

• On the post: The Trademarking Of Trayvon Martin: A Sad Statement Of Our Times

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2012 @ 09:29am

  Re: wait a second

  You really think if people were going to try and sell merch and profit off a kids death, they'd get to the TM issue and say 'oh well that's that plan scuppered then!'
  
  Bullshit - as always, people would come up with a way to work around things; in this case, trademark. Either by spelling his name Treyvon or by using 'Trayvon Needs Justice' or something like that.

• On the post: Decades-Old UK Pub 'The Hobbit' Threatened With Legal Action For Infringing On Hobbit IP

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 06:54am

  It's ludicrous. The pub has been around since waaaaay before Jackson films, they should be allowed to keep the name.

• On the post: Since The RIAA & MPAA Say That A Copy Is Just As Valuable As The Original, Send Them A Copy Of Money

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 03:40pm

  Re: Copies

  And it's exactly the same as a downloading a film - it's similar to, but not exactly like, watching a store-bought DVD. Mainly the actual physical part of it, which incidentally is the same difference here. They're not looking to replicate money exactly and a pirated film is not an exact replica of a Hollywood-endorsed one.
  
  Seems a perfect solution to me.

• On the post: Since The RIAA & MPAA Say That A Copy Is Just As Valuable As The Original, Send Them A Copy Of Money

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 02:48pm

  Uh-oh, I sense another semantics argument coming..
  
  "It's counterfeiting!", "scans and digital copies of notes isn't counterfeiting!"

• On the post: DailyDirt: Open Source Robots

  

  hfbs ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 02:15am

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  How many bipedal walking robots existed in the 60s? If you ask me, walking is pretty easy to do.

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