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• On the post: Canadian Copyright Law Caps Statutory Damages At $5,000 Just As File Sharing Lawsuits Make Their Unwelcome Return

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2012 @ 09:29pm

  [i]Logan said his company has files on one million Canadians...[/i]
  
  Must not break Godwin's law... Must not break Godwin's law...

• On the post: Doubling Down On Secrecy: ITU Believes Secret Media Strategy Key To Avoiding SOPA/ACTA Fate

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2012 @ 11:14am

  I love it.

  If you want to find a group of people who know nothing about The Internet -- all you have to do is look at the people wanting to regulate it.

• On the post: The Internet Isn't Broken; So Why Is The ITU Trying To 'Fix' It?

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2012 @ 07:24am

  Re:

  Exactly. Their definition of "the internet is broken" consists of "it doesn't work exactly the way WE want it to! And therefore we must change it!".

• On the post: Case Against UCLA For Streaming Licensed DVDs To Students Dismissed Yet Again

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2012 @ 05:04pm

  Re: So, streaming okay, downloading and saving whole file not...

  I'm trying to reconcile your logic of calling those of us that buy digital property (ie. iTunes music, Steam games, etc.) "pirates" because we're not happy about the exact rules surrounding ownership of what was purchased.
  
  But then I realized that logic does not apply as far as you are concerned; and then it all made sense!

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

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2012 @ 08:06pm

  Ugh

  I was too busy playing Steam games I bought on the sale this week to make any funny comments. However, I did make sure to do thorough research and avoid as many games as possible with DRM, just on a matter of principle. Because stuff like that doesn't deserve my time at any price. I rather spend my hard earned money on other developers who don't try to activation limit or SecuROM the piss out of their offerings.
  
  And no, I'm not going to pirate them, either. I'm just not going to play them. Hey, what's that sound? Oh, it's the sound of DRM causing a developer to miss out on money and me to miss out on some culture (for the more popular games, anyway). Oh well, maybe I can stuff it in the pockets of some indie developers. Just like Binding of Isaac was a great choice last go round.

• On the post: UAE Clamps Down On The Internet

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 09:19pm

  Re: Quote time...

  *who it was by
  
  Gah, Engrish!

• On the post: UAE Clamps Down On The Internet

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 09:19pm

  Quote time...

  Paraphrasing a quote I have heard a couple of times that I think rings true in all of these censorship discussions (and if somebody knows the original quote or why it was by, please let me know)...
  
  "You can measure your freedom by seeing exactly who and what you aren't allowed to criticize."

• On the post: Democrats & Republicans Should Come Together To Support A Future Of Abundance

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2012 @ 04:16pm

  Re: Whoa, whoa, WHOA!

  *(LOGIC) and reason

• On the post: Democrats & Republicans Should Come Together To Support A Future Of Abundance

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2012 @ 04:15pm

  Whoa, whoa, WHOA!

  Hold on just a minute here... What in the hell do you think you're doing, trying to apply LOGIC to government and politics!?

• On the post: Cybersecurity Bill Fails To Move Forward In The Senate (Again)

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2012 @ 04:13pm

  Blazing Saddles

  "We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph!"
  
  *flash forward to after cloture vote failed*
  
  "I didn't get a 'harrumph' out of that guy!"
  
  *repeat the above, ad infinitum*

• On the post: It's Scary How Rapidly Government Requests For Info And Censorship Are Increasing

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2012 @ 04:58am

  Maybe we can get a logo "this video has been US government approved" or "personally sanitized by the great city of ".

• On the post: University Reprimands Reporter For Livetweeting Basketball Game

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 04:23pm

  Re:

  Especially considering how terrible most sports reporting is.
  
  It's almost as bad as the "professional" video game reviewers...

• On the post: 'Revenge Porn' Site Owners Escalate Their Failure, Going From Bogus DMCA Notices To Bogus Legal Threats

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 04:21pm

  Slightly modified yet appropriate movie quote time...

  They keep using those words... I do not think they mean what they think they mean.

• On the post: Blizzard Sued For Trying To Make Accounts More Secure

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 04:55am

  It could be worse... They could be like some other company that got off scott free storing their customer's passwords in plaintext.
  
  So if Blizzard gets nailed for this, it will be the most back-asswards precedent EVER.

• On the post: Maybe Internet Polls Aren't So Bad After All

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 04:49pm

  lol

  If you take an online poll about whether or not you believe that online polling is accurate, have you reached the end of the universe?

• On the post: Harry Reid Wants To Try One More Time To Force Cybersecurity Bill Through Congress

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 04:47pm

  Re:

  Indeed. Can you imagine the circus if only one party ruled all, and we had to suffer the end result of every one of their stupid ideas?

• On the post: AT&T Admits That The Whole 'Spectrum Crunch' Argument It Made For Why It Needed T-Mobile Wasn't True

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2012 @ 09:48am

  Re:

  Corporations are people. Except, when you know, shit that would ruin the average person wouldn't be convenient if they were held to the same standard.

• On the post: $6.6 Million Ruling Against Lyrics Site, Once Again, Shows How Short Sighted Music Industry Is

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2012 @ 09:43am

  This pisses me off.

  How lyric sites work for me:
  
  1) Buy actual CD
  2) Find out shitty insert has barely any liner notes or lyrics in it.
  3) Look them up online
  
  OR
  
  1) Hear song on the radio
  2) Look up phrase that catches my attention
  3) Figure out song to check our more from said artist
  
  But hey, if they want to keep fucking themselves, I'll just stick to the "rivers and the streams" that I'm used to...

• On the post: End Of Bogus Trademark Lawsuits Over AdWords In Sight

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 08:46pm

  Re: Ugh...

  Of course, I have the same thought when I see all of the money that is wasted on political campaigns... But -- oh well.

• On the post: End Of Bogus Trademark Lawsuits Over AdWords In Sight

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 08:43pm

  Ugh...

  And I sit here, on election night, and see all of these time and effort that winds up being absolutely fucking wasted on litigation instead of innovation and say to myself only... "What if?"...

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