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• On the post: LeakID And The DMCA Takedown Notice Farce

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 09:11am

  Re: Oh, I get it: content owners must stay in US and play fair...

  ...Except the part where offshore companies are, ya know, using the US laws directly via DMCA notices?

• On the post: Any Hint Of Evidence Based Copyright In The UK Seen As Nefarous Plot By Parliamentary Copyright Maximalists

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 08:40am

  Re: Unfortunately

  Que discrediting of the report because people just "feel" that it is wrong, and don't you "just know" that it is a nefarious plot!?
  
  After all, nothing goes further in this world than the feelings of politicians... Especially when they "feel" the need to get re-elected or appease their lobbyists... You just have to enjoy the "feel" of a good back scratching...

• On the post: LeakID And The DMCA Takedown Notice Farce

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2012 @ 08:37am

  Wow...

  So, apparently, the key to DMCA takedowns is:
  
  1) grep the internet
  2) don't filter the results
  3) issue and affirm takedowns
  4) ?????
  5) piracy stopped

• On the post: Making Sure Players Get The Best Experience Is More Important Than Worrying About How They Got The Game

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2012 @ 04:47am

  Also...

  I usually wait a few weeks after the game came out and check youtube for some let's play type videos and see what I think of the game and go from there. I bought Wolfenstein (2009) thanks to doing this, and I absolutely loved it.

• On the post: How Being Very Transparent May Have Saved A 'Failed' Kickstarter Project

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 09:34pm

  Nice...

  "But how will studios compete without being able to produce $100 million dollar games, Pirate Knight! Without shitty studio games with loads of bugs and hordes of DRM and DLC, how can the studios expect to recoup their costs they spent on creating DRM and DLC instead of shipping a product that worked!?
  
  ...Maybe we just need to charge for bug fixes. Yeah, that's it! You have to pay for perfection, right!
  
  Somebody write me up a patent! And trademark the sentence before the last! And let's extend copyright while we're at it, for the sake of the newly owned Mickey Mouse Star Wars franchise!"
  
  (I realize after typing this joke post that it seems slightly tangential... But it truly is a commentary on thinking outside the box.)

• On the post: CNN Counts Patents, Mistakes Them For Inventiveness

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2012 @ 04:44pm

  Re: Re: CNN Logic

  It is amazing, for all the "time" the 24-hour networks have, they sure as hell don't seem to have any time to do in-depth reporting on hard hitting issues that require real journalism.
  
  Instead let's show...
  
  "LIVE car chases! LIVE weather reports! LIVE... cats and dogs! Awwww, isn't that cute? What, follow the money, that takes time and effort we don't have -- there's cats and dogs to film, for cripes sake!"
  
  5 minutes worth of news for every 2 hours worth of commentary on the 24-hour news networks, IMO.

• On the post: Why DC And Silicon Valley Don't Mix Well

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2012 @ 04:41pm

  Re: Re: The mindset is just different

  One of these days I will remember to sign in when I make these quips.
  
  "HEY, I DIDN'T GET A HARUMPF OUT OF THAT GUY!"

• On the post: The 'Final' Sony PS3 Hack

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2012 @ 09:10pm

  Well...

  Well, I guess using a LV0 key is at least better than storing your user's data in plain text... *cough*
  
  Apparently they like their hardware platform more than they care about their customer's data, lol.

• On the post: Sticking It To The (Camera) Man: Inventor Develops License Plate Frame That Defeats Red Light Cameras

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2012 @ 06:00pm

  Re:

  This was my first thought, as well. Plus, I've already had paranoid thoughts of "what happens if I am doing an absolutely legal thing when the lights change, but they snap my picture and give me a ticket anyway -- how can I fight it!?". I'm sure more people would rather pay their ticket than fight against the brick wall of abuse of authority (all in the name of "money", errr... I mean "protection"...).

• On the post: Sticking It To The (Camera) Man: Inventor Develops License Plate Frame That Defeats Red Light Cameras

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2012 @ 05:58pm

  INCEPTION

  A camera within a camera within a dream...

• On the post: How Google's ContentID System Fails At Fair Use & The Public Domain

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2012 @ 03:07pm

  Hmmm...

  What I'm also wondering is... Are all of these places filing ContentID claims against each other for the same public domain footage as well? Because the cat-fight that would ensue there would be enough, in my mind, for some attention to get brought to this situation to start working on a fix.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Sues A Ton Of Amazon Resellers For Selling 'Counterfeit' DVDs

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2012 @ 05:18pm

  Re: Customer service is a different cost center.

  It's true. When even the legit product looks like piss, how is one to know?

• On the post: Outdated Compulsory Licensing Means Australian Schools Must Pay Millions To Use Free Internet Materials

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2012 @ 03:53am

  Lovely.

  "Sir, do you have a license for that?"
  
  "...It's free."
  
  "That's great. But do you have a license for it?"

• On the post: No, 99% Of All Filmmakers Shouldn't Crowdfund… But An Awful Lot Should Be Testing It Out

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2012 @ 03:51am

  Yes

  I feel like a person like Joss Whedon may be able to pull off crowdfunding very, very well...

• On the post: If This Is What Big Publishers Call Promotion, No Wonder They're In Trouble

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 04:42am

  Re: Re: I am disappointed.

  Then when they realize geocities is gone, they'll have to scramble to set up one of those pesky angelfire pages.

• On the post: Modding Video Games Is Good For The Original Game Creators And Future Game Developers

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 03:41pm

  Doom, anyone?

  Remember the good old days of Doom mods? Or heck, the current day version of that is basically like Half-Life 2 (the "Source" Engine) mods. So much fantastic stuff has been done...
  
  Of course, speaking of learning something... I think most of us that learned how to play guitar immediately went out and tried to learn how to play some of our favorite (though easier) songs. Then you take components of them and try your own spin on them (say... and alternate guitar solo or a variation on the core riffs). It's not like we sat down and tried to reinvent the wheel. Same premise with coding here.

• On the post: EA Settles Price Fixing Lawsuit For $27 Million; NFL Monopoly Left Intact

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2012 @ 02:04pm

  Re:

  If the penalty is always just a fraction of the reward (in this case, what, less than 5%?), then why in the hell would businesses ever STOP doing it?

• On the post: It's An Olympics Tradition: How Difficult Can NBC Universal Make It To Enjoy The Olympics?

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2012 @ 04:16pm

  This is the same sort of logic failure that causes CDs to be released in Europe an entire month different from when they are released in the US. But at least THEY can pretend to have a physical product/distributor excuse.

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

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2012 @ 09:11pm

  Re: Re: Speaking of which...

  Indeed. I've gotten Binding of Isaac and Left 4 Dead I & II so far.

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

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2012 @ 04:53pm

  Speaking of which...

  Speaking of "take my money", I'm sure the industry at large will ignore what I assume will be a truckload of money brought in by the Steam Summer Sale, as usual (I know I've already availed myself of the sale).
  
  More cries from the 'so called content industry' at large against piracy and a trumped up need for more annoyingly invasive DRM to follow.

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