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• On the post: Malibu Media Copyright Troll Wakes The Beast In Trying To Push Verizon Around

  

  WDS ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2015 @ 02:36pm

  Re: Re:

  They allege that there were several different packages on the machine, and that there was no evidence that any of them were on the machine until just before he turned the drive over to them for inspection.
  
  The flaw in their credibility is they make that claim about a piece of software that comes bundled on his brand of laptop, as well as the other pieces of software.

• On the post: Apple Bans Non-Graphic, VR Representation Of Ferguson Shooting For No Coherent Reason

  

  WDS ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2015 @ 11:46am

  Malware

  Maybe after this weekends news, Apple should work more on keeping apps with malware out of their store, instead of spending so much time trying to nanny their users.

• On the post: Berners-Lee Urges Britons To Fight The Snooper's Charter, But For One UK Tech Company It's Too Late

  

  WDS ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2015 @ 12:30pm

  The Problem

  Unfortunately, both the UK government and the US government think that the problem isn't that they are invading our privacy, but that someone had the nerve to reveal it to us so we know.

• On the post: Sony Uses Copyright To Force Verge To Takedown Its Copy Of Sony's Spotify Contract

  

  WDS ( profile ), 26 May, 2015 @ 02:13pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I'm marking you a funny. I wish I could tell if Gwiz was playing along with you, or if he missed the entire point.

• On the post: Cable Execs Refuse To Offer Better TV Bundle Options Because Consumers Already Enjoy All The 'Value' They Can Handle

  

  WDS ( profile ), 14 May, 2015 @ 09:02am

  Re: Defending

  There is plenty of blame to go around. While I think some (most? all?) of the disputes between content providers and the distributors are ridiculous, you don't have to do much digging to find a whole lot of bloat on the bill that is strictly from the cable company.
  
  For instance I can't watch things on my DVR on my other TV, because they wanted to not only charge me a per month fee to turn on the feature on my DVR, but wanted to charge me a monthly network fee, that was basically charging me to allow them to send signal across my wire in my home network that both receivers were already connected to.
  
  Both sides of the industry are trying their best to ignore the fact that the current method is going to change, it only remains to be seen who will be a part of it, and who will dry up and blow away, while crying the modern equivalent of "Why isn't anyone buying my buggy whips?"

• On the post: DEA Takes $16,000 From Train Passenger Because It Can

  

  WDS ( profile ), 11 May, 2015 @ 01:21pm

  Re: The DEA obviously had good cause.

  The site read my end sarcasm mark as a real HTML tag and deleted it.

• On the post: DEA Takes $16,000 From Train Passenger Because It Can

  

  WDS ( profile ), 11 May, 2015 @ 01:19pm

  The DEA obviously had good cause.

  I bet if you the full details were know, almost all of the money was in hundreds and twenties. Everybody know those or a drug dealers favorite bill.

• On the post: Copyright Troll Gets Fed; Resumes Torrent Lawsuits After Multiple Dismissals Led To A 19-Month Pause In Filings

  

  WDS ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2015 @ 01:40pm

  Re: Profit Calculations

  When you see their, think there.

• On the post: Copyright Troll Gets Fed; Resumes Torrent Lawsuits After Multiple Dismissals Led To A 19-Month Pause In Filings

  

  WDS ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2015 @ 08:03am

  Re: Re:

  Tim,
  
  I hope your comment is merely a shout out to DTD & SJD for the work that they do, and not an actual intent to leave it to them. We need as many voices shouting about this BS as we can get.

• On the post: Copyright Troll Gets Fed; Resumes Torrent Lawsuits After Multiple Dismissals Led To A 19-Month Pause In Filings

  

  WDS ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2015 @ 07:50am

  Re:

  And I might check it out if Chartier hadn't started the speculative invoicing scheme. As it is now though, I refuse to do anything that might resemble supporting his work. Even though it will not change the amount of money he will receive, "Dallas Buyers Club" in now on (or was recently) a premium movie channel that I subscribe to, and I still won't watch it.

• On the post: Copyright Troll Gets Fed; Resumes Torrent Lawsuits After Multiple Dismissals Led To A 19-Month Pause In Filings

  

  WDS ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2015 @ 07:41am

  Re: "I blew my foot off, but it's your fault I'm bleeding!"

  The 8 million number was in relation to "Hurt Locker", not "Killer Joe". That doesn't change the logic of your argument, that if you don't make it available people can't watch it.

• On the post: Copyright Troll Gets Fed; Resumes Torrent Lawsuits After Multiple Dismissals Led To A 19-Month Pause In Filings

  

  WDS ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2015 @ 01:39pm

  Profit Calculations

  I'm not sure we can say the only income they had was from these two default judgements. On the cases where they were allowed to serve the ISP and got a response, were their any single ip dismissals that would indicate someone who settled based on the threat letters.

• On the post: Major Record Labels Use Lawsuit Against MP3Skull To Try To Backdoor In SOPA

  

  WDS ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2015 @ 11:25am

  Florida

  From this article:
  "but it does seem odd that the labels are suing in Florida, when they're mostly based in NY and MP3Skull is most likely based in Russia. "
  
  From Ars Technica:
  "The record labels' lawsuit (PDF) was filed in the Southern District of Florida, where the site's Web hosting service, Webzilla, is based."
  
  So there is at least some logic to suing in Florida.

• On the post: Hollywood Collectively Loses Its Mind About Latest Set Of Livestreaming Apps

  

  WDS ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2015 @ 11:43am

  The future

  I wonder how long it will be before these apps are turning out to make Hollywood a bunch of money. That seems to be what usually happens with new technology that they go bonkers over.

• On the post: California Bill Would Require Libraries Post Scary Warning Signs Not To Do Infringy Stuff With 3D Printers

  

  WDS ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2015 @ 02:10pm

  "* For unclear reasons, the bill was originally about drones, and was then amended to remove everything drone related and add all the 3D printing stuff. It is unclear why."
  
  It was because her staff didn't get the memo on what the "Scary Technology of the Day" was.

• On the post: The Mere Threat Of Google Fiber Has Time Warner Cable Offering Speeds Six Times Faster At The Same Price

  

  WDS ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2015 @ 09:16am

  Re: Headline confusion

  While the headline can be read different ways, Time Warner is increasing to 6X their old speeds for the same price they were charging. They are not going to 6X google fiber speed for the price that Google is charging.

• On the post: Competition In The Music Space Is Great: Fragmentation In The Music Space Is Dangerous

  

  WDS ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2015 @ 12:24pm

  What is wrong with this picture?

  Okay, buy a music system.
  
  Add in every feature that people hate from the movie industry. (Release Windows, etc).
  
  Have a high priced tier for better quality reproduction (of Rap music ??)
  
  Promise to pay artists more than other systems (which are losing money).
  
  Insult your intended audience.
  
  Take the $$$ to the bank.
  
  It's possible the idea has a flaw or two.

• On the post: Canadian Town Bans Spitting, Swearing And Gathering In Groups Of Three Or More

  

  WDS ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2015 @ 02:26pm

  Re: Sounds like the police could shut down everything

  the bar-b-q can happen in the backyard, it just can't happen at the local park picnic shelter.

• On the post: Verizon Latest To Balk At Weather Channel Rate Hikes For 'Weather Coverage' That's 70% Fluff And Nonsense

  

  WDS ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2015 @ 02:14pm

  It's Back???

  This was a most informative article for me. I am a DirecTV subscriber, and I had no idea that The Weather Channel was once again available.
  
  Now that I know, I will tune in to it exactly the same amount this coming month as I did last month. The difference is that it will be now be a willful choice.

• On the post: AT&T Says It Will Match Google Fiber's Speed & Pricing, But Only If You Allow AT&T To Spy On You

  

  WDS ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2015 @ 11:41am

  Re:

  Exactly. When AT&T starts putting in 1GB service someplace Google isn't already, or announced they are going to be, then I might believe AT&T is actually interested increasing service for it's customers.

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