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• On the post: The SOPA/PIPA Protests Were Not Pro-Piracy… They Were Anti-Crony Capitalism

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: Re: Let's break this down real quick.

  This. You Sir will a million internets.

• On the post: Entertainment Industy Back To Demanding That Search Engines Censor The Web… Through 'Voluntary' Measures

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 02:02pm

  Re: Why don't we ...

  1. Put entire catalog of works online.
  2. Make said works available for steaming in high quality.
  3. Charge Netflix-ish levels for access to said works.
  4. ???
  5. Profit!!
  
  Seems simple doesn't it? I would also allow substituting step 1 with "license entire catalog to Netflix for reasonable rates."

• On the post: Entertainment Industy Back To Demanding That Search Engines Censor The Web… Through 'Voluntary' Measures

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 01:56pm

  Re: Re:

  Why would a browser be blank? You don't honestly think that without the MPAA/RIAA that there wouldn't be anything on the internet right? Hell pretty much anything ever produced by their members and I personally wouldn't notice.
  
  Actually I'd welcome them disappearing completely off the internet so maybe they would stop with all the horrible laws. I actually broke down and watched a Hollywood movie with the wife last night, it was horrible. Your description of "watching horrible movies from people you would never want to know about" sounds exactly like my experience last night.

• On the post: After Years Of Near Obscurity, Atari Turns To Copyright Trolling

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 01:11pm

  Re: Buy Indie

  No more Skyrim?! Say it isn't so!!

• On the post: The Insanity Of Copyright Law: When Even Professionals Have No Idea They're Breaking The Law

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2012 @ 01:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's not broken

  He did include the link, it is buried in the word "conclude". Here is the entire link;
  
  http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-28/creativity-springs-from-copy-making-part-2-commentary-by-william-patry

• On the post: Cee Lo Green: Making Millions Even If His Albums Don't Sell

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2011 @ 02:23pm

  Re:

  People haven't built up a huge following using Youtube before? Justin Bieber... Adelle... Nah, they were only popular on Youtube after the big labels picked them up and made them famous right? It couldn't have happened the other way around!

• On the post: Do We Really Want To Hand Over Control Of The Internet To A Group That Sued A Dead Grandmother

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2011 @ 02:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: Are you all Doctors now?

  Awesome argument. It makes total sense to sue dead people, you wouldn't want to set a precedent that suing dead people is pointless now would you?
  
  Genius.

• On the post: Former DHS Assistant Secretary Stewart Baker On SOPA 2.0: Still A Disaster For Cybersecurity

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2011 @ 10:44am

  Sounds to me like SOPA is just going to lead to a bunch of tech companies moving to Canada or Europe to avoid this crap. The US should start turning into an internet back water any day now. Sad for the US, good for Canada!

• On the post: As Expected, SOPA Supporters Hate More Reasonable Alternative

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2011 @ 02:44pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  STEALING!!

• On the post: Apps Letting You Stream Your Own Music From The Cloud Being Pressured Over 'Licensing'

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 02:21pm

  Re: Re:

  I recently purchases a new NAS for my home network. It allows home streaming, FTP access, AjaXplorer access, remote streaming, DLNA support, torrent support and more.
  
  No need for an entire server these days, a $200 NAS will do the trick.

• On the post: The Article On The E-PARASITE Act That You Need To Read

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2011 @ 09:36am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  If pirates are getting rich on all this "stolen" content what is stopping the rights holders from doing the same? You'd think the actually rights holder could offer a better experience/product than a pirate could wouldn't you?

• On the post: Joe Biden On The Internet: 'If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It… Unless Hollywood Asks You To'

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2011 @ 08:55am

  SOPA Good for Canada

  Hey, at least us Canadians might benefit from all the tech start ups moving north get away from this craziness. See it's not all bad.

• On the post: Joe Biden On The Internet: 'If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It… Unless Hollywood Asks You To'

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2011 @ 08:52am

  Re:

  Because lobbying appears to be a million times more effective at getting results than sending letters to an intern and getting a canned message in reply?

• On the post: Rep. Blackburn, Co-Sponsor Of E-PARASITE, Explains Why Regulating The Internet Is Terrible

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2011 @ 12:46pm

  Re:

  If you were correct and Youtube was/is guilty of infringement wouldn't the courts have sided with Viacom in their court case? It seems that the courts disagree with your rambling.
  
  Now, for the sake of argument, lets say that you are correct. Are you honestly saying that society would be better off without a Youtube? You would prefer that it doesn't exist?

• On the post: PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 03:41pm

  Re: Re: Re: um

  How do you use VPN when there are no providers?

• On the post: YouTube Now Helping Artists Sell The Scarce

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2011 @ 11:42am

  Re: Re: Re: bleh

  This entire blog is a CwF offering genius. Techdirt isn't the entire business, look into it a little bit. Have you paid anything to read any of the stories posted on this blog? Yet you keep coming back for more and supporting the site with ad revenues, interesting...
  
  You really don't get what Mike is getting at do you?

• On the post: YouTube Now Helping Artists Sell The Scarce

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2011 @ 11:39am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Aren't Amazon and iTunes getting a cut of the MP3 sales? Seemed pretty obvious to me from the original article. In short, they wouldn't get a cut of t-shirt sales.
  
  Is the merch shop that hard a concept to grasp?
  
  (This comment isn't directed at you Chuck Norris' Enemy)

• On the post: YouTube Now Helping Artists Sell The Scarce

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2011 @ 11:34am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Your posts in this entire thread have no point. What are you saying? Mike is bad cause people he works with are trying something new with Youtube?
  
  You are rambling about something no one cares about. Good on Google for trying to make artists more money. I hope Google and the artists do better because of this deal. This sounds like something the record labels should have thought up.

• On the post: Hulu's Owners Unable To Find Idiots Willing To Overpay To Take Hulu Off Their Hands Before They Kill It

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 07:48am

  Re: Take inspiration from the games industry.

  Sounds almost like something already out there... Netflix anyone? Add in the social features you've mentioned and you've pretty much got Netflix. Now just add in more relevant streaming options and we've got a winner.

• On the post: And Of Course: Study Shows That Getting Rid Of DRM Reduces 'Piracy'

  

  BigKeithO ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2011 @ 03:19pm

  Re: NO, MIKE: "analytical modeling" NOT "empirical evidence"!

  I demand tits or GTFO. You are flat.

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