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  • On the post: If People Like You And Your Work They'll Pay; If They Like Your Work, But Don't Like You, They'll Infringe

    Greg G ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 12:45pm

    Re: Wow....It's just like high school

    I don't like you, and I don't like your content.

    You, sir, are safe from me infringing upon your post.

  • On the post: French Court Fails Digital Economics; Claims Free Google Maps Is Illegal

    Greg G ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 05:53am

    Re:

    "...Google Maps is too much promoted by Google Search..."

    Yea, and Yahoo Maps are promoted by Yahoo Search, Bing maps by Bing, etc., ad infinitum. So what? Google is bigger and more popular, therefore richer, so let's just sue them.

  • On the post: MPAA Boss Chris Dodd Then & Now Concerning Google Censorship In China

    Greg G ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2011 @ 12:45pm

    Re: Re: eejits!?

    And Chris Dodd paused for a moment, his strangely dark eyebrows beneath a snow white flock of hair arching painfully higher than they normally appear, then suddenly exclaimed, "Ohh, I'm getting a raging clue!"

    The rest of us just rolled our eyes, knowing he couldn't get a raging clue even if it presented itself as a little boy kicking him square in the nuts.

  • On the post: A Small Victory For Patent Common Sense: Earth Closet Orders Are No More

    Greg G ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2011 @ 06:13am

    How about a reversal of who pays? Why can't we get the patent holder that sued to now pay for the court costs of the alleged infringer?

    After all, the case never should have been brought to court, therefore the defendant incurred costs that he never should have had to part with, so I would go after the bunghole that sued.

  • On the post: Senator Wyden Promises To Read Out The Names Of Those Who Oppose PROTECT IP

    Greg G ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2011 @ 11:54am

    Re: "use his allotted time to filibuster" -- Instead of arguing the case?

    Leave it to OOTB to use the term "filibuster."

    The term filibuster -- from a Dutch word meaning "pirate" --

    It's those damn pirates again, them and their due process!

  • On the post: Senator Wyden Promises To Read Out The Names Of Those Who Oppose PROTECT IP

    Greg G ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2011 @ 07:16am

    Re: Re:

    Somebody needs to turn on their /sarc radar

  • On the post: GoDaddy Takes Down Entire Site Of Copyright Attorney/Photographer Over Bogus DMCA Claim

    Greg G ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2011 @ 09:28am

    Re: Re: Re: Alt

    So, if I take a picture and post it on my own site, then you come along and send me a DMCA takedown by claiming you have copyright of that picture, that picture is automatically take off the site or the site is shut down completely, forcing ME to have to contact YOU or my ISP to find out wtf happened.

    When the dust settles and it's realized that you do not, in fact, have any copyright claim and I did, indeed, take the photo, my photo/site is reinstated, after who knows how many hours of downtime (and possible lost income.)

    In the above scenario, I do not think you have any "good faith" claim over said photograph. To me, it's a malicious act (sending the DMCA notice) because I'm sure you know damn well you have no claim over the photo in question.

    I want to know why there's no penalty for sending these "bogus" claims. Once the powers that be determine that it is, indeed, bogus, and you've caused me potential lost income (and yes, I think I might use MAFIAA-math to determine actual losses), I want to be compensated AND have you tossed off the internet/sent to a gulag for bogus DMCA filing.

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

    Greg G ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2011 @ 08:24am

    Re: Fix your web page Masnick !!!!

    "It's very unprofessional and makes your web site look like something you knocked up over one lunch break..


    I was unaware that you were intimately familiar with Mike's lunchtime trysts. Let's hear it for nooners!

  • On the post: Pelosi: We Need To Find A Better Solution Than SOPA

    Greg G ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2011 @ 12:24pm

    Pelosi

    Hmmm... Pelosi saying it's a bad idea. One of two things is happening here.

    1. Pelosi is being bombarded with emails/calls by people who voted for her and she's saying that to keep those votes next time she's up for re-election.

    2. The world is actually coming to an end in 2012.

  • On the post: Canadian Actor Claims Mashups Are Morally Wrong And Should Be Illegal

    Greg G ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2011 @ 01:23pm

    Re: Mashups create something "new" as your stomach does to food.

    So what you're saying is that because our fathers, or our fathers fathers, or our fathers fathers fathers, (right, I'll stop laboring the point), created an aqueduct, paved a road, irrigated a farm, or did *anything* prior to me having done it, that whatever I do, no matter how much or how little I may or may not have been influenced by our fathers, or our fathers fathers, or our fathers fathers fathers (right, stop it!) will still just be crap.

    How about you go tell that to 3M. "We don't
    make the products, we just make them better."

  • On the post: Free Justin Bieber: Do We Really Want Congress To Make Bieber A Felon?

    Greg G ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2011 @ 02:52pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Bitch Betta' Act Right Act.

    or the BiBAR Act.....

  • On the post: Universal Music Keeps Trying To Claim Zoe Keating's Royalty Checks, Despite Having Nothing To Do With Her

    Greg G ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2011 @ 12:58pm

    Re: Re: Omelettes

    Hear hear! We don't need to wait for a government intervention. We can voluntarily dispossess ourselves from our belongings.

    And where can I get Universal's routing and account number so I can change my direct deposit? I've been withholding things from them for far too long and they don't own me yet. The government gets the taxes and Universal gets the rest.

    After all, by virtue of their name alone, Universal should own everything.

  • On the post: Bill Gates Called To Testify In Antitrust Trial Over Windows 95; No This Isn't An Old Post

    Greg G ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2011 @ 05:53pm

    Re: Re: You imply that Microsoft didn't violate antitrust to monopolize OS market.

    Your comment above is a very well put together and I even say well thought out post.


    Aww, and I thought you were heading toward a My Cousin Vinny moment there.

  • On the post: British Historian On Porn And Internet Censorship: North Korea Is Right — The Internet Is Our Enemy

    Greg G ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2011 @ 10:55am

    Re:

    ..about half as informative as Fox News


    Yet still 100x more informative than CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and the NYT combined.

  • On the post: BMI Hurting Artists, Yet Again

    Greg G ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2011 @ 07:06am

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

    I think you must be one of those people at one of those collection agencies that get paid too much. Minimum wage would be too much for you.

    Way to draw people to your side. Calling us "stupid fucking fool"'s, ignorant, sycophant freetard's, and then wanting us to die in a fire?

    I would really like to know what went wrong in your life for you to have so much pent up hatred for people that speak the truth, and why the truth bothers you so much.

  • On the post: US Postal Service Sends Postage Due Bill To Guy Who Put Block Party Invites Into Neighbors' Mailboxes

    Greg G ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 06:31am

    Re: This isn't New or 'Rarely Enforced'

    Anecdotal stories of this happening in one general location (Chicago suburbs) don't mean it happens everywhere.

    My parents neighborhood has individual mailboxes and people are always using them for personal things like block or birthday parties, lost pets, etc.

    I live in neighborhood that has those mailbox banks and they are locked, so we can't get anything that doesn't come through the USPS in our boxes. So if people want to distribute hardcopy invitations or lost pet notices, they have to do so by canvassing the neighborhood and sticking them to our doors.

    Or, better yet. Just use email. USPS is pricing themselves out by constantly raising postage rates anyway. I can't remember the last thing I mailed or shipped. The last time I had to use a stamp, it was 30?.

    Would I miss the USPS if they went away? No, can't say that I would. My paper shredder would get a break, though.

  • On the post: What Happens When The Company Backing Up Your Passwords In The Event of Your Death Itself Dies?

    Greg G ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2011 @ 06:10am

    Re:

    In that case, you're no longer JustSomeGuy... you WereSomeGuy

  • On the post: Unfortunate: Novelist Joins Lawsuit Against Libraries; Would Apparently Prefer His Book Rot In Obscurity

    Greg G ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2011 @ 09:07pm

    Re: "Would Apparently Prefer His Book Rot In Obscurity"

    "You've NO say in the matter, not even to rag him."

    So no one else, including Mike, is entitled to an opinion?

    In that case, neither do you. YOU have no say in this matter, but you're so full of ignorance that you constantly deride people -- and why should it matter how much money anyone makes? Look out for your own best interests and think before you post.

    Or better yet, keep doing what you're doing. We all love a good laugh.

  • On the post: No Rest For The Productive And Successful; Nintendo Sued Again Over The Wii Remote

    Greg G ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 05:50am

    UltimatePointer: "Wii would like to sue."

  • On the post: NY State Senators Say We've Got Too Much Free Speech; Introduce Bill To Fix That

    Greg G ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2011 @ 12:15pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Sick of Socialists

    Just don't look in the NY senate for that sanity. You'll be on a never-ending search.

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