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  • On the post: Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality Of Having People Tracked By GPS All The Time

    AJ ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2011 @ 06:00am

    If they rule that it's legal, not an invasion of privacy, and doesn't require a warrant, does that mean your average Joe can slap a GPS tracker on anything found in public? Or does law enforcement get a special exception where the rest of us could be arrested for stalking?

    What good does it actually do? You can prove where the object that had the GPS stuck to it was, but can you prove who was in possession of the object at the time?

    Maybe they will make it like the red light cameras! If your car runs the red light, and you own the car, then you are responsible no matter who's was driving!

  • On the post: Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality Of Having People Tracked By GPS All The Time

    AJ ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2011 @ 05:29am

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    "It's logical, it's the future. Get use to it."

    I know exactly what your saying. Who cares if it's legal, if it makes things easier, and it's logical, then it's the future and we should get used to it. Take file sharing for example......

    /sarc

  • On the post: Russian Internet Content Monitoring System To Go Live In December

    AJ ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2011 @ 03:46am

    So a super corrupt government is taking more power from the people and giving it to the politicians? Damn... Didn't see that coming...

    "Russia is on the 154th place out of 178 in the Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International. According to some expert estimates, the market for corruption in the country exceeded US$240 billion in 2006.[1]"


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Russia

  • On the post: AJ's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    AJ ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2011 @ 10:57am

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    Griping would be complaining about a non critical software failure, there games were un-playable out of the box, i don't think me stating my frustration is "griping" in this case.

    Refund you say!? Trying to get a refund from Steam is like pulling teeth, it's possible, but extremely painful... Besides.. I don't want a refund, I want to support the developers by buying their games. I WANT TO BUY, BUT I WANT IT TO WORK WHEN I DO!

  • On the post: AJ's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    AJ ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2011 @ 09:42am

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    "He never said anything about being honoured."

    Your right, I didn't say anything about that, but I do feel honored.. and not in a "creepy and fucked up" way.

  • On the post: AJ's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    AJ ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2011 @ 05:41pm

    Re: Re: Re: They don't make them like they used to.

    ACK! Between Steam, origin, Rockstar Social.... it's a wonder we can keep track of what game goes with what service. I'm starting to feel like they are more worried about protecting the game, than making it worth buying..

  • On the post: AJ's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    AJ ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2011 @ 01:14pm

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    Thanks man!

  • On the post: Fight The Power: Chuck D Sues Universal Music For Hundreds Of Millions In Unpaid Royalties

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 11:48am

    Re: FIrst, it's "a massive class action lawsuit", not just one rapper.

    "At first glance, it's dismissable because whoever this is couldn't possibly be /owed/ hundreds of millions just from Itunes."

    LOL! You obviously underestimate our legal system. This chick got slammed for 1.5 mill on 24 downloads. Granted it was later overturned, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions just because of the dollar amount!

    http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/minnesota-mom-hit-with-15-million-fine-for-downloading-24-songs.html

  • On the post: Fight The Power: Chuck D Sues Universal Music For Hundreds Of Millions In Unpaid Royalties

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 11:37am

    I can almost hear the blood vessels bursting on the shills foreheads as they read this story....

  • On the post: Mainstream Press Realizing That E-PARASITE/SOPA Is Ridiculously Broad

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 09:46am

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    "you won't be able to download pirated movies as easily, or find the music you love quite so quickly."

    LOL ! YOU REALLY DON'T GET IT! BAHAHAHAHA ..... !

    This bill won't impact your average pirate one bit! Not one fucking bit! Not even a little ! What this bill will do is shut down the legitimate alternatives to pirating! There are thousands of dark net and private tracker sites that will still host the tools to pirate. Instead of one big mole to whack, you now have thousands, and to make it worse the little bastards are almost impossible to see!

    Let me break it down for you. Want a movie? Rent the DVD and rip it, even the blue rays are a piece of cake to rip. Want some kind of music? There are so many free alternatives, that even if you shut down every tracker site in existence, your average kid can still listen to what they want for free. FOR FREE!

    What you wont have are online locker/cloud services to store your legal files, communities including user created fan sites that make your products more valuable, and unlimited access to millions of people who would gladly pay for content if it has value.

    You want to commit financial suicide, go ahead, but don't act like it's because of pirates. You are trying to protect a legacy model because your simply scared of change.

    Good luck with that.

  • On the post: Mainstream Press Realizing That E-PARASITE/SOPA Is Ridiculously Broad

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 08:38am

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    "AJ, are you suggesting that if enough people are murdered or enough people speed that the police should just give up? Scale is never an answer."

    No, I am not suggesting anyone should just "give up". I have a serious interest in seeing the content creators get paid. I love their work, and enjoy parting with my money when I feel I'm getting value.

    What I am saying however, is that this is not the way. Destroying the internet is not how you fix the problem. All that's going to do is scatter the problem all over the place, just like every other foot-on-throat solution ever presented. You need to fill the need these under served customers are filling themselves.

    Either give them what they want and figure out a way to make money in doing so, or step aside and let someone else do so. The gatekeeper model is no more. You are not going to bring it back with bad legislation.

  • On the post: Mainstream Press Realizing That E-PARASITE/SOPA Is Ridiculously Broad

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 07:34am

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    "Now, the only difference in these two models really is that the magazine business runs more slowly (one edition every 20-22 days, so they can have a vacation at year end), and youtube happens very quickly. But they both make a choice of where they get the content, they both provide the layout and design, and they are both in the content business."


    A magazine has 10 to 40 pages, you tube has, I believe, 48 hours of video per second. I don't think your comparison scales very well.

    "But they both make a choice of where they get the content"

    So are you saying that only approved companies should be able to upload video to the internet? Because if websites become liable for user content, there will be no more websites with user created content. No one could afford to put eyes/ears on every audio/video/text file submitted. No more user created content = no more internet.

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

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 06:13am

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    Thanks for the tip. I will certainly check it out!

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

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 04:58am

    Anyone could buy/download Windows Home Server, set it up on an old PC, and use it to stream music and movies to any device they have legal or not. I'm sitting here at work listening to music streaming off my server at home as we speak. Since it's so easy to do it yourself, you would think they would want to make just as easy, or even more so on the "cloud". Especially if they can generate revenue from the service through adds and such..

    Throwing up artificial barriers is just going to cause the customer to figure out a way to do what they want themselves.

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

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 03:53am

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    I hope I'm not the only one that gets annoyed when the text gets all scrunched up on the right side of the page from all the replies.......

  • On the post: The Coming Fight Over Sales Tax For Online Retailers

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 03:45am

    Last I checked, the internet is global. What happens when these companies move out of the U.S. altogether? I don't really care where Amazon's store is as, long as they get me my cheap widget in a hurry.

  • On the post: The Coming Fight Over Sales Tax For Online Retailers

    AJ ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 03:45am

    Last I checked, the internet is global. What happens when these companies move out of the U.S. altogether? I don't really care where Amazon's store is as, long as they get me my cheap widget in a hurry.

  • On the post: Warner Bros., Right After Announcing Record Profits, Pleads Poverty In Asking People To Support 'Grassroots' Campaign For E-PARASITE Act

    AJ ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2011 @ 11:49am

    It really does make it hard to take their "pirate" argument seriously when they refuse to be honest about it's impact. Combine that with their obvious attempts to "steal" money from their artists, and I really don't have any sympathy for them.
    David Praus doesn't receive royalties from Return of the Jedi, yet it was the 38th highest grossing movie in the U.S. of All-Time. How do they point fingers with a straight face?

    http://filmunlim.com/index.php?o=3111

    http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross

  • On the post: What Would The Movie Business Be Like If The MPAA Succeeded In Killing The VCR?

    AJ ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2011 @ 11:19am

    It really does seem like the AA's are suicidal doesn't it? How many other industries spend so much time and money trying to convince politicians that their customers are thief's? What other industries spend so much time and money trying to destroy the very technologies that make them billions?

    It's like hanging off a cliff with a rope, then chewing on the rope because it's tasty and your hungry. Sure, you may get a full belly, but at what cost? Why not just climb up the rope and order a pizza? Damn.. Sorry about the food analogy...it's lunch time and I'm starving...

  • On the post: Ding Dong: Another DRM Is Dead… And With It All The Files You Thought You Bought

    AJ ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2011 @ 10:53am

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    "It seems they are giving people a way "

    How about they provide me with them already converted?

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