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

    AJ ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2011 @ 03:44am

    Yet another piece of wonderful legislation that your average American doesn't understand, and will route around. What a waste....

  • On the post: UK Court Upholds Its First Web Censorship Order: BT Has 14 Days To Block Access To Newzbin2 & Gets To Pay For The Privelege

    AJ ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 08:10am

    Re: Re: Re: Censorship? WHERE? See NO actual speech, just invitations to pirate!

    "Hosting companies will be much less likely to give a home to scammy or illegal sites if they think they will actually get blocked and lose customers over it. When it starts costing them money to accept to host this crap, they will quickly shy away from it."

    Hosting companies wont exist at all if you make them responsible for policing everything they host.

    Using your logic, the police should be charging the owners of the private toll roads, as well as the actual people caught, for speeding. These private tool roads are designed to get you where your going fast, so they have to know the law is being broken, they must be facilitating it. They are making a small fortune on speeders! Yes yes... i know there are speed limit signs and police.. just like there are copyright laws and DMCA take down notices... Funny how we don't see people lining the streets in protest of these law breaking private toll road operators......

  • On the post: Comcast, Verizon Ordered To ID Subscribers In Copyright Trolling Suit

    AJ ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 07:38am

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    So your thinking an automated form letter for responding to an automated form letter in order to increase the probability that you dodge a lawsuit?

    Sounds like something the patent office would rubber stamp...... hmmmmm...

    Did we just figure out how patent trolls are born!!!????? Fucking Creepy!!!!!

  • On the post: Comcast, Verizon Ordered To ID Subscribers In Copyright Trolling Suit

    AJ ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 06:49am

    Hopefully your average Joe will do a bit of research once they get one of these "extortion letters" that are sure to come, and finds that getting a lawyer to send a letter in response, basically saying you are prepared to fight to the bitter end, is significantly cheaper than paying the extortion amount and will usually end in the same result.

    Your always going to have the 1 in a million that may end up in court, but I'm betting it's a fair gamble.

  • On the post: UK Court Upholds Its First Web Censorship Order: BT Has 14 Days To Block Access To Newzbin2 & Gets To Pay For The Privelege

    AJ ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 06:37am

    Notice how the authorities seem to think "taking" something from someone will fix the problem. The fail starts with not understanding the problem; You can't deprive something from someone that is infinitely reproducible.

    The problem is, people do not respect artificial limitations on infinite goods. Right or wrong, good or evil, doesn't matter to your average Joe. If it is infinity reproducible, then it can't be theft, and if it's not theft, then it's not wrong. You can paint all the silly shill slogans about lost sales you want, you have to convince your average burger eating 18-40 year old that knows 10 times more about it than the dumb ass presenting/passing the law, that he should not be doing what he's doing. Good luck with that.

    Removing a copy (website, domain, etc) of something that is infinite is a total waste of time and money. It's like smacking a water balloon with a hammer, all the water is still there, it's just harder to find now. All there doing is fragmenting the problem into impossible to find little pieces..

  • On the post: The Unintended Consequences Of Trying To Overprotect Children From The Internet

    AJ ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2011 @ 12:48pm

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    "you cannot let your kids run loose in that environment, nor would we be stupid enough to build a swing set next to a stripper pole in a peeler bar. Reasonable expectations, no?"

    Au contraire! I was just in a "peeler bar" and i can testify for a fact there was swing set right there beside the stripper pole!

  • On the post: EU Politician Wants Internet Surveillance Built Into Every Operating System

    AJ ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2011 @ 08:31am

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    "t allows you to conspire with tens of thousands of people to share content, and to do so RIGHT NOW. That is a hockey arena of people sharing with each other all at the same time.
    "

    ..... meanwhile, at the Buggy Whip Empire Headquarters..

    Good god man, can't you see! The car manufacturers are conspiring to build more cars, making them more affordable, turning the earth into a giant parking lot! If we could just make people have to push their cars, and use our legislative power to put square wheels on them, we could save our mighty buggy whip empire...

  • On the post: State Government In Australia Seeks To Issue $12k Fines If You Insult Its Gaming Minister Michael O'Brien

    AJ ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2011 @ 07:42am

    "This provision protects officers of the gambling regulator from bullying or intimidation when exercising powers at the direction of the Minister for Gaming," she said."

    A law that protects officers from bullying/intimidation/harassment? Someone needs their man card pulled!

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

    AJ ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2011 @ 03:53am

    "Coming in first was the non-registered (effectively anonymous) user AJ"

    I wouldn't exactly say "non-registered"... lazy perhaps :)

  • On the post: Wrongful Arrest Demonstrates Dangers Of Law Enforcement Listening To Bogus Industry Claims

    AJ ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2010 @ 12:21pm

    Q: "So, at what point does law enforcement stop listening to the entertainment industry every time it freaks out about some new technology?"

    A: As soon as the AA's stop lining the pockets of the politicians.

  • On the post: How 'Free' Economics Are Going To Impact The Video Game Market

    AJ ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2009 @ 08:06am

    Games

    I play games quite a bit, and I can list a ton of things I would pay money for. If it were my company, i would try to get my game out there, free if i had too, and get the people playing. I would then load it down with extras you could buy. Custom buildings, special trade routes, better storage capacity, better weapons, tips from the game designers.. etc... Even if you "had" to charge a shelf price for it, you could throw in several different price points. Ten bucks gets you basic stuff, Seventy bucks gets you every bell and whistle possible. Then you could have several steps between. Sitting on the old model of slapping fifty dollars on a title, and doing little else, is tired. I think you would leave many of your customers underserved. A good example is the people spending their own time modding a game. Don't go after them, support them. Steam has done a "fairly good job" of that, and probably made quite a bit of money from it.