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• On the post: Photographer (And Founder Of Copyright Enforcement Service) Angry That Online Service Won't Simply Hand Over User Info When He Demands It

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2014 @ 12:53pm

  Re: Re:

  I don't think you can infer demand from consumers solely on the fact that someone put an item up for sale online... These products are printed on demand, they are not stocked on a shelf somewhere. The cost to the seller to advertise an image on a mug/tshirt/mousepad is essentially zero - so they can put as many of them up for sale as they feel like bothering with.

• On the post: Adobe's Half-Assed Response To Spying On All Your eBooks

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2014 @ 12:34pm

  Re:

  that feature only applies to content you are using the app to read. According to the research it is gobbling up all kinds of other non-related data and phoning home.
  
  That's why this is bullshit.

• On the post: 5,000 Domains Seized Based On Sealed Court Filing; Confused Domain Owners Have No Idea Why

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2014 @ 09:24am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: one domain speculator scumbag. . .

  keep fucking that chicken

• On the post: City Of London Police Turn Down Torrentfreak's FOIA Request Because It Would Take Too Long To Fulfill

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2014 @ 05:44pm

  This is really not that shocking for CoL, if you take into account how the organization works. It is the most corporate-friendly government because corporations actually have the right to vote there, and dictate a supermajority of all council seats.
  
  CGP_Grey has a great short explanation of how the system works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ROpIKZe-c
  
  It's still despicable that they have the perceived power to do things like this, but given their political organization and the pressures derived from it, it is to be expected.

• On the post: Judge Kozinski Calls Out Former FISC Judge John Bates For Claiming To Speak For The Entire Judicial Branch

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2014 @ 01:15am

  Re: I got first post

  nononono- He would be much more useful on the Supreme Court.

• On the post: Ron Wyden: It's Time To Kill The Third Party Doctrine And Go Back To Respecting Privacy

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2014 @ 10:50pm

  Re: wyden does it again

  Doesn't it ever get boring just being contrary to every post here? Do you even actually remember your own opinions about life, or have they all faded away in the deluge of knee-jerk trolling you do?

• On the post: Behind The Veil Part 4: Customer Trying To Cancel Service Is Put On Hold Until Comcast Office Closes

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2014 @ 02:29pm

  Re: I *AM* a workforce Analyst

  if an agent had a customer on hold, yes a 5 minute flag would go up for sure. The problem is the agent dumped him into a queue to nowhere, or even into the correct queue but the staff just left and didn't even bother dumping the leftovers.

• On the post: Behind The Veil Part 4: Customer Trying To Cancel Service Is Put On Hold Until Comcast Office Closes

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2014 @ 02:22pm

  Re: Re: Take it all the way

  see, this is why they are so invested in anti-competitive behavior. They know that in most of their markets they are the only real game in town, so they can treat everyone like a bag of shit with impunity.

• On the post: English Premier League Apparently Wants Fans To Hate It Even More: Threatens To Pull Down Vines And Animated GIFs

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2014 @ 08:17pm

  *insert joke about how they can only attempt to sell clips of the goals because there is such a limited supply*

• On the post: USPTO Tried To Hide Abuse And Fraud By Patent Examiners From Inspector General

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2014 @ 12:32am

  Re:

  that's not how revenue works...
  
  by that logic the IRS would have the budget currently assigned to the armed forces.

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Comic Artist Uses DMCA To Censor Critical Blogs

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2014 @ 11:57am

  Re: Common sense

  Feminism has nothing to do with this.
  
  There is an exception to copyright called fair use, pretty explicitly covering cases of criticism like this.
  
  The correct sequence of events should have been Tumblr rejecting the DMCA claim, but they will never do that because they are too scared. Barring that, the blogger should file a counter-notice, and then Tumblr should re-instate. It looks like the blogger doesn't want to deal with the fighting and fallout (because she probably doesn't have a lawyer on retainer...) so she's just rolling over, which is a shame but totally understandable.

• On the post: Documents Show 100 Officers From 28 Law Enforcement Agencies Accessed A Photographer's Records

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2014 @ 02:33pm

  I applaud his work, but God help him if he ever has a tail-light out or jaywalks.

• On the post: Randy Queen Keeps Digging: Issues DMCA Takedown On Blog Post About Him Issuing DMCA Takedowns

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2014 @ 02:07pm

  LOL Randy's posted contact email address is an AOL..
  
  deepestblue432@aol.com
  
  I don't know why he is complaining about the images being decades old, that seems to be his happy place.

• On the post: Connecticut Supreme Court Says State Cops Can Detain You Simply For Being In The Vicinity Of Someone They're Arresting

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2014 @ 07:46am

  Re: Kenichi

  Kenichi you remind me so much of my friends from college who were fairly well-off white kids from good neighborhoods that had never witnessed police abuse or blatant racism, and would speak at length about how the system works as intended and any assertions to the contrary were trumped up by scammers or criminals trying to find loopholes.
  
  Then one of them got falsely accused of sexual assault by a girl they met at a bar and got a front-row seat to the circus of law enforcement. He was eventually acquitted after spending thousands of dollars and having his reputation ruined due to the police leaking 'facts' about the case that were later proven false. After being embarrassed in court when the judge tossed most of their evidence as unsound, the cops decided to stop and harass him for no reason frequently. Eventually he transferred schools out of state to start over.
  
  All of those naive mouthpieces saw firsthand how being in the wrong place at the wrong time can strip away all of your rights, and we all heard stories about similar crap that had happened to friends like driving-while-black or having police trail you through a mall because you weren't dressed like you could afford to shop there.
  
  The people brave enough to record the public actions of the police are crucial to maintaining our freedoms. It has been objectively proven that officer bullshit and mistreatment fall drastically when they know that eyes are on them, either with their own cameras or the public's. The argument that anyone 'in the vicinity' can be detained is pure bullshit. Police officers have NEVER BEEN SAFER in the history of the union, both in actual harm and reported incidents. At the same time, successful reports of excessive force are steadily rising because people now have evidence in these recordings that break the old 'your word against the cop' status quo.
  
  You need some real world experience before your opinion on the subject carries any weight beyond petty trolling.

• On the post: President Obama Claims CIA Torture Was Okay Because People Were Scared And The CIA Is A 'Tough Job'

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2014 @ 07:57am

  Yes, this revisionist history is disgusting. It is pretty laughable/sad that this President has the balls to minimize the impression of harm done by this whole debacle and try to make it seem like something we did only in the immediate fear and confusion of the aftermath of the attacks - when we still have Gitmo.

• On the post: White House Finishes Review Of CIA Terror Report: Feinstein Wants To Know Why It's Basically All Blacked Out

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 09:31pm

  Re: After the CIA and the White House redacted it...

  Diane won't leak shit. Udall might though...

• On the post: White House Finishes Review Of CIA Terror Report: Feinstein Wants To Know Why It's Basically All Blacked Out

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 09:29pm

  Re:

  Yes, they could release the doctored version now, but knowing Feinstein the situation is really that the White House wants to release an essentially neutered document, and Diane wants to release a suitably damning (but not enough to get anyone fired or prosecuted) version. If they release it now and the overwhelming majority yell for a full release they may not be able to tailor the outrage as they wish.

• On the post: Another SuperPAC Trying Another Approach To Getting 'Dark' Money Out Of Politics

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 09:23pm

  Re:

  that's disingenuous at best... Wall street, Oil tycoons, Hollywood, and Military contractors all far exceed the input from the Valley. Not even counting the singular crazies like the Koch's and Adelson.

• On the post: Peak Internet Dismisses Defamation Suit Against Former Customer Who Complained About Its Lousy Connection Speeds

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 09:18pm

  Re:

  Well it's sure as shit going to be MY tagline from now on...

• On the post: Obama Admits 'We Tortured Some Folks' But Doesn't Seem Too Concerned

  

  Easily Amused ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 09:07pm

  Re:

  impeachment requires that laws are proven to have been broken. The insidious part of all this is they keep finding ways to make all the repugnant behaviour legal.

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