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• On the post: Jimmy Wales Campaigns To Stop The Despicable Attempt To Extradite & Try Richard O 'Dwyer

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2012 @ 02:33pm

  Re:

  Hell, it's a shame of the US too.
  It's a shame on every corrupt sub-human involved and the institutions they've created or subverted for their interests.

• On the post: USTR's Surprise Turnaround: Now Advocating Limitations & Exceptions To Copyright

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2012 @ 02:18pm

  strange

  While this is indeed a surprising step, i'm not quite ready to leap in joy at the mere chance that positive change is in hand quite yet.
  
  So long as we can't actually know the truth, being pacified by the words of a distrusted person seems to be a poor strategy. Hopefully the unique nature of this development will prompt further discussion in the near future.
  
  It'd be awesome if anything did actually piss off the MPAA anyway.

• On the post: Nearly 50,000 People Ask Why The Government Is Seizing Their Digital Files

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2012 @ 05:46pm

  Re: Re: condensed clouds

  That's just the standard of the cynic's burden.
  What mostly bothered me was specifically the fact that the signature list looked about as legitimate as something made as a joke.
  
  Here we're watching an institution of criminals crushing privacy, innovation, and civil liberties. I look around and i see a disinterested or uninformed general public. I look to the names of those who recognize the threat and it appears they're just clowning for teh lulz.

• On the post: Nearly 50,000 People Ask Why The Government Is Seizing Their Digital Files

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2012 @ 04:45pm

  condensed clouds

  I notice a significant amount of redundant entries in the list
  As important as the issue is, i'm troubled that doomed petitioning seems to be an appropriate reminder of the extent of available recourse at the moment.
  
  Condensed clouds contain only 1 ppt to 1 ppb silver by mass.

• On the post: The White House Wants To Hear From You Concerning Its Strategy For Intellectual Property Enforcement

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2012 @ 03:00pm

  Re:

  DING DING DING!
  You have won this round of Spot The Disingenuous Pandering!
  
  Unfortunately, there are no prizes
  and the game never ends.

• On the post: USTR Gives MPAA Full Online Access To TPP Text, But Still Won't Share With Senate Staffers

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2012 @ 08:12pm

  Re:

  I can't imagine anyone involved intends to allow the senate the chance to oppose this thing. Why would they be working so conspicuously to exclude congressional oversight if they weren't confident they had a way of circumventing the powers of congress on the issue?

• On the post: Do We Need A 'Circle Section' Registry To Prove Digital Ownership?

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2012 @ 08:27am

  Never a good thing

  I see two possible (not exclusive) outcomes:
  1: creating a registry endangers the existing rights of those with unregistered media
  2: gaining first sale rights for digital media results in an attack on first sale rights for all media

• On the post: Police Send SWAT Team, Break Into Wrong House (With TV Film Crew) In Response To Internet Troll

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2012 @ 01:45am

  Re: And what about..

  The cops care very little about civil rights when they can claim they think there is a criminal there.

• On the post: Two Men Sue Chicago Police; Claim They Were Abused And Falsely Charged For Filming Officers

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 11:34am

  Re: Google Glasses

  Yes, i'm sure they will. Once they're free to assume that everyone is potentially filming them, they are then free to discard any effort to pretend that individual rights exist.

• On the post: Director Sues Paramount And Universal After Both Deny Knowing Who Holds The Rights To His Film

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 29 May, 2012 @ 01:07pm

  same thing

  It seems to me that they'd likely have the same reluctance to allow screening of a film to which they knew they had never held any rights. It has little to do with the actual legality of the rights holding, but simply the ultimate sense of entitlement that prevents them from allowing anyone else to have control over any creative process perceptibly related to their protected market.

• On the post: Wyden To Obama: Hollywood Shouldn't Know More About TPP Than Congress

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 25 May, 2012 @ 04:31pm

  THIS
  
  I was hoping someone would say it. Playing defensively in this game only changes the amount by which you lose. In order to win anything, you need to fight back.

• On the post: Congressional Reps Pushing CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Don't Even Know How To Secure Their Own Websites

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 01:08pm

  there's an example to be made

  Similar scenarios happen in shitty jobs every day. You see something that's a half-broken impediment to productivity or an embarrassment to the profession. You know it's been brought to the attention of management who don't understand or care or outright forbade you or anyone take any corrective measures. In an environment of zero mutual respect, i see this as call to ensure that said something gets broken the rest of the way in a manner which targets directly any claims made as to why it was unimportant.

• On the post: Cargo Cult Reverse Activism: Maximalists Think That If They Use Social Media They Can Counteract Public Concerns

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 10:56am

  it's all and always meaningless

  Until they expose themselves to an actual open forum --
  either online or in a political meatspace,
  they cannot pretend to know what the fuck they are pursuing.
  
  As producers of indefensible lies, they cannot exist without a local absence of dissent.

• On the post: Supreme Court Sends Case On Gene Patents Back To Appeals Court Following Rejection Of Diagnostic Patents

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2012 @ 04:47pm

  Re: Re:

  prepare to be sued by tire manufacturers everywhere
  because you're infringing on tread patents by introducing discontinuities into the periphery of a "cylindrical device intended for the purpose of rolling"

• On the post: Strange: Vote Against Freeing Up Orphan Works Achieves 113% Turnout In EU Committee

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2012 @ 12:33pm

  It's important to always maximize... everything.

  You forgot to multiply that by an arbitrary scaling factor representing the relative positions of the planets on the time of calculation.
  
  23.667 people * $150,000 * 15.98754654 steradians/dm*min^2 = 567,565,896 votes
  
  That should leave enough votes left over to win all subsequent recounts!

• On the post: Since The RIAA & MPAA Say That A Copy Is Just As Valuable As The Original, Send Them A Copy Of Money

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 05:56pm

  Re:

  Don't give them any ideas. Watch, soon you'll have to buy a second license for "your" lawnmower in order to be able mow both the front and back yard. Forget letting the neighbor borrow it; that's illegal

• On the post: Since The RIAA & MPAA Say That A Copy Is Just As Valuable As The Original, Send Them A Copy Of Money

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 05:49pm

  in the format the consumer wants

  That's good! Now i can finally pay them back for all the cd's i dubbed to cassette in the 90's!

• On the post: Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Apple Because Siri Doesn't Always Work Right

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 05:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Well actually...

  I'd sooner eat a dandelion. At least dandelions don't taste like cardboard soaked in old beef tallow. I have verified this.

• On the post: Lester Chambers, Successful Musician Who Received No Royalties From '67 To '94, Planning To Sue

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 02:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Juxtaposition

  Better yet, just catalog that nonsense and make a troll-speak generator.

• On the post: Lester Chambers, Successful Musician Who Received No Royalties From '67 To '94, Planning To Sue

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2012 @ 02:18pm

  Re:

  It won't stop being used until it stops being effective on idiots who don't care to engage in critical thinking. Until then, these fraudsters and their partners in crime will keep their convenient cloak of lies.

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