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  • On the post: Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges

    Al Bert ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2012 @ 12:30pm

    Re: Re: Illegal Content

    So, you'd rather have them written by institutionalized lying fraudsters with an entitlement complex?

  • On the post: Hollywood's Latest 'Conciliatory' Effort Towards Silicon Valley? Forcing Lobbyists To Drop Tech Companies As Clients

    Al Bert ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2012 @ 08:59pm

    Re:

    A burgeoning tech lobbying sector? Heh. Somehow, i don't imagine that's what the entertainment industry seeks to imply when it claims it creates job growth.

  • On the post: Did Universal Music Try To Expense The Costs Of Eminem's Producers Suing Over Unpaid Royalties… Back To Eminem's Producers?

    Al Bert ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2012 @ 08:40pm

    the artists

    When the entertainment industry ever mentions support of "artists", just keep in mind that it's the con artists they're talking about.

  • On the post: Do You Need Permission To Take A Photo With A Chair In It? You Might In France…

    Al Bert ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2012 @ 09:11pm

    Re:

    Now someone only has to claim copyright to the idea of a photograph of a nude person. Either that, or someone can patent the "Method for Photographic Trademark Infringement Avoidance".

  • On the post: Chris Dodd Extends SOPA 'Olive Branch' To Silicon Valley… And Proceeds To Bash Them Over The Head With It

    Al Bert ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2012 @ 09:02pm

    Re: Dead

    Right. The more these jackasses breed public distrust and contempt, the more effort they will need to put into concealing actions taken to support their agenda. You're right. We might not see SOPA or the next threat -- until it's too late.

    That sounds so damn paranoid, but they're the ones playing offense here. Even if we stop them in their tracks, we haven't gained any ground. We've only narrowly avoided losing it.

  • On the post: Belgian Anti-Piracy Group Facing Copyright Fraud, Embezzlement & Money Laundering Charges

    Al Bert ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2012 @ 01:25pm

    Re: Missing the point...

    If it weren't for piracy, nobody would ever need to care about the crimes of corporate fraudsters!

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

    Al Bert ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2012 @ 03:19pm

    Re:

    There's a bit of requisite effort expected of both parties in an argument. When history indicates that only one party is presenting supporting information or applying reason, there is little need to continue to respect the other as a valid opponent.

    Often it seems that these affairs shouldn't even be considered to be about differences of opinion, but about sorting fact from opinions and mistruth. The fact that you think this is a war of opinions evidences which side you're on.

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

    Al Bert ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2012 @ 01:04pm

    Oh no

    He's a producer of counterfeit invective and is destroying the jobs of millions of hard-working American trolls! Won't someone think of the trolls?

  • On the post: Shining Light On ACTA's Lack Of Transparency

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 02:08pm

    In fact, if the US government would stop turning a blind eye to the entertainment industry here, i'm sure they'd notice that SABEM isn't an exception at all.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: I'd Like My Drink Sonicated, Not Stirred…

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 11:33am

    Re: Re: Fahrenheit!? Pah!

    Come now, surely we can come to a compromise!
    What we need here is Rankine for absolute measurement and compatibility with Fahrenheit scale.

    But i guess it's not that complicated.
    How about using the Delisle scale instead?

  • On the post: Shining Light On ACTA's Lack Of Transparency

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 11:19am

    Re: transparency

    I'm on there.

    But let's be realistic about the effectiveness of the public voice. Let's say somehow we're able to pry the facts from their keep. Even if we uncovered something so dazzlingly incriminating as video of associated parties agreeing upon the unsaid, but well-known underlying purpose for the treaty; even if they were openly discussing illegally influencing foreign governments to get it ratified -- not a person would be held accountable. It took millions and months just to shake the more fickle congressbeasts off SOPA/PIPA temporarily. It took widespread public protests across several countries just to get government officials to apply some critical thinking skills and see that they're being hosed by a foreign power grab.

    If we get the documents we need to support our claims, it's not enough to just know the facts. The next step would be to take actual punitive action against those with a history of being able to dismiss any claim of corruption with a single public lie. The thing is, I have no idea how many millions of people it would take to accomplish that.

  • On the post: Shining Light On ACTA's Lack Of Transparency

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 10:45am

    And yet they're publicly unquestionable.

    The only thing transparent surrounding ACTA and the actions of a corrupt corporate state are the unabashed lies.

  • On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 10:28am

    Re: Re:

    Maybe so, but perhaps it's equally interesting to note that we did pay for the entertainment industry's influence in our government. We paid for it when we went to the theater or when we bought that new blu-ray. As for where the government gets the funds to follow through... that's just an entire other rant.

  • On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 01:38am

    Re:

    Just because there are people who are against a damaging impact to the domestic economy doesn't mean that they aren't also opposed to these things. In fact, let's do a bit of synthesis. You mention opposition to a US government acting without concern for external entities, in terms of military action and trade (copyright). Since the reason that this exodus is occurring -- a very real hazard to the future of distributed storage and cloud computing -- is the same US government acting in much the same manner, at the behest of the same corporate parties, the situation really isn't any different. The big difference so far is that they haven't whipped up any domestic military action yet, but don't worry, i'm sure we'll have that gap filled in the years to come.

    Yes. There are other injustices in this whole mess. There are other injustices in the entire world, but for sake of brevity we rely on an implied understanding that if a community is against the actions of a corrupt state, they're against the existence of corruption, not the actions alone.

  • On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 01:21am

    Re: Re:

    If they destroy it and lock it down, then they can hand over rights to the entertainment industry and then subsidize their continued failure to understand how to sell on value.

  • On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 01:10am

    Re: Re:

    The concept of a read-only internet is such a horror to contemplate. The sheer absurdity of the injustice the idea proposes is framed by the alarming reality that it has all but yet been publicly embraced by forces operating in tandem with a corrupt state. I only wonder what sort of misanthropic, criminal mind is required to take action toward such a thing and believe it's in the right.

  • On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 12:50am

    Re: Re: Live Well Online

    It's okay; calm down. Nobody expects you to know about these complicated concepts.

  • On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 12:38am

    Re: Re: I have an idea for a law

    I have some tar i can melt. Too bad i don't have any feathers to volunteer as well. How about a bunch of styrofoam peanuts or chopped fiberglass?

  • On the post: Canadians Respond To Internet Spying Bill By 'Revealing All' To Politician Backing It

    Al Bert ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 12:11am

    Re: Re:

    I'd tell him a few things.

  • On the post: US Returns JotForm.com Domain; Still Refuses To Say What Happened

    Al Bert ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 11:11pm

    Holy christ on a fudgesicle, why do you guys even respond to the trolls at all? The irrational and delusional, by definition of their condition, cannot be reasoned with. All the informative responses that get pissed away on combating a perpetual flood of eternal morons need to go to the eyes and ears of the cognizant uninformed.

    I know you like beating them with the truth stick, I really do. You have to understand that it doesn't hurt them at all.

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