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

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 10:54pm

  The logical outcome

  You might face some legal issues if you try making an effigy with via CAM or anything. Dodd will surely claim you're infringing on his copyrighted likeness.

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

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 10:43pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Which is understandable, seeing who the architects were.

• On the post: Directors Guild Boss Insists That Everyone Against SOPA/PIPA Was Duped

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 02:42pm

  Re: Re: Robbed

  Correction: Law enforcement was told so by another party. Thinking is out of the question.

• On the post: Directors Guild Boss Insists That Everyone Against SOPA/PIPA Was Duped

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 02:39pm

  Re:

  It gets difficult to bring up these topics without sounding like a conspiracy theorist anyway. Keep in mind, if it's not an Internetian you're talking with, they've likely never heard or seen anything that hasn't come straight from the machine.

• On the post: How Do We Know That Piracy Isn't Really A Big Issue? Because Media Companies Still Haven't Needed To Change As A Result Of It

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 02:33pm

  Re:

  How do we know that copyright is a big issue?
  Even if you deny that damage exists, why would it even be a risk to the tech industry if copyright and the power of "rights" holders had not been inflated beyond reason?

• On the post: How Do We Know That Piracy Isn't Really A Big Issue? Because Media Companies Still Haven't Needed To Change As A Result Of It

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 02:18pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  RIAA: The internet is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions!
  Rational Person: You mean you're worried about a disaster which is an unreasonably popular fable functionally indistinguishable from communal fantasy?

• On the post: The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde Questions Why We Let Dying Industries Dictate Terms Of Democracy

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 12:44am

  Re: New Paradigms

  Yeah, "how the recording industry could avoid punching itself in the face" is such a common thread around here that it needs to be turned into a sticky post.
  
  I know it goes against the views of a lot of people here, but i would rather deal with the destruction of the majors. I don't want to see them succeed. Whether they succeed or fail, it will be at an immeasurable cost to nonaffiliated creators, the sum of legislation and caselaw, and the general public. I think it's worth weighing the damage they have and will continue to cause against the perceived value of their continued presence in the market. It's true, they're more irrelevant today than before. Maybe the independent creators aren't yet poised to fill the exact void that the majors would leave if they disappeared today, but it would get better. That's the crucial advantage.

• On the post: The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde Questions Why We Let Dying Industries Dictate Terms Of Democracy

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 12:30am

  Re:

  We need a corporate state corruption wiki.
  I imagine that'd last until the next DOJ/ICE takedown batch.
  Because the evidence of criminal actions is someone's IP.

• On the post: The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde Questions Why We Let Dying Industries Dictate Terms Of Democracy

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 12:23am

  Re: Re:

  Even if we only get this halfway done, i'm game.
  At least it'd be the half that stops the damage.

• On the post: The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde Questions Why We Let Dying Industries Dictate Terms Of Democracy

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 12:18am

  Re:

  They're not dead simply because the bullets haven't yet been properly applied.
  
  At this point -- with them exerting such horrifyingly dangerous international power with immunity, it seems like the only elegant and timely solution left.

• On the post: UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Domains) Over Copyright Claims

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 08:14pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Maybe then, it's appropriate to at least marvel that someone in congress was able to accidentally say something remotely correct. After all, we've been getting a bit overused to shameless statements of ignorance and gross lies (shrouded in extremely tiny veils) from these sorts of people.

• On the post: Disney And Warner Bros. Prepare To Fight Over Who Owns The Public Domain Wizard Of Oz

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 07:23pm

  Re: wtf...

  Why is it that copyright is only distinguishable from trademark rights when they don't benefit from the conflation?

• On the post: Disney And Warner Bros. Prepare To Fight Over Who Owns The Public Domain Wizard Of Oz

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 07:12pm

  Re: Re:

  See, i was reading that comment and my hope was escalating as my brain autocompleted the sentence.
  
  "...and then set their legal team on fire"
  
  Now i'm disappointed.

• On the post: French Court Fails Digital Economics; Claims Free Google Maps Is Illegal

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 09:21am

  can't have that

  I'm just waiting for this shit to become the popular 'solution' to open software projects in general. If it's not 'free' they can't compete with, it's 'quality'.
  
  I think that's the reason Google gained its power when it did. It provided a service that wasn't utter horrible shit.

• On the post: French Court Fails Digital Economics; Claims Free Google Maps Is Illegal

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 09:08am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: If I was Google...

  They call those 'accidents'.

• On the post: Sky News Tells Reporters Not To Use Twitter To Break News Without Permission

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2012 @ 10:10pm

  Re:

  /me puts on a blindfold
  Why is it so dark in here?
  Where did all the light go?

• On the post: Sky News Tells Reporters Not To Use Twitter To Break News Without Permission

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2012 @ 10:08pm

  Re: Sad to say that these kinds of rules don't apply to where they are needed the most,

  The worst thing is, it's likely that it's exactly that kind of disinformative twittershitting that they expect to wrangle everyone to produce. They can't have an uncontrolled information outlet, evidence of reality might leak out and devalue their investments in lies.
  
  Ugh. Sometimes I can't tell if I'm overdramatizing or if things really are that ridculous.

• On the post: How Publishers Repeated The Same Mistake As Record Labels: DRM Obsession Gave Amazon Dominant Position

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2012 @ 09:54pm

  then they start drooling

  Strategy? Hell, the only thing publishers and labels know about chess is that it involves pawns, and they like crushing those.

• On the post: Canadian Politician: You're Either In Favor Of Letting The Gov't Spy On Your Internet Usage… Or You're For Child Pornography

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2012 @ 08:46pm

  it might even a bit more honest

  We can play the same game.
  
  "You can stand with us, or you can stand with the neofascists and corporate shills."

• On the post: Canadian Politician: You're Either In Favor Of Letting The Gov't Spy On Your Internet Usage… Or You're For Child Pornography

  

  Al Bert ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2012 @ 08:39pm

  Re: Re:

  approve

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