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• On the post: EU Parliament Warns The US To Stop Censoring The Internet

  

  Ben ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2011 @ 12:26pm

  Re: Re:

  Look, the solution is simple, we j.... squirrel!

• On the post: EU Parliament Warns The US To Stop Censoring The Internet

  

  Ben ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2011 @ 12:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I thought it was "Do as I say, not as I do"?

• On the post: EU Parliament Warns The US To Stop Censoring The Internet

  

  Ben ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2011 @ 12:23pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Still went through a court.
  
  And if I recall correctly it was your content industry which forced it through

• On the post: As Expected, RIAA Threatens Site That Claims To Let You Sell Used MP3s

  

  Ben ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2011 @ 12:19pm

  Re: Re:

  Totally agree!
  
  -1 for except = accept

• On the post: EU Parliament Warns The US To Stop Censoring The Internet

  

  Ben ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2011 @ 11:38am

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  The UK? Hardly. The only example we have is BT being ordered in a court of law to block access. In a court. Of Law.
  
  See the difference?

• On the post: A Look At Three Popular Sites That May Be In Trouble Under SOPA

  

  Ben ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2011 @ 08:26am

  Re: Re: And a fourth site that could be in trouble

  Does SOPA stop people making fraudulent claims? Anyone know?
  
  Wait for it to pass, then we take down MPAA and RIAA.

• On the post: NY Times Discovers The Coming Legal Battle Over 3D Printing

  

  Ben ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2011 @ 05:02am

  From the article:
  
  "there was nothing Mr. Lombardi could have done to stop them"
  
  He could have tried selling his own copy at $29...

• On the post: And Now… Back To Your Regularly Scheduled Posts (i.e., Not Just SOPA)

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 10:50pm

  Thanks

  It was a long day Mike, thanks for the coverage.

• On the post: And Now… Back To Your Regularly Scheduled Posts (i.e., Not Just SOPA)

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 10:43pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Where is the reference

  The last person who said "karma is going to be such a sweet bitch" to me was a waitress I'd refused to tip due to shitty service.
  
  A day later she was fired due to apparently every other customer also complaining.
  
  You see, your comment is based on your opinion, which is subjective. That's why its wrong, and that's why you SOPA supporters are going to see that general public are undergoing their own 'Arab Spring' and will tolerate less and less of this shit in future.

• On the post: A Question For SOPA Supporters: How Will You Gauge SOPA's Success?

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 02:05pm

  Re: Bad Luck, if you dont like the law...

  You DO know how America came to be don't you?
  
  IRONY alert!

• On the post: A Question For SOPA Supporters: How Will You Gauge SOPA's Success?

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 01:51pm

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  I hear you.
  
  I bought the Back to the Future Blu Ray Trilogy (after having owned the DVD and most likely the VHS), yet I get forcefed anti piracy messages and have to skip a ton of crap. I'm used to it, it's life.
  
  Where they continue to piss me off is the little things designed to annoy, like having to select language, and English (or UK if by country) is last on 4 pages of options.
  
  Then there's pause. If I pause on my PS3 I get a 'universal' logo pop up. Ok, no biggie, but if I leave it for 10 minutes (approx) it goes back to the main menu and I have no way of resuming where I was without manually searching through the chapters. If I pause an AVI, it stays on pause FOREVER. I did email Universal to (politely) suggest this feature sucked and I never had any form of reply. Why bother when the consumer has no alternative.
  
  Government protection of your monopoly = no reason to be nice to your customers.

• On the post: A Question For SOPA Supporters: How Will You Gauge SOPA's Success?

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 12:53pm

  Re: Killing Piracy - Or Killing Free?

  Cute Cats are killing the movie business!

• On the post: A Question For SOPA Supporters: How Will You Gauge SOPA's Success?

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 12:50pm

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  BUT WE NEED THOSE DIRTY PIRATES! Without their cooling influence, global warming will destroy us all!
  
  http://goo.gl/eU77G
  
  (Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster)

• On the post: A Question For SOPA Supporters: How Will You Gauge SOPA's Success?

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 12:41pm

  Re: Re: When pirating is out of direct sight.

  Bullshit detectors?

• On the post: A Question For SOPA Supporters: How Will You Gauge SOPA's Success?

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 12:40pm

  Re: When pirating is out of direct sight.

  "PIRACY CAN'T BE LEFT TO INCREASE! That will most certainly bring down the ... content industry"
  
  Only if all piracy acts are carried out INSTEAD of purchasing through legal means. Which it's not. It's impossible to know how many pirated acts, if stopped, would have resulted in a legal purchase.

• On the post: A Look At The Testimony Given At Today's SOPA Lovefest Congressional Hearings… With A Surprise From MasterCard

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 07:51am

  Re: Re: Yay for "Maria Pallante, the Register of Copyrights"!

  You two should get a room

• On the post: Hackers, ACLU, Consumer Rights Groups, Human Rights Groups, Many More All Come Out Against SOPA

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 05:31am

  Re: A logical solution

  bah, the /sarc tag got cut off the last line

• On the post: Hackers, ACLU, Consumer Rights Groups, Human Rights Groups, Many More All Come Out Against SOPA

  

  Ben ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 05:30am

  A logical solution

  Infringers infringe content.
  
  There would be no infringement without content upon which to infringe.
  
  The existence of content is the biggest facilitator of infringement in existence.
  
  And who are the so-called representatives of the content industry? The MAFIAA.
  
  They are directly to blame for infringement, with their top quality content

• On the post: We, The People, Are Sarcastic And Not Easily Mollified By Bland Political Non-Answers

  

  Ben ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2011 @ 12:15pm

  Same in the UK

  I must have signed a dozen petitions on the UK's Number 10 Downing Street petition site. All responded to with a bland non commital statement.
  
  The 'your say' web site which allowed public to vote to repeal unpopular laws? Let down by poor coding and lack of government action.
  
  The one good thing about the latest government seems to be the amount of policy u-turns they make when the public cries out.... though that could just be because the public have a greater voice now thanks to twitter etc

• On the post: Hollywood Front Group Rounds Up 4,000 Letters Sent To Congress, Pretending It's 100,000

  

  Ben ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2011 @ 01:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: They are still avoiding the truth

  Multiple letters from one person? Sounds like double, nay triple dipping, which we know they like!

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