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• On the post: Minneapolis Police Filming Their Own Work To Show Critics

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 02:21pm

  Re: Too Often

  Penalties for police and prosecutorial misconduct, including concealing evidence, should be equal to those for the crimes which the defendants are being tried for. PROBLEM SOLVED.

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: Having Open WiFi Does Not Make You 'Negligent' Under The Law

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 12:12pm

  Re: The EFF is lying

  This whole tugboat thing is just bizarre. How is the tugboat case germane other than a law school definition of negligence? Surely, a judge would be more impressed with a negligence example that bore more similarity to T & W.

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: Having Open WiFi Does Not Make You 'Negligent' Under The Law

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 09:34am

  By their reasoning it would also be negligent not to have a padlock on your mailbox.

• On the post: Charles Carreon Sues Matthew Inman… And The Charities He's Raising Money For

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 08:29am

  This whole thing is dumb, on both sides. It is a distraction from TechDirt's mission.

• On the post: Big Ruling Says Using Trademarks In Artistic Works Can Be Protected Under The First Amendment

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2012 @ 09:07am

  I doubt this will change movies because even the studios don't think of their own product as art.

• On the post: Wyden & Udall Block FISA Amendments Act Until US Admits How Many Americans Are Being Spied On

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2012 @ 07:47am

  Re:

  Whoops! Who knew there were two Senator Udalls?
  
  http://www.markudall.com/

• On the post: Wyden & Udall Block FISA Amendments Act Until US Admits How Many Americans Are Being Spied On

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2012 @ 07:47am

  Whoops! Who knew there were two Senator Udalls?
  
  http://www.markudall.com/

• On the post: Wyden & Udall Block FISA Amendments Act Until US Admits How Many Americans Are Being Spied On

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2012 @ 07:40am

  Show your appreciation to Ron Wyden here.
  
  Show your appreciation to Marc Udall here.
  
  Positive reinforcement works.

• On the post: Commerce Department's Own Study Debunks Commerce Department's Defense Of Said Study

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2012 @ 01:25pm

  When they take something that belongs to the public and give it to one entity, they count that entity's jobs as a benefit, but they don't count the loss of jobs from all the other entities from whom it was taken.
  
  Plus those jobs are "created" by imposing a toll on the economy, so they are faux jobs, no different than if the government raised taxes and hired a bunch of people to dig holes and fill them back in. Why do all those people who hate taxes love tolls so much?

• On the post: Australian ISP: Negotiating With Hollywood Over Copyright Is Like Talking To A Brick Wall

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2012 @ 06:49am

  If Hollywood sues ISPs over delivery of pirated content, why doesn't Pharma sue UPS?

• On the post: Commerce Dept: Steve Jobs Had Patents, Steve Jobs Made Cool Things; Thus Patents Are Great

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 12:12pm

  This is how you know the fix is in. We saw the same thing in the run-up to the Iraq War.

• On the post: A Big Victory For Fair Use Via South Park, What What (In The Butt), Numa Numa, Afro Ninja, Et Al.

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 08:04am

  Win, win, on the chin!

• On the post: Filmmaker Compares Copyleft Supporters To Anti-Gay-Marriage Advocates

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 10:30am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You defined marriage using certain terms. I'm just asking you to define those terms. If you can't your definition is meaningless. Certainly you understand the morality of that position.

• On the post: Filmmaker Compares Copyleft Supporters To Anti-Gay-Marriage Advocates

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 06:42am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I didn't think you could.

• On the post: Filmmaker Compares Copyleft Supporters To Anti-Gay-Marriage Advocates

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 06:38am

  Mr. Newhoff used the word copyleft once in his post, and used it incorrectly, equating it to piracy, or to anti-IP sentiments in general. Mr. Geigner's post here repeats that incorrect usage in the title and elsewhere without correcting it.
  
  Also, there are no comments on the Copyright Alliance website but Mr. Newhoff's site is http://davidnewhoff.com/.

• On the post: Filmmaker Compares Copyleft Supporters To Anti-Gay-Marriage Advocates

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 06:19am

  Re:

  "Marriage is the joining of a man and woman by God."
  
  That's a fine definition. Now define man, woman, and God.

• On the post: Help To Save The World: Go Online

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2012 @ 06:56am

  The reasons why we love the net are the same reasons why they hate it, and vice versa.

• On the post: Labatt Threatens To Sue Newspaper For Showing Photo of Suspected Killer Holding Its Beer

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2012 @ 02:23pm

  I don't always kill people, but when I do I prefer to drink Labatt's Blue.

• On the post: Beyond Open Access: Open Source Scientific Software

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2012 @ 06:09am

  It's great that scientists are waking up to this problem with the accountability of their software. Now perhaps they will wake up to the exact same problem when using proprietary election machines.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: The 'Stakeholders' For Copyright Policy Don't Fit In A Room

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2012 @ 12:49pm

  Re: Re: Don't be surprised if the public doesn't agree with your anything goes attitude!

  Gallery3 will play videos from your home Linux box through your own tubes just for you and your family.
  
  No takedowns, no privacy intrusions, no cloud control, no data mining, no social mining.
  
  http://www.ubuntu.com/
  http://gallery.menalto.com/

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