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• On the post: Law Enforcement Already Has A Way To Share 'Cybersecurity' Info With Companies; Why Do We Need CISPA?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2012 @ 02:07pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ?...?

  The strongest prison is the one with invisible walls that the inmates build for themselves.

• On the post: Law Enforcement Already Has A Way To Share 'Cybersecurity' Info With Companies; Why Do We Need CISPA?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2012 @ 02:03pm

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  I meant, what is the name of the senate bill?

• On the post: Law Enforcement Already Has A Way To Share 'Cybersecurity' Info With Companies; Why Do We Need CISPA?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2012 @ 12:23pm

  What is the Senate version of CISPA?

• On the post: Hasbro Offers Nerf Blogger Free Samples, Sends Lawyers And Investigators Instead

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2012 @ 07:27am

  Hazbro is pure evil. I will never give them one cent. I will never forgive them for ruining MTGO.
  
  On another note, this is what you get for aligning your life around collecting a line of commercial products. They will always make you regret it.
  
  On another note, nerf? Really? Who becomes a nerf evangelist?

• On the post: Hurt Locker Producers Now Understand The Copyright Troll Shakedown Better: Sue 2,514 More Defendants

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2012 @ 11:18am

  How did Voltage Pictures get those IP addresses?

• On the post: Pointless Journalist Fight: Who Gets Credit For Tweeting A Story First?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2012 @ 06:12am

  Re: Re: Ownerable news

  Perhaps "ownerous" is more apropos.

• On the post: How Rumblefish Ended Up Claiming Copyright On A Song Uploaded By The Band Who Actually Held The Copyright

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2012 @ 01:55pm

  Re: Re: hm

  RSS?

• On the post: The Latest In Hollywood Mathematics: A 46.3% Employment Increase Equals 'Countless Jobs Lost'

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2012 @ 06:56am

  What the hell is a "trademark-intensive" industry? In fact, the entire use of the word "intensive" is part of the lie. It make it sound like they go out and buy copyrights as raw material and assemble them into larger copyrights that they go back out and sell again. There's nothing intensive about any IP.

• On the post: Canadian Universities Have One Week To Stop A Disastrous Copyright Licensing Deal

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2012 @ 06:21am

  This copyright tarriff and similar proposals to charge all ISP customers a flat rate for piracy lead to the British style of paying for television. You pay an annual fee and you can copy all you want. I'm surprised to hear the collection agencies advocating for these kinds of fees.

• On the post: Toronto Mayor Wants Residents To Report Graffiti Via iPhone, And Pay For The Privilege

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2012 @ 06:08am

  I'd much rather report graffiti with an app than a phone call and $2 is just a funny looking coin, so what's the big deal?

• On the post: To Read All Of The Privacy Policies You Encounter, You'd Need To Take A Month Off From Work Each Year

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2012 @ 08:39am

  There's a business opportunity here for someone to monitor privacy statements, summarize them, and mobilize against the worst of them.

• On the post: London 2012 Olympics Win Gold Medal For Cluelessness By Banning Video And Photo Uploads To Social Media During Games

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 12:51pm

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  There is a good opportunity for remixing video on YouTube! Write a program that takes video of politicians and puts corporate logos all over them like Nascar drivers and posts as a video response.

• On the post: London 2012 Olympics Win Gold Medal For Cluelessness By Banning Video And Photo Uploads To Social Media During Games

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 12:48pm

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  I don't know, but I do know NFL can block access to its app when you're at a stadium.

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

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 08:57pm

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  Hah! You're probably right! But soon enough said executive will check to see if anyone responded to his comments and then he will wander around and learn some memes and so will become a netizen anyway.

• On the post: It's Time To Re-Establish That If A Patent Blocks Progress, It's Unconstitutional

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 03:12pm

  His main concern is the toll that patent trolling is taking on innovation.
  
  You use toll figuratively but it is literal. The entire economy passes through these toll gates every day. Why do all the people who hate taxes suddenly love tolls just because they are going to private industry?

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

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 12:27pm

  Let those maximalists use social media as much as they want. Soon they'll become netizens themselves and realize what fools they've been.

• On the post: Revolving Door Between The MPAA And The Federal Government

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2012 @ 11:12am

  Re: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em

  Got $10-20 million?

• On the post: French Voters Warned To Stay Off Social Media Lest They 'Crash The Election'

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2012 @ 06:16am

  There's a big difference between individuals posting anecdotal information and mass media broadcasting results of exit polls. The former means nothing, whereas the latter can, in some circumstances, be accurate predictors.

• On the post: Dutch Whac-A-Mole Game Against The Pirate Bay Apparently Works Better Without Due Process

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2012 @ 05:49pm

  You can certainly complain about the lack of due process, but The Pirate Bay was using the time delay inherent in due process to start the whack-a-mole game in the first place. So "abuse it and lose it" seems fair to me.
  
  Isn't abuse of the legal system something that we condemned Righthaven for? I remember us applauding the judges who cut through that bullshit.

• On the post: The Odd Future Approach: Give Away The Music, Sell Awesome Stuff

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2012 @ 02:37pm

  What should a musical group do if their music is about fighting materialism?

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