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• On the post: The Stupidity Of Data Caps: No One Knows What A Megabyte Is

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2012 @ 02:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Nobody Needs To Know

  Derek Kerton, please keep posting your sane comments, as many as you want!

• On the post: The Mantra Of The Digital Generation: Life, Liberty And Blazing Broadband

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2012 @ 11:41am

  First two comments uttered by people who identify with their cars instead.

• On the post: Hearing Aids, Monopolies, And Why The Health Industry Is Ripe For Disruption

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2012 @ 08:17am

  Re: business model-- made of balsa and pasteboard

  The manufacturers will be sued and they won't want to recycle their brands as readily.

• On the post: Paramount Thinks That Louis CK Making $1 Million In 12 Days Means He's Not Monetizing

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2012 @ 07:31am

  Re: See Mike, that's your problem...

  More succinctly, "monetize" means make money for the AAholes first and anyone else second, if at all.

• On the post: Is There Any Merit To Neil Young's Plan To Improve The Quality Of Digital Music?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2012 @ 06:52am

  All the technical talk about encoding is interesting, but the real question is, how does Young's proposal address piracy? It's easy enough to encrypt the data between the cloud and the player software, but how does he prevent the sounds from being captured between the player and the audio driver? If his player software intends to supersede my operating system then No thank you please!

• On the post: New York Convinces Game Companies To Kick Registered Sex Offenders Off Gaming Services

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2012 @ 06:12pm

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  Should sex offenders be forced to abandon their Second Life properties without the chance to sell them?
  
  If a sex offender has to move in real life due to a law change does he have to go right that second and forfeit all his furniture and belongings?

• On the post: Yet Another Copyright Troll Case Kicked Out Of Court, With Excellent Reasoning From The Judge

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2012 @ 07:53am

  I would imagine that the adult industry will start incorporating anti-piracy messages directly in its productions, similar to product placement. Imagine the dialog!

• On the post: Jack White Releases Single… By Launching 1,000 Balloons With Flexi Discs Attached

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 02:26pm

  Re: wtf is a flexidisk?

  The Wikipedia article has some very interesting information I would never have guessed.

• On the post: Pfizer Dinged For Antitrust Activities In Trying To Block Generic Drug Competition In Italy

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 08:21pm

  See what happens when you give someone a limited monopoly? Before too long they feel entitled to so much more.
  
  Now you've just given them all this monopoly money to play with. So the next thing they do is use it to remove the limitations on the monopoly. How is that not piracy?

• On the post: NYTimes Columnist Stirs Up A Controversy That Will Only Drive Human Trafficking Further Underground

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 11:25am

  Okay, Mr. Kristoff, have it your way. And while we're at it, let's hold NY Times responsible for their share of the Iraq War deaths caused by Judith Miller.

• On the post: Guy Loses Probation Because Court Decides That Facebook & MySpace Are 'Electronic Bulletin Boards'

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 11:21am

  It's pretty obvious Facebook is a BBS. It's a BBS on steroids.

• On the post: A Copyright First: Bogus Copyright Takedown Leads To Australian Court Awarding $150k Damages

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2012 @ 06:45pm

  Suppose Ms. Steele ultimately prevails on the question of copyright ownership, so the takedown is no longer relevant. Could this case set a precedent regarding copyfraud takedowns anyway? Maybe something like:
  
  

  While the court agrees that unjustified takedowns can indeed cause and be liable for real damages, in this case that does not matter because..."

  
  Or would a judge avoid that question if its resolution does not inform her ultimate decision?

• On the post: Appeals Court: Bundling Cable Channels Together Isn't Anticompetitive

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2012 @ 06:18pm

  What I'm concerned about is they want to bundle things on the Web too.

• On the post: Ridiculous: Court Says Mock Basketball Which Appears In Hyundia Commercial For 1 Second 'Dilutes' LV Trademark

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2012 @ 02:19pm

  What's bizarre is that this commercial holds up LV as the epitome of luxury and yet LV is complaining. Would someone please use national television to make my company's logo as synonymous with quality engineering? Please, anyone! Go right ahead! I won't sue you, I promise!

• On the post: Hadopi Accused Of 'Massaging' The Numbers To Make Anti-Piracy Activity Look Better

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2012 @ 02:06pm

  Okay, but then if piracy is still occurring at the same rate, we need to amend our point about revenue still dropping, right?

• On the post: Megaupload Defendants Get Internet Access Back; Kim Dotcom Allowed To Record An Album

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2012 @ 07:13am

  Maybe they let him have internet because they want him to report in using a smartphone? Taking it away from him takes away their ability to communicate with him on it. They don't want to be receiving faxes of Polaroids of him leaving the studio.

• On the post: How The RIAA & MPAA Are Like The Anti-Innovation German Weavers' Guild Of The 16th Century

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2012 @ 08:23am

  Re:

  "Well, a lot of those same kids are now sitting in those chairs and we all can see just how much different things are, they're actually worse, more greedy, more restrictive, more power hungry than those before them."
  
  A question I would like to ask Ron Kirk: "When you got into local politics in Dallas in the 70's, was it your goal even then to become a complete sell-out?"

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

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2012 @ 07:30pm

  Re: Mixed Emotions.

  Thanks dude! Very kind of you. I accept your kudos in lieu of the actual "award."

• On the post: Kevin Smith On Why You Don't Have To Be Kevin Smith To Try Innovative New Things

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2012 @ 05:37pm

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  Hey if it could be on The Tonight Show how bad can it be in blog comments?

• On the post: Kevin Smith On Why You Don't Have To Be Kevin Smith To Try Innovative New Things

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2012 @ 10:46am

  I just flew in from Vegas and boy are my arms tired -- from being squished next to Kevin Smith!
  
  No you don't have to be Kevin Smith, because it would take two or three of us to be Kevin Smith!
  
  Try the sirloin folks, I hear it's amazing.

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