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• On the post: 1000-Year-Old Village Told To Stop Using Name Because Of Trademark Claim From Hotel Chain Founded There

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 05 May, 2015 @ 05:16am

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  Only the rightsholder or its own employees may search for infringement

  
  
  How about simply making whoever sends the errant C&D being financially liable for it? Say something like costs plus 50%, minimum of $500 ?

• On the post: DOJ Apparently Last To Know About Widespread Stingray Usage/Secrecy; Vows To Look Into It

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 05 May, 2015 @ 03:32am

  So, how many pages of redacted information will the DOJ need to read before they realize there isn't a problem?

• On the post: ESPN & NFL Network Still Pretending Twitter Doesn't Exist During NFL Draft

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 01 May, 2015 @ 04:57am

  This is an easy one to follow.
  
  ESPN uses the (old school) broadcast model. Their revenue comes (indirectly) from viewers, directly from advertisers and providers who pay them based on the number of viewers.
  
  By ensuring that the broadcast distributes the information first, ESPN believes that they will gain/maintain viewers, thus increasing their viewer numbers and the amount they can charge advertisers.
  
  Like everything else, you really just have to find out where the money is coming from for it all to make cents.

• On the post: Designer Still Pursuing Bogus Takedown Of Periodic Table Of HTML Elements; Has No Idea How Copyright Works

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2015 @ 12:59pm

  Pretty much every one of her arguments stems from the alleged theft of the unpublished version of her work. Yet, I have not seen one shred of evidence that supports that claim.

• On the post: Australia Considers New Copyright Law That Could Be Interpreted To Ban VPNs

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2015 @ 05:15am

  Copyright expert Kimberlee Weatherall says it is difficult to predict if the bill will be used by copyright holders to argue for an injunction against a VPN service because it lacks clarity regarding services and sites whose primary purpose is not copyright infringement, although may be being used for that purpose.

  
  
  No, that is not a difficult prediction to make. If passed, copyright holders will argue for injunctions and lawsuits against VPNs. I know it. You know it. Everyone knows it. Ms Weatherall just won't admit that because she does not want to bite the hand that feeds her.

• On the post: Former Government Official Suing Snowden And Others For Billions Of Dollars Adds The United States As An Involuntary Plaintiff

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2015 @ 10:06am

  I just do not understand the logic here...bad things were done by the US Government. A private citizen blew the whistle on them, so now a person wants to sue the whistle blower to repay the US government the cost of cleaning up the mess, a mess that would not exist had the US Government not done anything bad in the first place. Have I got that right?
  
  I do fully understand that logic is not the issue here; this is a lawsuit being made for more of an anti-liberal attack than anything else. But how blinded by your own ideals do you have to be to go to this length? Probably about as blind as the US Government was to its own misdeeds.

• On the post: Snowden, Poitras & Others Sued For 'Billions Of Dollars' Spent By US Government In Response To Leaks

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 10:54am

  Using "Hollywood Defendants" in a legal document is about the same as going to the middle of Times Square and pulling out the spray bottle of "Bat Shit Crazy," spraying it all over yourself, then urinating into that same bottle and repeating the process, all the while confronting anyone who walks past you as being the source of all your earthly problems.
  
  Does Techdirt need a "Funny" section?

• On the post: The MPAA's Secret Plan To Reinterpret The DMCA Into A Vast Censorship Machine That Breaks The Core Workings Of The Internet

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2014 @ 11:04am

  And if this does actually come to be, I will patiently wait, with my tub of popcorn, for Sony (and the rest) to use a youtube video, or a song that they have not properly licensed so that their own DNS can be, um, circumvented.

• On the post: Traffic Cam Company 'Bagman' Pleads Guilty To Bribing Chicago Transportation Official

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2014 @ 01:01pm

  And he would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!

• On the post: NYPD Baffled By Tech Advances Like Laptops And WiFi

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2014 @ 10:01am

  Dear NYPD;
  
  I understand that you are really (I mean, **really**) concerned about some protests that may or may not happen due to recent events in your fine city. I want to let you know that I have the solution you need. You may not like it, but here it is:
  
  Stop killing and disrupting persons who have not and are not committing crimes.
  
  I think if you can do this, then the rest will follow. What was it that President Reagan called it? Oh yes, the Trickle Down effect.
  
  Sincerely,
  The American People

• On the post: FTC Hammers Sony For Misleading Advertising

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2014 @ 07:23pm

  Maybe the FTC will also go after Sony for the whole DriveClub fiasco (to fill you in: Sony heavily advertised a game called DriveClub as a free game to their PS+ Members, a game that was supposed to be available at the console launch. They missed that, next they decreased the functionality of the PS+ Version of DriveClub by reducing the number of cars and tracks, then the game came out in October, but has still not been made available, at no cost, as originally promised, to PS+ members for a variety of 'technical' reasons)

• On the post: Ted Cruz Doubles Down On Misunderstanding The Internet & Net Neutrality, As Republican Engineers Call Him Out For Ignorance

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2014 @ 08:23am

  How many times will we get that bait and switch of "This is better for you, the great population of the US!" when translated actually means "This will mean more cost for the US population, but at least corporate profits will skyrocket!" ?

• On the post: DailyDirt: Build A Better Mousetrap Umbrella…

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2014 @ 06:17pm

  I'd think that the air umbrella would throw more rain onto people passing by, and they might not be too happy about that.

• On the post: The Verge Takes John Oliver's 'Dog Supreme Court' And Remixes The Aereo Hearing

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 04:59am

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  Haven't you been paying attention? The Supreme Court said "No Cameras."

• On the post: Neil deGrasse Tyson Attacks 'Startup Culture,' Demonstrates Lack Of Understanding About Innovation

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2014 @ 11:25am

  Any of today's problems can be solved with enough money, and therein is the problem. We can make wind and solar power affordable, but no one (person or corporation) is willing to invest the amount of money needed to get us there, because it is almost assured that the investor will never get back any significant part of their investment. That guy building the app in his spare time? His outlay cost is minimal to make that app.
  
  That's the difference. I would love to join up with an alternative energy firm and put to use my knowledge of solar and wind power systems, but there just isn't the demand yet because no one is making the major investments into such things.
  
  We are a monetary driven society, and the more money that can be made for the least amount of investment, the better off everyone is. Maybe not, but that's the reality of life today.

• On the post: Politicians Cynically Using JP Morgan Hack To Try To Pass Laws To Diminish Your Privacy

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2014 @ 04:35am

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  I do not think that anyone in the US Government is savvy enough to distinguish between a white hat and black hat hacker. They hear these terms and all they can think of is "ZOMG, a cyberterrorist with different colored hats!"

• On the post: Apple Finally Allows iPhone-Ers To Nix That U2 Album They Never Wanted From Their Phones

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 10:17am

  Well, if this does not convince Bono that free music isn't the problem, nothing will.

• On the post: Breweries Fight Over Trademark Of Hikers That Don't Look Alike

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 03:29am

  If Long Trail is willing to send some free beers this way, I will be more than happy to let them know exactly how many beers it takes until I cannot tell the difference in logos.

• On the post: Cop To Cameraman: 'If You're Invoking Your Rights, You Must Be Doing Something Wrong'

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 06:19am

  Re: No Photography?

  HOW DARE YOU! Why have you poisoned our techdirt community with your WAR on FOOD TRUCKS?!?!?
  
  FOOD TRUCK AKBAR!

• On the post: Keurig's Coffee DRM Already Cracked By Competitors; Will There Be A Lawsuit?

  

  Bt Garner ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2014 @ 10:29am

  Re: Re: Breaking the DRM

  Thank goodness my morals stop at downloading coffee.

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