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• On the post: Charles Carreon Keeps Digging & Digging: Inman And IndieGoGo Hit Back

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2012 @ 06:44am

  Some people just don't know what end is up.

• On the post: Another One Bites The Dust: Australian Parliament Committee Recommends Rejecting ACTA

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 12:19pm

  Re:

  Not Obama but Biden. Obama doesn't take a stand on IP himself and just passes them along to Biden. When it comes to IP Biden is in charge, not Obama.

• On the post: Japan Criminalizes Unauthorized Downloads, Making DVD Backups — And Maybe Watching YouTube

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2012 @ 01:31pm

  Because of the hypnotic effect that musicians and artists seem to have on politicians, governments happily oblige

  Time to lead the Pied Piper out of town.

• On the post: Zazzle & Warner Bros. Pretend All References To Wizard Of Oz Are Covered By WB Copyright

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 09:32am

  Oh, what a world! What a world!

• On the post: DailyDirt: I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing…

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 08:58am

  From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola
  
  

  Since 1980 in the U.S., Coke has been made with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as an ingredient. Originally it was used in combination with more expensive cane-sugar, but by late 1984 the formulation was sweetened entirely with HFCS.

• On the post: Funnyjunk's Lawyer Charles Carreon Just Keeps Digging: Promises He'll Find Some Law To Go After Oatmeal's Matt Inman

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 07:37am

  Sometimes when you find yourself in a deep hole you might find it faster/better to dig deeper to get out then to climb up.

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

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2012 @ 07:16am

  Someone needs a time out

• On the post: Harper's Publisher Presents The Platonic Ideal Specimen Of The 'I'm An Old Fogey Elitist Anti-Internet Luddite' Columns

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 12:21pm

  When you are born everything in the world is how it has always been.
  
  When you are in your 20's anything new is awesome and you fully embrace it.
  
  When you are in your 40's anything new is wrong and against the vary nature of the universe.

• On the post: Kiwi Musician Says Public Domain Only Exists So You Can 'Rip Off Dead People's Works'

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 12:16pm

  So nobody can ever write a tragic love story anymore? Nobody can write about about regicide to gain power? Nobody can write about corruption, betrayal, time travel, space travel, etc? Wow I guess nobody can write about anything anymore. All are can be traced down to some public domain works on at least a basic level.
  
  I saw a video quite some time ago about a musician that noticed how many many many songs today all have a certain number of notes in common. He recognized this because when he was in band at school he got sick of playing these same notes over and over again and heard them in a piece of music he was listening to. I think this was in response to a lawsuit between two musicians. In his video he points out the notes in common between the two songs in question. He then points out the same notes in songs going back several years and concluding by showing the same notes in some classical song.

• On the post: Why Anti-Circumvention Laws Are Evil: Hollywood Gets To Veto DVD Jukebox, Despite Complete Lack Of Infringement

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2012 @ 11:51am

  Why did Hollywood want the Kaleidescape killed. This line says it all:
  

  A movie starts directly from the beginning, without forcing the family to endure advertisements, trailers, and confusing menus.

• On the post: Hollywood Wants To Kill Piracy? No Problem: Just Offer Something Better

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 08:13am

  whenever the industry seems to get close to creating a good product for video -- see: Hulu or Netflix -- the industry then freaks out that it's going to cannibalize their old way of doing things

  
  Isn't that the point? Don't you want something that works BETTER then the old way or reaches MORE customers or both?

• On the post: GoDaddy Takes Down Entire Site Of Copyright Attorney/Photographer Over Bogus DMCA Claim

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2011 @ 09:37am

  I am a small web hosting provider myself and have to ask if I got a DMCA notice on one of my client's sites what options do I have? Can I change the client's code or database to remove the material in question or do I just disable the account? Since I just host the site and have nothing to do with the content then the only course of action I can see would be to disable the site in question or risk bringing my business into a legal battle that I can't afford. Shut down that client's site or shut down all of my client's sites and go out of business? Unfortunately that is the way the DMCA is written (that I understand) it is the nature of the beast. Yes it needs to be changed to a notice - notice provision vs notice - take down but until that gets changed my hands would be tied to a very expensive pole.
  
  So I am asking the Techdirt community what would be my best course of action if I did get a DMCA notice? What would you do if you were in my shoes? GoDaddy has tons of cash to throw at lawyers and could have fought for this customer, I can not. It seems my only course of action involves loosing that client (one way or another) or risk my business. Two loose - loose options.

• On the post: Judge Orders Divorcing Couple To Swap Facebook And Dating Site Passwords, Breaking Facebook's Own Rules

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 02:57pm

  Then the same judge gets the trail of State vs Courtney Gallion in the charges of violating the CFAA by accessing her now divorced husband's Facebook account.

• On the post: SOPA Gives Me Powers That I Don't Want

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 02:49pm

  Would "felony interference of a business model" be consider dedicated to infringement? Will this bill be limited to only copyright? At some point would trademark be rolled into it as well? Wouldn't that be swell. Now someone who has a trademark dispute with another company files suit (in East Texas no less), goes to the ITC to get all imports barred, and then uses SOPA to deal the final blow; shutdown of the website and any CC payments.

• On the post: SOPA Gives Me Powers That I Don't Want

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 02:24pm

  Under the new law SOPA I hereby notify you of a domain that is dedicated to infringement and demand that you block access to and/or deny payments to anybody using this domain or any subdomains. The domain in question is .com

• On the post: Viacom: Pass SOPA Or Spongebob Dies

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 02:08pm

  I can't watch that video, it requires me to download the FREE Adobe Flash player. Free is bad!
  
  Seriously, WHAT?! Do these employees really have their heads up their rear ends they can't see how horribly this will be abused? Do they really think Viacom would not use this new "tool" to crush a new competitor that is starting to take business away from Viacom? Do they not know this will make everybody who builds a business online guilty until proven innocent?

• On the post: Facebook, Twitter, eBay & Other Big Internet Companies Come Out Against SOPA

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 01:50pm

  Do a simple internet search for SOPA and you can find all kinds of different companies against it. Does Congress really live in a bubble where the only people they hear are the ones that are allowed to testify? One would think that our own reps would research a bill outside of DC before voting ya or na. But then again that would involve common sense, something I think is removed before an official is sworn into office.

• On the post: SOPA Gives Me Powers That I Don't Want

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 01:43pm

  Re: Re: Backfire

  Yes you are correct with this statement. Corporation will send a "Opps my bad" letter and all will be forgiven.

• On the post: SOPA Gives Me Powers That I Don't Want

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 12:49pm

  Backfire

  The backers of this bill should be worried about the bill back firing on them. If it will be this easy then what is to stop someone from filing a complaint against Viacom or UMG? Sure they have high priced lawyers to defend themselves but get enough complaints and their lawyers will be working overtime to keep up.

• On the post: Radio Is Killing Music

  

  Chris Hoeschen ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2011 @ 11:10am

  The music industry must be dying of a really slow death.

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