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• On the post: City Council Claims Copyright Infringement Over One Councillor Posting YouTube Clips Of Council Meetings

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2010 @ 07:45pm

  Re: Not covered

  Does the UK require a work to be fixed in form, as the US does? That would rule out meetings.

• On the post: Doctors Caught Revealing Info About Patients On Facebook

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2010 @ 07:42pm

  Get used to it

  This is going to be an increasing problem, as people's expectations of privacy are going to be increasingly at odds with corporate revenue models and a general failure of the law to keep up.
  
  Doctors discuss this stuff all the time (which is generally good!), it's just that the venue may produce unexpected results.

• On the post: Once More, With Feeling: Embracing 'Free' Doesn't Mean You Make No Money

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2010 @ 09:24am

  Just dense

  All these people understand advertising, where you pay someone to promote you. Why don't they get 'free?'
  
  OTOH, there's been a trend of studios posting their trailers (adverts) online with different advertising in front of it.

• On the post: Judge Tosses Out Wiretapping Charges Against Motorcyclist Who Filmed Cop With Helmet Cam

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2010 @ 08:34am

  Re: Wiretap this!

  What equipment? We have no record of that.

• On the post: More Stories Of People Arrested For Making Joke Threats On Social Networks

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2010 @ 08:20am

  Re: Re: Good Job NYPD

  This is why people hate cops. And lawyers. Also, you.

• On the post: Challenge To Graham Henderson: Please Point Out Who Believes Music Should Just Be A Hobby

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2010 @ 05:46pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: And so what?

  "Its not a problem. What this is, is a part of a concerted effort to discredit anything non-label. "
  
  Yeah. I got that. My point was the generic response that anyone should have to that. "So what?"

• On the post: Microsoft Back To Trying To Bribe People To Use Bing

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2010 @ 04:26pm

  Re:

  It's sort of sad that I can't tell if this is a spoof comment or not. Raspberry Scented Zune?

• On the post: A Look At The Technologies & Industries Senators Leahy & Hatch Would Have Banned In The Past

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2010 @ 10:25am

  Heh.

  When anyone bitches about 'music piracy' my response is usually, "There is no music. Home taping killed it.'

• On the post: Challenge To Graham Henderson: Please Point Out Who Believes Music Should Just Be A Hobby

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2010 @ 09:52am

  Re: Re: And so what?

  Right. My point is that if something that used to take a bajillion dollar industry can be done for grins and giggles, why would that be a problem?
  
  Unless you're dependent upon it being a bajillion dollar industry so you can suck your salary out of the revenue stream.

• On the post: Challenge To Graham Henderson: Please Point Out Who Believes Music Should Just Be A Hobby

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2010 @ 09:24am

  And so what?

  Why would music being a hobby be a bad thing? If they can deliver the same product in their spare time, just for grins, how does that hurt the consumer?
  
  Oh right. It's not really about them, is it?
  
  I'm appalled that I can't make a living scrapbooking. Something needs to be done!

• On the post: US ISP Suddenlink Claims The DMCA Requires They Disconnect Users

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2010 @ 06:04pm

  Sigh

  This is why the solution is to ensure competition--something those socialists across the pond have figured out, oddly enough.

• On the post: French Courts Once Again Confused About Google Suggest; Blame Google For Suggested Searches

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2010 @ 04:26pm

  Re:

  It's tricky, because any change to the algorithm is 'manipulating' things. (e.g., Google is known to try to counter SEO manipulation.) At some point, presumably, that becomes an 'editorial' decision, rather than a purely technical one.
  
  The next question is, so what? We read newspapers (or used to) for their editorial decisions.

• On the post: Backpage Tells Attorneys General That They Won't Give In To Censorship Demand

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2010 @ 09:07am

  Re: Speak truth to power.

  I hear you. Imagine what could have been if they had just showered and shaved...

• On the post: Backpage Tells Attorneys General That They Won't Give In To Censorship Demand

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2010 @ 08:47am

  Close enough

  "It's as if Richard Blumenthal thinks that everyone out there is incredibly dumb and believes the world works as he says it does, rather than how it actually works."
  
  Not everyone, just the journalists.

• On the post: Judge Recognizes Separation Of Idea & Expression; Rules That Disturbia Didn't Infringe On Rear Window

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2010 @ 08:31am

  Re: Re: Re: SSDD

  I think we have done this before. Obviously, I need a copy of that book (it still seems like an excessive number to me.)

• On the post: Company Claims Legal Right To Stream Broadcast TV Online; Broadcasters Disagree

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2010 @ 06:03pm

  This may have legs

  "The company's business model is to charge users a monthly fee to get this content -- which seems like a pretty big request, considering most people can get network broadcast TV for free."
  
  A lot fewer people can get all their stations over the air, thanks to HDTV's crappy signal (trust me: we've about given up on broadcast TV since the changeover.) I can see this working, if their prices are significantly below cable's. And once they get an established audience, at least some cable channels my well come onboard.

• On the post: Judge Recognizes Separation Of Idea & Expression; Rules That Disturbia Didn't Infringe On Rear Window

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2010 @ 05:18pm

  Re: SSDD

  60-80? There's a bunch of claims that the real number is more like seven to twelve, depending upon how you abstract them.
  
  So yes, everything is derivative, which is why adding that to copyright was just crazy.

• On the post: Lily Allen Said To Be Suing Apple Over Her Hacked Laptop… But Details Are Scarce And Hazy

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2010 @ 04:27pm

  It's simple

  Her computer was saving copies of all her stuff without getting her explicit permission.

• On the post: Could Cutting People Off From The Internet Be Dangerous?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2010 @ 11:36am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "If we agree on the assertion that the act that would result in internet disconnection is punishable,"
  
  A giant IF, there. IP addresses are not proof of ID.
  
  "...how is this punishment more difficult to deal with than jail or a halfway house? "
  
  They don't usually sentence your family or housemates to the same punishment.

• On the post: Could Cutting People Off From The Internet Be Dangerous?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2010 @ 11:08am

  Re: Re:

  My 'friends circle' now encloses every continent but Antartica. You take my internet away, you are seriously crippling my day-to-day interaction.
  
  Do not be surprised if [someone in a similar situation] decides to retaliate in less than metaphorical ways.

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