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• On the post: Are New Patent Marking Lawsuits Patent Trolling… Or Anti-Patent Trolling?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2010 @ 07:18am

  Re: Re: What's the downside?

  "Well, the downside is wasting court resources on issues that aren't clearly harming anyone."
  
  We've already got that, it's just that the bulk of the penalties are stacked against the accused infringer. I see no reason not to put some real risk in claiming to own something you don't.

• On the post: Are New Patent Marking Lawsuits Patent Trolling… Or Anti-Patent Trolling?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2010 @ 04:30pm

  What's the downside?

  Hell, I wish this applied to copyright claims as well.

• On the post: How The Patent Office Outsourced Its Job To Non-Expert Jurors

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2010 @ 11:38am

  Re:

  "Secondly, it ends up that the alleged infringer must do the work of the absent or missing expert paten examiner, and do this work so weel that it could be verified by a jury."
  
  That is the de facto case, and makes one wonder why we even bother to have patent 'examiners' in the first place.

• On the post: How The Patent Office Outsourced Its Job To Non-Expert Jurors

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2010 @ 11:21am

  No shit

  Patent examiners ain't nothing but hoes and tricks.

• On the post: A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose… Until Police See It On CCTV, Say It's A Knife & Throw You In Jail For 3 Months

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2010 @ 12:30pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Remember when Judge Dredd was satire, and not an instruction manual? Good times...

• On the post: Blockbuster Bankruptcy, Yet Again, Highlights How It's Not Easy To Just Copy The Disruptive Innovation

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2010 @ 09:47am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What goes around, comes around

  "MomNPop's shovel: $30 ($15 wholesale + $8 overhead + $7 salary)
  Walmart shovel: $20 ($10 wholesale + $4 overhead + $4 salary + $2 profit)"
  
  And which retail job would you rather have?

• On the post: Blockbuster Bankruptcy, Yet Again, Highlights How It's Not Easy To Just Copy The Disruptive Innovation

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2010 @ 10:11am

  What goes around, comes around

  Blockbuster found their niche early on by eating the mom-n-pop video stores' lunch. The fact that the same lunch got handed to them by Netflix doesn't disturb me at all.
  
  There's a thread here, that I can't quite tease out, about how the people who rise to captain of industry are utterly incapable of seeing what sea their ship is sailing on.

• On the post: Another ISP Fighting US Copyright Group Subpoenas; Why Aren't More ISPs Protecting Your Privacy?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2010 @ 09:49am

  Re: Re:

  Also Clear wireless. (But if you're on a Mac, just stick to the 'on the go' modem. I've been dealing with them for a week and have burned through two of their 'home modems.')
  
  As to your larger point, Mike has been saying for years that it's competition that would rectify this, not net neutrality laws that will be influenced by entrenched concerns.

• On the post: German Court Says Google May Have To Police Videos On YouTube For Infringement

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2010 @ 09:30am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: WTF?

  "If Google wanted to be sneaky about it, they'd make the special API available to collection agencies as part of a settlement and then, when the first independent artist requests access, open it up to everyone else."
  
  I like the way you think.
  
  Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the way Google thinks. They don't even reject improper DMCA takedowns, which would seem to be the low bar here.

• On the post: German Court Says Google May Have To Police Videos On YouTube For Infringement

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2010 @ 08:05am

  Re: Re: WTF?

  "... but I think a good compromise would be to give legitimate collection agencies special access to scan for their content using whatever technologies they so desire."
  
  Well, it's on the 'net, so they can use whatever robot they want. In addition, Google does do some pre-emptive scanning on their own end, although I'm not clear on how deeply involved various parties are in that bit of overreaching.
  
  Also, I'm not quite clear on what makes a 'legitimate collection agency.' There are thousands of artists, some quite well known, who are not part of the traditional label system, but that doesn't stop the collection agencies from collecting on their behalf. Sounds more like a Mafia shakedown, with the promise that they'll be sure to take care of widows and orphans.

• On the post: German Court Says Google May Have To Police Videos On YouTube For Infringement

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2010 @ 07:32am

  WTF?

  I understand the appeal of getting someone else to do your job for you, but isn't policing this kind of stuff the purported reason for these collection societies?

• On the post: Ansel Adams Trust Sues Guy Claiming To Have Found Long Lost Adams' Negatives For Selling Prints

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2010 @ 09:50am

  Re: Protagoras and Euathlus did it first

  "...if it's not an Adams then surely he's free to make it, copy it and and sell it as his own work."
  
  Nope. It's still under *someone's* copyright. It becomes a classic orphan work at that point. Nobody knows who actually 'owns' it.

• On the post: Is There A Better Way To Text While Driving?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2010 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Thanks!

  New techdirt bumpersticker?
  
  CwF+RtB+FU=Profit

• On the post: Is There A Better Way To Text While Driving?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2010 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Thanks!

  New techdirt bumpersticker?
  
  CwF+RtB+FU=Profit

• On the post: Treating Houses Like Copyright… And Then Securitizing And Selling Off The Revenue From Future Resales

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2010 @ 12:42pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Oh.
  
  Still, doesn't hold up. You actually have to maintain an apt. complex (at least currently. We'll see where this leads to.)

• On the post: Treating Houses Like Copyright… And Then Securitizing And Selling Off The Revenue From Future Resales

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2010 @ 10:55am

  Re:

  Better yet, just design a house and when someone builds one that's similar enough, sue them.

• On the post: Is There A Better Way To Text While Driving?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2010 @ 08:58am

  Re: Re:

  You're following the wrong people. #twitterdoesn'thavetosuck

• On the post: Agency Representatives Threaten Gawker For Showing Jennifer Aniston Photos [Allegedly] Sans Photoshop [Updated]

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2010 @ 12:05pm

  Re: who is this?

  Rachael from 'Friends'

• On the post: RIAA Boss Says That The DMCA 'Isn't Working' Any More

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2010 @ 09:41am

  Re: Bye Bye Biden

  "The political scuttlebutt is that Obama will dump him on the 2012 ticket."
  
  I so want this to be true, but [citation needed]

• On the post: Insider's View: How Grandstanding State Attorneys General Make Life Miserable For Law Abiding Tech Companies

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2010 @ 06:42pm

  Re: Re: SLAPP-plus

  Someone should just patent AG Grandstanding.
  
  And I should trademark AG Grandstanding for the trifecta.

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