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• On the post: Why Google's Street View WiFi Data Collection Was Almost Certainly An Accident

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2010 @ 11:45am

  Re: Re: Curious form of argument: state possible reasons,

  Because he hedged it with the 'verges on' weasel phrase.
  
  His comment verges on child pornography.

• On the post: Canadian Heritage Minister Says That Those In Favor Of Balanced Copyright Are 'Radical Extremists'

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2010 @ 10:41am

  Cory is pissed

  Follow Cory Doctorow's twitter feed for more indignation.
  
  http://twitter.com/doctorow

• On the post: US Copyright Group Says BitTorrent's Architecture Explains Why It's Ok To Lump 5,000 Defendants Into One Lawsuit

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 04:54pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "For fair use the tiny piece has to be useable."
  
  Huh? So fair use doesn't cover unusable fragments? Hookay. Are you saying portions of a torrent aren't usable?
  
  "You can take a few sentences from a book ..."
  
  Fine. What if a few hundred of us do that?

• On the post: US Copyright Group Says BitTorrent's Architecture Explains Why It's Ok To Lump 5,000 Defendants Into One Lawsuit

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 11:59am

  Re: Re:

  "Since no single piece is ever intended to be utilized without the whole, the argument for fair use falls flat."
  
  Um, what? Any one piece is a tiny bit of the original. And they're not (barring one seeder and one leacher) being shared with just one person. Frankly, it's hard to see how that could be considered anything but.

• On the post: US Copyright Group Says BitTorrent's Architecture Explains Why It's Ok To Lump 5,000 Defendants Into One Lawsuit

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 11:25am

  Well, that makes sense

  After all, if you find a drug dealer, you can arrest all his neighbors on the assumption that they had some dealing with him, and it must have involved drugs, right?
  
  (Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you. Possibly very near.)

• On the post: Experts Draft Document Critical Of ACTA: Signatures Wanted

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 11:02am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "seems like your typical very liberal to socialist / communist collection that has all the business sense of a turnip."
  
  Listen, child. When you advocate a free market and open competition, you're a conservative.
  
  When you advocate just doing what big business and the government says, you're a fascist.
  
  Time for some contemplation, youngling.
  
  Also, brush up on your grammar. It'd help your rants seem less crazy.

• On the post: NY Times Becomes A Trademark Bully Over A Logo For A Newspaper That Hasn't Existed In 40+ Years

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 10:49am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Yes. Adding design adds value. We get that.
  
  Why the NYT needs to get paid for that is the case you really need to be making. So far you got nothing.

• On the post: Major Labels Begin Major Astroturfing Campaign To Get 3 Strikes In The US

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 10:47am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Good link. You should read it.

• On the post: NY Times Becomes A Trademark Bully Over A Logo For A Newspaper That Hasn't Existed In 40+ Years

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 10:32am

  Re: Re:

  "Plus, the times, or any other newspaper NEVER had a trademark for a shirt."
  
  I'm wondering what fees were paid for the rights to use the NYHT shirt in the original Breathless. I'm guessing none.

• On the post: NY Times Becomes A Trademark Bully Over A Logo For A Newspaper That Hasn't Existed In 40+ Years

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2010 @ 09:27am

  Dilution

  They really Herald Tribuned the pooch on this one.

• On the post: Telco Industry Is Prepared For Telco Reform: It Has Hundreds Of Former Gov't Officials Ready To Write The Laws

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2010 @ 07:30pm

  Re:

  i suppose you think it would be better if they hired garbage men and undergrads, right?
  
  I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
  
  --Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.

• On the post: Trademark Cluelessness: The Other White Meat

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2010 @ 03:51pm

  Re: ethics?

  how did a lawyer think it was ethical to advise their client to C&D for this?
  
  Two words: Billable Hours.

• On the post: German Newspaper Publishers Want Copyright On Headlines And Full Control Over Content

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2010 @ 10:26am

  What exactly is the problem?

  They can opt out with robots.txt.
  
  If they can't figure that out, Google should grow a pair and bar them itself.
  
  Damn, Google, think long term. They'll come around once it dawns on the dinosaurs that pointing people at your stuff is something that should encourage.

• On the post: Official Twilight T-Shirt Contest Won't Let You Use Anything From Twilight

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2010 @ 01:46pm

  Re: You got it ALL WRONG...

  Click through to the Fan Portal link.
  
  All images created for the Official Twilight Saga: Eclipse Movie Fan Portal must comply with the following rules. Please note that the rules may be more restrictive than the CafePress Content Usage Policy, however we need to respect the creative decisions of the author and the movie studio.
  
  Sounds official to me.

• On the post: Michael Robertson's Crowdsourced List Of 1,400 Examples Of EMI Giving Away Free Music; EMI Denies All But 3

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2010 @ 07:13pm

  Jeebus

  Eight hundred-odd songs and not one that I could be bothered to download.
  
  EMI, piracy is not your problem.

• On the post: Pakistani Lawyer Apparently Seeks Death Penalty For Facebook Founders Because Of User Contest

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2010 @ 05:29pm

  Re:

  Pakistan was a British colony, so this makes weird sense.
  
  (Also, Mike, why the scare quotes on threats?)

• On the post: Senate Oversight Of IP Czar… Only Involves Entertainment Industry Execs

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2010 @ 10:47am

  Yup

  Regulatory Capture 101. There's only one side of any debate, remember.

• On the post: Content Creators Coming To Terms With The Fact That Their Works Will Be Shared

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2010 @ 09:21am

  Facing reality

  I fear that there will come a time when these stories seem too repetitive to post. I want to urge you premptively to keep 'em coming. People need to see these.

• On the post: Cuomo's New Plan: A Good Idea Or A Chance For More Grandstanding?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2010 @ 08:14am

  Re:

  Maybe it work, lets see how they implement the thing first.
  
  Oh, gods help us all.

• On the post: Significant Objects Becomes A Book… More Infinite Goods Creating New Scarcities

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2010 @ 10:08pm

  Re: Re: Re: Unique story/common object

  Exactly. If only someone could come up with a pseudo-matamatical statement of such behaviour....

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