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• On the post: Is Forcing IsoHunt To Block Search Terms A First Amendment Violation?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2010 @ 07:55am

  Re: Just a thought here...

  You can't copyright a title, so I could name my next story "Alice in Woderland." If I'm trying to distribute it via ISOHunt, and it's blocked, what's my recourse?

• On the post: Could Collection Societies Help Up-And-Coming Artists With A 20/80 Distribution System?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2010 @ 07:51am

  100/100

  Why don't we take 100% of the money from those that perform it, and give it to those that perform it?

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Campaign Shows You 'Killing' Look Alike Pop Stars

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 06:58pm

  Re: Re: Re: So let me get this straight...

  No, go for center of mass. Unless you like glam.

• On the post: Langdell Still Claims Control Over The Word Edge; Sues EA For Mirror's Edge

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 06:54pm

  Re:

  I am so going to do a crappy, suck-ass game called "Edge". The object will to be to get the boss' lawyer to kill him.
  
  It'll be magic, I promise.

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Campaign Shows You 'Killing' Look Alike Pop Stars

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 05:32pm

  Re: So let me get this straight...

  Killing pop stars gets you free music. What's so hard to understand?

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Campaign Shows You 'Killing' Look Alike Pop Stars

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 05:16pm

  Kill?

  Did Fran Nevrkla design this game?

• On the post: FIFA Threatens To Sue Brewery, Because Dutch World Cup Fans Wore Orange

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 04:37pm

  Re: Dutch wear Orange a lot

  It's amazing that they let the Ivory Coast take the field.

• On the post: Would You Confuse This Couch With Humphrey Bogart?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 12:14pm

  Dude!

  Don't bogart the couch! Not cool.

• On the post: The Atlantic Learns To Out-Innovate Itself

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 11:12am

  Up or out

  "There are so few companies that realize this needs to be a key element of their strategy. Someone else is out there trying to kill them. So do it yourself and reap the rewards"
  
  Steve Jobs said something similar when it was pointed out that the iPhone et al. were going to encroach into the iPod market. He said (paraphrasing) "If anyone is going to eat Apple's lunch, I want it to be Apple."
  
  Too bad that the more common response is to litigate.

• On the post: Starbucks Finally Realizies That Free WiFi Is The Way To Go

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2010 @ 06:39pm

  Re:

  Especially since every other independent coffee shop (which was usually across the street) offered free wifi. You just know some suit was thinking about padding this quarter's revenues.

• On the post: Sex, Drugs And Regulatory Capture

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2010 @ 06:04pm

  Re:

  Good question. I suspect so, but at a higher level. That is, the patent "examiners" aren't the targets, but their managers et al. who set their quotas are.

• On the post: Sex, Drugs And Regulatory Capture

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2010 @ 05:49pm

  Hrm.

  Well, the end result in the BP case pretty much can't be worse than no regulation at all.
  
  The larger problem, of course, remains. The real trick is that there are no consequences. Crash the planet's economy? Poison a large body of water? Bonuses for everyone!

• On the post: After 46 Years Of Unfulfilled Hype And Promises, Is Video Calling Finally Ready?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2010 @ 11:15am

  Re: Re: facing the wrong way

  Yeah, that's part of the reason I eschew phones in the car.
  
  Your setup would alleviate that, I suspect, but it'd have to be a particular mount, and require that the other party would pay attention.

• On the post: After 46 Years Of Unfulfilled Hype And Promises, Is Video Calling Finally Ready?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2010 @ 10:20am

  facing the wrong way

  The premise of video calling has always been that you'd want to look at the person you're talking to, while the practical aspect is that you'd want to look at whatever the other person is looking at. We seem to be at the point where you can do both, and that will be the simple, overlooked thing that launches an industry.

• On the post: Viacom Coulton-Gate Deftly Demonstrates Why It's Crazy To Think YouTube Can Know What's Infringing And What's Not

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2010 @ 08:28am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  He's reaching for any difference to explain the problem. Typical.
  
  The simple fact is that copyright is binary to Viacom. "Someone owes us money or they don't. We'll assume they do until proven otherwise."

• On the post: Red Flags Suggest Potential E-Voting Issues In Bizarre South Carolina Election

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2010 @ 06:35pm

  Burying the lede

  "felony charges for obscenity"
  
  The fuck?

• On the post: Top Public School Signs Multi-Million Dollar Deal To Copyright & Sell Its Curriculum

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2010 @ 12:03pm

  Re:

  all it does is clearly make it that the teachers are on a work for hire basis as opposed to be some sort of independant creative people who just happen to work in a school
  
  But it's all about the creators, right?

• On the post: Is Viacom Doing To Independent Content Creators In 2010 What It Says YouTube Did To Viacom In 2006?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2010 @ 07:20pm

  Oops

  JoCo remembered something from a while back.

• On the post: An Open Letter To Scott Turow About Not Freaking Out About Book 'Piracy'

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2010 @ 11:40am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Fair observation, although you can still buy buggy whips if you happen to need one.

• On the post: Is Viacom Doing To Independent Content Creators In 2010 What It Says YouTube Did To Viacom In 2006?

  

  ChurchHatesTucker ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2010 @ 06:55pm

  Re: viacom and cc

  That's brilliant. :D

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