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• On the post: The Bizarro, Fact-free World Of Copyright Policymaking

  

  DaveHowe ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 01:02am

  Works for hire, works for sale..

  There is no evidence that actual creators will create more; In fact, in cases where the income from existing copyright covers the artist's needs for the rest of his life and then some, why would they feel the need to be creative outside of a desire to do so? (and in such circumstances, they would be creative regardless of incentives)

• On the post: Oxford English Dictionary: Killed And Saved By The Internet

  

  DaveHowe ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2014 @ 01:37am

  Not seeing....

  Why the only two choices would be "paper" or "internet"
  I would have thought "DVD" "Software" or "eBook" - can certainly see a dedicated OED kindle-style device, too.

• On the post: Revelations About Massive UK Police Corruption Shows Why We Cannot — And Must Not — Trust The Spies

  

  DaveHowe ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2014 @ 01:06am

  Everybody has a handle

  ... and everybody has a price. All you can hope is that the price of those you have to rely on is too high for anyone to afford.
  
  Think *you* don't? What if your child was dying, and they *could* be saved, if only....?

• On the post: Newspapers Win Suit Against Google, Get Their Wish To Be Delisted, Then Complain

  

  DaveHowe ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2011 @ 08:19am

  Re: BING

  Actually, that's an interesting thought.
  
  IE defaults to Bing, but Bing has been caught several times harvesting its results from google.
  
  I wonder if this will cause a cascade removal from other search engines after their backend "comparison" searches to google fail? :)