Designerfx 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (1053)

• On the post: DOJ Gives Its Opinion On SOPA By Unilaterally Shutting Down 'Foreign Rogue Site' Megaupload… Without SOPA/PIPA

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 02:06pm

  Re:

  well then, let's hope this gets more media coverage and becomes an election issue.
  
  This is disgusting to occur, frankly.

• On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 11:57am

  Re:

  it's all about money. whoever's the leading party, drops support when there's public outcry.
  
  As I said it in my comments below, and even Larry Lessig agrees - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ik1AK56FtVc (go to the part about is it republicans/democrats).

• On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 11:23am

  Re:

  "piracy is indeed a problem" is the "do what we say because we own you" speech line.
  
  Even in a speech acknowledging PIPA and SOPA being a political disaster they still say "piracy is still a problem" or "online theft is a problem". This is short for "I am still owned by the MPAA/RIAA"

• On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 11:10am

  Re:

  again, no.
  
  It's only that they're the majority that they are responding. Whichever party is the majority always has to respond to gigantic public outcry in some way or they're destined to become the minority - simple, cut and dry.

• On the post: Are Democrats About To Lose An Entire Generation Of Voters By Pushing PIPA/SOPA Forward?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 10:59am

  totally wrong, wrong focus, wrong understanding

  the parties are all bought and owned by the same people.
  
  So it is not that the $politicalgroup responded more strongly.
  
  It is that the group which is currently the majority power actually responded. If this had been democrats in power they would have changed faster than republicans. Since it is republicans in power who want to stay in power, it is republicans. It's entirely a scorched earth concept.

• On the post: Microsoft Finally Makes It Official That It Opposes SOPA…. As Written

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 05:36am

  Re:

  Please, this is the weakest of statements from them.
  
  In comparison to google, where's *anything* on bing's homepage about SOPA?
  
  Nowhere, because they're dinosaurs of technology.

• On the post: Indian Judge Tells Google And Facebook To 'Check And Remove Objectionable Material' Or Be Blocked

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2012 @ 12:42pm

  Re:

  oh cmon now, it's not just all those users. It's all of their content as well.

• On the post: Website Censored By Feds Takes Up Lamar Smith's Challenge: Here's Your 'Hypothetical'

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 01:24pm

  Re: Not so clueless

  Absolutely, 100%.
  
  It's sad, but this is the exact reason why:
  
  every letter sent to any part of congress gets a boilerplate reply
  every situation involving overwhelming opposition by the public is downplayed
  if you're not important to them (read: $$ affecting directly and immediately), they don't care about you
  
  nothing will change this, because if you elect someone other than the incumbent, what happens? The new person gets right back in the pocket with big content all over again.
  
  In reality, in private, probably 50-75% of these folks do understand all of this. However, they're paid well, so in public and in congress they support what pays them.
  
  And people wonder why our country has problems.
  
  We need to raise a "corporation" of US citizens, aka another political party, or this is just going to continue as it has for the last 40 years.

• On the post: Lamar Smith's Head-In-Sand Approach To SOPA Critics Inspires 'Lamar Smith Can't Hear You' Anti-Campaign Poster

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 09:18am

  Re: Re: Re:

  just make sure you don't cord cut merely to create another (google tv, apple tv, tivo, roku).
  
  All of the above products can be replaced merely by actually using a computer (as it is already capable of doing), and all of the above support drastic DRM/give you far less control over everything, for about 1/5th the cost of the above products.

• On the post: Lamar Smith's Head-In-Sand Approach To SOPA Critics Inspires 'Lamar Smith Can't Hear You' Anti-Campaign Poster

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 08:41am

  photo forgot 1 group

  The photo forgot about half of the people who are major supporters on the bill who backed down. So maybe it should also add 2 groups to the list for:
  
  democrats
  republicans

• On the post: Actress Who Wished To Remain Anonymous And Under 40 Is Now Officially Neither

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 07:37am

  absolutely

  plus she's cute, so what the hell happened to her common sense?
  
  Honestly if you age well you age well, and she certainly does. Instead of being an attractive up and coming actress (or at least seeking an acting career)5, she ends up looking like a total biatch.

• On the post: It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2012 @ 11:06am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Actually

  it's been stated plenty from other sources RF. At best, you can slow it down, but you can never prevent it. It's the generational gap/fear of change that has plagued the planet for thousands of years. It goes far further back than the last few hundred.
  
  The first time we ever have a worldwide understanding of change and embracing it would be significant, but I don't see that happening in anyone's lifetime who's alive right now.

• On the post: Is Monmouthpedia The Future Of Wikipedia?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2012 @ 04:51am

  and it shows wikipedia's shortcomings

  wikipedia's so public, and politics within pages are so blatant (see microsoft pages vs google pages, look at the lack of a controversy section on micrsoft pages), and so easily abused, that people end up needing to make local wikis. This is kind of a good thing, except now how are you going to know if a wiki exists for a single area or not? Not everyone's going to think to look for them.
  
  Thus we have solutions that already exist for part of the problem: google, yelp, grubhub, foursquare, etc, but none are perfect.

• On the post: Don't Confuse All Safe Harbors With Poorly Written Ones

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2011 @ 07:15am

  Well, I kinda agree with Falkvinge based on interpretation too

  I think the point is - why should we have to have these safe harbors in the first place? What made things suddenly questionable just because they are online?
  
  The problem is what we have enabled that has required us to need safe harbors.
  
  Why should there even be a question of "is this protected speech?" It ultimately boils down to the lower end of the legal system being the cause and the solution being the appeals courts/etc.
  
  I think more power to review validity of claims needs to be given to lower courts to ensure thus stuff never even reaches a trial.

• On the post: GoDaddy Says It Doesn't Support PIPA Either, As Domains Keep Transferring Away

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2011 @ 09:52am

  Re:

  godaddy's free speech rights?
  
  no, godaddy was supporting taking away people's rights. Theirs were never taken away. You know why? They had an exemption from the bill they were in support of.
  
  In reality, it's too little too late - you know they already support it, so the danger is there whether they change their view or not.

• On the post: Righthaven.com Domain Auction Has Begun

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2011 @ 05:42am

  Re:

  Righthaven should be thanking the buyer! They're stopping righthaven form being stuck with GoDaddy.

• On the post: Justice Department Hanging Onto Torrent-Finder Because It Doesn't Like How Search Engines Work

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 11:56am

  Re: Re: On what grounds?

  yep, but they'll have 3 or 4 years of DOJ/DHS cowboy policing of the entire country (and rampant censorship) before a judge finally gets to review it and make such a determination.

• On the post: MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet Without A Problem, Why Can't The US?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2011 @ 08:13am

  he didn't stretch it

  That's not even a stretch of logic from what MPAA is saying, to imply that they want censorship. They do, and they don't realize what it would do and break and screw up.
  
  At it's core, MPAA is saying you can't fight copyright infringement without censorship. So guess what?

• On the post: RIAA Doesn't Apologize For Year-Long Blog Censorship; Just Stands By Its Claim That The Site Broke The Law

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 01:18pm

  site operator never objected = they never read our emails

  they really see that as a lack of objection?
  
  how about "the RIAA never once put in effort into reaching the site operator of Dajaz1"

• On the post: Court Dismisses Puerto 80 Rojadirecta Case (For Now)… But Doesn't Give Back The Domain

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 11:41am

  let's get back to the basics of the subject line - what piracy?

  what part of anything puerto 80 has done has to do with either a: software piracy or b: high seas piracy?
  
  nothing they have done falls under either category.

Next >>