Dionaea 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (133)

• On the post: Top Pirate Party Member Has DMCA Takedown Notices Issued In Her Name

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2012 @ 11:22am

  Re: WTF?!

  Correction: *a* leader, not *the* leader. I got so pissed I misread...

• On the post: Top Pirate Party Member Has DMCA Takedown Notices Issued In Her Name

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2012 @ 11:19am

  WTF?!

  The bimbo signed a publishing deal?! What the hell happened to self publishing?! She could have seen this coming a mile away. If you're the leader of the pirate party one of the stupidest things you can do is get a publishing deal. It's like being in league with the enemy, even more so if they inevitably start taking down the content you produced. Whether you consent to the takedowns doesn't matter, you can't get into a contract with an oldfashioned publisher and run a party which advocates more open access at the same time.

• On the post: Disney Claims House Of Mouse Built With Copyright, Ignores Public Domain Foundation

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2012 @ 11:35am

  Re: Re: Re:

  "You think Disney would have put all that money into movies based on PD stories if they couldn't get a copyright on the result? I don't."
  
  Neither do I, but what is also worth noting is that apparently Walt found the copyright term at the time plenty to start a business based on it. For me the problem isn't so much the entire thing called "copyright", it's the fact that studios like Disney are trying to extend copyright to eternity. The original term of copyright was fine and a nice way to reward creators for their contribution to culture and the public domain. It's what came after that turned copyright into the monstrosity it is today.

• On the post: Disney Claims House Of Mouse Built With Copyright, Ignores Public Domain Foundation

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2012 @ 11:01am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "Disney creates wonderful works that we all love"
  
  Speak for yourself, not everyone absolutely worships Disney movies. Looking at the older Disney movies most of them have pretty ugly artwork if you ask me, I'd rather read the story and use my imagination instead. Seriously, who'd pay for Snow White and her voodoo-mask-faced dwarfs these days, yuck.

• On the post: Three Artists On Piracy: Sharing, Disruption And Turning Filesharers Into Your Street Team

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2012 @ 05:28am

  Ramen to that Gayla, I'll definitely try one of your books one of these days ^-^

• On the post: Apple Feels Reporting Drone Strikes 'Objectionable And Crude' And Rejects App

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2012 @ 04:15pm

  I think Apple should do a whole lot more of this, that should put them out of their 'misery' a bit faster, no more need to worry about people 'copying' their rounded rectangles either. Good riddance.

• On the post: $17,000+ Bounty Offered For Leaks Of TPP Negotiating Texts

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2012 @ 10:52am

  Who knows?

  Maybe someone, somewhere will make the mistake of having an underpaid kid make copies of parts of the agreement for them? Some of the politicians involved seem stupid enough to do something like that.

• On the post: Australian Media Exec Uses Dickens & Shakespeare — Who Both Thrived Without Copyright — To Explain Why We Need More Copyright

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2012 @ 10:03am

  Re:

  I doubt he'd last more than one episode due to copyright claims.

• On the post: Australian Media Exec Uses Dickens & Shakespeare — Who Both Thrived Without Copyright — To Explain Why We Need More Copyright

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2012 @ 10:00am

  OMG! SMART publishers?!

  "You see, it turned out that American publishers realized that there was a benefit to being the first to print a foreign author, because those who got to market first tended to dominate the market."
  
  Apparently publishers back then were smarter then they are now, at least back then they understood the customers want the newest of the new and that they want it yesterday. Quite different from the current release window and 'not available in your area' crap |D

• On the post: So Many Similarities Between Copyright Law And Prohibition

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2012 @ 03:02pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Actually I was thinking the same thing, voted funny too.

• On the post: Bait & Switch: Buy A Lifetime Account For As Long As We Exist Or Until We Get Tired Of You

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 03:06pm

  Well... The world is supposed to end somewhere this year, isn't it?

• On the post: Will Free Online College Courses Actually Widen The Socio-Educational Gap?

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 02:55pm

  Does she even know basic math?

  Does she really think getting the money to buy a semi-decent computer and get an internet connection is anywhere near the cost of studying at Princeton? Maybe she should do an online math course.

• On the post: Germany Tells Facebook To Destroy Face Recognition Database

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 01:48am

  Actually...

  "Should Joe have to first get permission from me to identify me in a photo?"
  
  At least one dutch political party supports this, not sure which it was though.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Stupiditry From Job Seekers

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2012 @ 05:20pm

  Antartican?

  You have to speak Whale to be eligible, d?h.

• On the post: It's Never Enough: Both RIAA & MPAA Aren't Satisfied With Google Punishing 'Pirate' Sites

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 09:48am

  Re: Re: Licensed...

  I WILL NOT contribute a single penny to a demonic company like Apple. And last time I tried to buy MP3's from Amazon UK I got the well known 'this service is not available in your area'. You can stick it BOB.

• On the post: North Face Wants Court To Spank Butt Face

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 10:47am

  BWAHAHAHA! ROFL *hic* :')
  
  *Ahem*
  
  Two words: Streisand Effect

• On the post: Is Trolling Just A Form Of Practical Jokes?

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 07:11am

  Re:

  People with butthurt seem to be all to keen to make themselves look like victims, so that doesn't seem like the best method to judge trolls.

• On the post: Malaysian Government Backing Away From TPP Support: Worried About Locking Up Medicine

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 01:44am

  If not this then what is left?

  'Hopefully he really does represent the views of the Malaysian government and they really are considering dropping out over this issue.'
  
  If the health of your own people isn't a reason to ditch a stupid trade agreement I don't know what is...

• On the post: Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob Of Writers [UPDATED]

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2012 @ 10:44am

  Witchhunt

  The stupidity of the masses claims another innocent victim.

• On the post: Gamestop Offers Glimpse Into Their Used-Games Facility

  

  Dionaea ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2012 @ 05:37am

  Re:

  Same here. One of the reasons I never buy PC games anymore is that some of them stopped working completely due to severed connections/incompatibility with newer PCs. I don't see this happening to my old N64, Gamecube, PS2 or GameBoy/DS games, as long as you don't break your game or console they'll work for all eternity. These new consoles are no better than the PC stuff I came to hate so much.

Next >>