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• On the post: Resetting The Balance To Save Copyright (Part III)

  

  DC ( profile ), 29 May, 2012 @ 08:12pm

  Re: please just give up already!

  Sinking to copy and paste shilling is really a new low.

• On the post: Resetting The Balance To Save Copyright (Part III)

  

  DC ( profile ), 29 May, 2012 @ 08:11pm

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  "First, there is no increase in the number of red zones"
  
  You are kidding, right?
  
  Just 2 are easy:
  
  DMCA Notice and take down (with no penalty for a false affidavit)
  
  Sony Bono Act.
  
  15 times in that last 30 years?
  
  No increase in red zones?
  
  You are either, poo flinging, not paying attention, or stupid. Please let us know which.

• On the post: Resetting The Balance To Save Copyright (Part III)

  

  DC ( profile ), 29 May, 2012 @ 08:05pm

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  "Comments here and on similar sites do not establish societal norms. I actually know a bunch of people within the named demographic who purchase what they consume and are none the worse for having done so. Yes, the have fewer dollars in their pocket, but then again so does everyone else who pays for things."
  
  That is just one example of you arguing for what the law should be, rather than what it is: that what it is now is just fine.
  
  You appear to be a sophist who is here to distract and deflect, so I shouldn't be replying, but I didn't see anyone else point out how bad your very articulate argumentation is.
  Many of us here think that:
  
  1) the courts are interpreting existing laws incorrectly (yes, it happens).
  
  2) The existing laws are bad, as well as bought and paid for.
  
  3) Most of the people who implement 1 and 2 do not understand the technology they are making decisions about on both a fundamental basis, and a cultural basis.

• On the post: Band Protests As A Copyright Troll Sues Its Fans

  

  DC ( profile ), 23 May, 2012 @ 09:04am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Saw this clueless kneejerk coming.

  On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog.
  
  Try supporting your argument from authority with the actual authority, i.e. you identity.
  
  I'm guessing, even if you work with "them" every day, you work to screw them over.

• On the post: Band Protests As A Copyright Troll Sues Its Fans

  

  DC ( profile ), 23 May, 2012 @ 08:50am

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  If that was all loans to be repaid, why does the label keep the copyright?

• On the post: Band Protests As A Copyright Troll Sues Its Fans

  

  DC ( profile ), 23 May, 2012 @ 08:48am

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  Any evidence they made a mint on anything other than live performances?

• On the post: SOPA Supporters Urge White House To Use Secretive TPP Process To Insert Draconian New IP Laws

  

  DC ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 05:26pm

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  Yes, the former is true. Given the rhetoric, it's pretty easy to infer the latter.
  
  Chubby? Delusional? Really?
  
  You are pathetic.

• On the post: Game Of Thrones On Track To Be Most Pirated Show Of 2012; Pirates Still Asking HBO For Legitimate Options

  

  DC ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 09:50am

  Re: Scientific Proof of the success of paywalls!

  Who wound bob up today?

• On the post: Game Of Thrones On Track To Be Most Pirated Show Of 2012; Pirates Still Asking HBO For Legitimate Options

  

  DC ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 09:48am

  Re: STOP JUSTIFYING pirates.

  I think most of the arguments being made are that HBO doesn't need the base cost of cable added to its premium subscription model.
  
  Most of these arguments are that HBO doesn't need a distribution channel that costs 5 to 10 times the cost of the premium to serve its customers.
  
  The arguments being made are that HBO is rejecting a large number of potential customers.
  
  Piracy is just a side effect.

• On the post: Game Of Thrones On Track To Be Most Pirated Show Of 2012; Pirates Still Asking HBO For Legitimate Options

  

  DC ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 09:43am

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  Or HBO could stream it from their website. Did you miss that part?

• On the post: Game Of Thrones On Track To Be Most Pirated Show Of 2012; Pirates Still Asking HBO For Legitimate Options

  

  DC ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 09:33am

  Re: Re: Re: Legitimate versions? Try getting a cable subscription!

  And once again, the car stealing analogy. Truly brilliant.

• On the post: ICE & FBI Hatch Ingenious Plan To Make DVD Piracy Warnings Longer

  

  DC ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 01:09pm

  Re:

  what brand is that?

• On the post: The Ridiculous Hoops Mad Men Had To Jump Through To Use Part Of A Beatles Song

  

  DC ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 07:06pm

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  I had to read this sub thread twice. Did you just cop to being a shill?

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  DC ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 01:30pm

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  Well, as a budding young lawyer, I'm surprised that you are so completely wrong here on the issue of probable cause.
  
  There was no evidence to support the seizure in the first place. The property was seized wrongly.
  
  So seizing the "property" had no affects on their speech?
  
  Well, as a budding young lawyer, I'm surprised that you are so completely wrong here on the issue of location.
  
  "A restraint means a court order that you can't make the speech at all, or that you must submit it to a censor for approval, or that there is a licensing scheme, etc."
  
  Restraint can mean, as an example, a LEO (law enforcement officer) can tell me at gun point to stop handing out leaflets regarding my political position.
  
  Without a court order.
  
  Oh, and in my front yard.
  
  Mike ... We really need a fascist button.

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  DC ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 01:13pm

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  And when did Dajaz1.com get a day in court?
  
  How many secret extensions did the US Gov get without Dajaz1.com getting a day in court?
  
  Your argument is basically this: If you can get into court, and the law isn't stupid or biased, you can win your rights back, after the trial you will never get.

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  DC ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 01:06pm

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  "neutral in its application as well"
  
  That's a laugh. It's applied according to the **AAs.
  
  (But even if the statute were subjected to intermediate scrutiny, it would easily pass it.)
  
  Easily pass? So you are now a supreme court justice, instead of a proto fascist law student?
  
  "The only reason heightened First Amendment scrutiny was needed there was because a law that on its face didn't regulate protected expression ended up singling out protected expression nonetheless."
  
  This above is what we are worried about.

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  DC ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 12:53pm

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  You don't have the facts, but you are spending lots of time (not studying) arguing the seizure was legit.
  
  There are no real easy civil piracy cases, and as a budding young hopeful lawyer, you should know that better than anyone. Yet here you are proclaiming guilt.

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  DC ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 12:45pm

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  Here we go again.
  
  "I don't have the facts" but you support the seizure.
  
  Pretty much says it all.

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  DC ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 12:39pm

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  I'm guessing he is AJ. Law student and fascist.
  
  He is interested in making copying illegal, and suppressing speech.

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  DC ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 12:36pm

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  What if it is MY property?

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