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• On the post: John Lennon On Copying Others' Music: It's Not A Rip Off, It's A Love In

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2011 @ 09:07am

  Re: This applies

  After all it is the sincerest form of flattery. :)
  
  When anybody tells me its annoying and wrong(culturally) I tell them in my most morbid joke I have in my repertoire. Fine, lets shoot all the kids because this is how they learn to function as an adult.

• On the post: Why Is The Justice Department Pretending US Copyright Laws Apply In The UK?

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 06:02pm

  Re: Re: Isn't the United Kingdom a sovereign country?

  psst linking to files in the U.S. illegal yet?

• On the post: Why Is The Justice Department Pretending US Copyright Laws Apply In The UK?

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 05:53pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  /sad truth

• On the post: Why Is The Justice Department Pretending US Copyright Laws Apply In The UK?

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 05:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  It has existed for less than a century. FTFU.. your.. welcome?

• On the post: Why Is The Justice Department Pretending US Copyright Laws Apply In The UK?

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 05:19pm

  Re: Re: Re: Because "We're Different!"

  Might want to check into some facts into say oh. YAL & RTR, the modern day equivalents, they also have independent media on there side this time round as well. And yes, thus far there ability to affect change is has been slim. Yet the movement is growing under a flag ship of the Tea Party & Campain for Liberty and more to the point the parroting by every GOP presidential candidate of the Principles Ron Paul has beckoned on for 30 years. Oh and btw I havn't met a face yet in these groups that hark on narcissism. If standing up for individual liberty is somehow synonymous with immediate gratification then count me among them.

• On the post: Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 12:13pm

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  P.S. The problem isn't black and white as Jay puts it. Or rather its black and white on what Prohibition does and does not. Short memories that we have.

• On the post: Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 12:11pm

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  Right, like states cant afford there own minds right?

• On the post: Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 12:07pm

  Re: Re: Carry over

  When I meant boggle I mean
  
  ICANH
  OPEFO
  RSANI
  YRIGT

• On the post: Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 12:02pm

  Re:

  Fine policy. I second that.

• On the post: Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 11:51am

  Re: Who cares about lip synching?

  Ever seen a cam girl? What say u then?

• On the post: Is Using A Photo Without Credit A Separate Violation Of The DMCA?

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 09:46am

  Re:

  Simple, unlikely is a weasel word.

• On the post: Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2011 @ 09:40am

  Carry over

  In the last post somebody pointed out only willful infringement... for full description...
  
  Shadow16nh, Jun 16th, 2011 @ 4:59pm
  
  This article grossly misrepresents the implications of the proposed bill.
  
  People who upload innocuous covers to YouTube and those who may link to them elsewhere will be absolutely unaffected by it.
  
  Read the bill more carefully and you?ll see that the ??10 or more public performances?? stipulation is only applicable in conjunction with one or more of the subsequent provisions.
  
  You fail to note that this law only applies to *intentional* infringements where the total retail value of the performances exceeds $2,500 and the total fair market value of licenses for such use must exceed $5,000.
  
  Please check your facts more thoroughly in the future before allowing yourself to take an alarmist stance."
  
  
  I'll stand by the alarmist every time when intentional infringes are anybody with a regular cam or web-cam, making public performance with music they bought & making a living doing so. The same can be said for any service or performance art that uses music.
  
  It's bad enough Happy Birthday is copyrighted. And yet, only enforced in a public.. or I mean private restraunts. This bill effectively reaches in to a private home and says you cant work for yourself.
  
  I was going for joking levity in a stressful time when I mentioned the cam-girls and yet your basically saying go strip elsewhere, we want a clean internet neighborhood. Boggles the mind.

• On the post: US Trying To Extradite UK TVShack Admin Over Questionable Copyright Charges?

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2011 @ 09:23pm

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  Considering we cant even figure out the age of consent and methods of coherence from state to state? Top of that in most countries your allowed to hunt at the age of 12 but not have sex or drink. Scratch that, you can drink at 12 in some countries. Oh, and don't get me started on people being stuck in sex offender tent cities because they decided to fall in love with a freshmen in high-school there graduating year. Fun fact, it was 10 originally in English common law and gradually grew from there.
  
  It's amazing how many times I see the Eudophilia poster in the demotivationals.

• On the post: Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2011 @ 08:14pm

  Re: People who upload innocuous covers to YouTube and those who may link to them elsewhere will be absolutely unaffected by it.

  Ok based on that every cam girl that uses music in her performances will be liable. I'd say the alarmist stance stands pretty well here.

• On the post: Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 09:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Copyright enforcement is simply just a lost cause anyway.

  it* may have

• On the post: Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 09:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Copyright enforcement is simply just a lost cause anyway.

  Wow I regret having thoughts 5 minutes later. In Nina's last post about how you don't need her permission on anything posted is something to bring up with Tom fulp as well.
  
  other thought was that it was the crowd that called out the re-poster in YouTube and it was handled that way thankfully. Though I think Newgrounds didn't get the view count I may have because of the tard.

• On the post: Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 09:32pm

  Re: Re: Copyright enforcement is simply just a lost cause anyway.

  The only thing I do regret on posting music on newgrounds is the non-commercial use for many reason that Mike has brought up too many times to mention. However, I see one workaround and that is actually get the artist permission to do so.

• On the post: Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 09:22pm

  Re: Copyright enforcement is simply just a lost cause anyway.

  Considering I subscribe to the top 5 and my g-mail filter is set to have anything with newgrounds in the e-mail to send it to my newgrounds archive. Low behold my TechDirt label didn't get this one. Lulz, Yeah I'm with you.
  
  Now the trick is to get Tom Fulp and gang to actually advertise the site to this end.
  
  Today's modern music brought to you by the site that gave you Charlie the Unicorn (albeit the youtube upload made it popular without permission... ironically enough)

• On the post: Congress Happy To Knock Out Patents That Impact Financial Institutions… But Everyone Else?

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 04:51pm

  Re: Re: Re: Even better

  Have to point out the error here but you basic logic error here. Actually does things that [fill in blank].

• On the post: ICE Stalling On More FOIA Requests Concerning Domain Name Seizures

  

  Chris in Utah ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 04:45pm

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  Speaking about the 90% I just had a week long discussion with my mother via FB about the red herring/distraction debate on immigration after posting the a RTR news cast on the marine's honor parade. How it came up still blows my mind and the conversation stopped rather came to any meaningful conclusion.
  
  By the people & for it? ignore your surroundings at your peril.

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