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  • On the post: Prince Discovers That If You Charge People To Connect With You, You Actually Have To Connect

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2010 @ 10:48pm

    Steve Kurtz effect noted.

    A couple of years ago comic author Steve Kurtz made a special clubhouse for his paying fans using a paid content distribution service called the Asset Bar. Fans paid $1.99 a month for access to the 'fanflow ' where they could talk and comment on extra content he posted there. For this, Assetbar had raised $1,170.97, all of which supposed to be donated to the Mike Wieringo Scholarship.
    According to friends that I spoke with he made 3 updates. 2 of which were twitters that he really needed and promised to make more updates.

  • On the post: How Internet Filtering Blocks All Sorts Of Legit Info

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2010 @ 09:18pm

    RE: Why Doesn't This Get Fixed?

    You are also looking at, for schools and federal institutions at least, adding a long term support package or tech support fee making the software 'less economically viable' than other products. Engineers won't be buying this stuff; part time bureaucrats will.

  • On the post: House Passes Ban On File Sharing Use By Government Employees

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2010 @ 11:24pm

    Re: Government Training

    A lot of users rather than making a FTP server, or other posting arrangement use the file sharing system to pass large blocks of data to many users at once, like if your entire office needs a piece of information that is several megs/gigs in size such as a updated proposal package with timelines and software updates.

    This is the legal use for filesharing, not the omgwtfpirateeeeeessss!!!! use that congress has been shown in a picture paper clipped to a big check.

  • On the post: Once Again, For The 2012 Olympics, Police Get Special Powers To Enter Homes And Remove Signage

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2010 @ 02:03am

    Meanwhile in 1936...

    I'm sorry Herr Himmler, due to the agreement with the IOC we will have to fine each of your troops using the "Greco-Roman single hand" salute 300 marks as it is a trademark held by the IOC, and yourself 300 marks per troop you returned the salute to. That comes to hmmm... carry the eight, add the six... Wow, the IOC might be able to have you hanged for this!

  • On the post: EA's Own Employees Annoyed At Pointless DRM Solutions

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2010 @ 02:40am

    From the original NEOSEEKER article:

    "EA as a whole has been a very reasonable company with its DRM, so here's hoping the higher-ups get on it and provide a smoother play experience."

  • On the post: Egypt Says No More Mobile Skype Calls

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2010 @ 01:38am

    This just in...

    In a follow up interview National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) released the following guideline. "If what you are doing does not make us money, it is illegal, and your mother would be very ashamed."

  • On the post: Publisher Experiments With 'Free' And Sees Book Sales Increase 20x

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2010 @ 02:23am

    Free makes money? surly this is science fiction...*schnuck*.

  • On the post: Rip, Burn, Return

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2010 @ 03:06pm

    Lawsuits Hoooo!

    "rentals in disguise.'"
    Can the MPAA now sue the RIAA for using the intellectual property theft of Transformers???

  • On the post: The US Postal Service's Business Model Is Outdated. Is It Time To Wind It Down Or Privatize It?

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2010 @ 02:08am

    Ok, time to have the RIAA start screaming about the pirating of stamps. Only criminals use email.

  • On the post: Fake Processors, Passing The Blame, Legal Nastygrams And More…

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2010 @ 02:37pm

    Make up my mind!

    From the letter from D&H:

    "(i) cease and desist posting such defamatory material about D&H.; (ii) remove the contact and any reference to D&H from your website; and, (iii) post an immediate retraction and apology which shall remain posted for not less than thirty days."

    So do you want us to 3 apologize to D&H or 2 remove all mention of D&H? I'll just go with 1 D&H, you are a sorry company.

  • On the post: Dear Macmillan, You Don't Embrace The New By Trying To Protect The Old

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2010 @ 02:52am

    One second now...

    If I pay for a book for the hardback price, and I report the crappy "written by a seven year old or M. Night Shalyimadingdong" ending as a story crashing bug, will they then repair it? If so, I may be able to get behind this. If not, I will look at my folder with hundreds of Baen E-published titles and scoff.

  • On the post: Time To Redesign The Hotdog… But Watch Out For Patents

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2010 @ 02:15pm

    What kind of human race would we be if we let children dumber than hotdogs breed. I say leave the hotdogs as they are, in fact, they need to be more dangerous, too many idiots making patents get through as it is.

  • On the post: Is Elvis Dead? Who Knows, But His Passport Made It Through Airport Security In Amsterdam

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2010 @ 10:59pm

    Unh huh huh!

    Wonder what the name of the created country was? Graceland?

  • On the post: Russian Collecting Society Sues Promoters For Not Paying Up To Let Beyonce Sing Beyonce Songs

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2010 @ 02:34pm

    RE: Colin, Lord love ya man...

    "Aren't most collections societies non profit"

    BWAHAHAAAHAAAAhaaahahahahaaaahaaaaa*gasp* WAHAHAAAHAAAAhaaahahaha woh woh woh woooohooooo *pant pant*

    If they can't *find* the legal owner they get to keep the money, no one is going to just hand out contract details willy nilly to any Vladimir Schmidtiskovich off the street so it's doubtful they could get info even if they bother to ask. Also the monies collected until the release date that lets the agency keep the cash also gets to collect interest, that they also get to keep.

    If you think anyone on the 'management' side does anything for free, you really have a rough patch ahead.

  • On the post: Bad Publicity, BBB Complaints Causing AT&T To Reconsider Metered Broadband?

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2010 @ 12:40am

    Time to move Ethel...

    "On Feb. 22, Wal-Mart (WMT) said it would buy VUDU, which sells and rents downloadable movies and TV shows that can be viewed on such Web-connected devices as Blu-ray disc players and some LG televisions. The deal "will provide customers with unprecedented access to home entertainment options as they migrate to a digital environment," Wal-Mart Vice-Chairman Eduardo Castro-Wright said in a statement. The companies didn't disclose acquisition terms."

    So Wal-Mart versus the Cap. Let's see who blinks.

  • On the post: Ubisoft DRM Gets Worse And Worse: Kicks You Out Of Game If You Have A Flakey WiFi Connection

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2010 @ 10:49pm

    Now see here!!!

    I think it's wonderful that Ubisoft has invented the Single Player Online Game!

    In the future we will all be playing SPORG's and wondering what the fuss was!

    Now I am going to go dash off and play a quick round of Solitaire the MMORPG.

  • On the post: Warner Music Shoots Self In Head; Says No More Free Streaming

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2010 @ 02:11pm

    Re: hm.

    AAAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

    Except for Katy:

    Um, what did you want me to say again?

  • On the post: Warner Music Shoots Self In Head; Says No More Free Streaming

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2010 @ 02:10pm

    "You do not pay for it, it's unlawful."

    Ok fine, so have them also put the no bot command on all of their websites, and their artists websites as a contract requirement. That way they can drop of the internet all together.

  • On the post: Online Comic Book Store Stands Up To Olivia Munn Lawyers Over Parody Comic Book

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2010 @ 03:50am

    Kids these days.

    I just posted a very nice comment thanking Olivia for her photoshoot, and thanking her for letting us know about Celebrity Showdown Olivia Munn One Shot #1. I think it fit in nicely with all the comments about people needing new keyboards and doing things to themselves.

    I now need to go bleach my PC.

  • On the post: Dear Recording Industry: Three Strikes Won't Save Your Business

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2010 @ 01:53am

    Wow

    What's really funny is when the industry bemoans the piracy and then gives no legal way to purchase. Case in point, I wanted to get the album "For those about to Rock" You have to buy it on those quaint little coasters. No one seems to be selling it as a download "Gimme now" version. This is done at AC/DC's request, they want to keep the musical experience by selling them only in albums, like I wanted to buy. They threw my sale away.

    I don't want a coaster. Don't need one, I have paper towels.

    Apropos of nothing a friend of mine is backing up his hard drive, I'm gonna loan him a 1 TB external drive. If he forgets to erase it when finished, well no harm done.

    One strike? Three strikes? Who cares, I got sneakernet.

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