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  • On the post: The Pirate Bay May Get Blocked In The UK; That'll Stop The Infringement

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 02:32pm

    It's too late now but what should have happened the very first time RIAA & MPAA screamed seach engines were not doing enough to remove finds for infringing content is just say "Sure no problem." then drop all mention of the 'content' from the results possible, or redirect them to the RIAA/MPAA person that made the request.

    After all, who is more legal to sell the content than the folks skimming the top-um, watching out for the 'creators'.

  • On the post: People Rushing To Give Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars In Just Hours For Brand New Adventure Game

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2012 @ 03:49am

    "Everyone on the internet just expects something for free."
    *shnerk*

  • On the post: The NFL Issues Takedown For Chrysler Super Bowl Commercial

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 02:16pm

    Re: Re:

    Mew!

  • On the post: Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio (But The Quality Sucks)

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 08:43am

    Re: Re:

    Yes, yes, we want to make sure no one gets monies *yawn* evar. Look you have fun with the beating, the stick, and the horse, I'll be over there looking at cat pictures.

  • On the post: The End Of The Global Internet? Google's Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 02:29pm

    Msr. Pot, Mme Kettle

    "If being responsible for your actions somehow hurts the internet, then it's probably a good thing."

    Coming from an Anonymous Coward?

  • On the post: Warner Bros. Just Keeps Pushing People To Piracy; New Deal Also Delays Queuing

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 02:28pm

    Re: Thinking about it

    "If people really, really want the movie now, they can buy a copy at $15, rather than the pennies that the studio would see from a Netflix rental."

    They can still buy a copy at $15 if Netflix is able to rent them or stream them out. The pennies of many many people who know they would not watch the movie enough times to make any DVD purchase appealing, such as myself, are being thrown away by the studio. Pennies that still add up to dollars.

    What the studios are really doing is saying as soon as Netflix have it, the pirates do too and we make no more money from it. Which is just silly, when I've such movies they've had notes on the films like FOR ACADEMY VIEWING ONLY on them before they've even been in theaters.

    Let Netflix pay the bandwidth, and do the bookkeeping, let me rent the movie online, otherwise the studio gets 100% of nothing, as I have better things to do than check a queue.

  • On the post: Twitter Decides To Censor Locally, Rather Than Block Globally, In Response To Government Demands

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 02:11am

    I was really disheartened by this. I used to gauge news service honesty by comparing regional tweets to news service coverage. Now, back to the big control group source of info unluss I can magically find out local IRC or something.

    Sponsored tweets, silenced tweets, how long until 'modified or injected tweets'.

  • On the post: Tiny Gamemaker Takes The Right Approach To Giant Zynga Copying Its Game: It Thanks Them

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 02:20pm

    X-Gen Studios has something to say on this subject

    Don't know if it's by X Gen or someone just did it for them, but they seem to think that Nimblebit may be a bit hypocritical...

    http://imgur.com/T6vOR

  • On the post: People In Poland Come Out To Protest ACTA In Large Numbers; Polish Gov't Calls It 'Blackmail'

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:38am

    Re: Re: Democracy in Action

    "In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master.""-Lazarus Long

  • On the post: People In Poland Come Out To Protest ACTA In Large Numbers; Polish Gov't Calls It 'Blackmail'

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:35am

    Re:

    Even worse he signed NDAA that allows indeterminate detention of US citizens on US soil by the military.

  • On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2011 @ 02:42am

    Re: Re:

    Personally I'm the kind of person who'd complain if you hung me with a new rope.

  • On the post: Breaking: GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2011 @ 11:43am

    Re: Re:

    If you go to reddit, there are many transfer deals and coupons offered by other companies.

  • On the post: Breaking: GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2011 @ 11:41am

    Re:

    The way that Go Daddy has already been used by courts to 'hold' a domain seized by legal action, I bet at some point it will come out that if a site was interred under SOPA that a hefty 'release fee' or bond would have to be paid to allow the held domain to transfer back to the owner.

    Talk about money for nothin. That's the ONLY way a site that has been so involved with 'rogue activity' previously would make sense to take such a stand.

  • On the post: Louis CK: Over $1 Million In Sales In Just 12 Days For DRM-Free Download

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2011 @ 02:03pm

    But... But... PIRATES!!!

  • On the post: SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012 [Update: Or Not…]

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 07:53am

    Re: Keep the screws tightened

    Mel Watt's office: 202-225-1510. Just sayin.

  • On the post: Entertainment Industry Still Can't Get Grassroots Support For SOPA/PIPA, Resorts To Trying To Buy Support

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 06:05pm

    Re:

    What I can't figure out, is that if these 'rogue site' are somehow selling counterfeit goods to the government for injection into military supply lines, is how to get the online shopping job at the pentagon.

    Guess that explains the "Camouflage Gift Wrap" option on Amazon.

  • On the post: 'Pro-Artist' Gatekeepers Continue To Separate Artists From Their Fans

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2011 @ 05:53am

    Re:

    Perhaps it was obviously a good idea in the days when it took 3 months to sail across the Atlantic and Conestoga invented the spinning rim, but they got this thing called the Internet now. I think it and this Electricity thing, will really take off.

  • On the post: Educators Worried About SOPA/PIPA's Impact On Education

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2011 @ 02:12am

    Re: Uhhhh...

    Well to be fair, the checks have already cleared.

  • On the post: SOPA Becoming An Election Issue: Challengers Highlighting Reps Who Want To Censor The Internet

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2011 @ 10:40am

    "I will defend to the death your right to say what you want."

    On December 16th, 1984 about 4 in the afternoon I swore a significant, earnest and true oath to defend the constitution from all threats-foreign AND domestic. This oath had NO condition of termination.

    SOPA's proponents own hired shill could not elude stating that citizens first amendment rights would be infringed, harmed or in some cases silenced by actions of this bill's enforcement if the Internet is their primary means of expression. This puts me four square against it as it is written.

    Many property creators could not get the audience they need to support themselves if the bill is passed as written. Since the platforms would be endangered if someone posted something not owned by them they would either need to severely reduce the amount of content they post to allow human review of items, or eliminate many types of content entirely stilling their voices. Since you are for content producers, this should put YOU against SOPA as well.

    "Even though shutting down free speech is the general trend" platforms are coming online at a rampant pace Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Imgur, Stumble, YouTube, Piano, Flikr, Del.icio.us, Blinklist, LinkedIn, Simpy, Digg, Propeller, Hi5, Last.FM-All of these sites allow expression of communities, and people as individuals-All of these sites, the traditional gatekeeper companies of media see as Rogue sites, because they do not control them, and they influence people. With the way these sites are coming online, the only trend for less expression is IN the legal system.

    Piracy? SOPA is written specifically to block, intimidate, halt and criminalize communication. Who the hell said SOPA was about Piracy?

  • On the post: SOPA/PROTECT IP Would Be Hideously Bad For Video Gamers

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 03:51am

    Lets not forget the lack of DMCA protection will let the game makers themselves come under fire when a player make a character named/resembling "SPIDERMAN~TROLL".

    Failure to take action to prevent.

    Chilling indeed.

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