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  • On the post: The Color Purple… Trademarked

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2011 @ 09:54am

    Re:

    Since it's on the Internet, it won't affect Prince. The Internet is over in his world.

  • On the post: The Color Purple… Trademarked

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2011 @ 09:52am

    Re: Re: FFB38D is mine!

    FREEBIRRRRRRD!

  • On the post: Record Labels: When You Make It Impossible For People To Pay You, You Drive Them To Unauthorized Versions

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2011 @ 02:08am

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    I'll add to that, John Kilzner's 'Memory in the Making'. 'No longer in print'.
    Recorded digitally, printed digitally, can only be bought on plastic coasters, when you can find them in a thrift store or whatnot.

  • On the post: State Government In Australia Seeks To Issue $12k Fines If You Insult Its Gaming Minister Michael O'Brien

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2011 @ 02:29pm

    Re: Re:

    Correction:

    "With the law in place it's now a crime to even suggest bribes and kickbacks..." without a stack of cash in hand.

  • On the post: State Government In Australia Seeks To Issue $12k Fines If You Insult Its Gaming Minister Michael O'Brien

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2011 @ 02:27pm

    Re: Legal?

    No we are saying we will mock him, and you. Are you him? If so we shall taunt you a second time as well!

    Just not right now, the paint drying is getting exciting.

  • On the post: Size Doesn't Matter: The Question Is Whether Google Hurts Consumers

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2011 @ 01:16am

    Re: we're not google's customers

    "When you don't pay for the service, you are not the customer, YOU are the product."

  • On the post: Netflix: We're Sorry About The Huge Price Increase, So, Uh… Qwikster!

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 05:34am

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    Website designer no have new fresh! idea, soon have no job.

  • On the post: Netflix: We're Sorry About The Huge Price Increase, So, Uh… Qwikster!

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 05:32am

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    Also when Starz demands to make their programming a "Premium Tier" of Netflix at 10$ per view they will be able to dump the streaming side soundlessly into the sea.

    Then bring it back as, I dunno, Netster or something a few years later.

    But yeah as @Wonderella said: I just got an email from Netflix's CEO telling me to - and I'm paraphrasing - "Please start torrenting".

  • On the post: Getting Past Just 'Putting Radio On The Internet' – Killer Apps Come Next

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2011 @ 05:57am

    What's old is new again

    My favorite radio station is actually a fan site for a MMO video game. They provide a real sense of community with the old style DJ interface with the audience that make it so different from the current 'clearchannel' BS with the broadcast stations.
    They also have a real variety of music unlike the cookie cutter "Pop or Hip-Hop Only" choices out there.

  • On the post: SF MusicTech: A New Hope

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2011 @ 05:08pm

    Call on Line 1

    Um, Mike there's a Mr. Henley on the line, it's a real bad connection, Something about his yard or getting something off his lawn or something.
    Honestly, sounds like he's calling from 1993.

  • On the post: If TV Companies Released Authorized Torrents With Ads, Would People Download Them?

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2011 @ 06:12pm

    I don't torrent due to the job I have now and the one I had previously. One of those jobs where accusation is enough to convict things.
    So I netflix all my needs, that suits me fine. I would love legal torrents with/without ads. My schedule is weird and with other issues, some months I watch no TV some months I have lots of hours open. With STARZ bailing out of Netflix though that has me bummed. Either way I am not getting back on cable, I do not need 400 hours of QVC crap for every hour offered of actual show.

  • On the post: All Of Justin Bieber's Music Removed From YouTube Via 'Prank' DMCA Claims

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2011 @ 03:45am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: YouTube asked for this by abdicating

    I thought we were blaming big pharma this week, agra business next week then big tech week after?

    I never get the memo's.

  • On the post: Just Because The Person You're Suing Has Mastered A California Accent, It Doesn't Make California The Proper Jurisdiction

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2011 @ 03:46am

    Would this mean to be a patent troll I'd have to learn to speak Texican?

  • On the post: Don Henley Hatred Of YouTube Clouding His Vision On PROTECT IP

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2011 @ 03:01pm

    Gang, I hate to admit it, but when Don Henley is right, he is just plain right.

    I can't deny a single claim he's made, and to be an honest man in this rumdum 'ol world, sometimes you have to face bitter bitter truth and walk directly into the fire.

    Don is a victim of MASSIVE YouTube defrauding. I thought at first, what harm would it be, a few videos, a couple of links, nothing major. I was so wrong. Don's music is majorly being highjacked by a band of cutthroats that are brazenly taking his videos, like MTV used to play, and putting them where young kids and old folks can see them. They should be locked in a vault somewhere they can be monetized and the bits fade at random from 1's to 0's and vice versa but here they are where ANYONE can see them.

    From what I can tell the main culprits are a family operation called Warner Brothers, followed close behind bye the VEVO gang with a couple of Molls acting as front faces.

    Having seen a few seconds of each of these clips, I feel I owe 'The Don' as I like to call him, a little something so I am off to my second job so I can send him $87,540.26. I want to thank the MPAA for that handy calculator.

    Blatant Warner Brothers chicanery:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUE8aEn20M

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg1lZ4TQXU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHpKNyxXVmU

    Trisha Yearwood & the VEVO Gangsters:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdCuduv0H0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-bEzF8xEE

    Patty Smythe & the VEVO Gangsters:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdzbjUWu2VU

  • On the post: A Response To Felicia Day On How Video Gets Funded In A Fragmented, Digital World

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2011 @ 02:04am

    Re: Patronage isn't a bad model, when it works

    Tarol Hunt creator and artist for Goblins raised $45,000+ this year.
    Chris Muir creator of Day by Day gets all his funding from a yearly donation drive. I can't find the target amount, but it was reached and passed this year as well.

  • On the post: 'Real Names' Doesn't Exactly Guarantee A High Level Of Conversation Either

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 06:03pm

    Re:

    Yer No Fly list means nothing!
    Angel robes cannot be groped!
    Halos cannot be backscatter detected!
    Cherubimic wings cannot be grounded!
    Celestial Harps cannot be Rick Rolled!
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah AMEN!

  • On the post: 'Real Names' Doesn't Exactly Guarantee A High Level Of Conversation Either

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 03:37pm

    Re: real

    There is that facebook picture of her that comes up using her name in google images of her singing in what looks like church choir robes. Honestly I'm not going to her church.

  • On the post: 'Real Names' Doesn't Exactly Guarantee A High Level Of Conversation Either

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 03:31pm

    Re: Re: Sigh...

    If this is how Christians treat their kids, I guess a shotgun to the back of the head is getting off easy.

    Judges 30-31, 34-39

    And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, ?If you will let us beat the ever living shit out of the Ammonites then first person I see when I get home, I will set on fire as a burnt offering to you.?

    Then Jephthah came home at Mizpah; and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and with dancing. She was his only child; he had no other kids. When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, ?Why did it have to be you. I promised God to set you on fire.? She said to him, ?My father, if you have opened your mouth to God, you have to do it.?

    'Give me two months to wander the hills and complain that I'll die a virgin and I will return. Two months later she returned-still a virgin, and he set her ass on fire.'

  • On the post: Could New Zealand's Parliament Lose Its Internet Connection Under Its Own Three Strikes Law?

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2011 @ 11:06am

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    It shouldn't be difficult, Parliament Member Melissa Lee herself admitted to having a copyright infringing lifestyle.

  • On the post: UK Prime Minister Wants To Ban Suspected Rioters From Facebook & Twitter

    Blatant Coward ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2011 @ 03:28pm

    Re: he's clearly right

    Absolutely, look at Buckland 1857, Watts 1965, Toronto 1918, Harlem 1948, Ruimveldt 1905, Detroit 1966, & Providence 1824.

    Shutting down twitter and facebook would have solved these issues Johnny on the Spot!

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