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• On the post: France Suspends 3 Strikes Monitoring Following Data Breach

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 02:08am

  One clear course of action

  While Hadopi evaluates, obviously the only thing they can do is remove all of France from Internet access. This is the only way to protect the children. Besides the Internet is full of things that are not from France anyway, who needs it.

• On the post: Rick Reilly's Advice To Journalism Students: Please Don't Compete With Me And Undercut My Salary

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 06 May, 2011 @ 03:19pm

  Re: Re:

  Depends on how good their lapdancing is.

• On the post: Guess That Bull In Texas Was A Good Investment: EchoStar Agrees To Pay TiVo To Settle Patent Case

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 02 May, 2011 @ 02:36pm

  Re: As to what happened to "TiVo"...

  Apparently he was no Cow Tse Toungue. Or didn't have enough revolutionary veal.

• On the post: Bogus Infringement Takedowns And The Danger Of Relying On Third Party Services With No Backbone

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 03:04am

  "We have invested significant resources into creating a dedicated team that uses specialized tools, systems and technology to review and properly handle intellectual property notices."
  
  We won't actually tell you how to reach this team as piteous cries for mercy or for us to deliver what we promised-a website you modify-are distracting to them.

• On the post: Replying To An Email Does Not Create A Contract (And Does Not Require Walmart Pay $600 Billion)

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 02:58am

  What about that contract modified over IM, does that have any bearing as a previous example thing?
  
  I realize the guy is a nut but this seems in part no different from a EULA to me.

• On the post: Latest Issue Of Newsweek Down To Just Six Ads

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2011 @ 01:47am

  Buy Newsweek! Now with More news and less advertising!

• On the post: Sorry, My Brain Accidentally Called You

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2011 @ 02:03am

  867-5309. That is all.

• On the post: Putting Up A Paywall Just To Have Advertisers Pay To Take It Down?

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2011 @ 01:45am

  Re: Great Wall Of China

  Ooooo Snap Western World! Cow Dung Flung done schooled you!

• On the post: News Corp. Claims 79,000 Subscribers To Its Paywall For The Times

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2011 @ 02:03am

  Re:

  If you get your times under a batch of fish and chips, yer a pirate!
  
  (Yes I know, they don't do that any more, just roll with it k?)

• On the post: Amazon Launches Digital Music Locker, Even As Legality Is Still In Question

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2011 @ 05:04pm

  So what if the music has a political view that Jeff Bezos does not agree with, such as songs of Wikileaks Solidarity, or songs that a government finds offensive, propagandistic, coercive, inciting of rebellion and such.
  Would they do to your tunes like they did to wikileaks and just make them vanish?

• On the post: On NYT Paywall, Citigroup says 'Good Buy'; Techdirt says 'Hello!?!'

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2011 @ 06:41am

  Maybe they used the chart in this article for their evaluation:
  http://theunderstatement.com/post/4019228737/digital-subscription-prices-visualized-aka-the-new

• On the post: An Open Letter From A Canadian To The New York Times, Eh?

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2011 @ 05:46pm

  Re: Awesome

  Nope, this is a brand new business model. Like a rocket sled to the bottom of the grand canyon. Guaranteed results.

• On the post: It Took The NY Times 14 Months And $40 Million Dollars To Build The World's Stupidest Paywall?

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2011 @ 02:35pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Lets not even get into the crapshoot roulette that is Video card designators for the GeForce series.

• On the post: It Took The NY Times 14 Months And $40 Million Dollars To Build The World's Stupidest Paywall?

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2011 @ 02:32pm

  Re: Re: I don't know Mike...

  Add cheese curds and you got Poutine, which Canadians think are not stupid at all. It is in fact delicious!

• On the post: As AT&T Introduces Caps, BT Removes Them; Says Investing In Network Is Smarter

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 03:45am

  Now I'm gonna need a REALLY long ethernet cable...

• On the post: Twitter Decides To Kill Its Ecosystem: How Not To Run A Modern Company

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2011 @ 03:44am

  When twitter loses the 'old twitter' function, and disallows option that are simple, do not force trending, ooo ooo you should follow ads, and 'sponsored twits' I will definitely have no use for twitter.

• On the post: Retroactive Drug Monopoly Raises Rates From $10… To $1,500

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2011 @ 08:56pm

  "They thought that granting a monopoly to one company would mean that it would make the drug "more available.""
  
  Well with a lot less people being able to buy it, then yah, it won't run out as often.

• On the post: Record Labels Planning Yet Another Way To Try To Get You To Rebuy Music You Already 'Bought'

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2011 @ 02:50pm

  Re: Re:

  A lot of my library started on vinyl, then 8 track, then cassette, then CD, Then CD again (ex wives, sheesh.) Now happily MP3. I'm too old to hear a real difference now, so sticking here, without iJail thanks!

• On the post: Walmart Employees Fired For Disarming Gun-Toting Robber

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2011 @ 02:51am

  Re: Policy

  Walmart doesn't do sophisticated unless it makes them a buck.

• On the post: Cable And Hollywood Fight Having Their Gatekeeper Status Taken Away

  

  Blatant Coward ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2011 @ 03:00am

  Re: Funny...

  Skaters gotta skate!

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