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  • On the post: Pirate Party Wants To Host The Pirate Bay From Inside The Swedish Parliament

    ernestinis ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2010 @ 02:40pm

    " It's incredibly shortsighted of the industry to keep working so hard to try to ban the technology that may become the next huge innovation that drives more and more revenue for the industry."

    It is not an industry who makes decisions. It is just a personalities who each have their own positions, salaries which depends on short time revenues.

    Who can get salary NOW with promise about increased sales after 5 YEARS?

  • On the post: Patent Office Proposes Speed Lane (And Slow Lane) For Patents; Treating The Symptom, Not The Disease

    ernestinis ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2010 @ 05:14am

    Patent Office can also add more options:

    200% of base price: Patent without review.
    400% of base price: Bulk patent generator - all combinations of supplied keywords
    600% of base price: Patent blank form with current date, so that text will be included later.

  • On the post: How Not To Handle A Parody Video: Threatening Legal Action

    ernestinis ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2010 @ 04:01pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, and...

    79Bilions spent against warming, when we will need to deel with global cooling :)

    Havent you seen snow in florida ?
    Or Irelend under snow ?

    Ohhh... I forgot "Climate CHANGE" allows you to spend money on both directions (against warmin and cooling) at the same time. With a double rate!

  • On the post: How Not To Handle A Parody Video: Threatening Legal Action

    ernestinis ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2010 @ 02:47pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, and...

    When you see how much US already spent ( $79'000'000'000 ) over last 20 years for/on this madeup problem...

    I can state that amount of bullshit dramatically increased over the past 40 years. More dramaticaly than CO2.

  • On the post: Once Again: People Want To Share The News

    ernestinis ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2010 @ 02:40am

    Is it true for All kind of news ?

    Do you really think that all kind of news worth sharing ?

    Can I still share using copy / paste + email?

    Can user (who paid for access) share with special link which is unique for that content + user so that non paid "friend" could access content. This works fine with googles picasa service, or google documents: you do not get password you get ticket.

  • On the post: Apple Goes Offensive On Patents: Sues HTC

    ernestinis ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2010 @ 03:27pm

    Nuclear Patent War

    These cases with Apple/Nokia/HTC.
    Will it become Great Patent Wall of USA for Electronics/Software. So that non Apple production will be available only in black market ?

    Or patents for software will be canceled in US ?

    How does it influence Europe ?
    Is it only civil war in US ?
    Or 1st Patent World War ?


    Any ideas ?

  • On the post: Fun With Stats: Do 80% Of Australians Really Support Gov't Censorship Of The Internet?

    ernestinis ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2010 @ 12:50pm

    ...blood sausage

    "Las encuestas son como las morcillas: muy sabrosas hasta que uno sabe cómo las hacen".

    ("Statistics are like blood sausage: they are delicious until you find out how they're made")

    as said by former presidential candidate Álvaro Gómez Hurtado.

  • On the post: Do IT People Hate Their Jobs?

    ernestinis ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2010 @ 12:24am

    Re: Software Development: Corporate vs Code-Cutter vs Creative Programmers

    Sounds like only if you have "Mac" - only then you are "creative". Otherwise you are just member "gray masses" :)

  • On the post: Cisco Realizes It's A Waste Of Time To Focus On Patent Quantity

    ernestinis ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2010 @ 08:05am

    Re: Re:

    Good insight!
    By patenting you not only disclose your "way of making something" so creating "searchable basis" for attack, but also disclose your "know how" for those who do not care about patents (e.g. in some contries companies do not care about patents, at least in some industries).

    Sounds like: "Patent your invention - support China."
    In sentence above, "China" may be replaced with: Russia or ...

  • On the post: Once Again, Walmart Stops People From Printing Family Photos Due To Copyright Law Claims

    ernestinis ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2009 @ 02:29pm

    Re: Re:

    invoice was not paid ;)

  • On the post: Essayist Writes Popular Essay… Then Sends 'Non-Negotiable' Invoice To Church Who Posts It Online

    ernestinis ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2009 @ 11:50am

    Re: It's a new business model...

    Modification:
    1) Make contract to create something witty.
    2) Buy copyrights for it.
    3) Distribute it all over the world or advertize using MTV,Radio,...
    4) Once peaple start to distribute it themselves, claim you fight against piracy, ...sue everyone.

  • On the post: The Pirate Bay Goes More Distributed, Shuts Down Tracker

    ernestinis ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2009 @ 04:02am

    Maybe Personal Publicity can help

    What is wrong with statements?:
    (1)RIAA punished 3000 pirates
    (2)MPAA sued "The Pirate Bay" for piracy and failed again.

    What is good with statement?:
    (3)LANVA sued 106 Pirates for downloading Windows7.

    While statement are about RIAA, MPAA - it is about nobody - no names, no brands. It is not about somebody who made bad decision, or some company(brand name) which was initiator.
    So company behind can avoid bad publicity, by using "shield" RIAA or MPAA.

    With LANVA case ( Lithuanian anti pirate company ). It was a bit different.
    Whey metioned product which was pirated. This way it was not a bad publicity for LANVA only but for Microsoft and Windows7 also.
    In that case Microsoft was't happy to be in punisher role, even made public statements like "we was't asking for that, it was not our initiative, it is not clear if it is piracy at all...".

    I think that while public opinion moving towards "nopocyright"
    it coud be good publicity for "brands" faiting against e.g. "single mothers" to be in a list with amount of money somebody sued. ...or how they
    failed.

  • On the post: Songs Used In Promotions Get A Ton Of Sales… So Why Does The Music Industry Try To Make It Harder?

    ernestinis ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2009 @ 01:28am

    Whats is a problem of "balance"

    BMI, RIAA collects money on everything except direct sales.
    So, the way to maximize profits - is:
    1) to create new taxes
    2) prevent "non taxable" channel to appear
    3) if #2 fails apply #1

    This is problem of business model. If they would SELL that music MAYBE way would try to find balance.

  • On the post: No Freedom To Tinker: Arrested For Modding Legally Purchased Game Consoles

    ernestinis ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2009 @ 04:53am

    What if look at:
    modification of console by adding "modchip"

    as:
    modification of "modchip" by adding console as "addon" ... Would it be legal or is also not allowed ?

  • On the post: UK Drops Plan For Government Internet and Phone Database; Tells ISPs and Operators To Retain The Data Instead

    ernestinis ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2009 @ 02:42am

    business plan :)

    it wants them to organize all of the data to make it easy for authorities to search
    If goverment will pay for that - it is worth for everybody in UK to became a "tiny ISP" who will be rewarded for storing SPAM :)

  • On the post: European Parliament Committee Backs Further Hack Of Roaming Charges

    ernestinis ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2009 @ 12:48am

    Roaming regulation

    Competition works fine between several operators inside country because customers CAN choose operator, perator which charges too much will loose customers - so charging too much is risky.

    While in roaming mode is like "fishing": customers are automatically connected to your services, while customer can choose not to answer phone call, data services (WAP, ActiveSync, GoogleMaps) can connect in automatic mode (if user has not dissabled GPRS/3G).
    Mobile Phone User interface do not show list of operators WITH prices to choose from.
    So roaming operators do not compete on price, all thay need is to have coverage as much as possible and set price as High as possible.

  • On the post: When You Treat Your Customers Like Criminals, Don't Be Surprised When They Go To Different Suppliers

    ernestinis ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2009 @ 12:42pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    You are right,
    I'm just making fun on assuming that:
    open source = allways free
    open source = an answer to all problems

  • On the post: When You Treat Your Customers Like Criminals, Don't Be Surprised When They Go To Different Suppliers

    ernestinis ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2009 @ 11:40am

    Re:

    Funny transformtion:
    License audit - bad. Use Open Source.
    Open Source is with poor support, let's use properly supported Red Hat or Suse.
    How many Licenses of Red Hat do you use ? :)

  • On the post: Antitrust Lawsuit Wants To Force Apple To Add WMA Support To iPods

    ernestinis ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2008 @ 11:09pm

    Re: Re: What's fair for Microsoft is now Fair for

    Apple and Microsoft both have dominance in their own market. Like ...lets say Ford lets users to choose Engine from 100 Hp to 250 Hp, diesel or not, but do not let user to choose Engine from Toyota. "Gives everything bundled".

    Should Microsoft let user to choose vendor for Notepad (do not install into system their own by default), ...Start buton, Explorer, IE, GUI, File System (NTFS), Networking components, .NET ?

    Does your Nokia has preinstalled media player, is it a problem, is Nokia dominant in Symbian
    market ?
    ...Or may be it is just because of my choice of the market definition ?

  • On the post: France Says Non! To Amazon's Free Shipping

    ernestinis ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2007 @ 06:31am

    Political Solution for this

    what if Amazon would write in the bill folowing comment ?:

    ...
    delivery price: 20 USD (is added because [party name/ politics name] supported rule [RuleName] which does not allow reduce this amount. [Link to detailed info]

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