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• On the post: Confused Indian Anti-Piracy Group Asks Us To Remove Article It Doesn't Like From Some Other Blog

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 11:31am

  Does this other site that copies Techdirt content, copy only the articles or does it copy/scrape entire pages with all of their embedded links intact?
  If the latter, then maybe the Indians actually clicked on a copyright notification link on that other site, which of course points back to the real Techdirt.

• On the post: Illinois Prosecutors Planning To Appeal Ruling That Said Recording Police Is Protected By The First Amendment

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 08:14am

  Thankfully, an Illinois state court tossed out the lawsuit, noting that the law pretty clearly violated the First Amendment.
  
  No, that's not what they said. They said using that law against someone for recording the police was a violation of that person's first amendment. The law itself was not.
  Yes, it makes a difference.

• On the post: Police Ticket Guy Who Helped Direct Traffic After Traffic Light Failure; Then Leave Without Handling Traffic

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 09:51am

  If we can't direct the traffic, then NOBODY can!

• On the post: FBI Hunting Down World Of Warcraft Gold Farmers?

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2011 @ 05:00am

  This isn't about the actual gold farming/buying/selling, but about the money transfers this can allow, and subsequently a hunt for terrorist suspects using it for such.
  Read this ComputerWorld article. It talks about a Canadian study from a couple years ago that mentions this, as well as a US Intelligence agency reports mentioning the same thing.
  
  Whether this is really a valid conern is a different story.

• On the post: Feds Plan To Temporarily Turn Poker Sites Back On So People Can Get Their Money Out

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2011 @ 06:17am

  Or they want to charge people with illegal gambling, and this is merely a way for them to garner more "evidence" for possible prosecutions.

• On the post: Happy Days Cast Not So Happy: Suing CBS & Paramount For Missing Royalties

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 10:57am

  it was Welcome Back, Kotter.

• On the post: Feds Tell Supreme Court They Should Be Able To Stick A GPS Device On Your Car Without A Warrant

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 09:02am

  
  If you're out in public, and people can see you, then it's not private.

  I agree with that.
  But,:

  But the real question here is somewhat more complex: if you don't see anyone following you, do you have an expectation of privacy in your long-term aggregate movements?

  I don't think it should be about whether or not it's long term following you or not. You're still out in public, so it's still not private.
  I think it should be about police actually doing something to / putting something on, your car. That's a completely separate and different issue than just being able to see you out in public.

• On the post: Happy Days Cast Not So Happy: Suing CBS & Paramount For Missing Royalties

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 07:05am

  Since the actors % share of the merchandising is based on Net profits, Hollywood Accounting will be in full force to show that there was no Net profit on any of it.
  
  

  
  it's still ludicrous that bit part players in an ancient tv series should think that anything using the name of the show they were once in should entitle them to payments,
  

  
  Not really, because this appears to be a direct contract issue. It's in their original contracts that they're supposed to be paid a % of all the merchandising. There was a ton of merchandising, but seems to have never been any payments on it.

• On the post: Judge Blocks Former Microsoft General Manager From Working For Salesforce

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2011 @ 09:17pm

  Non-competes are against CA state laws.
  He could move to CA, then sue M$. CA Court ruling, since he now lives there, would trump the previous court ruling.
  
  Not exactly an infallible source, but the Wikipedia article on non-competes specificly mentions this exact situation.
  A CA court ruled that an out of state non-compete isn't enforceable in CA:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Out_of_state_agreements_are_not_enforceable

• On the post: Politician Trespasses Into House Under Construction, Breaks Leg… Sues Owners

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2011 @ 07:52am

  He waited a full 3 years for the statute of limitations to pass on the possibility of the homeowners pressing trespassing charges, then he filed his lawsuit.
  
  Yes, and his dropping the suit and then his non-apology.
  But of course, it only happened after he got so much negative publicity about it.
  http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/01/senator_jim_alesi_moron_of_the.php

• On the post: 50 Cent Using Twitter To Pump Up Stock… But Is It Legal?

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2011 @ 10:05am

  So, who got in at 10 cent and cashed out at 45?
  50?

• On the post: Publicity Rights vs. Free Speech Goes To Court

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2010 @ 11:00pm

  This is all about Commerce, and [EA] trying to make money off of something that's not theirs.

• On the post: How Cooks Source Magazine Learned That Reputation Is A Scarce Good… As Reddit Applies The Social Mores Of Justice

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2010 @ 03:49pm

  Monica should file a DMCA takedown notice with the magazine's ISP.

• On the post: Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Cablevision For Depriving People Of Fox On TV

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2010 @ 01:46pm

  As usually, with any multi million dollar class action lawsuit, it's probably not "some people" filing the suit. It's "some lawyers" filing suit, who then get some people to add their name to it, as if it was on their behalf.

• On the post: My Challenge To Jim Urie Of Universal Music: Instead Of 'Drowning Out' Those You Disagree With, Let's Come Up With Solutions

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2010 @ 01:08pm

  Drown them out?
  or hold hands over ears while yelling,
  "La! La! La! La! La! I can't hear you! La! La! La! La! La!"

• On the post: Australian Artists Upset That Australian Tourism Campaign Crowdsourced Images

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 28 May, 2010 @ 05:56pm

  Sounds like some of these groups probably get a cut of any such royalties, so of course they want their "fair" share: in other words, they could care less about any artist, they just want their own cut.

• On the post: The Mathematics Of Proving (Or Disproving) Identity Fraud

  

  Frankz ( profile ), 20 May, 2010 @ 02:36pm

  Knowingly

  I doubt they'll have to prove that he knowingly used somebody else's identity. He knowingly used one's that were not his own, so prosecutors and the court will probably take that as the same thing.