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  • On the post: ICE Starts Raiding Mobile Phone Repair Shops To Stop Repairs With Aftermarket Parts

    Gwiz ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2013 @ 02:15pm

    Re:

    How is this guy any different then the guy selling counterfeit NFL jerseys out of the back of his car or at a flea market?


    That's an incorrect analogy. It'd be more like the guy at the flea market busted for sewing up the rips in your NFL jersey with thread that wasn't bought from the NFL. Capice?

    And I don't believe the shops were trying to pass off the parts as official "Apple" parts at all. At least, that's what I got from Mike saying this:

    If Apple feels some of the shops are misleading customers, then it can sue for trademark infringement and deal with it that way.

  • On the post: Jaron Lanier And Gobbledygook Economics

    Gwiz ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2013 @ 11:44am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: price vs value

    It's the law, the CEO CANNOT do anything that the shareholders don't want.


    I think you are incorrect here. The article you pointed to talks about the "legal obligations" of a CEO. Those would be enforced with legally binding contracts, not something codified into law. And the terms of the contracts could and would differ from company to company.

    So no, I don't believe that there is a "law" that says this. But, I could be wrong.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Says Out Of State Residents Have No Constitutional Right To Virginia's FOIA Law

    Gwiz ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2013 @ 08:26am

    Re: Re: Re: bloggers versus journalists

    ...the state is likely to take action against people who attempt to deceive them.


    How would anyone be deceived? If the volunteer lives in the state, how is that deceitful in any way, shape or form?

  • On the post: Supreme Court Says Out Of State Residents Have No Constitutional Right To Virginia's FOIA Law

    Gwiz ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2013 @ 08:23am

    Re: Re: bloggers versus journalists

    He does do a degree of journalism to back up his opinion(which any opinion writer worth reading does) but that's not the same thing as being a journalist.


    Right. And that in and of itself makes me give more weight to what I read at Techdirt over MSM.

    MSM gives me selected "facts" (usually only from one side of an issue) and expects me to believe it's the whole truth.

    With Techdirt I get an opinion, backed up with facts to explain how the opinion was reached without trying to hide the fact that there is always another side to every issue.

    Personally, I prefer to be treated as someone who can make up their own mind, instead of a mindless dolt that needs to be told how to think by MSM.

  • On the post: Jaron Lanier And Gobbledygook Economics

    Gwiz ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2013 @ 01:07pm

    Re: price vs value

    That the largest IP corporations today are doing their best to prohibit free distribution of their products is actual evidence that your entire line of argument is on its face incorrect.

    That's a useless metric really. Like you said above corporations want to maximize their profits and that's the only thing you have proven. Horse buggy manufacturers did their best to prohibit automobiles and the dairy industry tried to outlaw margarine. It's not evidence, by any stretch of the imagination, that horse buggies or butter are economically better (or worse for that matter) at all.


    ...corporations are required by law to maximize their profits...

    What law are you talking about? I've never heard of such a thing and I've seen plenty of corporations do utterly stupid things that negatively affect their profit margins all the time. The only ones they've had to answer to is the stockholders. Please explain what you are talking about here.

  • On the post: Celebrate The Right To Share On 'World Intellectual Property Day'

    Gwiz ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2013 @ 11:50am

    Re:

    Ah, World Theft of the Commons day, my favorite drinking holiday.


    You already missed it! World Theft of the Commons day was on December 5, 1986 as declared by Congress and President Reagan:

    http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_5585

  • On the post: How EA's 'Silent Treatment' Pushed The SimCity Story Into The Background

    Gwiz ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2013 @ 08:33am

    Re: And you're TRYING to fan the fanboy flames again!

    Here at Techdirt this minor item got big play because the major audience is male gamers 18-24.


    I have pointed out multiple times that that isn't the demographics of Techdirt. Here is the most recent occasion:

    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130416/18174622735/attention-game-developers-console-manufacturers-always-is-not-same-as-always-connectable.shtml#c628


    But hey, whatever, Blue. Keep on misrepresenting facts and spewing ad homs all day and then sit there wonder why all your comments get down-voted. No skin off my back.

  • On the post: US Marine Corp. Provides Music In Response To FOIA Request, But Warns That Publishing It May Infringe On Copyrights

    Gwiz ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2013 @ 09:57am

    Re: Questions: What the heck is "Muckrock"? Why should I care?

    Nor are any easy answers from the prior piece, as the main link didn't come up.


    ???

    I was able to follow the the links with no problem and ended up at this page which explains it:

    https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/jan/22/public-domain-beyonce-thank-president/

    You're not even trying today, Blue. Having an off day?

  • On the post: US Marine Corp. Provides Music In Response To FOIA Request, But Warns That Publishing It May Infringe On Copyrights

    Gwiz ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2013 @ 09:48am

    Re: Questions: What the heck is "Muckrock"? Why should I care?

    Questions: What the heck is "Muckrock"? Why should I care?
    And why can't Muckrock just get the needed permissions?


    Muckrock is a Freedom of Information Request service.

    https://www.muckrock.com/about/


    Those should have been answered up there, but I'm sure will go unanswered.

    Most people actually know how to use the Internet.

  • On the post: Entrepreneurs & VCs Tell The White House To Focus On Innovation, Rather Than IP Enforcement

    Gwiz ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2013 @ 08:10am

    Re: @ Masnick: "they thought Socrates was a complete jackass."

    ....then RUN, and refuse to "engage" more on grounds it's his foe who is childish.

    This is the exact same behavior you exhibit every single day, Blue. But you are even worse. Just about every single one of your comments get rebutted in some way or another and you just continue on like everything you said is indisputable fact.


    A classic born-rich smarty-pants who was never really challenged.

    As you have shown, it also seems to apply to uneducated, back-water hillbillies who think they already know everything there is to know.

  • On the post: Court Not Impressed By Dentist Using Copyright To Try To Censor Online Reviews

    Gwiz ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2013 @ 01:27pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    LMAO.

    You just called someone else an angry dipshit in an angry dipshit tone of voice. WTG!

  • On the post: Court Not Impressed By Dentist Using Copyright To Try To Censor Online Reviews

    Gwiz ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2013 @ 01:08pm

    Re: Re: Not copyright. Rich guy mis-using it.

    Obviously not.

    Pretty apparent since he labels the female dentist as "Rich guy" right there in his comment header.

  • On the post: NYC Mayor Bloomberg Thinks Boston Bombing Renders The Constitution Obsolete

    Gwiz ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2013 @ 12:56pm

    Re: Re: Re: Yet again, The Rich are the problem.

    Unearned income is the foundation of Intellectual Property.


    Well, I think I get what you're saying here - just not sure I agree with it 100%. If a company is providing me a service I value, even if it is serving up content they didn't create, it's still my feeling that they have "earned" what I pay them for the service.

    Based on Blue's comments over the last couple of years or so, I get the impression that things like return on investment capitol, inheritances and basically any paycheck over $100,000/year is "unearned" in his mind.

    If he's going to continue his rants about the rich and unearned income, I think he should at the very least qualify what he is actually talking about.

  • On the post: NYC Mayor Bloomberg Thinks Boston Bombing Renders The Constitution Obsolete

    Gwiz ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2013 @ 11:54am

    Re: Yet again, The Rich are the problem.

    Taxes on unearned income should be steeply progressive to keep The Rich within some limits...


    You keep pushing this unattainable notion (at a group of people who have grown to have zero respect for your opinions, no less).

    Are you ever going to define what "unearned income" means to you?

  • On the post: Why The DOJ's Decision To Not Read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights Is A Terrible Idea

    Gwiz ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2013 @ 08:20am

    Re:

    2. The US is handling things in accordance to NATO's Interpol rules as the was not a domestic terrorist attack and he is a citizen of Chechnya and is here on a student visa.


    Which brother are you talking about? The older brother who died in the gunfight with police or the younger brother who was captured in the boat?

    The younger brother (Dzhokhar) became naturalized United States citizen on Sept. 11, 2012. This means he has every single right that any US citizen has, with the exception of not being able to run for President.

  • On the post: Prenda Now In Trouble In Another Case In California

    Gwiz ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2013 @ 09:52am

    Umm. No.

    AF Holding International is one of the largest conglomerate companies in Azerbaijan.


    You are confusing two different companies.

    This story involves a company named "AF Holdings LLC". Notice the "s" on the end of "Holdings". Also note that it's a "LLC" which stands for "Limited Liability Corporation" and I believe that is an acronym used exclusively in the United States.

  • On the post: Attention Game Developers And Console Manufacturers: 'Always On' Is NOT The Same As 'Always Connectable'

    Gwiz ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 01:06pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Attention 14-year-olds: quit playing games, leave the basement.

    You mean he didn't used to make things up?


    Lol. I'm pretty sure Blue has been making shit up to suit his arguments from the get-go, this one just happened to be easy to prove wrong.

    I'll cut him a little slack on that today though - he's probably still a little butt-hurt from the ass whooping he received on the YouTube story yesterday.

  • On the post: Attention Game Developers And Console Manufacturers: 'Always On' Is NOT The Same As 'Always Connectable'

    Gwiz ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 11:57am

    Re: Re: Re: Attention 14-year-olds: quit playing games, leave the basement.

    Techdirt has a much wider audience than just 20-somethings.


    Techdirt demographics:

    69% over age 25
    51% earn 50k per year or more
    67% with college education

    Source: Quantcast


    So yeah, Blue is now blatantly making shit up to support his wacky notions.

  • On the post: YouTube Wins Yet Another Complete Victory Over Viacom; Court Mocks Viacom's Ridiculous Legal Theories

    Gwiz ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 08:37am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So Masnick has taken a postion on copyright?

    Damn Blue, you are getting your ass handed to you on a platter left and right on this thread.

    Maybe you you should just concede the fact that to really don't know as much as you think you do.

  • On the post: MPAA Pretends To Be A Regular Defender Of Fair Use; The Evidence Suggests Otherwise

    Gwiz ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2013 @ 09:24am

    Typo Alert

    ...The Cather in the Rye...

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