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• On the post: Once Again, More State Dept. Cables Show Swedish Copyright Enforcement At The Behest Of US

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2010 @ 07:39am

  Re:

  Oh look, another round for the Cult of Assange.
  
  lolwut?
  
  More attacks on Sweden I see. Nice!
  
  Attacks? So the exposure of truths that you don't want exposed are to be labeled as "attacks" now?

• On the post: TSA Punishes Pilot For Videotaping Security Problems At Airports

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2010 @ 10:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  err... gave up

• On the post: TSA Punishes Pilot For Videotaping Security Problems At Airports

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2010 @ 10:42am

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  I gave reading Darryl's posts awhile ago...now they just make my mouse roller finger tired.

• On the post: Anyone Notice That Sites Don't Have To Rely On Google So Much For Traffic Any More?

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2010 @ 08:34am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Lol. He could call it "Darryl's Delusions" or "Verbal Diarrhea".

• On the post: Dutch Court Dismisses Criminal Charges Against P2P Index Site, Noting Law Enforcement Relied Too Much On Anti-Piracy Group

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2010 @ 07:41am

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  The results are the same: the site stays down. End.
  
  Translation: "We will force these damn pirates back into the 80's by any means, legal or otherwise, so they have to buy our shiny discs."
  
  Sorry, trying to shove all the evil back into Pandora's Box isn't going to work.

• On the post: Torrent-Finder Plans To Fight Domain Seizure

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2010 @ 08:48am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: a .torrent file is NOT illegal

  Above comment is mine. Browser freaked and decided to make me an AC. :(

• On the post: Torrent-Finder Plans To Fight Domain Seizure

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2010 @ 08:47am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: a .torrent file is NOT illegal

  Above comment is mine. Browser freaked and decided to make me an AC. :(

• On the post: OpenDNS Comes Out Against COICA Censorship

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2010 @ 08:39am

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  COICA is about protecting creators from having their work taken.
  
  Wow. I didn't know that this bill was about protecting artists from the legacy gatekeepers. /sarc
  
  
  Techdirt is about Mike Masnick and his lying, fear-mongering bs about the bill and just about anything else to do with intellectual property.
  
  Of course...anyone who disagrees with your point of view is lying and fear-mongering. That's a typical response of someone who has nothing to argue with except "Because I said so"
  
  
  Keep at it all you want, Masnick. We're not going to let your lies become hivemind.
  
  I haven't got a clue what a hivemind is, but you are certainly not going to stop me from becoming educated on all sides of issues so I can make up my own mind.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Is Mixing Science And Journalism A Bad Recipe?

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2010 @ 07:55am

  Re: Re: Since when do you peer review a discovery?

  That's not a record - that's standard operating procedure.

• On the post: Canadian Telco Claims Netflix & Google TV Should Be Regulated As Broadcasters

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2010 @ 09:54am

  Re: Re: Re: service providers ???

  I gave the DMCA's definition of service providers that are granted "safe harbor" on the internet (although this article is about Canada I know) because that is what I think the article was referring to. An ISP would be considered a service provider as would Google (and I assume Netflix - but not sure) under the DMCA.
  
  Its really funny, that you resort to Wikipedia for factual information LOL..

• On the post: US Copyright Group Drops Thousands Of Cases… But Will It Refile?

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2010 @ 09:13am

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  Whoops...that was a response to
  
  Re: They still made money
  
  ignorant_s, Dec 8th, 2010 @ 8:13am

• On the post: US Copyright Group Drops Thousands Of Cases… But Will It Refile?

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2010 @ 09:12am

  What is sad is that the majority of lawyers have very little passion for the issues they represent. Its money driven rather than principle driven...
  
  It also sad that the management of the entertainment industries seem to think this way too...that the ONLY motivation for creating art is money.

• On the post: US Copyright Group Drops Thousands Of Cases… But Will It Refile?

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2010 @ 08:33am

  Re: Re:

  Wow. Quite a rant there.
  
  Have you ever heard of the terms "working poor" or "underemployed". You do realize that the US unemployment is a staggering 9.3% (and is much worse in certain areas)?

• On the post: As The Feds Seize Domains, More Attention Paid To How Law Enforcement Regularly Abuses Asset Seizures

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2010 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Re: Re: Its not physical so it has no value according to Mike, so they cannot profit from it.

  Well now...looking back at older comments I'm not so sure new Darryl isn't old Darryl. Maybe just Darryl in a more lucid moment.
  
  Let me put it this way. If you are a new Darryl then my apology stands, otherwise my apology is retracted. That should cover my bases.

• On the post: As The Feds Seize Domains, More Attention Paid To How Law Enforcement Regularly Abuses Asset Seizures

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2010 @ 01:34pm

  Re: Re: Its not physical so it has no value according to Mike, so they cannot profit from it.

  Ooof...perhaps you are correct nasch. I see darryl at the top of a post and I tend to skim it quickly.
  
  Darryl, I apologize sincerely for my above post. It was a build up from a whole bunch of darryl's posts lately.

• On the post: As The Feds Seize Domains, More Attention Paid To How Law Enforcement Regularly Abuses Asset Seizures

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2010 @ 11:04am

  Re: Its not physical so it has no value according to Mike, so they cannot profit from it.

  Darryl, your village called, they seem to have lost their idiot.

• On the post: Canadian Telco Claims Netflix & Google TV Should Be Regulated As Broadcasters

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2010 @ 08:25am

  Re: service providers ???

  How about the DMCA definition of "service providers":
  
  These categories are (listed by kind of services provided):
  
  1. Transitory communications (meaning that the provider merely transmits, routs or provides connections for material coming through a system);
  2. System caching (meaning that the provider provides temporary storage of such material);
  3. Storage of materials at the direction of a user (meaning that the provider is one who hosts sites or runs mailing lists, news groups, chat and the like); and
  4. Information location tools (meaning that the provider is a search engine facility).
  
  This is a nice way of putting "are you stupid or lying".

• On the post: The More Some Try To Kill Wikileaks, The More It Spreads

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2010 @ 07:26am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Ok, I'm play along with this iceberg analogy....
  
  Blast the first iceberg and create a seismic event that breaks off a huge chunk of the ice shelf and then suddenly you have thousands of icebergs bearing down on you.
  
  That makes a lot of sense....

• On the post: Swiss Bank Finds Technicality To Freeze Wikileaks Bank Account

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2010 @ 11:39am

  Re: Devil is in the details

  Many, if not all, of *his* current problems are his own doing. Wikileaks does not require a face to accomplish its stated goal, he simply wants to be a face. and he has got his dream. He is the center of global attention. "Look at me now bitch! Defy me I dare you."
  
  I get the impression that Assange is more like Wikileak's Zaphod Beeblebrox:
  
  "Zaphod has two heads, three arms and is "clever, imaginative, irresponsible, untrustworthy, extrovert, nothing you couldn't have guessed". He was also briefly President of the Galaxy. His responsibility in that position was to draw attention away from the true rulers of the universe. To that end, Zaphod and his outrageous behavior were highly successful."
  
  -from hitchhikers.wikia.com (emphasis mine)

• On the post: Swiss Bank Finds Technicality To Freeze Wikileaks Bank Account

  

  Gwiz ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2010 @ 09:33am

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  Yeah, they'll give his money back at a time and place determined by INTERPOL I'm sure.

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