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• On the post: Teenage Engineering: If Our Parts Are Too Expensive, Here's How To Print Your Own

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 03:23pm

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  How do you DRM or make something illegal that anyone can manufacture or modify? Arresting an 80 year old for making golf balls is not going to go over well.

• On the post: Come Celebrate 15 Years Of Techdirt (And 50,000 Posts)!

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 03:14pm

  Re: Come see Dark Helmet in action!!!

  I have seen pictures of you naked. That whole Paris Hilton tape you did ... shiver on multiple levels. ;)

• On the post: Not This Again: IEEE Plays Up Bogus 'Digital Sharecropping' Argument Again

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 03:04pm

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  Public -vs- Corporate are two different view points. The public just wants to be heard. The corporate wants to control what is heard and make money.
  
  That is the entirety of this argument.

• On the post: Worth Noting: Amanda Palmer's 'Free' Album Debuted At Number 10 On The Billboard Charts

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2012 @ 03:34pm

  Recorded music is just a promotion of the artist. That is all it has ever been and that is all it will ever be. Now that artists can promote themselves it kind of makes the labels superfluous.

• On the post: Worth Noting: Amanda Palmer's 'Free' Album Debuted At Number 10 On The Billboard Charts

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2012 @ 03:33pm

  Recorded music is just a promotion of the artist. That is all it has ever been and that is all it will ever be. Now that artists can promote themselves it kind of make the labels superfluous.

• On the post: Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter The Public Domain? The Data Says… No

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2012 @ 03:59am

  "such as by putting Mickey Mouse into pornographic situations"
  
  Mickey does Dallas ... ;)

• On the post: This Goes Beyond Tablets: Apple, Amazon & Google Are Betting On Economic Philosophies

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2012 @ 04:59pm

  "I will admit that I struggle with this a bit."
  
  There is no reason to struggle with this. You have often spoken about people being willing to pay for convenience. When all is said an done and the copyright industry implodes. Amazon will be the digital library you pay a monthly fee for so you do not have to search.
  
  Amazon is selling convenience and a brand, nothing more.

• On the post: Credit Where It's Due: DOJ Changes Its Tune On FISA Transparency

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2012 @ 04:26pm

  Hey look a shiny thing ... its bright, its pointed at me, oh no!!! Its a viral internet blog post.
  
  I think government should acknowledge anything can go viral. Treat all FOIA requests as if they were about to go viral and just do the right thing. But we have a culture of secrecy in government based on wrong doing and fear of exposure. So everything gets classified.

• On the post: First HADOPI Victim Convicted, Not For His Own Infringement, But Because His Wife Downloaded Songs

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2012 @ 01:24pm

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  The phone is contract law where you agree to pay for calls made on your line. The other is Civil or Criminal law. In civil and criminal law you have to find the person responsible not just blame a random person.

• On the post: First HADOPI Victim Convicted, Not For His Own Infringement, But Because His Wife Downloaded Songs

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2012 @ 09:24am

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  So what you are saying is, if someone borrows a hammer from you and murders his wife with it, you are responsible for the murder. That just doesn't make sense.

• On the post: Court To Twitter: No Time For Appeal, Hand Over Info Or You're In Contempt

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2012 @ 08:19pm

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  By their own rules, if they tweet the judges number they would have to shut down their own twitter account.

• On the post: MPAA Sends Five Key Propaganda Points To Politicians

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2012 @ 10:58am

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  "So how big is the Tech industry compared to the MPAA members?"
  
  Google or Apple could buy all of the RIAA and MPAA member companies and not break a sweat. If you are talking market cap of all internet based companies it has to be a multiple in the 1,000s.

• On the post: Three Artists On Piracy: Sharing, Disruption And Turning Filesharers Into Your Street Team

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2012 @ 11:41am

  Actually his name is Rabbit Intonamorous. People just call him bunny, its some hip hop thing.

• On the post: Should Robots Get Rights?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2012 @ 04:39am

  It depends

  Should a Rumba, Toaster, 3d house printing robot be given rights? The answer is no.
  
  Should a large scale MolSID (Molecular Scale Integration Device - Nanotech) device containing a human or human like intelligence be given rights? The answer is yes.
  
  There are so many other questions that also need to be answered.
  
  - Who is responsible when a programming glitch makes all Google cars run amok and kill people?
  
  - Should the above event lead to civil or criminal charges?
  
  - If you delete the last back up of a human mind is that murder?
  
  - If you delete an AI that has human like intelligence is that murder?
  
  - If you have a back up of your mind, can the police get a search warrant to go through it?
  
  - How do you handle copyright on music, video, and books in backups of human minds?

• On the post: Members Of Congress Demand USTR Open Up On TPP

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2012 @ 02:38pm

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  That is already killing the record labels, and will kill the Movie and TV studios.

• On the post: Jimmy Wales Threatens To Stymie UK Snooping Plans By Encrypting Wikipedia Connections

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2012 @ 01:20pm

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  How about a plugin that hits up random web sites and does random google searches in the back ground. Fill up their data set with so much noise they would never be able to tell what you are actually doing.

• On the post: Kim Kardashian & Old Navy Settle Lawsuit Over Look-A-Like

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 11:36pm

  Her butt isn't big enough and it has no cheese. Not Kim K. Tim you are dragging this site down to the level of the Star with this article.

• On the post: MPAA Joins RIAA In Having Budgets Slashed

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2012 @ 02:02am

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  I do not get it either. If it were "Oracle pays me in Coffee Beans" it would be funny ... Java and all.

• On the post: And… The Bureaucrats Begin Spreading FUD About Crowdfunding

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2012 @ 01:18am

  Why do we even need regulations for this? Anyone being a scammer will get caught and the law and internet will take care of the rest. Streisand anyone....

• On the post: Apparently I'm A Google Shill And I Didn't Even Know It

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 09:54pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: What's stupid...

  much to do about nothing

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