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• On the post: Lord Finesse Learning How The Streisand Effect Works: Tons Of People Re-Upload Dan Bull's Video

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 04:17pm

  Re: Re:

  "But, of course, as we've learned over the years, when you try to stifle free speech online, a funny thing happens."
  
  I was wondering is that, "funny Ha Ha" or "Oh god we are seriously fucked" followed by uncontrollable laughing?

• On the post: Is A Petition Calling For A Pardon Of The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde 'Offensive'?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 04:09pm

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  I say we put up a petition on Avaaz to "stop Avaaz from sending questionable, offensive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable, emails"
  
  Who here would sign it?

• On the post: Mexico's IP Office Surprised Its Congress By Signing ACTA, And Now Hopes To Win Their Support

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 04:06pm

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  I think the seat at the TPP table will only truly open up after they get ACTA ratified.

• On the post: Chuck Close Succeeds In Stifling A Creative Homage… But Only For Another 100 Years Or So!

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 10:02am

  Re: Not new

  Cue Streisand singing in the dark, with Close running around spraying water on his flaming works, as Rome burns in the background.
  
  That is a great visual image. :D

• On the post: Chuck Close Succeeds In Stifling A Creative Homage… But Only For Another 100 Years Or So!

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Re: The Frak?

  I say he just puts the code out there under the Apache License on SourceForge and be done with it.
  
  Wouldn't it be funny if in five years some kid with a tablet walks into a Close exhibit and says, "I have filter for that on my tablet".

• On the post: FDA Spied On Emails To Try To Silence Critics

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 08:45am

  The thing about monitoring is, once it starts it gets out of hand very quickly. You find what people actually think of you, the jokes they tell about you. You find one person sending something that "Might" be a problem to another. You then look at this other person who leads you elsewhere.
  
  Its why the monitoring of citizens will lead to more monitoring. Because when you know what people actually think of you, you begin thinking there is a conspiracy behind every door.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 06:24am

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  Truth be told people like the troll we are chatting with are doing more harm than good to their cause. The more they show up and spout their bullshit, the more we resent the entire industry. It is self defeating.
  
  Read this ...
  http://www.hephaestusproject.com/blog/2012/01/25/why-internet-trolls-are-a-good-thing/

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  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 06:05am

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  Isn't it ironic, they want to remove several constitutional amendments to save their business model, and then they won't have the right to insult us anymore.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 05:49am

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  First - You are the one that's scared. All you do is throw out insults and change the subject. You use disproved talking points and are insignificant in the large picture.
  
  Second - you really do not understand what is happening in the world do you? If you look at what I have written here and elsewhere you will see I am balls accurate when it comes to predicting future trends. This rising up of the masses against ACTA-SOPA-etc is just the beginning of a much larger social change that is occurring worldwide. Don't be surprised if in five to ten years mandatory worldwide licensing, shortening of copyright lengths, and registration is required of all copyrighted material.
  
  Third - And most important. Take Wil Wheaton's advice "Don't be a dick" or in your case stop being one.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 04:51am

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  "Can be anything from paranoia to being lazy"
  
  Lazy ... LOL ... The man can type a wall of nonsense, but can not type in a 1-20 letter name.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 04:49am

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  Hey look a shiny blue area in the middle of the wall of words. Its a comment, I think I will read it and comment. :)
  
  For the first time these copyright maximalists, are having all their schemes and machinations trounced. To them, these defeats, are outside their belief system, and unprecedented. The unruly masses have risen up, and they do not have a target to blame, attack, or propagandize against. You, Techdirt, Michael Geist, the EFF, Google, Wikipedia are convenient surrogate targets for their blame.

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  Hephaestus ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 04:15am

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  Yeah he should bring something other than ...
  
  ~Fairies make the flowers grow.
  ~Fairies maintain a trillion dollar a year business.
  ~Telling Fairy tales is theft.
  ~Quoting Fairies violates their property.
  ~Fairies always believe the sky is falling.
  
  The last one is pretty much true.

• On the post: Is The Six Strikes Plan Being Delayed Because ISPs Are Pushing Back Against Hollywood Demands?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2012 @ 01:56pm

  Re: Heh - didn't think it through did ya???

  "What is a falsely accused individual to do when there is no due process?"
  
  File suit under the theory that the White House forced this down the throats of the ISP's and it is an end run around the constitution.

• On the post: Is The Six Strikes Plan Being Delayed Because ISPs Are Pushing Back Against Hollywood Demands?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2012 @ 10:13am

  Re: Horizontal price fixing

  "Maybe the ISPs are betting on whether Attorney-General Holder will still be in office?"
  
  I was thinking something similar. If they wait until after the election, the president may not be in office. At which point all pressure to follow through with this agreement goes away.
  
  With the treat of a SOPA like public revolt against 6 strikes come other issues. The possibility that people will start calling for an end to the local telecom monopolies becomes extremely high. Most of the social media revolts thus far have had two thing in common, pushing back against wrong doing, and pushing against entrenched monopolies.

• On the post: If You Behave Like Your Own Fans Despise You, They Probably Will

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2012 @ 10:13am

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  You are to funny! Nowhere does it say he can't make money in both ways, the "old" and the "new". That would be like saying someone can't make money off real estate and have a day job also.

• On the post: Russia And China Both Want To 'Protect Children'; Both Want To Do It By Increasing Censorship

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 05:42pm

  Protect the children, this from a country that has underage children working 60 hour weeks.

• On the post: Lord Finesse's Lawyers Now Using Copyright To Stifle Dan Bull's Criticism Of His Lawsuit Against Mac Miller

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 05:35pm

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  Ack!!! brain freeze without ice cream.

• On the post: UK Government Wants To Give Itself Power To Change Copyright Law Without Full Parliamentary Scrutiny

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 07:57am

  What a great way to over throw a government

  Rule 107.3.2-a) Any politician speaking the copyrighted words "Fish" or "Chips" Shall be immediately put to death with out trial.

• On the post: MPAA Points To Its Roster Of Crappy Online Services And Asks What We're Complaining About

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 07:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Problem

  The thing I was trying to point out was that with computerized systems there is an immediate accounting. This doesn't allow for poor accounting or theft. If you look at the Canada pending list lawsuit. They got away with several billion USD and paid 45 million dollars.
  
  If all sales were online they would not be able to do this.

• On the post: MPAA Points To Its Roster Of Crappy Online Services And Asks What We're Complaining About

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 07:05am

  Re: Re: Re: The Problem

  It has nothing to do with control. The record labels have been cheating the artist they represent, though levels of collection societies, contracts, and creative accounting. If they were to sell online they would immediately lose the ability to hide behind their creative accounting.
  
  In simple terms when an online music store say that 1M single have been sold in the EU, and the US labels only paid the artist $50,000 USD. The artist in question will wonder where the other $450,000 USD they are owed went.
  
  Basically, the labels can not go online with out destroying themselves.

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