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• On the post: One Reason Why The USPTO Granted Ridiculously Stupid Internet Patents: Patent Examiners Were Banned From Using The Internet

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 02:39pm

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  Basically, State Street Bank filed a lawsuit against Signature Financial Group for violating a patented method for doing what IRS regulations allowed under the law. It was an accounting-business method of avoiding taxes and doing reporting. The ruling allowed for business methods to be patented.

• On the post: How Much Of The Collapse Of Recorded Music Sales Revenue Was Due To The End Of Illegal Price Fixing?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 02:19pm

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  sorry previous article

• On the post: How Much Of The Collapse Of Recorded Music Sales Revenue Was Due To The End Of Illegal Price Fixing?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 02:18pm

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  Oh and referencing the previous article ...
  
  ... would somebody please think of the cats.

• On the post: Schrödinger's Download: Whether Or Not An iTunes Music Sale Is A 'Sale' Depends On Who's Suing

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 02:15pm

  "The cat is simultaneously dead and alive."
  
  The cat should make up its mind already. Personally, I hope to open the box one day and see a rotting corpse.

• On the post: SOPA Strikedown Aftermath: Old Media Cannot Tell The Narrative Of One Million People

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 01:16pm

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  Lets see if mike can get Chris Dodd to post an article here.

• On the post: SOPA Strikedown Aftermath: Old Media Cannot Tell The Narrative Of One Million People

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 01:13pm

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  In ten years tell that to Microsoft.

• On the post: SOPA Strikedown Aftermath: Old Media Cannot Tell The Narrative Of One Million People

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 01:02pm

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  Why trolls are a good thing

• On the post: Always A Gatekeeper: RIAA Backs .music Proposal… If It's Only Limited To 'Accredited' Musicians

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 12:54pm

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  Next time you use a big word like link, please explain what it is and how to use it. We are dealing with content types after all.

• On the post: Always A Gatekeeper: RIAA Backs .music Proposal… If It's Only Limited To 'Accredited' Musicians

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 12:51pm

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  Actually, I think it is a perfect idea. We can spam all the .music artists sites with links to techdirt and Rick Falkvinges infopolicy :)

• On the post: If The RIAA Wants To Talk About Misinformation Campaigns, Let's Start With The RIAA's Misinformation Campaign

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 07:57am

  Re: Negative comments and NY Times

  That is a sure fire way to decrease readership in our day and age. Most people now realize that if a news organization, doesn't allow comments, censors comments, or doesn't allow anonymity, they have an agenda or are spouting a line of bullshit.

• On the post: Big News: Germany Says It Won't Sign ACTA [Update: … Yet]

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 07:43am

  Re: ACTA

  I am very good at forecasting future occurrences and trends. It is one of the things I do for a living. The problem for the Germany government is, if they sign ACTA they will effectively double the number of people voting pirate party next time around. The same goes for every nation in Europe that has a pirate party.

• On the post: Newspaper Boss Says Newspapers Need More Money… Because New Media Steals & May 'Destroy Civil Society'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 07:36am

  Re: PNMA

  That's one better than hot news. What happens to news papers the day that all the first reporting is done by amateur reporters?

• On the post: Newspaper Boss Says Newspapers Need More Money… Because New Media Steals & May 'Destroy Civil Society'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 07:32am

  Re: The pen is mightier than the sword.

  Chinese finger traps are the answer to both problems. Thinking about it for a moment, we also need duct tape because of speech recognition, thick sunglasses because of eye tracking, and full body restraints because of Kinect.

• On the post: Congress Actually Helping The Internet, Rather Than Mucking It Up?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 07:08am

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  ... that is on the local, state, and federal level.
  
  An example is the telco's and cable companies. We remove local ordinances that prevent new cables from being run on telephone poles or underground, or new lines from being run into buildings. At the state level remove rules that require state approval for new telcom services, and laws that prevent entry into the telcom industry. At the federal level, I do not even know where to start there are far to many rules and organizations.

• On the post: Congress Actually Helping The Internet, Rather Than Mucking It Up?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 07:00am

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  Agreed. We also need to go after every rule on the books that is their to protect the entrenched monopolies.

• On the post: Open Offer To Chris Dodd & Cary Sherman: Meet The Internet Online And In The Open

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2012 @ 12:00pm

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  Why don't we ask the Occupy types to join us? After all their entire movement was built on the internet.

• On the post: Another Answer To Dealing With Piracy: Keep Creating Better Tools & Business Models

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2012 @ 07:35am

  Re: Hammer away

  Something I have been wondering for a while is, why does Mike even care if they survive or not. He has been at this for ten years and they haven't even begun to listen. The only people that have listened are the artists.
  
  Okay, never mind I just answered my own question.

• On the post: Evidence Shows That Megaupload Shutdown Had No Real Impact On Infringement

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 01:31pm

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  After the SOPA and PIPA fiasco. It was probably a pushed forward by the administration and the DOJ to show they are doing something about piracy.

• On the post: More Details About Paramount's Offer To Law Schools To Teach Them About The Evils Of 'Content Theft'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 12:23pm

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  The first thing they have to do is open http://www.mpaa.org/blog to uncensored comments ...

• On the post: The Rise Of The 'Professional Amateur' And The Fall Of Gated, Exclusionary 'Clubs'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 12:19pm

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  solution, fine grit metal polish and a 1980's toy transformer action figure ...

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