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• On the post: UK High Court Expands Censorship Regime: Orders The Pirate Bay To Be Blocked

  

  hmm ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2012 @ 03:14pm

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  Spot on!
  
  The other day I went to the cinema to watch the Avengers.
  
  The anti-piracy warning came on saying Sites like pirate bay are killing the cinema experience...then shows a video of an empty cinema with dusty seats.
  
  An elderly lady sitting next to me said to what I presume was her grandson "So whats this pirate bay?". He replied "it's somewhere you can get free movies and stuff"
  
  and she replied "oh, thats nice".
  
  Just another person 'educated' about the evils of the pirate bay. I found it hard to stop myself giggling.

• On the post: Another Error By US Officials May Kill Megaupload Prosecution

  

  hmm ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 05:32pm

  well

  Kim must be chortling somewhere.
  
  Rapidshare and a host of other lockers went "user only" and removed sharing from their systems, so now the competition to Megaupload has been pretty much killed stone dead...
  
  Now he just needs to get the data back, run an IPO and make 10's of billions pure profit.
  
  (I believe the estimates for the value of publicity for all this runs into hundreds of millions of dollars of free advertising for Megaupload).

• On the post: Huh? Totally Clueless German Court Says ContentID Isn't Good Enough, YouTube Must Block Infringement By Keywords

  

  hmm ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 05:25pm

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  It's also much easier for the judge to take 10's of thousands of euros in backhanders from various copyright holders than to not....

• On the post: Huh? Totally Clueless German Court Says ContentID Isn't Good Enough, YouTube Must Block Infringement By Keywords

  

  hmm ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 05:22pm

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  Entertainment lawyers CAN be employed....I seem to remember the romans having some sort of fights involving lions......

• On the post: Huh? Totally Clueless German Court Says ContentID Isn't Good Enough, YouTube Must Block Infringement By Keywords

  

  hmm ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 05:22pm

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  You mean the way Microsoft did?
  
  Heheh that was hilarious....shares in German companies have crashed to all time lows and the German government has seen its popularity drop by around 30%.
  
  Oh yeah and tens of thousands of Germans lost their jobs...all because of the copy maximalists....

• On the post: Cargo Cult Reverse Activism: Maximalists Think That If They Use Social Media They Can Counteract Public Concerns

  

  hmm ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 12:02pm

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  I am a moron. I am in a hurry. I thought "creative america" was "captain america" on first glance.
  
  I therefore demand that creative america be shut down and gives hundreds of millions of dollars to DC comics (or marvel (or whoever) just so they get punished).

• On the post: Cargo Cult Reverse Activism: Maximalists Think That If They Use Social Media They Can Counteract Public Concerns

  

  hmm ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 12:00pm

  Re: Dont underestimate this...

  Except for one vital thing:
  
  If you tip the public too far, basically a massive mob of millions of people turns up at your corporate HQ and burns it to the ground......this is a war the MPAA and RIAA cannot possibly win, they just haven't realized it yet.

• On the post: Cargo Cult Reverse Activism: Maximalists Think That If They Use Social Media They Can Counteract Public Concerns

  

  hmm ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 11:58am

  Re: Re: Dont underestimate this...

  Except its BILLIONS of good people vs the tiny evil empire......
  
  7 billion Jedi vs a thousand stormtroopers = no contest.....

• On the post: Cargo Cult Reverse Activism: Maximalists Think That If They Use Social Media They Can Counteract Public Concerns

  

  hmm ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 11:56am

  well

  It all goes swimmingly, as the RIAA sets up a facebook page and a twitter account, then refuses to let anyone except the heads of the major record labels follow them.
  
  THEN they sue a member of the public who accidentally gets added to their friend list for "copyright infringement" when their PC displays the RIAA's wall....

• On the post: Italian 'Blog Killer' Law Rises From the Grave

  

  hmm ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 11:46am

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  If this passes, then really we should make the official government page say how they want to turn back the clock and start putting people into death camps again.......

• On the post: Italian 'Blog Killer' Law Rises From the Grave

  

  hmm ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2012 @ 11:44am

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  Except in the Italian version of Techdirt, I'll make Mike change your comment to "I give a shit...in fact this is the most important thing in my life, so I dumped my wife, put my kids in an orphanage and shot my dog just to concentrate on this".........

• On the post: When The Kids Of Major Label Execs Get Accused Of Infringement…

  

  hmm ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 02:43pm

  Whats the bet?

  That Levin Sr. sues his own son, then via a series of loopholes manages to claim the resulting damages from his 2012 tax bill?

• On the post: Did Congress Really Not Pay Attention To What Happened With SOPA? CISPA Ignorance Is Astounding

  

  hmm ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2012 @ 11:54am

  If CISPA passes

  How long before someone makes a firefox/chrome plugin that everytime you visit ANY site, throws out a load of random searches for uranium, nuclear tech, death to the west, terrorist training camps etc.
  
  If you fill government servers with enough crap every single DNS request would contain thousands of items of crap...good look filtering through that to find whats real.

• On the post: Did Congress Really Not Pay Attention To What Happened With SOPA? CISPA Ignorance Is Astounding

  

  hmm ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2012 @ 11:51am

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  and they know if they can make a quick few million dollars each they don't have to care about re-election, they can just retire on their vile profits.

• On the post: Did Congress Really Not Pay Attention To What Happened With SOPA? CISPA Ignorance Is Astounding

  

  hmm ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2012 @ 11:50am

  Re: Doctors vs Rock Stars

  Bono probably already did this....hey! don't use THOSE types of scalpels, use this earth-friendly wooden version....

• On the post: More Mistakes In The Megaupload Prosecution: Videotape Of The Mansion Raid Has Gone Missing

  

  hmm ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2012 @ 11:49am

  did you ever think?

  That taking down mega upload originally had nothing to do with piracy, and everything to do with the RIAA and MPAA stealing legal content which can then be "re-worked" into songs / movies etc to turn a tidy profit.....
  
  They want the evidence destroyed so badly so that no-one can say "HEY!!! I created that video clip / song"....
  
  Side effect BTW of "losing" the video evidence, is that Dotcom can now pretty much claim anything he wants happened during the raid...people getting beaten with rifle butts, sexual abuse of others in the property, hell he could even claim they shot his dog because it wouldn't stop yapping.

• On the post: Open Textbook Startup Sued For Allegedly Copying 'Distinctive Selection, Arrangement, and Presentation' Of Facts From Existing Titles

  

  hmm ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2012 @ 11:39am

  Well

  Maybe its time for a FRAND type system on educational materials? Where they must be licensed and sold for a "reasonable" profit, not a 65% markup (and other companies may license the entire contents for resale again for a "reasonable" fee)
  
  I'd say reasonable would be around 5-10% max, decreasing by 1% per year if there isn't at least 50% new content.

• On the post: Plankhead Discovers The Most Effective Anti-Piracy Technique: Public Domain Dedications

  

  hmm ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2012 @ 02:48pm

  scarcity

  The best thing the RIAA / MPAA could offer would be someone who doesn't screw up every single business they touch...because by christ they've proven thats the most scarce thing in their entire organization....

• On the post: Plankhead Discovers The Most Effective Anti-Piracy Technique: Public Domain Dedications

  

  hmm ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2012 @ 02:46pm

  well

  cue universal music issuing "automated" takedowns in 5..4..3..

• On the post: Summit Entertainment Claims To Own The Date November 20, 2009; Issues Takedown On Art Created On That Day

  

  hmm ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 03:59pm

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  what makes you think they haven't already started the ball rolling there too?
  
  they are THAT stupid.
  
  And the fact that they market paedophilia to young girls as being "romantic" is kind of the icing on their cake of evilness.

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