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

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 05 May, 2024 @ 04:04pm

  I took a second look and now I see it, there's an extra "i" between "in" and "sightful".

• On the post: Court Supports NY State’s Quest To Require $15 Broadband For Poor People, Much To Big Telecom’s Horror

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 May, 2024 @ 04:54pm

  Not sure how this minimum wage economy is supposed to work …

  Just so you know, the minimum wage in New York State is $15 ($16 in NYC, Long Island, and Westchester County) and increases every year, adjusting to inflation. That's how it should be, IMHO. Source: https://dol.ny.gov/minimum-wage-0

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: April 28th – May 4th

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 May, 2024 @ 03:26pm

  Thoughts

  Thought 1: It's been only ten years since John Oliver's interview with Keith Alexander? Time sure flies… Thought 2: The sense of entitlement of the News industry led to the abominable link taxes around the world. The recording industry got back on its feet thanks to streaming and–unlike the film/video industry, didn't exclusively make their product available on only one service nor make DRM-free purchases unavailable. As you can see now, the Music Recording Industry is in the black whilst the Video/Film industry has faced an uptick of piracy.

• On the post: Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperability?

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 02 May, 2024 @ 11:48am

  You know the cliche “if you’re not paying for the product then you are the product.” By this reasoning, consumers are subsidizing businesses by allowing businesses to harvest their data.

  I pay for Disney, Netflix, Paramount+, etc. and they still harvest my data. Hell, I can see the statistics on the backends of bandcamp and my streaming services with CDBaby. Yet all those cost $$$. I would say that cliché is wrong.

• On the post: Section 230, Which Donald Trump Wants Repealed, Protects Donald Trump For Retweeting

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 01 May, 2024 @ 09:37am

  Though to be fair…

  Trump's incoherence and hypocrisy is a "dog-bites-man" story. Trump's only principle is "What's good for Donald John Trump at this moment in time, right now?"

• On the post: ESA Once Again Comes Out Against Video Game Preservation Efforts

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 01 May, 2024 @ 08:27am

  Similar to how Nintendo archives all their original data, code, and tools (as revealed by the gigaleak): not for our benefit, but for theirs.

• On the post: ESA Once Again Comes Out Against Video Game Preservation Efforts

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 01 May, 2024 @ 08:25am

  And sometimes the copyright of the originals is in such a tangled web that official remakes or remasters are unpossible. See: No One Lives Forever, The Simpsons: Hit and Run, etc.

• On the post: New York’s Transit Authority Banned From Using Facial Recognition Tech To Identify Fare Jumpers

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2024 @ 06:29pm

  I was going to say "New York City doesn't really have any gangs anymore" but then I realized I was wrong because you were talking about the NYPD.

• On the post: New York’s Transit Authority Banned From Using Facial Recognition Tech To Identify Fare Jumpers

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2024 @ 06:27pm

  We can’t just let the poors travel!

  Telling by my daily commutes, they already are.

• On the post: Black Cop Beaten By White Cops Awarded More Than $23 Million In Damages

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2024 @ 04:33pm

  How to plausibly deny your own racism if you're white 101: Don't use the N-word. Apparently Dustin Boone got an F in that course…

• On the post: Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill; Expect A Lawsuit By The Time You Finish Reading This Article

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2024 @ 07:17am

  The Conservative (or rather, the ultra-reactionary) wing of the US Supreme Court has to ruin everything, just like they did for [insert issue here].

• On the post: Judge Tosses Out Many Of The Remaining Charges Against Backpage’s Michael Lacey

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2024 @ 04:54pm

  A saying in Law Enforcement

  There's a dictum in Law Enforcement:

  You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.

  Mr. Lacey has beaten the rap, but at this point, the victory seems Pyrrhic AF.

• On the post: How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It’s Not Writing Articles)

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2024 @ 10:15am

  You're a homo[phone with your].

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

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2024 @ 02:01pm

  Wow, I got #2 for insightful! Thanks, TechDirt community! Although I would say that T.L. corrected me and I admitted I could be wrong there. I mean, I'm no lawyer…

• On the post: When You Need To Post A Lengthy Legal Disclaimer With Your Parody Song, You Know Copyright Is Broken

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 11:45am

  …aaaaand it's back!

• On the post: Two Decades Of Content In ‘Garry’s Mod’ Taken Down, Possibly By Nintendo Impersonator

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 07:11am

  Not to mention that there was actually a cake, so it was no lie!

• On the post: Italian Government Says Carmaker Can’t Make Its “Milano” Vehicle Outside Of Italy

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2024 @ 01:57pm

  Or a Pepperidge Farm sandwich cookie.

• On the post: Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill; Expect A Lawsuit By The Time You Finish Reading This Article

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2024 @ 02:56pm

  Hmph. Maybe I'm wrong.

• On the post: Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill; Expect A Lawsuit By The Time You Finish Reading This Article

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2024 @ 12:28pm

  Another point of its lack of constitutionality

  I would say the TikTok ban is not only unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds, but that it's also a Bill of Attainder: It punishes a [corporate] person through congress without a trial.

• On the post: When You Need To Post A Lengthy Legal Disclaimer With Your Parody Song, You Know Copyright Is Broken

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2024 @ 03:09am

  ...and Universal just sicced a copyright claim on the video. This is why we can't have nice things.

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