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• On the post: Warner Bros. Lets Veronica Mars Crew Prove Demand For A Movie Via Kickstarter

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2013 @ 07:31pm

  Ships withing the US only.

  A nice try, but still region locked...

• On the post: Maxis Insider: EA Lying About Needing Servers For Single Player SimCity

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2013 @ 06:41am

  Re:

  ROFL. The old Publisher/Developer dichotomy strikes again for the brainless.

• On the post: Recording Of Bradley Manning's Statement In Court Leaked

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2013 @ 05:28pm

  Re: Re:

  Might want to turn your sarc detector today, champ.

• On the post: PETA Goes After Assassin's Creed For Its Depiction Of Whaling; Ubisoft Responds With A Heaping Dose Of Sarcasm

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2013 @ 06:20am

  PETA Reminds StarCraft Players That Zerglings Have Feelings, Too

  http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2013/03/11/peta-starcraft-zerglings-have-feelings-too.aspx

• On the post: 9th Circuit Appeals Court: 4th Amendment Applies At The Border; Also: Password Protected Files Shouldn't Arouse Suspicion

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2013 @ 02:42pm

  Re: Re: Holy crap!

  Must *have.

• On the post: YouTube's ContentID Trolls: Claim Copyright On Lots Of Gameplay Videos, Hope No One Complains, Collect Free Money [Updated]

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2013 @ 12:21pm

  Bogus Copyright Claim on Gameplay Video

  I had one of these bogus claims on one of my gameplay videos a few months back but it didn't occur to me to attribute it to one of these ContentID trolls. I thought that it might have been an automatic match based on the music in the video being owned by someone who had uploaded it to ContentID.
  
  The reason I filed a dispute was the nature of the upload. The game in question was a Playstation 3 title called Hustle Kings, a pool/billiards game. Now this game actually has a YouTube upload feature built right into the game. After you finish a game you can choose to upload your footage to YouTube and depending on your game settings, the background music inside the game, if you have it turned on, is included in the replay.
  
  So in my claim I noted that the game itself included this feature and that I believed it came with an implied right to upload the content to YouTube and that whoever owned the copyright to the music had, by way of contract with the creators of Hustle Kings, allowed it's users the right to upload.
  
  The copyright claim was immediately dropped and I never thought to note the name of the ContentID "holder" at the time, however I watch quite a lot of gameplay/let's play/tutorial type videos as well as journalistic gamer "review" videos and I've noticed a disticnt increase in these videos having attribution underneath them, even when they video is an obviously original creation of the "reviewer" that happens to use a few minutes of gameplay footage and game music in them.
  
  The problem I see is when there is a possibility of multiple "claimants" where a regular review show might feature multiple titles from different publishers/developers, but one particular ContentID "troll" has gotten in first and made a claim.
  
  But this problem was in fact created by Google/YouTube by allowing these trolls to gain a foothold into their system by creating ContentID in the first place. It's ripe for abuse and stacked in the trolls favour.

• On the post: Court, Once Again, Explains To AFP That Twitter's Terms Don't Give It The Right To Use Any Photo

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2013 @ 01:08am

  Re: What's a bit surprising is that the AFP didn't even try to raise any other defense, such as fair use

  Yes, it's the holiest of defenses and let's face it, they're far from holy.

• On the post: GEMA Vs. YouTube Hits The Three Year Mark As Rate Negotiations Fall Through Again

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2013 @ 10:10pm

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  I say Google just leave all the GEMA properties there, pull their offices out of Germany, and tell their government to block it if they don't like it.

• On the post: Fight Over French ISP Blocking Ads Really Just A New Perspective On Net Neutrality Debate

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2013 @ 12:47pm

  Re: Re: Re: Comment Held for Moderation...

  I say we dust off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
  
  (P.S. I suspect it was due to the number of characters in my previous comment)

• On the post: Fight Over French ISP Blocking Ads Really Just A New Perspective On Net Neutrality Debate

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2013 @ 11:20am

  Comment Held for Moderation...

  Thanks for your comment.
  It will be reviewed by our staff before it is posted.

• On the post: Danish Court Orders Spanish Site Blocked Because It Uses Trademarked English Word 'Home' As Part Of Its Name

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2013 @ 06:06am

  Playstation Home?

  Must suck to be a Playstation 3 owner in Denmark...

• On the post: Patent Troll Shell Companies Shake Down Small Businesses For $1k Per Employee For Using Network Scanner

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2013 @ 04:33pm

  Re: The sheer, bald audacity is dazzling.

  Why does this audacity have no hair?
  
  *bold

• On the post: Embedded In The Fiscal Cliff Deal: Hollywood Gets A Big Tax Break

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2013 @ 01:41pm

  Re: Umm, could you EVER mention the 25 or so TRILLION of guarantees Wall Street got?

  This article isn't about Wall Street.

• On the post: MPAA: Millions Of DMCA Takedowns Proves That Google Needs To Stop Piracy

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2012 @ 05:27pm

  Re:

  What do you have to loose?
  
  One "o" for a start.

• On the post: SimCity Developers' Reddit AMA Swiftly Turns Into WTF With The Online-Only DRM?

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2012 @ 02:13pm

  Re: The next big thing going on here!

  So, it's OnLive, then?

• On the post: Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2012 @ 05:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I think you misread the article. It wasn't talking about using his music in TV commercials. It was talking about him appearing in TV commercials. You know, all the things the "artists" get upset about having to do to make money, rather than just making one hit and sitting back and letting the money roll in.

• On the post: The DVR That Watches You Back: Verizon Applies For 'Ambient Action' Detecting Device Patent

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 07:05pm

  First to File?

  Didn't Microsoft already file for a patent to watch you while you're watching stuff on the Xbox, through the Kinect?

• On the post: MPAA To Aussies: Obey US Created Copyright Rules! But Don't Even Think About Importing Fair Use

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2012 @ 05:12pm

  Revoking the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA)

  I am one Australian who would be happy to see the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) annulled like a bad marriage.
  
  What benefits have I seen the AUSFTA provide? Here's a couple of quick examples:
  
  1) Logitech Z-5500 speakers on the Logitech (US) site at the time I purchased mine - $399 RRP. Price on the Logitech (AU) site? $799 RRP
  
  2) Almost everything on Steam is jacked up for Aussies.
  
  3) USPS: Even when a bargain can be found, by means of ebay or Amazon, the cost of shipping said item to Aus seems arbitrarily inflated.
  
  I once bought some items from a UK eBay store, which cost me $5 shipping. The same item in a US eBay store? $35 shipping.
  
  Fuck the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement. Everything I want can be obtained cheaper in the UK or China.

• On the post: Judges Realize Aereo's Setup Is Insane Technologically… But May Get The Wrong Message Out Of It

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2012 @ 02:56pm

  Re: Since when is copyright supposed to be sane?

  Excuse me, sir, but it appears your keyboard may be malfunctioning. It seems that, for every time you hit the "space bar" after a period, your keyboard interprets that as pressing the "enter" button twice. You may wish to get that looked at to make your posts more readable.

• On the post: The Pirate Bay's Perfectly Legal 'The Promo Bay' Blocked By UK ISPs

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2012 @ 02:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: How is this handled for everyone else?

  Again, this isn't about The Pirate Bay, it's about a legitimate website used by independent artists to showcase their music legally. Your reading comprehension is sorely lacking.

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