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• On the post: This Is Not Transparency: TPP Delegates Refuses To Reveal Text, Refuse To Discuss Leaked Text

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2012 @ 01:42am

  Response to: average_joe on Sep 17th, 2012 @ 3:58pm

  What. The. Fuck.
  
  You do realise this entire blog is representative of Mike's personal beliefs on all matters posted. That's exactly what a blog is. Are you that fucking retarded?

• On the post: FBI Continues To Foil Its Own Devised Terrorist Plots

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2012 @ 01:13am

  Re: Brains...

  I nearly through a fit reading that, twice.

• On the post: How The Major Labels Screw Artists: Jurisdiction & Venue

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2012 @ 03:04pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  We don't have to sign a contract to visit this site, retard. The lengths you go to in an attempt discredit Mike and this site are truly sad.

• On the post: First Round Of Ebook Price Fixing Settlements Are Announced

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 08:37pm

  $10 Text Files?

  This could bring us back to $10 and below new releases that we have sorely missed.
  
  Personally, I couldn't care less if publishers think they are bastardising sales of their physical products, but I still refuse to pay $10 for a text file with a pretty thumbnail. It's still too much.

• On the post: Doctor Who Travels Through Time To Stop Australian Pirates By Giving Them What They Want

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 05:31am

  ABC is not a commercial station

  It's worth noting, Zach, that the ABC in Australia is not a commercial station. All content is purchased/licensed/produced with a budget provided by the federal government.
  
  With this in mind, the ABC doesn't have to be concerned about cannibalising their TV ratings/audience/advertising partners because they do not run any advertising to support their content. Thus the conversation about what they potentially lose/gain by doing this is moot.
  
  I can guarantee you will never find any of the commercial stations in Australia willing to provide the same service as it would piss off their advertising partners.

• On the post: MPAA Pretends 'Offering Something' Is The Same Thing As 'Offering What People Want'

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2012 @ 01:15pm

  Example Service: Playstation Network

  Playstation offer digital movie purchase/rental service via their PS3. In Australia, due to the retarded way licensing and local distributor thinking works, the newest movies they offer are typically $32.99 (HD purchase), $26.99 (SD Purchase), $6.99 (HD Rental) and $4.99 (SD Rental). In addition, most SD content is 2.0Ch audio and some of the HD stuff is also only 2Ch. Also, the size of these HD files are generally in the 5-10GB range, but the compression used is so bad that "scene" releases on said films far outstrip them in terms of picture/sound quality and size.
  
  Firstly, on principal, I am not willing to waste 5-10GB on something I don't get to keep, so that rules out rental. Bandwidth is valuable over here, so I don't want to waste it. I'm never likely to rent it again, so the studios would lose nothing by letting people keep the files.
  
  Secondly, I can usually buy the fucking Blu-ray, somewhere on the internet, for $10-$20, so they have fat chance of convinging me to fork out double, for an inferior digital copy.
  
  Thirdly, the content is locked, not only to my PSN account, but to the Playstation itself. I can't shift it to my media PC and watch it and there's only so much room on a PS3 HDD.
  
  But, it's "available," right?
  
  Screw you Sony/ It's cheap Blu-ray or a Scene release for me and you will never make me feel any guilt because of it.

• On the post: How Having A Good Sense Of Humor Helps Cope With Piracy And Succeed Despite It

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2012 @ 04:42pm

  "Piracy"

  Please stop using the word "piracy" in your article titles. You only lend the word more legitimacy.

• On the post: Gamestop Offers Glimpse Into Their Used-Games Facility

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2012 @ 12:57am

  Re: Re: I stopped reading at the first line.

  Should have previewed befaor I posted, but this is what happens when you don't include an edit function.
  
  from the their-tired-of-being-labeled-the-villain dept

• On the post: Gamestop Offers Glimpse Into Their Used-Games Facility

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2012 @ 12:55am

  Re: Re: I stopped reading at the first line.

  Second Line: from the "their"-tired-of-being-labeled-the-villain dept

• On the post: Gamestop Offers Glimpse Into Their Used-Games Facility

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2012 @ 12:54am

  Re: I stopped reading at the first line.

  Second line, actually.
  
  from the --->their dept

• On the post: The Silencing Of Guy Adams Gives Another Graphical Representation Of The Streisand Effect

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 04:50pm

  Re: Re: Streisand Effect

  wuuuuuut?!

• On the post: Is This Real? Is This Recall? MPAA Hosts Screening Of Total Recall To 'Educate' Congress On 'Benefits' Of IP Protection

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 01:20pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  HAH! She was in Baywatch before Total Recall. Now THAT would have been funny to see :P

• On the post: Hollywood Made Him Do It: Two More Theories On The Aurora Shooter

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2012 @ 02:18pm

  Interpretation

  It's quite a stretch to contend that an unreleased movie somehow "acknowledges" the "link" between movie violence and actual violence.
  
  That's not quite how the quote in the article reads. The quote calls into question not the supposed link itself, but whether the action of the studio thinking about delaying, or re-shooting parts of the film, in light of recent events, is a defacto admission by the studios that such a link may exist.
  
  In other words, the author of the quote sounds not like he is using the studio's actions as proof of connection, rather questioning whether the studio themselves think there's a link.

• On the post: NBC: We Have No Clue Who Tim Berners-Lee Is, But Without Our Commentary, You Wouldn't Understand The Olympics

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 11:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Lack of live streaming

  *you're

• On the post: Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 10:17am

  Baldy going where no hariy man has gone before.

  EMI responds with this amazing statement, which baldly states
  
  So, they stated this without hair?

• On the post: Press Speculates Batman Shooter Must Have Played Video Games; They're Right: He Loved Guitar Hero

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 08:28am

  RPGs

  Another article mentioned Role-playing games, but didn't venture as far as mentioning which one(s).

• On the post: Penny Arcade Shooting For A Crowdfunded Ad-Free Website

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 10:11pm

  Hilarious?

  I'd hardly call that video "hilarious." In fact, it wasn't even interesting. I only watched it all the way through on Zac's recommendation. Now I just want 6 minutes of my life back.

• On the post: Charles Carreon Saga Takes A Turn For The Bizarre, With Apparently Fake Matthew Inman Lawsuit Filed Against Carreon

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2012 @ 07:54am

  Re:

  Or one of those Sid James "Carry on" movies.

• On the post: Another One Bites The Dust: Australian Parliament Committee Recommends Rejecting ACTA

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 02:01pm

  Re: Re: Re: I'm Confused

  Fail. Been living under a rock for the past few years?

• On the post: Hollywood & The RIAA Won't Let Tech Save Them

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2012 @ 02:00pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Umm, that's exactly the problem. Those are the people with all the power that are conspiring to strip us of all of our rights.

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