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• On the post: Who Cares If Piracy Is 'Wrong' If Stopping It Is Impossible And Innovating Provides Better Solutions?

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 01:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: IP Advocates == Spoiled Children

  Rights holders receive quite a bit less from piracy.
  
  At least you admit that they don't receive nothing.

• On the post: Rumblefish CEO: Claiming Copyright On Your Incidental Recordings Of Birds Was Merely A Series Of Unfortunate Errors

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 02:26am

  Re:

  "He is stupid, but he knows that he is stupid
  and that, almost makes him smart.. let's listen"

• On the post: Homeland Security Denies Entrance To UK Tourist Because Of Twitter Joke

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 05:17am

  Paranoia

  It's somewhat amusing being an outside witness to the USA's slow and sad regression into a paranoid mental state, blocking it's access to the outside world and attempting to block the outside world's access to it, and thus cementing it's own irrelevance as the rest of the world carries on around it.

• On the post: Copying Is Not Theft, But Censorship Is

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 01:46pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  No.

• On the post: Tales From Ubisoft DRM: Latest DRM Goes From Horrible To Slightly Less Horrible

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 02:04pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Read my reply below. I know full well whose DRM it is. Steam is a great platform, but angels, they are not. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120122/08260517502/tales-ubisoft-drm-latest-drm-goes-horrible-to-slightly-less-horrible.shtml#c853

• On the post: Tales From Ubisoft DRM: Latest DRM Goes From Horrible To Slightly Less Horrible

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 02:02pm

  Re: Not Steam's DRM

  Yeah, I realise it's not Steam's DRM. I was simply trying to demonstrate that Steam are still passing on publisher DRM to their customers and so, aren't the knights in shining armour that Adam makes them out to be.
  
  Don't get me wrong, I love Steam too. I've been a subscriber since Half-Life 1 and have a hefty game collection purchased through them, although I refuse to purchase anything from the Ubisoft catalogue, or from other publishers with restrictive DRM practices.
  
  As Rob above mentions, Steam could well say no to publishers demands that they pass on their DRM to consumers and geo-lock their store prices to pander to local distributors (Anno 2070 is $79.99 USD for us Aussies), but they are too spineless to do so, instead preferring to line their pockets just a bit more.

• On the post: Tales From Ubisoft DRM: Latest DRM Goes From Horrible To Slightly Less Horrible

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 03:54am

  Re:

  Got some bad news for you mate. Anno 2070 is being sold through Steam, complete with region restricted pricing and fully functional DRM, you know, since Steam are such nice guys.

• On the post: European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 03:26pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Daring to speak out

  This one was pretty obvious, dude.

• On the post: Android App Helps You Avoid Supporting SOPA Supporting Companies

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2012 @ 06:28am

  Re:

  They have already. Isn't that why so many people simply abstain?

• On the post: As GoDaddy Deals With SOPA Fallout, Hollywood Wants To Punish GoDaddy For Enabling Infringement

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2011 @ 08:07pm

  Re: Damned from supporting SOPA yeah

  The problem is that changing sides like that caused them to loose the support of everyone who is against SOPA.
  
  Sounds like you really need to hang on to your supporters with both hands.

• On the post: Shouldn't There Be Significant Punishment For Bogus Copyright Claims That Kill Companies?

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2011 @ 07:10pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  WARNING! WARNING! Word pedant detected! Misdirection detected!

• On the post: Senator Joe Lieberman Follows Up His 'Report Blog As Terrorist' Letter By Asking Twitter To Block Pro-Taliban Feeds

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2011 @ 02:50pm

  Re: Re:

  I wish I could grow board just like that. I could make my own bookshelf.

• On the post: US House Of Representatives… Is A Rogue Site?

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2011 @ 07:53pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  HAHAHAHAHA. Gold.

• On the post: An Explanation For Why UMG May Be Right That It Can Pull Down MegaUpload's Video [Updated]

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 03:53pm

  Re: Re: Re: Hmm

  http://vimeo.com/33425414
  
  "Sorry, "Megaupload Song" was deleted at 5:28:21 Fri Dec 16, 2011. We have no more information about it on our mainframe or elsewhere.
  
  I had previously watched the video on that exact URL, after reasing the original techdirt article concerning the YouTube takedown.
  
  I can't see a reason for it's removal after a 5min search though.

• On the post: Lamar Smith Proposes New Version Of SOPA, With Just A Few Changes

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2011 @ 12:28pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  OH SNAP! The ultimate card in the AC troll deck has been played! When there is nowhere else to turn, the "Masnick supports child porn" line appears like the zipline of salvation, and AC troll pats himself on the back for making the world safe again.

• On the post: Lamar Smith Proposes New Version Of SOPA, With Just A Few Changes

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2011 @ 12:18pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  *you're

• On the post: Breaking News: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details…

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2011 @ 08:50pm

  Absent.

  280+ comments and OOTB is notably absent from all of them...

• On the post: Mythbusters Crew Accidentally Fire Cannonball Through Suburban Neighborhood… Quickly Start Deleting Tweets Of The Evidence

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 05:41am

  Re: Re:

  They would have...

• On the post: Mythbusters Crew Accidentally Fire Cannonball Through Suburban Neighborhood… Quickly Start Deleting Tweets Of The Evidence

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 05:38am

  Re: Re:

  *Must have...

• On the post: Famed Patent Troll Smacked Down Over 'Anonymous' Threat Letter

  

  IronMask ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 05:10am

  Re: Re: Chekhov??

  Wow dude, you really suck at the internet. Not only did you spectacularly fail the sarcasm test, but that was a gross misuse of LMGTFY.

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