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• On the post: MTV Europe Has Things To Say About Piracy And/Or Loading Bars Being Bad For Musicians

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 02:55pm

  Re:

  Internet Piracy is because of The Blue Man Group!

• On the post: Yes, Copyright's Sole Purpose Is To Benefit The Public

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2012 @ 11:48am

  Re: Quote the bible

  Perhaps, but didn't his dad own the copyrights and patents on the fishes?

• On the post: Should We Outlaw Employers From Asking For Social Networking Logins?

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2012 @ 10:11am

  Re: Response to interviewer

  "This is a test right? Every place I've ever worked giving out your password was grounds for termination."

• On the post: Parent Claims 'Ender's Game' Is Pornographic; Teacher Who Read It To Students Put On Temporary Leave

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2012 @ 08:01pm

  Re:

  For some reason after reading this entry I had the urge to yell, "Santorum for President!"
  This is from South Carolina, You should be saying "Newt for President".
  (imho God created Santorum to make Newt look acceptable.)

• On the post: Movie Studios Jump In Late: Sue LimeWire And Demand Cash From Dead Site

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 07:00am

  Re: Re:

  more like eye-popping 3-D

• On the post: TSA Critic, Senator Rand Paul, Prevented By TSA From Getting On His Flight To DC

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 03:11pm

  Re: Re:

  Are you saying that your country is at threat from its elected officials?

  
  Didn't the September 12th 2001 attacks prove that point?

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

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2011 @ 05:33pm

  If corporations are people

  Killing a company should be considered murder and punished accordingly right?

• On the post: Mattel's Lawsuit To Claim Ownership Of Bratz Comes Back To Bite Big Time: Told To Pay $309 Million

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2011 @ 07:42pm

  Re: Nicely Done

  Or maybe not. Meanwhile, in the world of the corporate psychopath and narcissist, all these legal losses are definitely somebody else's fault. Who could have ever predicted what those mean old judges might do? The executives and lawyers feel terrible about what has happened. Further punishing them would be dreadful. Sacking them would be out of the question, they are highly skilled and important corporate officers. Indeed they might need to be given a luxury holiday at company expense plus a nice bonus, to make them feel better.

  
  Or even worse, they could go to a competitor and start a new toy line that Matell would have to sue over.

• On the post: Oracle Deletes Jonathan Schwartz's Old Blog; Which Excitedly Celebrated Google's Use Of Java In Android

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 09:46pm

  Re: what about other JVM languages?

  Where does this leave Scala or Clojure and other languages that target the JVM? Are they "safe" to use?
  They are safe to use until real money is involved. Unlike the [MP|RI]AA, Oracle isn't interested in suing anyone and everyone who they think are 'infringing'. They will only sue you if you are making a non-trivial amount of money or if your project causes embarrassment or inconvenience to Oracle in some way.

• On the post: Major US ISPs Agree To Five Strikes Plan, Rather Than Three

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 11:32am

  Re: Re:

  Not fair, We can't blame that horrible Will Smith movie on the Internet.
  
  At least it's going away...

• On the post: RIAA: LulzSec & Anonymous Show Why We Need PROTECT IP

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 09:04pm

  Re:

  But, but, but.... Terrierists!

• On the post: Claim That Righthaven Engaged In Unauthorized Practice Of Law Moves To Nevada

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 07:11am

  Re: Re:

  99% of lawyers give the remaining 1% a bad reputation.

• On the post: Supreme Court Will Weigh In On Warrantless GPS Tracking

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 06:31am

  Re:

  Or strip clubs?
  
  On the other hand, one thing that the movies teach us is that no crime is ever solved until after the detective visits a strip club, So perhaps cops visiting strip clubs should be encouraged.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Ancient Food & Modern Food

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2011 @ 07:38pm

  Re: Patents anyone?

  So, when will we start seeing food preparation patents? I can just see it now - "A means and device for the manufacture and preparation of ratatouille"...

  
  So we've gone from patents that state 'Perform certain action - With a compter' to 'Over the Internet' and 'With a mobile phone' to... 'With a rat'?

• On the post: Confused Users Keep Racking Up Ridiculous 3G Bills, Wireless Carriers Keep Helping Them

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2010 @ 07:09pm

  Re: User Agreements

  It won't work. The telcos give money to both sides.

• On the post: If You're A Terrorist, You're Not Allowed To Use iTunes

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2010 @ 09:34pm

  Re:

  More like taking down mobsters for jaywalking.

• On the post: Lord Lucas Proposes That Copyright Holders Detail Actual Damages From Infringement Under Mandelson Bill

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2010 @ 03:51pm

  Re:

  Easy:
  
  There are about 7 billion people on Earth who could potentially purchase the song. Let's say 1 million people buy the song. That means about 6,999,000,000 people must have pirated it. There simply is no other explanation. Multiply that by, say, 14 songs on a CD (you wouldn't want to steal from the music companies, er, I mean Artists, by not buying the whole CD would you?) allowed damages, etc, etc. etc. Multiply that by the number of albums released in a year, and you see that the damage to the music industry is in fact greater than the entire global economy! The taxes we would theoretically be paying on this would wipe out all of the debt of all of the nations of the world! (assuming we weren't above the law and didn't have to pay taxes. Did I say that out loud? Forget I said that...) Based on this, The Music and Movie industries request that the governments of the world create a global copyright enforcement agency (at taxpayer expense, of course. The media companies, I mean artists, are the victims here.) who are authorized to execute anyone who isn't sufficient enriching the coffers of the media companies or if they are accused 3 times of infringing copyright (Three Strikes and You're Dead! policy)

• On the post: NBC, Defender Of All Things Copyright, Copies Blogger's Post Without Permission; Removes Her Name When She Complains

  

  jd2112 ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2009 @ 09:27am

  Hurting popcorn farmers?

  I bet it never occurred to these people that you can eat popcorn outside of a movie theater. I would imagine that "pirates" regularly eat popcorn while watching illegally downloaded movies, and probably do so more frequently as they don't have to pay $15 for a large popcorn tub that probably cost $0.15 to make.