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• On the post: Why Search Engines Can't Just 'Fix' Search Results The Way The MPAA/RIAA Want

  

  jem40000 ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 03:09am

  Google can do whatever-it-wants if it wants

  Just look at the DecorMyEyes case --
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DecorMyEyes
  
  If Google wanted to tweak a search algorithm to avoid (you supply the definition) sites they can do it.

• On the post: Open Offer To Chris Dodd & Cary Sherman: Meet The Internet Online And In The Open

  

  jem40000 ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2012 @ 03:04am

  just us old folks

  I remember back in the 80s when some brain-wave researcher friends of mine were doing research work for the Air Force and were using a thing called the DARPA-Net which was then being developed by you-know-who -- whoda thunk.
  
  Sometimes when I hear folks speaking of the government ruining the Internet (as we-ve come to know it) it reminds me of the line from the 2008 elections:
  
  Keep your government hands off of my Medicare.

• On the post: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Would Like To Know What You Think Of Them (Sorta)

  

  jem40000 ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2012 @ 05:32pm

  Also 'somewhat familiar' with WIPO

  My Twitter statement following the last SCCR session (SCCR23):
  
  #SCCR24 This is WIPO - One of the big problems in diplomacy is you cannot say "The proposal by the esteemed delegate from XYZ really sucks."

• On the post: RIAA Totally Out Of Touch: Lashes Out At Google, Wikipedia And Everyone Who Protested SOPA/PIPA

  

  jem40000 ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2012 @ 05:11pm

  Scarce resources

  "Property is a tool for determining the best way to allocate scarce resources. It simply doesn't apply to a non-scarce resource, because there's no allocation question."
  
  Music is not a scarce resource ... Good, original music is and should have some level of protection.