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• On the post: Wrong Legislative Thought Of The Day: An Email Tax To Save The Post Office

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 08:27am

  HD

  We need to start taxing HDTV's in order to save the SD cathode ray tube business. Doesn't anybody think of the poor children who won't grow up with a TV that weighs more than they do?

• On the post: The Insanity Of Making A 'Wizard Of Oz' Film In Today's IP Climate

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 02:15pm

  Re: Re: Heaven forbid

  Sadly, you are probably right. They are more likely to spend money trying to break up large pre movie viewing parties at people's homes that are watching the original on dvd before heading to the movies to see the new one than to do anything sensible.
  
  "But..But...If they are not a member of your immediate family it is a public screening that we did not authorize. Arrest them officer, and their little dog too."

• On the post: What To Expect When You're Expecting Prenda Law To Get A Judicial Beat Down

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 02:05pm

  Time

  I would think that given a possible fraud, the judge would be making this such a tight deadline to prevent Prenda from having time to find someone named Alan Cooper and getting him to play along as THE Alan Cooper. Because even if they found an Alan Cooper, they would have to have time to get him up to speed and get enough of a paper trail to pass him off.
  
  I'm more than half expecting bench warrants to come out of this. I wonder if anybody is trying to set up a live blog for this? I'd watch.

• On the post: The Insanity Of Making A 'Wizard Of Oz' Film In Today's IP Climate

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 10:28am

  Heaven forbid

  Heaven forbid that this movie look or remind anyone of the original and evoke warm memories that make them want to go out and by yet another copy of the original with new extra super duper color enhancement. We'd much rather spend money on lawyers trying to stop it than make money with a new release of our old movie.
  
  Heck, if it was me, I'd be trying to get in on the deal and re-release the original and encourage setting up double features.

• On the post: German Newspaper 'Snippet' Law Passes: Watered Down, But Still Stupid

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2013 @ 02:51pm

  Re:

  So, if you have to use the smallest in literal size, every search result will be
  
  
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• On the post: German Newspaper 'Snippet' Law Passes: Watered Down, But Still Stupid

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2013 @ 02:54pm

  Oops

  Google just needs to "accidentally" configure their servers to not direct search traffic to the sites of the media sites pushing this for a day or two. I'd bet I could hear the howling and gnashing of teeth all the way over here.

• On the post: Cybersecurity Executive Order Actually Respects Some Privacy; So Do We Actually Need CISPA Any More?

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2013 @ 02:12pm

  I tend to view laws like this as the government attempting to find justification for something it already does, or as a distraction to make everyone see X as the big problem while they are really able to get away with Y.

• On the post: SEC Still Way Behind The Times In Dealing With The Way People Communicate

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2013 @ 11:51am

  I can see the conversation now.
  
  SEC: "What is this face book? You, intern, go check out a copy from the library."
  
  Intern: "You can't borrow Facebook from the library."
  
  SEC: "Sue them."

• On the post: Canadian Chamber Of Commerce Wants To Legalize Spyware Rootkits To Help Stop 'Illegal' Activity

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2013 @ 10:25am

  Re:

  Don't forget to set a low quota on each user account so the ISP's can charge you extra for the data usage.
  
  Hmm, I wonder if that would encourage the ISP's to cooperate with rights holders to find any indication of trouble so more people will get the rootkit installed?

• On the post: Canadian Chamber Of Commerce Wants To Legalize Spyware Rootkits To Help Stop 'Illegal' Activity

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2013 @ 10:17am

  or (ii) involves the contravention of any law of Canada, of a province or municipality of Canada or of a foreign state;
  
  So if this passes, all you would need to do is get some country with a corrupt government, besides the US, to pass a law saying it's illegal to Rip a legal CD to your computer to listen to on a media player, and if I'm reading this right, that's all they would need to put the rootkit on someones computer. "He's got an iphone, maybe he copied some of his CD's, better stop him."
  
  That could get out of control so fast it isn't funny. dictators would be falling all over themselves to sell access to their law making process.

• On the post: Another Terrible Idea From Russia: Using Whitelists To Control Access To The Internet

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2013 @ 07:51am

  Sorry

  I'm sorry mister political opponent, it appears you had pictures of women with dresses above their knees so we had to block your site for obscenity. Don't worry, you can appeal, but we've got a horrible backlog, it looks like it won't come up for review until a week after the elections.

• On the post: Hadopi Says French National Library Needs Unprotected Works… To Put Its Own DRM On

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2013 @ 03:50pm

  Hmm.

  Wait, all media under a single DRM format? That's crazy talk. Next thing you know, you'll be talking about selling digital copies of media at reasonable prices.

• On the post: If You're Laying Off Your Social Media Expert, You Might Want To Get Those Account Passwords FIRST

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2013 @ 01:30pm

  Uh oh.

  Any bets on how long until she gets prosecuted for "hacking" their twitter feed?

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Birth Blogger Fight Goes Legal Over DMCA Abuse

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2013 @ 02:53pm

  Re: Seriously?

  This is the first time I've actually heard of a case that may actually, possibly, sort of have a chance at winning on this portion of the DMCA. Maybe if we can start seeing some DMCA abuse cases won we might get some momentum for cases against the RIAA and MPAA.
  
  Then again, if someone were to actually win a case of DMCA abuse, it would probably just provide momentum for lobbying to remove that "loophole" from the DMCA.

• On the post: The International Olympic Committee Has Already Staked A Trademark Claim On The Number '2014'

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2013 @ 09:14am

  Happy new year

  Happy e^7.60787807

• On the post: Churchill's Heirs Seek To Lose The Future By Charging Biographer To Quote His Words

  

  Jessie ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2013 @ 10:44am

  Where's mine

  So where's my check for letting you use my comments? I'll discount this one to just $5. Nice doing business with you.