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  • On the post: Does The White House Have Any Legal Right To Demand No Modifications To Its Photos?

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 04:02pm

    Re: Are you nbot paying attention Mike?

    If that was their desire, then they need to learn to write. As it is written, "that in any way suggests approval..." only modifies "may not be used in...." leaving "may not be manipulated in any way" completely unmodified.

    AND THAT to say nothing of "being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph." which, contrary to your empty assertion, most certainly asserts both copyright and license.

  • On the post: Does The White House Have Any Legal Right To Demand No Modifications To Its Photos?

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 02:48pm

    Re: Or perhaps copyright isn't the only right involved?

    Exactly, and I think we all get the idea behind why they've done this.

    They're tired of all the adds about what Obama wants you to do, especially the ones that crowd their Facebook pages where they get all their important decisions made.

    HOWEVER, the existing laws already cover this and they are using the verbiage of the blurb, or as I like to say, the blurbiage, to tack on MORE rights that they DON'T have - namely telling you that you can't 'manipulate it in any way' and by saying it's "ONLY" for the "News Organizations" which obviously they intend at some point to exclude FOX (mostly sarcasm there I think, but not totally sure).

  • On the post: Does The White House Have Any Legal Right To Demand No Modifications To Its Photos?

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 02:41pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Consider the perspective of Muslim nations, we're a bunch of naked hippies. Consider China, and we're Hitler, but you don't mind doing business with us if it can make you look good.

    No, not on the far right. If we really wanted to talk reality, then we're probably fairly central and swing back and forth in a really odd, sort of extremist way that defies the notion of what is a moderate.

    I'll only disagree with you on odd days of the week, but I reserve the right to determine which those are.

  • On the post: Does The White House Have Any Legal Right To Demand No Modifications To Its Photos?

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 02:34pm

    Re:

    Actually, being a public figure is the deciding factor by the Supreme Court in determining that they DON'T have a right to control the use of their image and likeness (cf. paparazzi).

    So no matter what kind of crap you want to make up, we already HAVE scrubbed those 'rights', or more specifically THEY scrubbed those rights (namely the right to privacy) when they decided to be public figures.

  • On the post: Does The White House Have Any Legal Right To Demand No Modifications To Its Photos?

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 02:30pm

    Re: Re:

    Well, when the government buys out the corporations it is no longer corporatist. A radical, authoritarian nationalism where the government controls the factors of production is socialism or even comunism, NOT fascism.

    Oh, and you've got something on your helmet there.

    Oh and on number 3 you're just completely wrong. Like WAY wrong. Except for the last sentence, yeah that's about it.

    Like I said earlier, we swing back and forth from fascism to socialism and are currently a really ugly interspecial thing that probably should cover its face with dark, opaque head gear - oh uh, sorry.

  • On the post: Does The White House Have Any Legal Right To Demand No Modifications To Its Photos?

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 02:22pm

    Re: Re: Re: I disagree.

    No, it goes back and forth every few years from fascist republic to socialist republic in waves.

  • On the post: Does The White House Have Any Legal Right To Demand No Modifications To Its Photos?

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 02:20pm

    Re: I disagree.

    I think you're saying the same thing.

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 02:14pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Biff, theft means you took something of value in a way that deprives the owner of that value. In legal terms it is MALA EN SE. It's just wrong to steal. We all get that.

    Copyright infringement is infringing upon artificially awarded rights to the exclusive control of information, which would otherwise be constitutionally protected free speech. Copyright infringement is malum prohibitum. It's only wrong by regulation.

    Copyright is a hundreds of years old trade off where we the people (actually it started with we, Queen Anne) decided to trade some of our rights(free speech) as an incentive(exclusive control) for creating new art.

    Lately a lot of us are thinking that the ongoing extension of these rights, ad perpetuum, is leading to gross overproduction of crap at the expense of our general economy and our own pocketbooks, inflating the price of the stuff we DO want, a small but significant detriment to the economy as a whole, and overall, no longer a good deal. That's not evil, it's just renegotiating the agreement we have with ourselves.

    So stop calling us theives, pirates, or whatever else. We're bargaining for your sake, too.

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 01:57pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Listen, Befumble, and listen very carefully. THE US SUPREME COURT HAS ALREADY WEIGHED IN AND SAID THAT ILLEGAL COPYING IS NOT STEALING. We would all appreciate if you would stop propagating that bullshit.

    Furthermore, it's likely that most of us (I know I am) are getting the content for free from legal providers (for me it's usually Hulu) whenever we can. So not only are you an idiot for calling us theives, but you are wrong in assuming that we prefer illegal activities.

    It is not our fault, Mr. Burke, that you have biffumbled in this way.

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 01:46pm

    Re: Re: paying for tv with commercials thats free over the air

    It won't, and despite all the hub-bub about Hulu starting to charge, it's not going to happen quite like that. They are looking into value-added offerings/features that they can put behind a paywall as yet another option.

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 01:36pm

    Re: Re:

    Yes, R.Miles, companies have ridden the how-much-can-we-squeeze-outta-the-customer bandwagon before. That's how Sprint got its opening, and how Verizon got theirs, and the big slow behemoths lost their market share and were forced to adapt.

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 01:30pm

    Re: Is cable content lke a football match?

    Isn't that what TV already did?

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 01:26pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Marc, I think you should focus your anger at a more differenter cartel.

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 01:24pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Is the vasectomy retroactive? That could work actually.

  • On the post: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model

    Jason ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2009 @ 01:06pm

    Re: Re: it seems to be working for the AA's

    And the winner of the award of all the entire internets: DOUG!!!!

  • On the post: MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die

    Jason ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 01:00pm

    Re: Really?

    "No one rationally could argue that widespread stealing is not occurring, nor could anyone reasonably claim that theft of this magnitude has little or no impact on the economic
    fortunes of the content industries and, thus, the American economy."

    Monopolies inherently harm the efficiency of the particular product market in which they operate. An abundance of small monopolies has the power to grossly inflate prices, extending the harm to the rest of the market. Thus artificially scarce movies and music are ACTUALLY depriving starving people of food to AT LEAST SOME DEGREE.

    While it's true that piracy cannot do much to help the particular product market where the monopolies are, IT CAN significantly lower the price of those goods via black market forces and help soften the impact on the rest of the market.

    Pirates feed the hungry. It's true.

  • On the post: MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die

    Jason ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 12:50pm

    Re: What can we do?

    You could throw some support at these guys: http://www.eff.org/

  • On the post: MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die

    Jason ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 12:46pm

    Re: Steal music and movies to keep the internet alive!!!

    The answer you've linked to is addressing the question of an off switch (unless your point refers to content beyond the paywall, but I'm assuming your not some spammarific jackass).

    The MPAA report seems to be suggesting a worldwide traffic jam. That's a totally different scenario but equally ridiculous when you consider that torrents are programmed to send information along the path of least resistance.

    In actuality torrents are some of the most bandwidth friendly apps out there. NON-P2P users are like a thousand times more likely to jam up the lines.

    Bog down the net? Pirates are way too savvy, ye savvy?

  • On the post: Guy Who Helped Mod Cable Modems Arrested By The FBI

    Jason ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 12:28pm

    Re: Re: Wow, this is a cluster...

    If an analogy is a large yellow duck, does that make you a twit? Yes.

  • On the post: MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die

    Jason ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 12:22pm

    Re: I'm Game

    Prediciton: the internet will die, but only the part invented by Al Gore.

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