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• On the post: WSJ Still Hasn't Corrected Its Bogus Internet Revisionist Story, As Vint Cerf & Xerox Both Claim The Story Is Wrong

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 12:51pm

  Interesting. A Reverse Streisand Effect.
  
  Ah well. Stupidity is its own cure. Think of it as evolution in action.

• On the post: Not Long After Passing Censorship Legislation, Russian Government Censors All of LiveJournal

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 12:47pm

  Damn! I've been censored.
  
  I guess all those posts about my cat were offensive to the Russians!

• On the post: Making Your Kickstarter Even More Fun: Marian Call Turns Kickstarter Into European Adventure Quest

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 04:46pm

  Re: The law of unintended consequences

  All I have is Flood, but then, that's all I need for this. :)

• On the post: Making Your Kickstarter Even More Fun: Marian Call Turns Kickstarter Into European Adventure Quest

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 04:15pm

  After studying the situation for some time I've come to the conclusion that Triangle Man is just a violent bully.

• On the post: Author Of Book About Android UI Told He Needs To Get Copyright Signoffs To Use Any App Screenshots

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2012 @ 03:35pm

  "This process inconveniences absolutely everyone except copyright maximalists, all of whom are stroking off right now."
  
  There, FTFY.
  
  Sounds to me like the real solution is to drop-kick Wiley and find a real publisher.

• On the post: Congress Keeps Pushing Bad Copyright Bills: Senator Stabenow Wants To Expand Treasury/ICE To Go After 'Pirates'

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 11:27am

  "...which would create a high level IP Enforcement 'deputy asshat'..."
  
  FTFY.
  
  
  ... Sorry, couldn't resist. My brain just wanted to read it that way, and I had to share.

• On the post: Pro-Copyright Judges Never Drop Cases Over Conflicts, So Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down?

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 08:54am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Dyslexic sells soul to Santa. Film at 11.

• On the post: Lord Finesse Learning How The Streisand Effect Works: Tons Of People Re-Upload Dan Bull's Video

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2012 @ 03:58pm

  Re: Lord "Finesse"

  I've been thinking the same thing myself. Finesse like a bull in a china shop. Pun intended.

• On the post: Dropped By Dish, AMC Pulls An Anti-Viacom: Offers Breaking Bad Premiere Free To Dish Subscribers

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 02:42pm

  Re: Re:

  Probably a pirate named Mike.
  
  Hey kiddies, I be Pirate Mike! Yarrrr! First I'll plunder yer mom, then I'll plunder her jewels!
  
  Shiver me timbers!

• On the post: Penny Arcade Shooting For A Crowdfunded Ad-Free Website

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 01:20pm

  I regularly read a number of webcomics (um, about 52 in my active list right now... I've made a frames-based web page to keep track of them all).
  
  Some of them are bigger and more established than others. The more established ones tend to have payment systems and ads and so on already set up and running. But occasionally one of the smaller ones will ask for money. Usually very apologetically, usually for anything from help with this month's rent to a new Wacom tablet to tuition for art classes. Always in exchange for something, even if it's just an extra day's comic for every so many monetary units raised. And every time I've noticed the result has been more commissions than she can do in a year (took her three months to get to mine) or a more powerful model computer than they'd dreamed of getting. Or enough extra to pay his mum's rent as well as his own, in full. I don't remember ever seeing the World Disorder Fund anything less than ?10 over his asking amount. All followed by total flabbergast and profuse thanks.
  
  I think people are inherently generous when they can be, and when they have reason to be.
  
  This effort may or may not work; too many factors to be sure. But I think it has a very good chance.

• On the post: ACTA Failure Inspires The Most Clueless Column Ever

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 09:59am

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  "...everybody consumes more than they pay for directly, and have done since music was invented."
  
  FTFY. :) People have been listening to live music for free since... cave man times, I expect.
  
  I'm sure somebody will point out that commercial radio is paid for by commercials, but I should point out that I rarely, if ever, buy anything from commercials.
  
  On the other hand, I've bought many 45 singles of popular songs, and also bought quite a few albums of groups I've liked. I never would have bought half a dozen Frank Zappa albums if I hadn't heard "Camarillo Brillo" on WMMR (before they went Pop in the '70s, they were a really great underground station). Ditto Headhunters and "Chameleon". I've bought most of Michael Franks' works until 1990 because I heard "When The Cookie Jar Is Empty" (OK, to be accurate, I bought Burchfield Nines, and liked it enough to buy One Bad Habit, and so on). And then there's David Wilcox.
  
  I've bought at least two copies of Year of the Cat in spite of the fact that I first recorded the entire album off the radio. (I've even gone to see Al Stewart live.)
  
  Apparently the studios want to stop this behavior. Somehow the fact that it's bits on a flash drive instead of modulated radio waves makes it wrong. Even transferring it to sticky tape and rust offends them, but boy oh boy, turn it into computer bits and it goes from criminal to felonious. Even treasonable.
  
  Our business model: sue our customers, and prevent them from accessing our product.
  
  When that doesn't work, do more of the same.

• On the post: ACTA Failure Inspires The Most Clueless Column Ever

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 09:33am

  Re: Re:

  Correct! Because downloading an unlicensed copy and then buying a licensed one nets the studio zero. They don't make any money off the sale if you view the movie first. In spite of the fact that the studio has received the exact same amount of money either way.
  
  Yeah.
  
  I'm still trying to figure out the logistics. Maybe you can use another bogus analogy to explain this one?

• On the post: You Can't Introduce Any Decently Cool Product These Days Without Some Sore Loser Claiming Patent Infringement

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 11:41am

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  You have the wrong end of this stick. The system is what's broken. You seem to think that there's nothing wrong with suppression of innovation as long as nobody is technically breaking any rules.

• On the post: Excerpt From Rob Reid's Year Zero; Plus A Chance To Win The Book

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 01:57pm

  I found a grammatical error in the first paragraph.
  
  Go me!
  
  This comment is neither funny nor insightful, it is merely grammar Nazi-ful.
  
  It's not even helpful!

• On the post: Chinese Companies Again Using Patents To Punish Foreign Competitors: Apple Sued Over Siri In Shanghai

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2012 @ 12:50pm

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  Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving System Dynamics: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a larger can.

• On the post: Chinese Companies Again Using Patents To Punish Foreign Competitors: Apple Sued Over Siri In Shanghai

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2012 @ 12:49pm

  As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
  
  Or if you prefer a more recent prophet...
  
  Instant Karma's gonna get you.

• On the post: Peter Sunde, The Pirate Bay Spokesperson, Details Why His Conviction Was A Farce

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2012 @ 10:25am

  Re:

  Feh. Next you'll be saying that Austria and Australia aren't the same country.

• On the post: A Floating Island Of Nerds… Or Just Evidence Of A Broken Immigration System?

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2012 @ 09:01am

  Re: Re: Re: USA versus UK

  "I provided some real life examples in my belief that the USA does not have an immigration issue nearly as big as the UK."
  
  So does that mean the US doesn't have a problem? Or are you turning it into a pissing contest?

• On the post: Dutch ISP Shows That BitTorrent Traffic Increased After Pirate Bay Ban

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2012 @ 08:52pm

  Streisand Effect FTW!

• On the post: Quality Search Results: From Pink Slime To Correctly Diagnosing Appendicitis

  

  Jeffrey Nonken ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2012 @ 10:39am

  The Mayo Clinic? Who would trust medical advice from a slimy, two-bit outfit like that?
  
  On another note, I just typed "buy Green Lantern DVD" into Google and was sent to amazon.com (twice), bestbuy.com, cduniverse.com, amazon.co.uk, overstock.com, youtube, and amazon.com again.
  
  Obviously when I ask to buy the movie, I mainly get results for buying the movie.
  
  When I removed the "buy" term the results shuffled a bit and included one or two results for renting (blockbuster, redbox), but otherwise the top few results were similar (and amazon still at the top).
  
  And just as obviously, if I type in "free" then I'm looking for free and will be fobbed off with no other. Giving me results other than what I'm looking for just violates the entire purpose of a working search engine. Sort of like... Microsoft's help system, which seems to always assume that I already know how to use whatever command it is that I'm looking for help on. I've found Google much more useful.
  
  The Copyreich Alliance really needs to resolve that cranial-rectal inversion issue.
  
  http://www.sunilkk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/p2.jpg?w=235

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