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• On the post: Utah Governor Vetoes Video Gaming Law, Noting Unintended Consequences And Likely First Amendment Issue

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2009 @ 04:50am

  Protecting the children by not pretending to protect the children.

• On the post: Apple Making Developers Pay Up For Any Refunded iPhone Apps?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2009 @ 06:17am

  Apple should take a small hit for poor approval process

  If a shoddy app makes it past Apples' app approval process Apple should feel some of that pain beyond the 70% they make on the initial sale. Perhaps it should a 1% bonus returned to the displeased customer.

• On the post: Why Is The AP Invoking The DMCA Over The Obama Poster?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2009 @ 06:08am

  The Fairey poster is the only reason that AP photo has a high value now. It was pedestrian and now it is a star after the red and blue make up. Fairey should give them a single dollar and tell them to cash in on the link to his image.

• On the post: Oh Gosh: How Dare People Want To Listen To Music

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2009 @ 07:25pm

  Re: I've never paid for a "Death Cab for Cutie" album...

  The problem with that is the money goes to the band and the tour not the record label.

• On the post: New Zealand Dumps 3 Strikes Plan… For Now

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2009 @ 06:17am

  Re: DUH

  >Well, it's a bit obvious why internet users aren't
  >"asked", isn't it? They're the bloody thieving
  >pirates that's why!
  
  Lets follow this 'logic' to it's end.
  
  But they ask politicians and we all know they are crooks. Lawyers write the laws and they are working for clients who are all crooks so the lawyers are crooks by association. Hey the police have associations so they must be crooks too... Wasn't NZ a penal colony as well so they are all crooks...
  
  
  Dried frog pill please the strain is too much.

• On the post: Just Because You Can Do A DMCA Takedown Doesn't Mean You Should…

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2009 @ 03:43pm

  Richard III was right.

• On the post: Kentucky Election Officials Arrested For Changing Votes On E-Voting Machines

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2009 @ 08:58am

  Hanging ain't good enough for 'em

  What is the proper punishment for these Bozos? Changing all their votes on American Idol and Dancing with the Stars to start.

• On the post: Obama's Gift To British Prime Minister Rendered Useless By DRM

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2009 @ 04:48pm

  Region Free Players

  Aren't region free players were more common outside the US? I seem to remember that people weren't bothering with region encoded players and getting region free models.
  
  Any chance PAL vs NTSC might be the real problem here. Of course the UK is farther along the path to Digital tv.

• On the post: File Sharing, Damages And The Constitution…

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2009 @ 02:58pm

  A simple question

  Where would the Beatles be without radio?
  
  People hearing artists music for free or at least the value of the time sapped away by advertising. Payola happened because people hearing music sells music. There are lots of things I heard on the radio that I bought. There are things I got as a free iTune that got me to buy whole albums worth.
  
  I guarantee you that If I never heard a song by an artist I would never have bought them. That said if some songs circulate freely and some people listen to them without paying they are the equivalent of radio, heck it is probably cheaper than payola. Some people love a song on the radio and never buy it.

• On the post: Dear Jim Griffin: Let's Have An Open Discussion About Choruss

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2009 @ 12:42pm

  Re: Re: Re: Legalized extortion

  I'm just waiting for the schools with big law schools to sue back for wasteing their time and money defending. Given the chance lots of law students gunning for the RIAA may bring it to the ground.

• On the post: Harlan Ellison Sues Again

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2009 @ 03:59pm

  Re: What I want to know is...

  His lovely wife probably gives him a quarter.
  
  His stories are generally pretty good- some are better than others. I don't know if he has actually produced anything in years. He was supposed to write an episode of B5 that never materialized.
  
  Harlan is a force of nature and I disagree with him as much as I agree with him. If he can get money out Paramount for this more power to him.
  
  I do love the settlement he got from MARVEL when they ripped off a Twilight Zone he wrote as the plot and a shot by shot lift for an issue of the Hulk. MARVEL now is required to send him one of everything they produce.

• On the post: Latest iPod Suggests that Apple Still Loves DMCA-Assisted Lock-in

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2009 @ 02:51pm

  I wonder how much confidence apple has in this product. The old models are still for sale on the web site and not under clearance either.

• On the post: Unblurred Google Satellite Images Is The Equivalent Of Yelling Fire?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2009 @ 04:32pm

  Re:

  Yeah but this is no fire. It is more like screaming Friar in a crowded nunnery.

• On the post: IP Issues Force Basketball To Back Down From Krypto-Nate Promotion

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2009 @ 05:58am

  SI needs to call DC for another comics cover

  They aren't worried about DC but the parent company Warner Communications.
  
  Sports Illustrated needs to call Didio over at DC. Request another Superman artist to do a Krypto-Nate cover for SI which can be repurposed as the art for a giveaway t-shirt. Then DC, SI and the NBA can all claim victory.

• On the post: Didn't Expect This: Lieberman Asks Why US Court Documents Aren't Free To The Public

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2009 @ 10:22am

  Re: Re: Free should involve a fee not part of my taxes

  I already paid for these documents to be produced once. They need to be open to the taxpayers. I can't imagine the cost to distribute is more than the cost of the gatekeepers.

• On the post: Amazon Gives In To Ridiculous Authors Guild Claim: Allows Authors To Block Text-To-Speech

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2009 @ 06:06am

  Re: Re: Re: I'm going to return mine

  >A. Contact your Attorney General for discrimination charges
  >B. Look into a civil suit for discrimination
  >C. Contact advocate groups for the visually challenged
  
  
  How long until the class action suit begins?

• On the post: Amazon Gives In To Ridiculous Authors Guild Claim: Allows Authors To Block Text-To-Speech

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2009 @ 06:21am

  Re:

  As long as the put a warning in the book description that TTS is disabled or enabled they can even track people who would have bought the book with TTS enabled. They also should have make it difficult for TTS to be disabled.
  
  Bloody stupid move on amazon's part. They should have left the WGA looking like idiots all by themselves.

• On the post: Why Is The NY Times Threatening An Aggregator For Accurately Indicating NY Times Stories?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2009 @ 08:22pm

  So if they use small plain text they are fine, but if they use a recognizable symbol for the Times to point to the Times they are infringing by driving traffic to them.
  
  They need to beat some sense into their lawyers. Perhaps a short contract permitting the use of logo and a token payment for the Aggregator for driving traffic to the Times website.

• On the post: Early Warning Signs: iPhone Apps Might Not Be As Popular As Believed

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2009 @ 04:52pm

  Cheap enough to buy on a whim

  iPhone apps are so cheap people are willing to throw a buch or two at them to see if they want to use them. As long as they stay cheap they spin the cash wheel.
  
  If you want to do something in a very particular way and there are ten apps that do it then it may be worth ten bucks to try them all.

• On the post: How Does Chinese Internet Censorship Affect Business?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2009 @ 04:50am

  Re: Re: What's so special in primary schools?

  The chinese people are treated like children. I don't think that government has too long before the next revolution comes.

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