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On the post: Hollywood Again Tries To Stop Innovation: Threatening Redbox DVD Rentals

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2008 @ 12:58pm

Re:

I just question the smarts of challenging a company that was funded with McDonald's money and who still own nearly half of Redbox(according to Wikipedia). Pissing off McDonalds could bring the wrath of Ronald down on Universal.

On the post: Sucks Sites May Be Legal… But What About Loves Sites?

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2008 @ 05:39pm

Is Iusedtolovejackdaniels.com available?

This is about the dumbest thing a company can do.

They need to get the site owner to pay them a dollar for a license and give them a big pile of JD Swag if not a marketing contract.

On the post: Surprise, Surprise: WalMart Changes Its Mind, Keeps DRM Servers Running (For Now)

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2008 @ 05:07am

Analog hole

What is funnier is that all these companies have told the users just to convert their DRM music to analog cds and then reconvert them. I somehow don't think that the music industry really wanted people to know that was possible.

On the post: Patent Lawsuit Silly Season: TechCrunch Sued For Patent Infringement After Critical Blog Post

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2008 @ 01:42pm

Stop you are violating my patent on snarkiness

:-)

On the post: Apple's Podcaster Block Backlash Getting Louder

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2008 @ 03:31pm

Re: Walled Gardens

I wonder if this is a keep at&t happy move.

On the post: Apple Trying To Patent Not Letting You Use Your Nike+iPod With Non-Nike Shoes

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2008 @ 08:05am

It would be stupid to limit this Gizmo to a certain brand of shoes. I is also stupid to limit it to one segment of the line. It needs to work with my 80gb classic as well as a nano.

On the post: Maximizing Profits Doesn't Mean Screwing Your Customers

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2008 @ 04:06pm

Re: kind of makes sense to me

The best strategy I came up for neutralizing the MTG players with a few expensive cards was to require a large number of cards in a pack. If you must have a stack of cards three inches high and those build off the power of another card strategies can fall apart.

On the post: Heart Demanding McCain Campaign Stop Using Its Song

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2008 @ 10:44am

Satinist RNC Music

There was a new story that they were playing part of AC/DC's Thunderstruck at the RNC convention. Given the Satanic connotations given the band by some one would wonder if the vetted any of their music.

On the post: Amazon Granted 1-Hour Offer Patent

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2008 @ 07:47am

Been There Done That

Fails on prior use timed deals were done at K-Mart in the seventies. Anyone remember a Blue light special?

On the post: For Just The Cost Of A (Starbucks) Coffee A Day, You Could Save A Pay Phone Booth…

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2008 @ 06:16am

Re: Re: Re: The Staple of Our Society

Drug dealers use burner cell phones. Buy cheap and toss after awhile.

I just wonder why the cops haven't bugged the phone booths in question. Listening devices in the hardened part of the phone, a camera where they can hide it and it already has a wire to return data to the cops. Detect a person in the booth not on the phone and start monitoring.

On the post: Howell Loses To RIAA… But For Evidence Destruction

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2008 @ 05:54pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Flimsy

I expect you are safe to reformat a drive so long as you have no expectation of being ordered to present your computer for examination. We all can safely argue that reformatting is a common computer maintenance task.

On the post: Telus Kicks Customers Off Of Unlimited Plan It Sold Them Not Too Long Ago

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2008 @ 05:49pm

What I want is a law holding the advertising at the time of entry into a contract to be a valid and over riding part of any contract. IE-No fine print can ever over ride any advertised claim. If they state it in simple English they are stuck with it no matter how cagey their lawyers are.

On the post: UK Law Firm Exaggerates Its $30,000 Win Over Pinball Game Sharer

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2008 @ 04:24am

RIAA should pay people to not appear in court

Here is a strategy for success. Pay your most likely adversaries not to show up in court case and pay their fines on the QT. Now you advertise this outrageous fine and scare everyone else.

If paying them doesn't work I guess kidnapping is next.

On the post: Old Media Always Afraid of New Media… Even Back in 1929

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2008 @ 10:00am

You should see the stone tablets complaining about this new fangled papyrus.

On the post: EMI/Virgin Records Sues Platinum Selling Band For $30 Million… Despite Not Paying Them A Dime In Royalties

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2008 @ 07:47am

RIAA protecting bad business men

Here is a good argument for a complete audit of these companies.

If they are this inept at making money they should get new management.
If they are this crooked they should get jail time.

On the post: FTC Outlaws Pre-recorded Sales Calls

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2008 @ 07:40am

Re: DoNotCall

>And when was the last time they enforced the Do Not Call list? I've started getting calls at dinner time again
>and have reported them to the FTC web site. Nothing ever happens, so why should the telemarketers even care?

The problem is that if you have ever done business with a company they have the right to call you with other offers under the DNC.

The ones that cheese me off are the ones that ring the phone three times a day and no one is there on the other end. I'd almost welcome a robocall from them so they would stop.

My answering machine gets everything unless I'm looking at the caller ID and recognize the caller.

On the post: EMI Loses Lawsuit To Prevent John Lennon's Imagine From Appearing In Expelled

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2008 @ 10:30am

Re: Re: Shouldn't have bothered...

I thought he was clear. They were leveraging an expected lawsuit into publicity for this silly movie. Those gosh darn book worshipers don't like to really examine the evidence that doesn't jibe with the book.

Of course I don't quite understand how the take Imagine as a non-deist argument. If you have to Imagine there isn't one there must be one.

On the post: Fox Tries To Kill Watchmen

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2008 @ 10:35pm

Re: fox did plenty

FOX did plenty of screwing around with the concept and very little of what it takes to actually gets them paid. Why should they get paid for not doing anything productive. Let them eat crow for having missed the boat on this one.

I'll bet that they took a big write off on all their failled attempts at making the Watchmen and they couldn't have made any money actually making the movie with those development costs hanging over their heads.

Superman Returns had that problem of including twenty-five years worth of other Superman film projects into the final cost.

It just makes sense to separate R&D from the actual budget even in the movie business.

On the post: Entertainment Industry Again Says Everyone Else Must Protect Its Business Model

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2008 @ 05:02pm

Well if the entertainment industry is willing to pay for protection they might really get the computer industries attention. Twist my arm and see a half hearted response.

On the post: The IOC Joins the DMCA Censorship Club

John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2008 @ 06:02pm

So is the year 2012 now going to be renamed?

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