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• On the post: How A US Burger Chain Brought 'Ruby Tuesday' Full Circle Through Trademark Bullying

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2018 @ 11:29pm

  A proud tradition

  Rock music has a great tradition of bands naming themselves from songs - and not getting bullied by the song's originator. Death Cab for Cutie were named after a Bonzo Dog Bang song and there are loads of other examples. If the stones had behaved like the burger chain they would have face a copyright suit before their first burger was flipped.
  Its a rare example if the music industry showing common sense when faced with a compliment.

• On the post: FBI Director Says It's 'Not Impossible' To Create Compromised Encryption That's Still Secure

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2018 @ 01:21am

  Nothing is impossible

  The recent production of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy on the BBC should remind us all that nothing is impossible. But many things are infinitely impossible.

• On the post: The Folks That Built The Internet Tell The FCC It Has No Idea How The Internet Works

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2017 @ 11:50pm

  lets hear it for th fcc

  In contradiction to all your doom sayers, I'm really happy with what the FCC are doing. Along with everyone else working in technology dependent industry outside the USA, I'm really happy for the for the competitive advantage they've gifted us.

• On the post: Monkey Selfie Photographer Says He's Now Going To Sue Wikipedia

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2017 @ 10:56pm

  peta lioking less crazy

  If he really thinks that he has a claim to copyright, even though the law says clearly he doesnt, then he really deserved his legal spat with PETA. After all, they were doing the same.

• On the post: FBI Director Says 'Smart People' At Office Supply Companies Can Help Limit Terrorists' Access To Pen And Paper

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2015 @ 12:56am

  Parody?

  So this is a joke right?
  If not then this must represent the end of the satarists' trade.

• On the post: Years Of Brainwashing The Public Into Thinking Everything Creative Must Be 'Owned' Has Led To This New Mess

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2015 @ 01:53am

  Thin end of the wedge

  Now that musical copyright law seems to have shifted to include the" feel and style" It going to be open season on Will Pharrell. He has the reputation of looking like a bit of an idiot in those big hats. How long before he gets sued by Jamiroquai ?

• On the post: RIAA Uses Copyright Claim To Disappear Historical Archive Of Radio Airchecks

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2014 @ 01:00am

  riaa, the historians friend

  As an amateur historian I have cause to thank the RIAA, MPAA anf that ilk. Future history will shift from searching for rare and often lost primary materials to having so much material we can't see the woods for the trees.
  Here again the RIAA is brave enough to addess this problem with its scorched earth policy.
  And if we were willing to give them the authority I'm sure they'd salt the earth for us too.

• On the post: Streetlight Manifesto Can't Fulfill Pre-Orders Because Label Refuses To Give Them Their Own Records

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 10 May, 2013 @ 12:24am

  If you think about all of those reports that "prove" how much money is lost to the music industry, maybe its time to produce an accurate report. I'm talking about the money withheld from artists by the companies. This should be quantifiable for a change. For a start there are all the court cases. Then there are the questionable adjustments - breakages for vinyl, based in shellac breakage rates. And Royalty rates based on the additional cost of CD technology, even when costs fell below vinyl production. Unlike the legacy industry's figures, these are relatively easy to identity and quantify

• On the post: CBS Bans Commercial That Disparages Coke & Pepsi, But Lets Them Disparage Each Other

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2013 @ 12:51am

  sodastream

  We had a sodastream in the 70's too. Fascinating as the discussion on free speech is , I'm much more interested in finding out who was the first techdirt reader to use a sodastream . We definitely had ours by 1978.

• On the post: Do We Really Want EU Bureaucrats Deciding What Google Search Results 'Should' Look Like?

  

  darren squires ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 10:59am

  there are eu officials

  That get their Secretaries to print out their emails for them. Enough said. (This was reported by a fellow official)