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• On the post: TransCanada Goes Legal On US Government Over The Rejection Of Keystone; Will It Wake Obama To The Problems Of Corporate Sovereignty?

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2016 @ 08:22am

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  It was probably about that time when companies took advantage of those corrupt governments to change things in their favor.

• On the post: TransCanada Goes Legal On US Government Over The Rejection Of Keystone; Will It Wake Obama To The Problems Of Corporate Sovereignty?

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2016 @ 08:20am

  Re: The most amazing part of this story

  Welcome to the 21st century, where Corporation > Country.

• On the post: T-Mobile Doubles Down On Its Blatant Lies, Says Claims It's Throttling Are 'Bullshit' And That I'm A 'Jerk'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2016 @ 12:57pm

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  Nobody ever told the tobacco executives their products were changing the world and making it a better place. These guys must feel like humanity is looking to them to solve all the world's problems - although this guy seems like a low rent salesman who listens to rock and roll too loud and thinks he's sticking it to the man.

• On the post: US Copyright Office Asks For Public Comments On DMCA's Notice And Takedown

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2016 @ 08:57am

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  And you've had 15 years to realize this website is worthless, and yet you still keep coming here. Maybe you should move on with your life?

• On the post: US Copyright Office Asks For Public Comments On DMCA's Notice And Takedown

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2016 @ 08:55am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Netflix was thriving before it started creating original content.

• On the post: US Copyright Office Asks For Public Comments On DMCA's Notice And Takedown

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2016 @ 08:52am

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  There's nothing anti-artist about it.
  
  The idea behind the article is that shifting the burden of policing copyright to the online services rather than the copyright holders will make starting a new service so onerous that few people will even try. You could only do it if you dealt directly with the major copyright holders (which is just a handful of companies in the world). Companies will go from "post anything and make the copyright holder take it down" to "we only post things that copyright holders approve of." There will be fewer options for artists to release their work, and the few options that are available could easily dominate the market.
  
  This might mean that for an artist to release something, they'll be forced to hand their copyright over to one of these entrenched companies for the privilege since they control the limited distribution options, just like before the internet came along. Your indie filmmaker would only be able to get their film released by selling it to a major distributor. This is exactly what middle-man companies want - to be the only players in the game - and that sounds pretty anti-artist to me.

• On the post: Warner Brothers, Intel Begin Futile Legal Assault To Defend Ultra HD And 4K DRM

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2016 @ 08:23am

  Re: we all know drm is wrong

  DRM and copyrights are not the same thing.
  
  The music business abandoned DRM a decade ago. The music you download from iTunes and Amazon is DRM free, and yet iTunes and Amazon thrives as a business and most of that music is still under copyright. They don't need DRM to run their business.
  
  And not all DRM is bad. Netflix uses DRM, and aside from hindering Linux users it's worked out fine for them. DRM's only bad when it gets in the way of something a legitimate customer is trying to do. In this case, simply watch a movie they bought on incompatible equipment. The only thing illegal going on is breaking the DRM, which is why DRM is wrong here, and having a law against breaking DRM is wrong.

• On the post: GQ And Forbes Go After Ad Blocker Users Rather Than Their Own Shitty Advertising Inventory

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2016 @ 02:21pm

  "Amy Schumer dancing with stormtroopers" is even more of an ad than all of the ads. I guess content is advertising.

• On the post: Warner Brothers, Intel Begin Futile Legal Assault To Defend Ultra HD And 4K DRM

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2016 @ 01:59pm

  Re: Re: Re: Is more necessary or just better to some?

  I remember thinking that about my VHS tapes.

• On the post: Warner Brothers, Intel Begin Futile Legal Assault To Defend Ultra HD And 4K DRM

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2016 @ 12:25pm

  Re: Is more necessary or just better to some?

  As someone watching on a 120" projector, SD content needed to die a quick death years ago. Unfortunately, expensive bluray licensing kept that from happening.
  
  But it would be interesting if the content changed with the size of your whatzitz.

• On the post: Understanding David Lowery's Lawsuit Against Spotify: The Insanity Of Music Licensing

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2016 @ 10:02am

  Re: Groan....

  Get ready for a duct tape solution that fixes this problem but further complicates everything down the road.

• On the post: Here We Go Again: All The Works That Should Now Be In The Public Domain, But Aren't

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2016 @ 07:01pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: 'As long as I get mine, who cares about the rest of you'

  Or this 2003 independent animated version with Charlton Heston doing the voice.

• On the post: Here We Go Again: All The Works That Should Now Be In The Public Domain, But Aren't

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2016 @ 06:58pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: 'As long as I get mine, who cares about the rest of you'

  Interesting that this 2010 European produced Ben Hur miniseries didn't get sued into oblivion.

• On the post: Homeland Security Admits It Seized A Hip Hop Blog For Five Years Despite No Evidence Of Infringement; RIAA Celebrates

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2016 @ 12:53pm

  Re:

  Nope.

• On the post: Here We Go Again: All The Works That Should Now Be In The Public Domain, But Aren't

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2016 @ 08:59am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 'As long as I get mine, who cares about the rest of you'

  Releasing a film wide AFTER it gets a nomination is going to get a lot more interest from the public. The awards are nothing more than marketing tools. And most of the films that use this strategy are indie films, not MPAA-produced films (or are indie films bought by MPAA members).

• On the post: Here We Go Again: All The Works That Should Now Be In The Public Domain, But Aren't

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2016 @ 07:39am

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  Because nobody questioned it at the time?

• On the post: Here We Go Again: All The Works That Should Now Be In The Public Domain, But Aren't

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2016 @ 07:33am

  Re: Re: 'As long as I get mine, who cares about the rest of you'

  Anyone's free to make Ben Hur today because the novel is in the public domain. I doubt anyone could do it better though.
  
  And they keep making sequels not because of a lack of original ideas (Hollywood gets thousands of original scripts every year) but because audiences generally don't go to see original ideas.

• On the post: CBS Sues Over Star Trek Fan Film Because It Sounds Like It's Going To Be Pretty Good

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2015 @ 05:32pm

  Throw in a few jokes and call it a parody.

• On the post: The DMCA Has Delivered Us Into The Hands Of The Proprietary Internet Of Disconnected Things

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2015 @ 05:13pm

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  Remaining a Luddite to the possibilities new technology offers is never a good solution.

• On the post: Judge Not Impressed With Government's Warrantless 921-Page 'Peek' Into A Suspect's Cellphone

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2015 @ 08:22am

  Re: Re:

  Except doing this makes you the bad guy.

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