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• On the post: Because The 4th Amendment Only Kicks In After The Fact, 'Reasonable Suspicion' Will Always Be Anything But

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2015 @ 12:21pm

  Re: Terrorists are like artists, apparently

  More like terror is like art. You can't know an artist when you see one.

• On the post: Bell Exec Urges Public To Shame Users Who 'Steal' Netflix Content Via VPNs

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2015 @ 03:06pm

  Re: Re:

  The studios are just trying to protect middle man jobs that would go away if they fully embraced the internet.

• On the post: Bell Exec Urges Public To Shame Users Who 'Steal' Netflix Content Via VPNs

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2015 @ 02:22pm

  Since the invention of the DVD, regional restrictions have been the major driver of piracy worldwide, all in an effort to keep media costs high in developed countries.
  
  The #1 thing studios can do to stop piracy is end regional restrictions on their content, but they won't because their contracts (and the bulk of their middle men business) relies on regional restrictions.
  
  The victims are the people around the world that simply want to watch a movie or listen to some music - one that maybe got a lot of press six months ago but because they don't live in the United States they still can't see it, even though they share the same world wide web that we do.

• On the post: Revealed Emails Show How Industry Lobbyists Basically Wrote The TPP

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2015 @ 01:11pm

  Re:

  These are the people that get to determine what is ethical and illegal.

• On the post: Only The Copyright Office Would 'Fix' The Problem Of Orphan Works By Doubling Down On The Problem Itself

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2015 @ 01:00pm

  Re: Re:

  Which is why multi-national corporations are probably claiming copyright to works they don't actually own. They know nobody can afford to challenge their claim.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2015 @ 04:08pm

  Re: Funny: Future of Spotify is turn "free users" into "paying subscribers"!!!

  Please explain how radio and brodcast television can thrive on advertising but for some reason that just won't work for streaming music?

• On the post: The Out And Out Corruption Of Hollywood's State Subsidies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2015 @ 10:11am

  Re: Hollywood & Liberals a strange love affair

  Maybe because you're wrong that liberals hate rich people?

• On the post: New Zealand Steps In To Block US Gov't From Stealing All Of Kim Dotcom's Stuff

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2015 @ 01:39pm

  Re: Re:

  So what are New Zealanders doing to protect their own citizen?

• On the post: New Zealand Steps In To Block US Gov't From Stealing All Of Kim Dotcom's Stuff

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2015 @ 12:25pm

  Re: Re: Re: Stop the charade

  The only one making that case about Dotcom is you.
  
  This case has always been about the nefarious actions the U.S. goverment has undertaken to stop him. If anything, they've turned him into a hero. His reputation before all of this was "yeah, he's probably a criminal."

• On the post: New Zealand Steps In To Block US Gov't From Stealing All Of Kim Dotcom's Stuff

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2015 @ 11:03am

  Re: Stop the charade

  Does not matter what Kim Dotcom did - it's no excuse for the U.S. government to break the law and resort to stealing just to to stop him or any other criminal, and seizing his assets is closer to piracy than anything Dotcom has done.

• On the post: New Zealand Steps In To Block US Gov't From Stealing All Of Kim Dotcom's Stuff

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2015 @ 10:09am

  So who are the real pirates here?

• On the post: USA Freedom Act Passes As All Of Mitch McConnell's Bad Amendments Fail

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2015 @ 10:36am

  Re: Re: "Representative democracy is a misnomer"

  If we did have that level of infrastructure, some other technology would come along to prevent poor and rural people from participating.

• On the post: Steve Albini Takes On 'Parasitic' Record Labels And Copyright's 'Outdated' Illusion Of Control

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2015 @ 09:59am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So can we steal your music Steve?

  You guys just need to get wider screens.

• On the post: President Obama Forgets To Thank Edward Snowden For Surveillance Reform

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2015 @ 12:46pm

  Only elected officials and their appointees can create Freedoms.

• On the post: Pentagon Offered 'FOIA Terrorist' Jason Leopold A Stack Of Documents To Just Shut Up And Go Away Forever

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2015 @ 12:36pm

  If the information is free to be released, then why must it be requested? Why aren't they simply placed in a document repository for anyone to view?
  
  Having to ask the government "pretty please" and hoping they'll comply with the law is ridiculous.

• On the post: City Tries To Silence YouTube Critic By Suing For Copyright Infringement

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2015 @ 09:57am

  Who would go into politics with a name like Butts?

• On the post: Steve Albini Takes On 'Parasitic' Record Labels And Copyright's 'Outdated' Illusion Of Control

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2015 @ 07:58am

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  Then let's just say she's getting screwed the nice way, where she still gets to be rich even though she could be richer.

• On the post: Steve Albini Takes On 'Parasitic' Record Labels And Copyright's 'Outdated' Illusion Of Control

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2015 @ 04:53pm

  Re: Re: Re: So can we steal your music Steve?

  The dinosaurs are actually incapable of doing it, because of all those contracts.

• On the post: Steve Albini Takes On 'Parasitic' Record Labels And Copyright's 'Outdated' Illusion Of Control

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2015 @ 09:18am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Taylor Swift isn't getting screwed by the label. It's the 100s of other artists that signed up hoping to be Taylor Swift that are getting screwed over. It's a game where only a few artists win - the ones that make the most money - and everyone else loses everything.

• On the post: Rosie O'Donnell's Ex Accuses Her Of Copyright Infringement… For Posting Photos Of Their Daughter To Instagram

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 29 May, 2015 @ 02:12pm

  Re: Re:

  Yes, but my point is simply that it's never been a big concern for the general populace until recently, and now it's everyone's concern.

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