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• On the post: Indiana Legislator Wants To Force NFL Team To Hand Out Refunds To Fans 'Offended' By Kneeling Players

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 02:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: Sad thing is...

  Wouldn't it be more fun if each team had their own anthem?

• On the post: Donald Trump Hires Charles Harder To Threaten Steve Bannon With A Lawsuit, Block Publication Of New Book

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 11:52am

  Re:

  Especially with such a tiny grip.

• On the post: Donald Trump Hires Charles Harder To Threaten Steve Bannon With A Lawsuit, Block Publication Of New Book

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2018 @ 11:50am

  Re:

  I'm pretty sure he still thinks he's starring in a reality TV show.

• On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2018 @ 12:52pm

  Re: Where are the lobbyists?

  At this point it's probably going to have to be something slipped into an unrelated bill in the final hour.

• On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2018 @ 12:44pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: How does this matter when you kids believe even NEW works are yours for the taking?

  Relative to other mediums, movies are pretty good. I watch a lot of obscure movies and it's amazing what's available. In fact movies are one area where being in the public domain makes it worse, because there aren't enough movies in the public domain to build an industry around like there is with books and music.
  
  That said, lots of movies still aren't available or easily available or need restoration and copyright isn't helping anybody - even the studios that own them and doing nothing with them.

• On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2018 @ 06:23pm

  Re: Re: How does this matter when you kids believe even NEW works are yours for the taking?

  It's not really the old movies, because the studios do a pretty decent job of making them available. It's all the collateral culture they copyrighted with it by extending the terms on everything.
  
  This means books, poems, songs, photographs, TV broadcasts, magazines, and many other things that the creators never anticipated being under copyright long past their deaths, and no effort is being made to preserve them, archive them, or make them available to the public in any way - either because it's just not economically viable, or the owner just doesn't care. This is assuming, of course, the owner of the work is known. If not, the work sits unused because you can't even ask permission or pay someone to use it.
  
  For the sake of the movie business, all the rest of culture suffers.

• On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2018 @ 06:26pm

  My only hope is that this time, an awful lot of people are paying attention, but I'm sure they'll find yet another way to make copyright perpetual.

• On the post: How The Muppets And A Font Choice Hurt The Star Trek / Dr. Seuss Mashup In Court

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2017 @ 12:35pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Well ask him in private because nobody else here cares.

• On the post: Right On Cue, Marsha Blackburn Introduces A Fake Net Neutrality Bill To Make The FCC's Idiotic Decision Permanent

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2017 @ 12:34pm

  Re: Lets say this

  What's WITH all the weird CAPS?

• On the post: Right On Cue, Marsha Blackburn Introduces A Fake Net Neutrality Bill To Make The FCC's Idiotic Decision Permanent

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2017 @ 12:33pm

  Re: This will have consequences

  Consequences! Are you kidding?
  
  She's been a front for the telecom industry for almost 15 years, and her wealthy voting district is happy to her in office.

• On the post: How The Muppets And A Font Choice Hurt The Star Trek / Dr. Seuss Mashup In Court

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2017 @ 02:10pm

  Re:

  Disney owns nearly half of all media, copyright is due for renewal next year, and corporate-friendly Republicans own congress.
  
  Copyright is about to get much, much worse.

• On the post: How The Muppets And A Font Choice Hurt The Star Trek / Dr. Seuss Mashup In Court

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2017 @ 02:08pm

  Re:

  Perhaps he got it from his local library like I did.

• On the post: New York City Hotels Say Obnoxious $25 'Destination Fee' 'Improves The Customer Experience'

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2017 @ 09:07pm

  Re:

  I have Google Fiber. $70/month flat as advertised. No fees or taxes or nothing. It's great.

• On the post: Trump Tweet About Surveillance Undercuts FBI's Glomar Responses In FOIA Lawsuits

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2017 @ 02:06pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I don't care what Trump spews when he's not president, but when he's president, everything he says matter. If a Democrat or anyone else were put in his place, then yes, I'd hold them to the same standards. I don't know of any president that has publicly spewed as much hate, insults, and juvenile comments as Trump has in the last year.
  
  There's no shrugging it off and saying "it's just his personal account" or "other people do it too." He's the goddamn president!

• On the post: Alabama Media Group Isn't Messing Around With Roy Moore's Silly Threat

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2017 @ 09:01am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This smear job has flopped. Dropped off Drudge.

  "You really don't want people to see your party as the party of Nazis and pedophiles."
  
  Too late!

• On the post: DOJ: Civil Asset Forfeiture Is A Good Thing That Only Harms All Those Criminals We Never Arrest

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2017 @ 08:04am

  Re:

  if that reassures you...

• On the post: With The US Out, Canada Gets Copyright Out Of TPP And Moves Closer To Agreement

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2017 @ 08:01am

  Re: The bigger story...

  well... taking an isolationist stance will do that.

• On the post: Colorado Voters Shoot Down Comcast's Shitty, Protectionist State Broadband Law

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2017 @ 07:52am

  Re: the sad part

  Propaganda works.

• On the post: Colorado Voters Shoot Down Comcast's Shitty, Protectionist State Broadband Law

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2017 @ 07:51am

  Re: which city?

  it's Fort Collins

• On the post: The Price Wolfenstein 2 Had To Pay To Get Around Germany's Anti-Nazi Laws Was Removing A Mustache

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2017 @ 02:46pm

  Re:

  Freedom of speech is human dignity.

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