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• On the post: Disney: The Only Fun Allowed At Children's Birthday Parties Is Properly Licensed Fun

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2017 @ 10:47am

  Re: Re: Re:

  No, I mean the stuff most people pay attention to.

• On the post: Disney: The Only Fun Allowed At Children's Birthday Parties Is Properly Licensed Fun

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2017 @ 12:14pm

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  Less relevant every day? They own half of pop culture.

• On the post: Emails Show ICE Couldn't Find Enough Dangerous Immigrants To Fulfill The Adminstration's Fantasies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2017 @ 07:29am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Confirm our fantasy!

  I'm glad people want to come here. It means we're a better place than wherever they're coming from. It's when people start to leave that I'll get worried.

• On the post: Emails Show ICE Couldn't Find Enough Dangerous Immigrants To Fulfill The Adminstration's Fantasies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2017 @ 07:26am

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  If the law is detrimental to society, the economy, and humanity, then I'd say change the law. Keeping illegals here and making them legal will be better for the U.S. in the long run.

• On the post: Emails Show ICE Couldn't Find Enough Dangerous Immigrants To Fulfill The Adminstration's Fantasies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2017 @ 09:51am

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  You could change the system so they're no longer criminals.

• On the post: Emails Show ICE Couldn't Find Enough Dangerous Immigrants To Fulfill The Adminstration's Fantasies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2017 @ 12:28pm

  Re: Amazed

  Opinion blogs should have comments. The open form is the one thing that makes Techdirt worthwhile.

• On the post: Emails Show ICE Couldn't Find Enough Dangerous Immigrants To Fulfill The Adminstration's Fantasies

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2017 @ 10:13am

  Re: Re: 1) "during its February sweeps" -- is a limited data set

  Techdirt only reports on ICE because it's a long-evolved extension of its technology reporting. Why should it report on apartheid in Israel? Is it a high-tech wall?

• On the post: Harvey Weinstein Tries Every Possible Response To Explosive NY Times Story

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2017 @ 12:27pm

  Re: Lawyering

  I agree, esp. when guys like David Boies also do things like overturning California's Proposition 8 and helping Lawrence Lessig challenge the Electoral College.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drpgiUP6Yrc
  
  He takes on high profile cases. He just may not be on your side. That's what lawyers do.

• On the post: Members Of Congress: Court Was Wrong To Say That Posting The Law Is Copyright Infringement

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2017 @ 07:32am

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  We've always charged people for their thoughts.

• On the post: Trump's FCC Boss Blasts Apple For Refusing To 'Turn On' FM iPhone Chipsets That Don't Actually Exist

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2017 @ 09:46am

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  They hate competence.

• On the post: Supreme Court Won't Review US Government Getting To Steal All Of Kim Dotcom's Stuff

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2017 @ 07:42am

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  Wait until other countries start seizing the assets of Americans.

• On the post: Supreme Court Won't Review US Government Getting To Steal All Of Kim Dotcom's Stuff

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2017 @ 07:41am

  Re: 'They had it coming.'

  This is one case where it seems lots of people just assume he's guilty as sin and don't really care what happens to him as long as he's thoroughly punished.

• On the post: As 'Star Trek: Discovery' Shows, The Streaming Exclusivity Wars Risk Driving Users Back To Piracy

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2017 @ 08:22am

  Re: We already get the milk

  But that's different than a streaming service, where you can pick and choose which episodes or content you want to watch. I'd rather pay for access to a massive library than have one programmed for me on cable.

• On the post: Sirius XM Uses DMCA To Memory Hole Archive Of Howard Stern's Interviews With Donald Trump

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2017 @ 08:21am

  Re:

  While it's not as simple as that and such a law would never be passed, it would solve a lot of problems with copyright.
  
  I would put a time limit on it though, to say if a work wasn't made available for a certain number of years. There are valid reasons not to make something available temporarily, but it should not be out of print indefinitely. And an exception would be works with pending legal issues.
  
  Of course, it raises a can of worms about what constitutes "making available" and "reasonable price."

• On the post: As 'Star Trek: Discovery' Shows, The Streaming Exclusivity Wars Risk Driving Users Back To Piracy

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2017 @ 08:22am

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  If the CBS streaming service offered everything CBS owns since it started broadcasting, that might be worthwhile.
  
  The way to make these services appealing is to offer deep libraries. That why Netflix made money with the DVD service.

• On the post: Moral Muppets At Harvard Cave In To The CIA; Rescind Chelsea Manning's Fellowship

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2017 @ 02:20pm

  Re: Re: Really?

  If you truly have respect for the legal system and laws, then you can respect that she has served her time in prison and is therefore vindicated of any crimes.

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

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2017 @ 02:14pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: just about any job fuels something else that allows someone else to make money.

  I'm in Kansas City, and even today we still have a couple of video rental stores operating. Blockbuster never killed them all off, nor did Netflix. Maybe my city is an anomaly?

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

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2017 @ 08:33am

  Re: Re: Re: just about any job fuels something else that allows someone else to make money.

  Blockbuster was rarely the only game in town. There were always many competing video rental stores. Blockbuster was just the national chain - the only one capable of competing with Netflix for streaming, but it was too protective of its rental business to change direction.

• On the post: Moral Muppets At Harvard Cave In To The CIA; Rescind Chelsea Manning's Fellowship

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2017 @ 12:13pm

  Re: Really?

  And here I thought the purpose of serving prison time was to act as punishment for their crimes, but I guess some people can't accept that and want criminals to be punished for the rest of their lives. Funny how those are the same people that put all their faith in the justice system.

• On the post: Music Industry Is Painting A Target On YouTube Ripping Sites, Despite Their Many Non-Infringing Uses

  

  jupiterkansas ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2017 @ 01:40pm

  Funny how the music industry won't release an mp3 of a song for free, but are happy to offer a music video with the mp3 embedded for free.
  
  Funny how the music video itself has no value, but the audio inside it is precious.
  
  What is it that makes the video worth giving away but not the music?
  
  Frankly, I've ripped songs from youtube vids before, but usually just for music I can't buy otherwise. If they won't offer it for sale, why not give it away for free?

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