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• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Lawyers Tell Show Inspired By 'The Princess Bride' To Prepare To Die

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2013 @ 09:24am

  While Brack won't say who sent the cease and desist, there's a pretty short list of whom it might be.

  Even shorter, since the article states that he reversed his three copies of the book--and not the movie--I would hazard to guess that it was the publisher or the author. I'm leaning towards the author.

• On the post: Beastie Boys Say They Don't Want Music In Ads, But Fair Use Doesn't Care

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2013 @ 02:08pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  This is actually a case where profits are being made from the use of the beastie boys content.

  You mean just like when the Beastie Boys made profits from using the content of others.

  I am normally completely against most copyright laws but when someone is benefiting financially from someone eases work i just dont see how it can be declared fair use.

  You mean like the Beastie Boys benefiting financially from someone else's work. I'm guessing the part of copyright you're aganst is fair use?

  That goes totally against the principles of copyright law as I want it to be...

  How your wants are relevant to this, or to what copyright law actually is?

  ...where those benefiting financially from using someones content should be paying the original creator.

  I guess in your world the Beastie Boys should be paying some original creators some money.

  And should be forced to pay a licence for using it if they want to sell them a licence.

  Umm...last I checked, fair use doesn't require any payments or licenses (wouldn't be fair use if it did).

  I am now wondering if this case was not started just for the attention the case and therefore the advert would receive, It has received a lot of from the articles that have been written about it.

  Probably not. If any legal advice was sought on the song being used, most lawyers would probably say it's fair use parody. Using the possibility of getting your ass sued off in exchange for free publicity is not a very good marketing strategy.

• On the post: Missed Opportunity: Beastie Boys Should Have Supported Viral Parody 'Girls' Song, Rather Than Claiming Infringement

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2013 @ 05:15am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: You gotta fight...

  Also, commercial or advertising use doesn't necessarily negate the fair use defense.

• On the post: Company 'Thanks' Blogger For Positive Review By Sending C&D Claiming 'Unauthorized Trademark Use'

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2013 @ 12:24pm

  Re:

  They don't do that because a Trademark Lawyer costs much more money then they are paying the person that sends these C&Ds out. This would make their business model unsustainable.

• On the post: Copyright Extension Goes Into Effect In The UK: More Works Stolen From The Public Domain

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2013 @ 05:40am

  Re: Re: Re:

  At $150,000 per song, you could lose more that your house for that $20 CD.

• On the post: South Africa Plans To Terminate And Renegotiate Treaties That Include Corporate Sovereignty

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2013 @ 04:23am

  Now I'm curious. I want to know which European firms filed a ISDS claim against South Africa. I'm assuming mining firms (possibly De Beers?).

• On the post: Building Good Will: The Witcher 3 Team Promises Absolutely No DRM For PC Release

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2013 @ 04:58pm

  Re:

  A requirement to always be logged in to their servers even to play the single player portion would technically not be DRM but achieve the same purpose.

• On the post: Appeals Court Puts A Hold On NYC Stop And Frisk Ruling; Boots Judge From Case For 'Appearance Of Bias'

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2013 @ 04:01pm

  Anyone care to wager that the new "randomly chosen judge" thinks that the stop and frisk program is a great idea.

• On the post: Newspaper Editor: If The Gov't Tells Me Publishing NSA Secrets Is Not In The Public Interest, Who Am I To Disbelieve Them?

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2013 @ 12:41pm

  Re: now we are back to usual disagreements

  but the solution to this is representative oversight, via elected representatives. it may be to pass laws severely limiting the scope of what can be kept secret.

  This is the problem--there is no representative oversight--they are keeping what they are doing a secret even from their most ardent supporters in the elected government.

• On the post: The Good And Bad In Chaotic eBook Pricing

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2013 @ 08:47am

  Re: Re:

  Because, at that price the old traditional publishers can't sustain their inflated profits.

• On the post: The Good And Bad In Chaotic eBook Pricing

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2013 @ 09:28pm

  Re:

  And how do you know that $.99 for a novel is unsustainable? I've yet to see anyone publish any hard data on the optimal pricing for e books.

• On the post: Universal Music Lawyers Realize That Taking Down Charlie Brown / Smiths Remix Not The Brightest Idea They've Had

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2013 @ 03:51pm

  Two words sum up the take down--billable hours. And two words sum up them dropping it--bad publicity.

• On the post: And Here Comes The NSA-Themed Ransomware

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2013 @ 07:47pm

  Re: Re: how do you get rid of it and unlock your system?

  That makes as much sense as recommending someone buy a new house and belongings just because the last one got burglarized. All OSes and software have security vulnerabilities, you're just trading one set of them for another. And if the poor sucker doesn't know how to secure a Windows box--he sure as hell won't have a clue about what to do with a Linux one (guess you must like support calls).

• On the post: And Here Comes The NSA-Themed Ransomware

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2013 @ 04:03pm

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  How do you remove this virus?--You can use one of several boot disk anti-virus scanners. How can you get this virus?--By visiting a website that has been coded to deliver it through any software vulnerability it discovers in the web browser or plug-ins that you have installed. The infecting website can even be a perfectly legit one that has been hacked. The best defense is to keep your OS and anti-virus up to date, keep your firewall on, and disable auto-loading of scripts and plug-ins in your browser. And for Bog's sake if you have Java installed on your system--uninstall it--unless you absolutely need it to run something (and if that were me I would look for an alternative, or do without).

• On the post: NBC Universal Funded Study Shows, Yet Again, How Infringement Is Hollywood's Own Damn Fault

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2013 @ 04:10pm

  Re: Re: Hollywood causes people to steal, eh?

  Don't even hit report. Hitting report is still giving him attention and feeds his ego. Just scroll right on by. If nobody replied to or reported his comments, he'd get bored and go bug someone else.

• On the post: 50% Of 'Retiring' Senators Now Become Lobbyists, Up From 3% A Few Decades Ago

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2013 @ 10:24am

  Re: Re: 50% is probably true at all levels.

  Really what are we producing in this country that brings money to us?
  
  Imaginary property.
  
  sarc

  
  
  Fixed that for you. ;)

• On the post: Piracy Doesn't Create A Loss To 'The Economy,' But To A Particular Industry

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2013 @ 11:30am

  Re: Mike likes "zero-sum game", if re-distributed to grifters!

  And how, pray tell, do you know where all this alleged money people are saving through piracy is going--a special MAGIC 8 BALL? made just for you?

• On the post: Piracy Doesn't Create A Loss To 'The Economy,' But To A Particular Industry

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2013 @ 11:16am

  Re:

  No, you and all the other shills need to realize that there is--and can never be--any absolute answer to these questions.
  
  Does piracy increase sales? Yes, in some circumstances, it does.
  
  Does piracy equal a lost sale? Again, yes, in some circumstances it can.
  
  Does piracy have no effect on sales? And once again, in some circumstances, yes.
  
  Does piracy redistribute wealth? For Bog's sake, yes. This is basic economics--money not spent in one sector of the economy is always transfered to another (unless the pirate is some kind of cheapskate freak, and hoards the money he saves by pirating in a mattress, never to be seen again).

• On the post: DOJ/FBI Admit They May Have Abused Hair Analysis To Convict Hundreds To Thousands Of Innocent People

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 10:14am

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  The scary thing is all of the alleged forensic sciences we've been relying on in our justice system for so long are little more than guesswork. The only one with any repeatable scientific proof behind it is DNA analysis.

• On the post: Putt-Putt Fails To Comprehend User-Generated Content, Sends C&D To Mojang Over Mini Golf Games Recreated With Minecraft

  

  Keroberos ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2013 @ 10:55am

  hopefully we won't have to wait too long to see if Putt-Putt managed to find counsel willing to pursue Callahan's folly.

  Please, oh please let them have found counsel willing to take their money. I could use a good laugh over some copyright troll smack-down.

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