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• On the post: Georgia Claims Its Annotated Laws Are Covered By Copyright, Threatens Carl Malamud For Publishing The Law

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2013 @ 02:38pm

  Just to be clear, these are laws written by the legislature itself, rather than laws written by a private standards body and then incorporated by reference?

• On the post: AIDS Denialist Files Defamation Suit In Hopes Of Silencing HIV-Positive Critic

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2013 @ 04:35pm

  The de rigeur defamation charge is there, but where do "trademark infringement" and "business disparagement" fit it?

  Some people have this weird idea that if you use the word "Acme" in the course of criticizing Acme Corporation, then that use of "Acme" is a trademark violation.

• On the post: Head Start: College Kid Gets Prison For Rigging Student President Election

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 04:12pm

  How is it a "blatant lie"?

  I'm just guessing here, but I think that anonymous's point is that there isn't any law which makes it illegal to rig a college election, and instead the student jail time for computer fraud, identify theft, and so on. But at worst that's just being misleading, and the result of unskillfully summarizing, rather than intentionally trying to deceive.

• On the post: More Sanctions Issued Against Team Prenda

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 04:21pm

  The whole argument about how Navasca spoliated evidence using CCleaner was a complete joke. Noting that Prenda "has offered no real support for this claim."

  They did a horrible-to-non-existent job of presenting their position, but I think that their position is that if the defendant has software which is capable of spoliation then spoliation is to be assumed, full stop, regardless of any other circumstances or context, and it's then up to the defendant to prove that spoliation didn't happen.

• On the post: Team Prenda Keeps Trying To Convince Judges That The Lawyers Who Exposed Them Are The Real Scammers

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 09:28pm

  Re: Re: Censorship

  It's someone making fun of HWNN.

• On the post: Team Prenda Keeps Trying To Convince Judges That The Lawyers Who Exposed Them Are The Real Scammers

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 09:27pm

  Re: Censorship

  Did it not occur to you that if not for how you continue to cheat and steal from content creators, John Steele would not have to create offshore companies and forge signatures

  snerk Aaaahahahaha!
  
  Bravo, sir/madam. Bravo.

• On the post: Team Prenda Keeps Trying To Convince Judges That The Lawyers Who Exposed Them Are The Real Scammers

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 09:04pm

  Re: Re: You tipped into obsession about 20 pieces back.

  He's addicted to everyone responding to him. Just ignore him.

• On the post: Author Of The Patriot Act: Congress Will Not Renew If Intelligence Agencies Don't Change Their Ways

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 06:22pm

  Re: Sensenbrenner has zero credibility

  And then, OMG, each time the civil rights defenders were proven correct, and Sensenbrenner was SHOCKED and said NO ONE could have EVER foreseen those abuses of the Patriot act. No one except the people who were against it from the beginning apparently.

  To play devil's advocate, perhaps he means that the people who were arguing against it from the beginning are "stopped clocks", and just because they happen to be right twice a day doesn't mean they actually foresaw anything. Or, to put it another way, they were right for the wrong reasons, and therefore their reasoning can be ignored.

• On the post: Two Key Cases Involving Gatekeepers Using Copyright To Try To Kill Disruptive Startups Come To Very Different Conclusions

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 06:08pm

  Re: Re: ZZzzz... Huh? Oh. Mike working on his page rank again,

  This isnt a real estate blog, fuckwad. It deals with legal and copyright issues in the tech sphere. He isnt going to follow every form of malfeasance that is present in every story.

  If one where to assume that he isn't a troll, his point is either:
  
  1) One shouldn't be focusing on "legal and copyright issues in the tech sphere" when there's so many other issues that are so much more important. (In other words, a variation on "Why are you focusing on X when there's so many starving children in Y")
  
  2) One should follow every form of malfeasance that is present in every story.

  Go start your own blog if you feel so passionately about it.

  But there'd be no one to troll if he did that.

• On the post: Two Key Cases Involving Gatekeepers Using Copyright To Try To Kill Disruptive Startups Come To Very Different Conclusions

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 06:00pm

  Re: Re: ZZzzz... Huh? Oh. Mike working on his page rank again,

  Translstion: I'm just a troll who has nothing better to do with my time on the interwebs,

  If you think he's a troll, don't respond to him.

• On the post: EFF Files Massive Lawsuit Over NSA Surveillance: Gun Rights, Civil Liberties Groups, Religious Groups Team Up

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2013 @ 04:35pm

  Re: Just a little hint...

  That's some mighty tasty food you're offering the troll.

• On the post: FISC Says It Will Declassify Ruling That Forced Yahoo Into PRISM

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2013 @ 04:33pm

  Re:

  And then SCP-682 [DATA EXPUNGED], resulting in the loss of over 100 D-class personnel.

• On the post: Either The Solicitor General Lied To The Supreme Court, Or Senator Feinstein Lied To The Public About Warrantless Wiretapping

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2013 @ 02:35pm

  C'mon, trolls!

  Tell us about the fourth option we're too stupid to see. Or accuse us of being unpatriotic. Or traitors. Or something.
  
  Entertain me!
  
  *cracks whip*

• On the post: Prediction: Eventual Appeal In Key Prenda Case Will Be One Worth Reading

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2013 @ 09:53pm

  Re:

  I'm pretty sure that this is someone parodying Horse With No Name, not the Equine One him/her/itself.

• On the post: Gambia Passes Law That Gives Internet Activists 15 Year Jail Terms

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2013 @ 12:44pm

  Stop feeding the troll

  Seriously, people.

• On the post: Teen's Joke 'Threat' Lands Him In Solitary; While Cop Saying He Wants To 'Kill' The First Lady Walks Free

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2013 @ 11:39pm

  To play devil's advocate:
  
  1) IANAL, but my impression is that political speech gets more protection than non-political speech. The cop's statements were political, while the teenager's statements weren't.
  
  2) Perhaps the Obama administration exerted pressure to stop prosecution, because it didn't want to be perceived as thin-skinned.

• On the post: Because Some People Share A Lot Of Info On Facebook, We Should Admit We've Given Up All Privacy Rights?

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 11:01am

  Re: Re: Because Google vacuums up data, we must all give up privacy?

  If people stopped paying attention to him he'd give up. Or, at the very least, he would change to a different identity with a different axe to grind, which would at least be a change of pace.

• On the post: Pandora's Fed Up With The Lies The RIAA Has Been Spreading About It: Presents Some Facts

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 02:34pm

  Re: Re: So how much does Pandora pay per million plays?

  I'm not sure what angle you're going for here other than...
  
  "Mike is always wrong". That's his angle.

• On the post: FBI Paid Off Wikileaks Insider To Be An Informant: Imagine If It Was The NY Times

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 02:13pm

  Re: Re: No, imagine if it's Assange hisself!

  Don't you know? What Mike says is automatically wrong.

• On the post: Dear Famous People: Stop Attempting Online Reputation Scrubbing; I Don't Want To Write Streisand Stories Anymore!

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 03:21pm

  Venture Cap Monthly listed a number of prominent writers as "authors," including the Financial Times columnist Christopher Caldwell, Fast Company journalist Danielle Sacks, and Slate critic-at-large Stephen Metcalf.

  Surely that's illegal? I mean, it must at least violate the right of publicity laws.

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