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• On the post: Latest Stupid DRM Idea: Ebooks With Corrupted Texts That Vary By Customer

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2013 @ 02:26pm

  For non-fiction, replacing a word with a synonym that doesn't change the meaning might not be too bad. But with fiction or poetry... Well, as Mark Twain said, "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

• On the post: NSA's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2013 @ 01:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Jun 15th, 2013 @ 12:02pm

  If you're going to be a troll, at least try to come up with an excuse which isn't so pitiful.

• On the post: NSA's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2013 @ 02:57pm

  It's like reading an SCP Foundation document.

• On the post: Legacy Recording Industry Claims Pandora Is Playing A 'Sick Joke' In Seeking The Same Rates Others Pay

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 01:28pm

  Re: Re: Re: Internet stations have THE WHOLE WORLD for market.

  "What was that, RIAA? Sue them all? Good idea!"

• On the post: Legacy Recording Industry Claims Pandora Is Playing A 'Sick Joke' In Seeking The Same Rates Others Pay

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 01:27pm

  Re: Re:

  IANAL, but that's sounds like something which would really piss of a judge, which is why I thought I was misunderstanding it. I mean, there's the legal doctrine of "minimization of damages", which means the person who's (potentially) being damaged is supposed to take reasonable steps to minimize the damage they take, yet when ASCAP has a chance to minimize damages fall into their laps, they do nothing.

• On the post: Legacy Recording Industry Claims Pandora Is Playing A 'Sick Joke' In Seeking The Same Rates Others Pay

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 09:47am

  During negotiations, ASCAP and the publisher increased the pressure by refusing to provide Pandora the list of tracks that were being withdrawn, exposing Pandora to copyright infringement liability of up to $150,000 per work. At Pandora?s scale, such liability would be enormous.

  The way I'm reading that is that Pandora is asking "Would doing X be infringing", and the response was "if it is infringing, we'll tell you after you do it". But I'm pretty sure that can't be right, so what does the above quote actually mean?

• On the post: ACLU Sues The Government On Its Own Behalf, As A Verizon Customer, Arguing 4th Amendment Violations

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2013 @ 04:59pm

  None of the trolls have anything nasty to say about the ACLU? C'mon, you guys are slipping.

• On the post: Yes, The NSA Surveillance Story Shows Why Wikileaks And Similar Sites Are Necessary

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2013 @ 05:28pm

  Re: Re: thyere ya go

  While he appears to be a troll, that doesn't seem to be his trollish-angle. His angle seems to be:
  
  1) Mike (and the other contributors) don't give a shit about what they write, they just want to get as many page views as possible.
  
  2) Mike should clearly lay out his political and ethical philosophies, and debate that with commenters.

• On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Says Its Google's Fault He Can Find Infringing & Counterfeit Items

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2013 @ 05:17pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Does Mike think that copyright infringement is immoral? We don't know. He refuses to say

  He says he thinks that it's a waste of time to discuss the ethical element of copyrights. You can disagree with him about that, but I don't see how it's "weasel words".

• On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Says Its Google's Fault He Can Find Infringing & Counterfeit Items

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2013 @ 05:13pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Google loves infringing content.

  Their are tons of sites engaged in infringing activities that are beyond the reach of law enforcement because they've deliberately located in countries with weak IP laws.

  So, what should Google do? Refuse to index websites hosted in countries with weak IP laws?

• On the post: Sen. Lindsey Graham, Verizon Customer: I'm GLAD The NSA Is Harvesting My Data. Because Terrorists.

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2013 @ 07:04pm

  Why not just repeal the 4th amendment?

  I mean, if the government snooping on innocent people is okay because the innocent have nothing to hide, what's the point of the 4th amendment?

• On the post: Morgan Pietz Objects To Duffy's Bond In Prenda Case, Points Out More Typical Prenda Tricks

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2013 @ 03:50pm

  Re: Re:

  I think that their accusation was that while the John Does do exist, none of those Does actually contacted Pietz, and he's just pretending one of them contacted them. Which is a stupid claim to make since they don't have any evidence for it, but it's not quite as stupid as you're making it out to be.

• On the post: Intelligence Boss Claims The Real Villain Here Is The Press For Revealing His Secret Spying Program

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 09:23pm

  Re: Re: Boston

  Feels weird to be defending the NSA, but with that much data they couldn't read it all, but would have to do targeted searches or terrorism-targeted data-mining, neither of which would have revealed stuff like that.

• On the post: Intelligence Boss Claims The Real Villain Here Is The Press For Revealing His Secret Spying Program

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 04:35pm

  Re: Boston

  If this type of spying is necessary to stop terrorism why didn't it stop the Boston Bombers?
  
  They had been under surveillance, they were foreigners in contact with other foreigners and yet...

  Well, obviously we're not doing enough spying! [/sarcasm]

• On the post: Morgan Pietz Objects To Duffy's Bond In Prenda Case, Points Out More Typical Prenda Tricks

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 09:19pm

  Oh, and also:
  
  3) Pietz's request that the bonds be made payable to him rather than John Doe is evidence that his client doesn't actually exist.

• On the post: Morgan Pietz Objects To Duffy's Bond In Prenda Case, Points Out More Typical Prenda Tricks

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 07:21pm

  My guesses:
  
  1) Duffy will claim that a bug in his spam filtering software caused Pietz to be put in his spam list, without Duffy being aware of it.
  
  2) Duffy will accuse Pietz of unprofessional behavior for not attempting to contact him by phone after the email stopped working.

• On the post: Despite Spending $50 Billion Per Year In R&D, Pharma's New Drugs Less Effective Than Drugs Developed 40 Years Ago

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 01:46am

  Re: Stating the Obvious

  What, medical pharmaceutical companies didn't realize that 40 years ago?

• On the post: Irony Alert: John Steele Denies Uploading Anything Ever Despite Growing IP Evidence

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:24pm

  Awwwwwww. I was hoping that he'd try to explain why the IP evidence in this instance doesn't meant anything, while the much less extensive IP evidence he used for sending settlement demands is iron-clad. Whatever he came up with, it would've been hilarious.

• On the post: New Filing Presents Evidence That John Steele Uploaded Videos To BitTorrent Himself

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 04:10pm

  Re: Re:

  It's not unlimited reproduction and distribution, but only reproduction and distribution while a member of that specific swarm. And "an implicit and temporary grant of rights because of how the technology used for distribution works" doesn't explicitly need to be a part of the Constitution, as there's tons of case-law that interprets the Constitution.

• On the post: Researcher Tries To Connect Violence And Video Games During Murder Trial; Gets Destroyed During Cross Examination

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 03:59pm

  Re: Re: Re: This is a real mania with you 14-year-olds, isn't it?

  He doesn't always disagree. Sometimes agree, but say something like "Why do you criticize company X for doing Y, when Google is a much bigger offender". Or in the article on proposed tariffs on Chinese imports, he went off on a tangent about how the author didn't mention China's use of slave labor.

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