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  • On the post: UK Court Says You Can Copyright The Basic Idea Of A Photograph

    lavi d ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 09:01am

    Crowd Sourcing

    Where's the "Red Bus on Bridge in Front of Big Ben" tumblr?

    I have a photo I need to submit.

  • On the post: Megaupload Shutdown Means Other Companies Turning Off Useful Services

    lavi d ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 10:58am

    Exodus

    And with that, the technology industry begins to follow small manufacturing and the textile industry out of America.

  • On the post: Why Apple Will Not Be Part Of The Real Tablet Revolution

    lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2012 @ 05:40am

    So What

    that means that the real tablet revolution ... will not be one in which Apple plays a major part...

    I don't think Apple will mind - they (and Microsoft) will just sue all the Android device makers and programmers to make up the difference.

  • On the post: Oh Look, I've Done 40,000 Techdirt Blog Posts

    lavi d ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 05:16pm

    Cheers

    Way to go Mike!

    Here's to the next 40k!

  • On the post: Why Adversarial Hearings Are Important: Rulings Change When The Other Side Is Heard

    lavi d ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2011 @ 07:52am

    Spit Take

    It's just astounding to me that now, in the "Information Age" we should need someone to explain why the things written in a three-hundred-and-forty-year-old document (the Constitution) are important.

    But apparently we do. Thanks.

  • On the post: Morality, Non-Zero Sum Games, Externalities & Why Someone Profiting Off Of Your Work Isn't A Bad Thing

    lavi d ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2011 @ 12:01pm

    This is Getting Old

    If Hilary Rosen, after a decade, is still calling copying "theft", and she is
    supposedly one of the more enlightened bulbs that ever shone in the RIAA
    sign, then the recording industry is truly doomed.

    The people who say, "It's not alright to steal a thirty-cent pack of gum" should
    be forced to repeat the question, "Is it okay to make a copy of a thirty-cent pack
    of gum?" several hundred thousand times until they get this most basic point.

    The bottom line is, the recording industry has no fundamental right to dictate
    what machines people may own or how they may use them. If new machines have
    come along which make selling recordings difficult, the only sane course of
    action is to figure out how to make the purchae of recordings more attractive.

    At the absolute MOST, if you can't figure out how to make money from recordings,
    then STOP RELEASING recordings! The government and the rest of the world do not
    owe you a living based on your insistance on the clueless use of antiquated
    technology.

    The recording industry (and I include the DVD arm of the movie industry here)
    have been given this great crutch by the government called "copyright". And not
    only have they been viciously bludgeoning everyone with this crutch for decades,
    but they have gone back to the government numerous times, insisting that the
    crutch is not strong enough to keep them in business.

    Their shrill insistence on entitlement is really starting to get irritating.

  • On the post: A Question For SOPA Supporters: How Will You Gauge SOPA's Success?

    lavi d ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 12:04pm

    Tim, It's Simple

    Top 10 ways we'll know that SOPA is a success:

    10 - Dry cleaners and popcorn producers worldwide will enjoy a resurgence in business

    9 - There will never be another Justin Beiber

    8 - No one will ever leave the living room to go to the bathroom during the commercials again.

    7 - Viacom won't have to kill Spongebob in order to pay their CEO's salary

    6 - Computers everywhere will stop allowing people to make copies and will automatically turn into television sets

    5 - People will once again flock to theaters to see movies, then rent the movie from websites, then buy it on DVD, then buy it on Blu-Ray, then buy it on...

    4 - Musicians and film makers will stop making a living using just the internet. All movies and music will once gain come only from Hollywood and the recording industry, as it should be.

    3 - Congress will eventually give the internet to Hollywood, once it's apparent that they know how best to manage it.

    2 - The "entertainment industry" will see a windfall of $100 billion next fiscal year as people go back to buying copies (see #5 above)

    And, finally, the number one way SOPA defenders will gauge the success of the bill will be the disappearance of rogue sites like Techdirt, Ars Technica, the EFF, Slashdot, etc where "common" people have the audacity to publicly insist that their government work for them.

  • On the post: SOPA Gives Me Powers That I Don't Want

    lavi d ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 12:53pm

    Awesome

    As a content owner I would have power to send a simple letter to a payment processor accusing a client of theirs of copyright infringement. If the payment processor doesn't cut off a business relationship with my target within five days, they could be dragged into a convoluted legal process.

    Well, that really cuts the feet out from under Anonymous, doesn't it?

    No more extensive, collaborative DDoS attacks - just accuse a website of copyright infringement, and down they go...

  • On the post: Funny How Microsoft's Views On Responsibility To Competitors Differ Based On Who's In The Antitrust Hot Seat

    lavi d ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2011 @ 07:51pm

    Re: Not So Fast

    It's pretty clear that the market is quite capable of dealing with any perceived Microsoft "monopoly" and routing around it.

    Really?

    I still can't buy a "naked" new laptop, anywhere.

    Period.

    Seriously Mike - how could you possibly say that?

  • On the post: Funny How Microsoft's Views On Responsibility To Competitors Differ Based On Who's In The Antitrust Hot Seat

    lavi d ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2011 @ 07:29pm

    Not So Fast

    It's pretty clear that the market is quite capable of dealing with any perceived Microsoft "monopoly" and routing around it.

    Really?

    I still can't buy a "naked" new laptop, anywhere.

    Period.

    Seriously Mike - how could you possibly say that?

  • On the post: Apparently The Creative Class Is Dead Because No One Works At Tower Records Any More

    lavi d ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2011 @ 11:35am

    Tangentially

    The first comment on Slashdot - where I first saw a link to the Timberg article - is this:

    for the retarded...
    by Lead Butthead

    it's called "patent trolling," "eternal copyright," and "software patents."

  • On the post: Forget Wiretapping Laws, Now You Might Be Able To Use Copyright Law To Stop Anyone From Recording You Ever

    lavi d ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2011 @ 07:50am

    Lemonade


    So, this means I can walk down the street, filming myself, and then turn around and sue all the entities with street-facing video cameras for copyright infrinement.

    Winning!

  • On the post: Changing How We Handle Advertising And Sponsorships

    lavi d ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2011 @ 12:31pm

    For the Record

    I only block animated ads.

    Having things moving on the page when I'm trying to read is extremely annoying.

  • On the post: I Coulda Been A Credenza: Brando Estate Sues Over Couch Named Brando

    lavi d ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2011 @ 02:57pm

    One Comment

    Sooooofaaaaah!

  • On the post: Dear Musicians: The RIAA Is About To Totally Screw You Over (Again!)

    lavi d ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2011 @ 12:01pm

    The RIAA Is About To Totally Screw You Over


    "...the RIAA officially making it clear that it intends to totally screw over musicians.

    "...the RIAA ... will do everything it can to screw over artists..."

    "...how the RIAA was totally screwing them over.

    "...a bunch of big name musicians going very public about how the RIAA is screwing them over...",

    "...while it's actively and vocally trying to totally screw them over."

    Wait. Is this an article about the RIAA trying to screw over artists?

  • On the post: France Three Strikes Law Suggests A Huge Percentage Of French Citizens At Risk Of Losing Internet Access

    lavi d ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2011 @ 07:18am

    Deja Vu All Over Again

    Still, the bigger point is that when you have so many people violating the law, perhaps the problem is with the law, and not the people violating it...

    See "Drug War", especiall, "Marijuana"

  • On the post: Lobbyists Ramp Up Pressure To Get PROTECT IP Passed

    lavi d ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2011 @ 07:41am

    My Letter

    I am a constituent and I urge you to reject S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act. I am
    deeply concerned by the danger the bill poses to Internet security, free speech
    online, and innovation. The PROTECT IP Act is dangerous and short-sighted, and
    I urge you to join Senator Wyden and other members of Congress in opposing it.

    It is important to note that the Entertainment Industry, in various forms, has
    opposed every technological innovation since the player piano - record players,
    radio, television, the VCR, digital MP3 players - this is nothing new.

    Also, independent studies* have shown that unauthorized copying is nowhere near
    the problem that Entertainment Industry's lobbyists make it out to be.

    Please take a stand for the American people and at least ask Hollywood to
    justify their desire to have the government police the internet for them.

    Regards,


    *
    http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-423

    http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf

    http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/eng/h_ip01456.html

  • On the post: Feds Response To Rojadirecta Demonstrates How S.978 Can Be Abused To Put People In Jail

    lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 01:22pm

    ...Feh" is up on two wheels making comparisons to the "War on Drugs" which drags everybody straight in to the spectator field where it all goes up in flames.

    That's pretty funny.

    And I apologize for the (unintentional) derail.

    I was just trying to make comparisons between the Fed's ham-fisted attempts to stop "piracy" (of which SB978 is a specific example) and their same clueless attempts at stopping "drug use".

  • On the post: Feds Response To Rojadirecta Demonstrates How S.978 Can Be Abused To Put People In Jail

    lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 01:14pm

    Also

    And to expound upon my previous point - that the entertainment industry doesn't
    get to wreck the internet and degrade the Constitution because they're
    (supposedly) losing money by releasing copies:

    If your dog is wandering all over town and coming home pregnant, then you need
    to keep your dog in your yard. You don't get to demand that everyone else
    neuter theirs.

  • On the post: Feds Response To Rojadirecta Demonstrates How S.978 Can Be Abused To Put People In Jail

    lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 12:38pm

    Re: Re: Re: Feh

    In my view, he was just pointing out that the ever-upward spiraling enforcement efforts eventually become counterproductive and detrimental.

    Yes. Thank you.

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