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On the post: Is The NYT Paywall Just A Ploy To Sell More Print Subscriptions?

lavi d ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2011 @ 08:30am

FYI

...websites are in fact delivered to my computer by truck...

Email is delivered by truck.

The internet is delivered by a series of tubes.

(I thought everyone knew that)

On the post: Bon Jovi Thinks Steve Jobs Killed Music; More Old Rockers Shooing Those Darn Kids Off Their Lawn

lavi d ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 11:14am

Presti Digit

I don't know, but it strikes me that today is a much more magical time in terms of what the fans get.

I have a device in my pocket the size of a small matchbox, with 133 hours of music on it, and a pair of gel-capped earbuds that let me feel the bass in my chest - that's magik.

On the post: For Lady Gaga, Copyright Not About Music, But Her Image

lavi d ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2011 @ 11:18am

You Said It

...sole purpose for her is to act as a tool...

On the post: Mediacom Puts Its Own Ads On Other Websites, Including Google & Apple

lavi d ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2011 @ 03:09pm

Back to the Future

I can see where the thinking came from.

I was working in cable TV back in the '80's when the cable companies started putting tape cartridge racks in their head-ends and selling ad time which would override the networks'

It was ruled legal or they worked out some sort of deal because the networks were quite unhappy.

This is why you see crappy, low-budget ads from your local ambulance-chaser even during high-profile events like the Superbole.

On the post: iiNet Wins Again: Australian Appeals Court Says ISP Not Responsible For Copyright Infringers

lavi d ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2011 @ 09:34am

Reworded

...so iiNet told them to go to the police:

So iiNet told them to go pound sand.

On the post: Recording Industry Persecution Complex: Claiming EMI's Plight Is Due To File Sharing

lavi d ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2011 @ 12:14pm

BM

"We're going to make a killing selling copies of these little plastic disks"

"Yeah. If we can just get people to stop making their own"

On the post: Katie Couric And Bryant Gumbel Discover The Internet

lavi d ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2011 @ 06:00am

It kicks off with a debate over how to pronounce the @ symbol, with Gumbel properly saying "at,"

Well, technically, at that time, that wasn't entirely correct.

Of course, I can't find any references to back up my claim, but trust me, I took typing in Jr. High and that's not what it used to be called.

I'm fairly certain that the majority of people familiar with that symbol (outside of the computing world) at that time would know it as an accounting symbol signifying "each at", as in, "five pairs of shoes @ at $100"

On the post: Subscription Porn Site SLAPPed Down After Suing RedTube For Undermining Its Business Model

lavi d ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2011 @ 11:36am

Prescience

Websites that originally made their money by offering such material on a subscription or pay-per-view basis are being replaced by "tube" websites...

There's Ted's "Tubes" again.

On the post: How Would US Politicians Respond If Spain Seized Domains Of American Companies?

lavi d ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2011 @ 11:03am

Battle Cry

So will any American politicians speak up about Americans seizing a Spanish domain?

"Remember the doMaine!"

On the post: Erotic Art Museum Comes Up With Bizarre Justification For Suing Photographer For $2 Million

lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2011 @ 12:18pm

Technonymous

I think it's time for copyfightin' residents of Miami to go all Cloud Gate on the WEAM,

On the post: Can You Speed Up Patent Reviews While Improving Patent Quality?

lavi d ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2011 @ 02:51pm

Oceana

the more evidence that comes out in this case, the worse and worse Homeland Security/ICE is looking.

Ha ha! hahahahahahaha!

The "evidence" will be "classified" because it's about Homeland Security and it could aid the terrists, donchaknow?

1984 got here about 17 years late...

On the post: Irony: Eugene Roddenberry Might Sue You For Using A Replicator To Create Your Own Star Trek Prop

lavi d ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2010 @ 08:32am

Warning!

"Do NOT use the Replicator to make replicas of the Replicator"

"YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!"

On the post: State AGs Now Targeting Backpage After Forcing Craigslist To Stop Helping Them Pursue Lawbreakers

lavi d ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2010 @ 02:33pm

Shazbot!

All they're doing is making the problem worse.

How can you say that?

After all, look at how successful drug enforcement laws have been...

On the post: Fox News Sues Senate Candidate For Using Clip In Commercial

lavi d ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2010 @ 09:53am

Again

And, of course, if the video is found to be fair use -- as I would bet it would be -- we'll have yet another example of how the DMCA's takedown process is a clear violation of free speech. Even if the video is eventually allowed back online due to a counter-notice, copyright law was being used to silence political speech in the middle of a campaign.

The threat (and promise) of the internet is that it gives voice to common people - sometimes on par with corporations, the entertainment industry and politicians.

This cannot be stressed enough because daily, elements in those three groups are trying hard to change this.

This (the internet) was just not supposed to happen. By the early '90's, these three groups pretty much had everything sewn up for themselves. The actual delivery of a pulpit to the masses has made a mess of their happy little world.

On the post: Woman Trademarks Her Name, Says No One Can Use It Without Her Permission

lavi d ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2010 @ 01:10pm

Re:

Accordingly, Nutrilab and Dr. Allen demand that you immediately cease and desist from any further use of any of these marks.

This C&D is invalid.

They misspelled "Nutlab"

On the post: Paul Allen Becomes A Patent Troll, Sues Google, Apple, Facebook, eBay And Others…

lavi d ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2010 @ 02:49pm

Just Wondering

Has anyone patented Patent Trolling yet?

On the post: How Should Facebook Respond To The Social Network Movie?

lavi d ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2010 @ 04:18pm

Alors!

I think I would go with the simplest of all solutions: a single page that explains why the movie is a greatly fictionalized account, and not an accurate depiction of either the company or its employees, past or current...

What? There's a Techdirt movie???

On the post: Ticketmaster Says People Don't Like Service Fees Because We Don't Understand Them

lavi d ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2010 @ 04:16pm

Channeling Jack

...you don't understand the fees.

"You can't handle the truth!"

On the post: John Mellencamp: The Internet Is An Atomic Bomb For Music

lavi d ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2010 @ 09:55am

Not Surprising

I saw Mellencamp a few years ago. John Fogarty (of Creedence Clearwater) opened
for him. Fogarty really got the crowd going with extended git-tar jams and
smiles and good vibes.

When Mellencamp took the stage, the crowd was ready for the energy level to
increase, but a strange thing happened. We cheered the first couple of
songs, but not as enthusiastically as the closing Fogarty tunes. To my
way of thinking, it meant that "Cougar" needed to up his game and pull the fans
along. Instead, he got sulky and made a smart-ass comment about how maybe we
liked Fogarty better.

I guess we did...

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