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• On the post: Rupert Murdoch Suing The Sky Out Of Skype

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2010 @ 01:46pm

  Skyy

  Gonna havta change vodkas, I guess.

• On the post: Newspaper Gets Around Photography Ban At Football Event With Cartoon Illustrations

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2010 @ 07:15am

  Uh.

  That's not football...

• On the post: Which ISPs Hand Private Surfing Info Over To Secretive Private Group Who Monitors It For The Feds?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2010 @ 11:52am

  Rightio

  Aaand, pulling the plug on Techdirt in "the interests of National Security" in 3, 2,...

• On the post: If Andy Warhol Painted His Campbell's Soup Paintings Today, How Fast Would The Cease & Desist Arrive?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2010 @ 11:42am

  Re:

  As difficult as it may be for some here to believe, it is not a "given" that a cease and desist letter would immediately be sent. I daresay that if this exact situation played out in 2010 the outcome would most likely be the same.
  
  You honestly think that if someone put up a website offering to sell large, hand silk-screened prints of pictures of iPods that Apple would just offer to send a few to the artist?

• On the post: If Andy Warhol Painted His Campbell's Soup Paintings Today, How Fast Would The Cease & Desist Arrive?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2010 @ 11:20am

  Yeah

  ...not to mention Marilyn Monroe's heir's "Publicity Rights"

• On the post: Well That Should Fix Things: Goldman Sachs Implements Email Filter To Ban Swear Words

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2010 @ 08:10am

  Filter This

  They're all a bunch of crotch-munching, tea-bagging incestuous harlots.

• On the post: An Open iPhone App Market That Doesn't Require Jailbreaking… And Which Apple Can't Stop

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2010 @ 08:02am

  Art n Life n Art

  ...a reminder that even on "closed" systems, openness will often find a way.
  
  Why does this quote remind me of "Jurassic Park"?

• On the post: ASCAP Boss Refuses To Debate Lessig; Claims That It's An Attempt To 'Silence' ASCAP

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2010 @ 12:13pm

  Modern Times

  The Internet sure has a way of lighting up the dark corners.
  
  This guy could have toiled away for years, "defending creator's rights" and "getting fair payment for uses", without anyone in the larger world being aware of his rather twisted take on copyright.
  
  This is not the first time this has happened. Techdirt has chronicled quite a few public meltdowns of industry-types due to technological disruption.
  
  It's sort of like when movies added sound - suddenly there were not just actors, there were actors and squeakers.

• On the post: IP Czar: Blame China! Congress: Do Something!

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2010 @ 06:58am

  Awesome

  Now that's irony.
  
  The repressive communist regime of China slapping down the repressive desires of the entertainment industry.
  
  I'm smiling.

• On the post: If Negotiators Still Don't Want To Release ACTA, It'll Still Get Leaked

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2010 @ 12:06pm

  Also

  
  That's not quite how it works.

  It seemed to work OK for Microsoft at IEEE with Office Open XML...

• On the post: If Negotiators Still Don't Want To Release ACTA, It'll Still Get Leaked

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2010 @ 12:04pm

  Inheritance

  
  That's not quite how it works.

  Assuming that a lot of the driving force behind ACTA comes from the entertainment industry,

  ...and the entertainment industry is built on illusion and the "willful suspension of disbelief",

  ...we really shouldn't expect much else from their actors at the USTR, right?

• On the post: French Politicians Backing Away From Three Strikes As They Realize They Need To Get Re-elected At Some Point

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2010 @ 09:05am

  Happy Bastille Day!

  
  ¡Viva la France!

• On the post: Newspaper Wants You To Pay To Comment

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2010 @ 07:20am

  Re: Prior Art

  Metafilter has charged a one time $5 membership fee forever. It certainly seems to go a long ways towards weeding out the morons.
  
  The commentary there is routinely humorous and insightful and free from spam and (most) stupidity.

• On the post: Newspaper Wants You To Pay To Comment

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2010 @ 07:19am

  Prior Art

  Metafilter has charged a $5 membership fee forever. It certainly seems to go a long ways towards weeding out the morons.
  
  The commentary their is routinely humorous and insightful and free from spam and (most) stupidity.

• On the post: AP's New Policy: If They Speak To You, They Can Reprint Anything For Free?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2010 @ 08:19am

  Fascinating

  The internet appears to have completely unhinged some people in the press.
  
  The meltdown continues...

• On the post: TV Show Released On BitTorrent Raises $20,000 Pretty Damn Fast

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2010 @ 03:31pm

  Inertia

  The reason why many consider these things impossible is people's blind resistance to change.
  
  Record labels made tons of cash off vinyl, tapes and CDs. Broadcasters raked in dough from commercials. The movie studios banked billions off VHS and DVD.
  
  Now that those avenues have been narrowed by technological advances, many people (outside of those industries, even) can't imagine things being different.
  
  Just because you made money in one way for decades doesn't mean you can continue to make money that way.
  
  Much of this would be simply amusing if it were not for the constant, dangerous attempts by these blind people to use government to force things back to the way they were.

• On the post: FAA Gives Approval To Flying Car?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2010 @ 09:19am

  Aw

  Mike, I'm disappointed.
  
  Where's your insistence that the flying car is destined for immediate obsolescence due to tele-transportation?
  
  :)

• On the post: Once Again, Bank ATMs Are Not Very Secure

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2010 @ 03:59pm

  Old News

  Anyone who ever watched "Terminator II" knows how easy it is to hack an ATM.
  
  Sheesh.

• On the post: The Oscars vs. GoDaddy

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2010 @ 02:20pm

  Synchronicity

  The Motion Picture Academy, the Olympics Commission and the NFL Commission all need to be locked in a room together until they can agree to play nicely with all the other people in the world.

• On the post: Viacom In Denial Over Court Smackdown In YouTube Case

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2010 @ 10:34am

  Re: Defamation

  It's not difficult to argue that such claims are threatening to Google's business reputation.
  
  Not only that, but it would go a long ways towards educating the general public on the difference between "theft" and "infringement"

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