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• On the post: Insanity: Apple Rejects Podcatching App Because It Has Flattr Integration

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2012 @ 10:31am

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  Also the old way is no different to the new, there are not many products on the market that do any different than their older counterparts.
  
  I don't carry a notebook in my pocket that has a cell radio in it, so i'd say that my Android phone has made progress over my laptop, not to mention my desktop. I also don't have to carry around a GPS, camera, camcorder, level, compass, calculator, game console or movie player.
  
  In fact, I've rarely touched my computer since I got a smart phone, years ago.
  
  I agree with you on useless "upgrades", but I think the smart phone market (whichever OS you prefer) is an actual, real upgrade from older non-smart phones.

• On the post: Insanity: Apple Rejects Podcatching App Because It Has Flattr Integration

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2012 @ 09:47am

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  You're right, but at the rate that iOS is going, it's going to be almost exactly like Android in that time. Whether they know it or not, customers *want* the Android OS on their phone, and the changes in iOS reflect that.

• On the post: Insanity: Apple Rejects Podcatching App Because It Has Flattr Integration

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2012 @ 09:45am

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  Why did you arbitrarily choose that point to stop moving forward with progress? You could just as well claim that you use your land line to make calls and when you want knowledge, you go to the library.
  
  Pretending that the old way is better than the new way because the old way is older is pretty much how all the big media companies think, you know.
  
  Come to the future, my friend, we make progress there. :-)

• On the post: Insanity: Apple Rejects Podcatching App Because It Has Flattr Integration

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2012 @ 05:24am

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  As much as I enjoy Linux, if you're looking for a platform to play new, higher end games on, you should probably stick with Windows.
  
  WINE is good, but like you suggest, it can take a fair bit of tinkering to get things to work, and even then there is usually a performance hit.
  
  You can always dual boot, or buy a console.

• On the post: Insanity: Apple Rejects Podcatching App Because It Has Flattr Integration

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2012 @ 04:41am

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  It's been a while since I've installed it, but isn't the Mint distro specifically designed for Windows users transitioning to Linux?

• On the post: Hollywood Super Agent Ari Emanuel Mystified That Google Doesn't Just Invent A Magic Stop Piracy Button

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 09:34am

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  Wow. You think those are the only choices?
  
  Cord cutters are cutting the cord because they found a cheaper source for the same stuff. They aren't paying HBO, they are now downloading HBO dramas from torrent sites and file lockers.
  
  Wow. You think those are the only choices?

• On the post: Hollywood Super Agent Ari Emanuel Mystified That Google Doesn't Just Invent A Magic Stop Piracy Button

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 09:32am

  Re: Disagree

  What Piracy list?

• On the post: Hollywood Super Agent Ari Emanuel Mystified That Google Doesn't Just Invent A Magic Stop Piracy Button

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 09:21am

  Re: Analogies

  I've always liked the "ice suppler" analogy, as I feel it more closely relates to the media business issues, in that technology came along (refrigeration) that made it cheap and easy for anyone to obtain a product (ice) putting the old supplier (ice supply companies) in a tough spot because they were no longer needed.
  
  Imagine if the ice supply companies lobbied to eliminate efficient at-home refrigeration!

• On the post: Did Hollywood Not Use Available DMCA Tools Just To Pretend It Needed SOPA?

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 25 May, 2012 @ 11:28am

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  I have two words for this:
  
  TOO FUCKING BAD.
  
  Which word doesn't count as a word? :-P

• On the post: TV Networks File Legal Claims Saying Skipping Commercials Is Copyright Infringement

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 25 May, 2012 @ 08:24am

  Re: Re: Excuses

  In this situation, if they end up being "right" and skipping commercials is deemed to be copyright infringement and therefore illegal, the backlash from the public would do much greater harm than merely skipping commercials.
  
  This is a lose-lose situation. They should quit while they're ahead.

• On the post: TV Networks File Legal Claims Saying Skipping Commercials Is Copyright Infringement

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 25 May, 2012 @ 07:34am

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  Click on the blue word "claiming" in the OP. :-)

• On the post: TV Networks File Legal Claims Saying Skipping Commercials Is Copyright Infringement

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 25 May, 2012 @ 07:33am

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  wouldn't be surprised to see the Betamax ruling overturned. the entertainment industries have managed to get everything they ever wanted into law by using one means or another. cant see them failing now.
  
  This would be *great*. Think of the mad dash to piracy that would occur. People are already used to being able to timeshift, if suddenly they are no longer allowed to do so legally, they wouldn't rearrange their schedules to make time for the show; they would pirate, or not watch.
  
  It would be delicious to watch.

• On the post: DOJ Argues Forcefully For Your Right To Photograph And Videotape Law Enforcement

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 17 May, 2012 @ 12:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: Send DOJ to IL to help this guy!

  Is this a trick question? The police in Baltimore were arresting people for recording the police, even though there is no law on the books that makes it illegal.
  
  In the story linked about the man in Illinois, he was actually breaking the state's wiretapping laws, which carve out specific exceptions for police officers, so they if you don't have their consent, it's illegal to record them (audio only).
  
  So, it's unlikely the DOJ will come to the aid of a man who has actually broken the law. (I'd love to be wrong!)
  
  Please don't take this as an endorsement of that law (which my own state of Massachusetts also has-- they're the only two!). I think it's a horrible law, but that doesn't mean the DOJ is going to rush in and defend him.

• On the post: DOJ Argues Forcefully For Your Right To Photograph And Videotape Law Enforcement

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 17 May, 2012 @ 12:00pm

  Re: Send DOJ to IL to help this guy!

  The difference is that the people in Baltimore aren't breaking any laws. The guy in Illinois is breaking an Illinois law. (Sure, it's a stupid, outdated, easily abused law, but that's, unfortunately, beside the point.)

• On the post: DOJ Argues Forcefully For Your Right To Photograph And Videotape Law Enforcement

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 17 May, 2012 @ 10:31am

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  Similarly, I know a lot of cops that are good, honest people. Unfortunately, when it comes to people in a position of power over us, it's the saying about sewage and wine: "If you add a spoonful of wine to a barrel of sewage, you have a barrel of sewage. If you add a spoonful of sewage to a barrel of wine, you also have a barrel of sewage."
  
  The fact is, a few bad members of the group cause us the distrust the entire group.

• On the post: DOJ Argues Forcefully For Your Right To Photograph And Videotape Law Enforcement

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 17 May, 2012 @ 09:17am

  Re: Trojan Horse

  Maybe. You might be a little over-cynical in this respect, if only for the fact that the government can already record us with drones, as long as we're in public.
  
  The police department in question was trying to apply laws, like loitering, to people who were filming police officers while on duty in public, after they were educated to the fact that filming a police officer while on duty in public is not against the law.

• On the post: Economist: Copyright Is An Antiquated Relic That Has No Place In The Digital Age

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 16 May, 2012 @ 03:28pm

  Re: Re: Re: Typical

  Read his name backwards.

• On the post: Tenenbaum To Supreme Court: Let's Get This Constitutional Debate On Statutory Rates For Copyright Infringement Rolling

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 16 May, 2012 @ 09:50am

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  Their "logic" (and I use that term very, very loosely) is that after he seeded twice, the file would be presumably shared again, and again, and again. So, they don't know how much "damage" was actually caused, so they ask for the statutory damages.
  
  I didn't say it made sense.

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 12 May, 2012 @ 08:01pm

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  Every time I read your posts like this, I feel like standing up and starting a slow?clap.

• On the post: Congress Begins To Wonder Why ICE & DOJ Censored A Popular Hip Hop Blog For A Year

  

  The Infamous Joe ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 12:13pm

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  What? I have no contract with NBC if they host a video, and linking to that video doesn't enter me into a contract with them.
  
  You're just making things up, aren't you?

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