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  • On the post: When Copyright And Contracts Can Get In The Way Of Art

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 08 May, 2011 @ 03:58pm

    way to stick to your guns Nina. If only more people in the creative industries took this kind of stand we'd be well on our way of neutering the parasites we call attorneys. That group of individuals controls far too much of our culture and should be slapped down to a level that limits their abilities to interpreting law rather than controlling/creating it.

  • On the post: Sony Blames Anonymous For Latest Hack…

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 04 May, 2011 @ 02:11pm

    "The attacks were coordinated against Sony for exercising its rights in a civil action in the United States District Court in San Francisco against a hacker," Sony chairman Kazuo Hirai said in the letter.

    Anon doesn't give a flying shit about legalese. They act as if they are in a world that isn't dominated by parasitic attorneys and suits who hide behind officious press releases. Your company acted like total shitbags and you were, in turn, called out. I suppose its wrong to applaud this kind of vigilante mentality but for this moment, I can't help it. You got exactly what you had coming to you.

  • On the post: If You Can't Understand The Difference Between Money And Content, You Have No Business Commenting On Business Models

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2011 @ 10:38pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Copying the argument

    Oh stop, you're lying and you know it. Then again being a professional parasite it's pretty much expected.

  • On the post: Sony Admits That Playstation Hacker Got Tons Of Info, Including Passwords

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2011 @ 10:12pm

    Anyone care to add up the monetary damages Sony has incurred since they started their BS with Geohot? Of course I'm including this incident since its most likely anon getting a bit of retribution for their (Sony's) litigating ways.......

  • On the post: Be Your Own Souvenir

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2011 @ 05:20am

    Re:

    One thing it most definitely has done is changed the industrial design field. Prototyping is now so much more flexible and economical due to this technology.

  • On the post: You Shouldn't Need An Excuse For Having Fun & Creating Something

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2011 @ 05:07pm

    Amanda rules.

  • On the post: More Video Game Makers Fear The Free Market And Don't Know How To Compete

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2011 @ 03:20pm

    Epic is a perfect example of a company that has simply stopped caring about making something great and have focused on trying to appeal to a certain demographic with what is popular at the moment. All marketing and no art.

  • On the post: Latest Domain Seizures May Come Back To Bite One Of The Biggest Supporters Of Domain Seizures

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2011 @ 03:22pm

    Dana White is a brilliant guy and deserves the success he's gotten but his stance on copyright is so totally moronic that I find it difficult to believe its the same person

  • On the post: From Tasini To The Winklevi: Greed, Retroactively Breaking Deals And Feeling Entitled To What's Not Yours

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2011 @ 02:49pm

    I am by no means a legal expert in any capacity but I did read the court summary of the dismissal and it does seem that Facebook did do (or appeared to in my limited understanding of what I read) some shady legal maneuvering to misrepresent their stock value at the time of the proposed agreement. Am I wrong here?

  • On the post: Jay Walker Sues Nearly Every Successful Internet Company, Claiming They're All Built Off His Patents

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2011 @ 02:30pm

    I can't wait to see what the parasi...err....anon attorneys commenters will say in defense of this shiite.

  • On the post: Winklevi Won't Give Up; Appealing The Ruling That They Have To Accept 'Just' $160 Million

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2011 @ 06:44pm

    These are petulant little rich boys who never have, nor ever will want for anything in their gilded lives. The money means nothing to them, they want the glory of having people think that THEY are the creators of Facebook. Nothing less will do.

  • On the post: Senators And Reps Grandstand Against Online Pornography Which Is Destroying Our Social Fabric

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2011 @ 03:16pm

    Yes, please, lets go back to the days of sneaking into an adult bookstore while avoiding eye contact with everyone there including the cashier, taking the booty home and hiding it like a guilty teenager.

    Orrin Hatch is an asshole of the first order. You just know guys like him are the ones jacking to stuff like tubgirl......

  • On the post: Alzheimer's Research Disrupted By Ridiculous Patent Dispute

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 02:36pm

    Perhaps some of these people who work at the institute never had to care for a mother who slowly turned into a vegetable unable to talk, feed herself or control her bowels.

    its a slow, horribly undignified way to die and it will tear out your heart on a daily basis. Anyone holding up research because of a patent dispute should be made to work in an Alzheimer's ward for a month.

    People wonder why I despise Attorneys as much as I do. Tell me how this kind of legal BS helps anyone other than these parasitic pieces of shit and a few greedy clients.

  • On the post: Is The FBI Lying To Congress About Its Abuses Of The Patriot Act?

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2011 @ 05:16pm

    Cops despise anything that takes away a potential tool that gives them an excuse to ignore what would otherwise be constitutional rights. Whether its needle exchange programs, medical marijuana, raising of speed limits, the ability to spy on folks without the need for warrants etc. I can certainly understand their reasoning since it gives them less options in their toolkit to fight crime. Unfortunately they lose perspective on why they do what they do and it fosters an "us-against-them, if-you've-nothing-to-hide-you-shouldn't-worry" mindset.

  • On the post: Foo Fighters Album Leaked; Band Relieved

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2011 @ 01:46pm

    I always wondered with his obvious talent, why he didn't strike out earlier on his own when he was with Nirvana. With all due respect to Kurt Cobaine's abilities and memory, Grohl turned out to be a much more well rounded writer/musician.

  • On the post: Another Court Rejects Idea That DMCA Requires Proactive Approach From Service Providers

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2011 @ 04:52pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    you are being willfully ignorant of the logistics of this. Its impossible to police such sites that get literally millions of uploads per day. You also know that in reality, the "sites" aren't making a substantive living off any one piece of media uploaded. This is akin to "emotional pain and suffering" for a child seeing what might be a cock on a Sears underwear model in a suit brought by the parents, its utter bullshit and you damn well know it.

    95% of Attorneys are useless garbage and do far more economic harm than the worst copyright infringers on the face of the planet.

  • On the post: Another Court Rejects Idea That DMCA Requires Proactive Approach From Service Providers

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2011 @ 04:45pm

    To me the argument should be about prosecuting blatantly false DMCA takedown notices just to get removal.

  • On the post: But… But… Piracy…

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2011 @ 05:59am

    1.) don't use human models

    2.) don't use a music bed

    3.) simply the speech. You want the one pontificating to sound like a 15 year old who just read a biased article. You want the other to ask simple logical questions with a few retorts.

    4.) keep the text-to-speech less natural and more digitized.

    A good effort but you're trying to fit too many bullet points of the pro/anti piracy controversy. Just concentrate on the most moronic and easily debunked aspects of the issue in the fore. Keep it light an humorous.

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

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 09:54pm

    *marks down Jon Bon Jovi's words.....*

  • On the post: Rep. Lofgren Again Explains How And Why Domain Seizures Violate The Law

    Tom Landry ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 10:53am

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    Viewers to said sites were met with a statement to the effect that they were looking at a site connected to child porn. In what world does that have any bearing on copyright law? I'm not an attorney (thank christ) but I'm not sure that simply because uncovering copyright violations is in their mission statement doesn't mean they can simply be absolved of that level of carelessness and incompetence.

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