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• On the post: CISPA Sponsor Claims Opposition Is '14 Year Olds In Their Basement'

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2013 @ 02:15am

  2 can play that game

  Lawmakers are escapees from a mental hospital, stamping their feet like 2 year olds.
  
  See, Mike Rogers? We, too, can make grand sweeping statements to put down competition.

• On the post: Washington State Apparently Taxes Clubs For People Saying On Yelp That They Danced

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2013 @ 08:15am

  Re: Re:

  You should know better, these laws don't apply to those that instate them. They are above these laws.

• On the post: Washington State Apparently Taxes Clubs For People Saying On Yelp That They Danced

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2013 @ 08:12am

  Re: Re:

  I'm sure that these bureaucrats were never invited to them.

• On the post: Justice Department Looking To Change The Law That Made It Impossible To Serve Megaupload

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2013 @ 02:10am

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  Stop chewing bubble gum, because that's illegal in Singapore!

• On the post: Paul Hansmeier: Who Me? I Did Nothing… Everything You're Accusing Prenda Of Was Done By Someone Else

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 04:25pm

  I'm out of popcorn

  This goes from ridiculous to even more ridiculous. What are they trying to do? Confuse the judge into submission?

• On the post: Authors Guild's Scott Turow: The Supreme Court, Google, Ebooks, Libraries & Amazon Are All Destroying Authors

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 06:49am

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  If you had said Van Gogh, I'd have agreed with you. But then again, living off just painting is almost impossible even in this day and age. (In his time at least, you didn't have photographs, so if you wanted a portrait, you went to a painter, so it was possible to make a living off painting, if you didn't mind scraping the bottom of the barrel)
  
  But using Shakespeare as your example just made you the laughing stock of the week.

• On the post: In Which NY Times Reporter Jenna Wortham Accidentally Reveals How She Violated Both The CFAA & The DMCA

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 06:41am

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  HBO Go is meant to be watched "on the go", so limiting it to just 1 IP address per account would be rather stupid.

• On the post: Montreal Student Arrested For Posting Photo Of Anti-Police Graffiti To Instagram

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 05:52am

  Re:

  draws a picture of an anonymous coward being waterboarded
  posts a photo of it on instagram
  waits by the door for the police to arrive

• On the post: Sen. Feinstein Says Congress 'Ready To Take Action' To Rein In Violent Video Games

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 06:55am

  history repeating?

  Rock 'n Roll is eroding our society.
  Those hippies and their long hair are eroding our society.
  Comic books are eroding our society.
  Dungeons and Dragon games are eroding our society.
  Movies are eroding our society.
  TV is eroding our society.
  Violent video games are eroding our society.
  
  It appears we shouldn't have any society left.

• On the post: Intuit Continues To Make Sure Filing Taxes Is Complicated

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2013 @ 07:27am

  The Dutch tax office releases their own tax-software every year, even for the Linux and Mac platforms. And they make it so, that everyone can fill it in, but if needed a tax consultant can help out where necessary.
  
  Perhaps the US tax office could look into that?

• On the post: Amazon Refuses To Publish First Cornish-Language Ebook

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2013 @ 06:58am

  I haven't found any dutch books on Amazon's kindle pages either. Maybe, Amazon hates making money?

• On the post: Twitter Sued For $50 Million In France For Protecting Identity Of Hateful Twitter Users (Even Though It Deleted The Tweets)

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2013 @ 05:25am

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  I've been to several concentration camps. I've seen the photos that were taken there of the people that were imprisoned at Dachau and Auschwitz.
  I've seen the actual gas chambers, I've visited the remnants.
  
  What have you done, ignorant Holocaust denier?
  
  You want a dose of Zyklon B to prove that it doesn't kill people?

• On the post: A Tale Of Two Studies: File Sharing Hurts Sales!

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2013 @ 05:51am

  Re:

  dearth Pronunciation (d?rth)
  noun.
  1. A scarce supply; a lack: "the dearth of uncensored, firsthand information about the war" (Richard Zoglin).
  2. Shortage of food; famine.
  
  At least that's according to this site:
  http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dearth
  
  And since it isn't dealing about food, I think that definition #1 applies here.
  
  There was (and still is, in some territories) a remarkable lack of compelling, simple, non-annoying, authorized services.
  
  Most services that I have access to, only offer me (not-quite-HD) streaming solutions, but then I'd have to watch the stuff on my laptop (which has just 1 speaker), instead of on a home cinema set.
  If I go to the pirate sites, I could get an HD version that I can play just about anywhere of the same content. Hmm, I wonder which of the two would be more compelling, simpler and less annoying?

• On the post: Sweet Brown Has Her Voice Autotuned, Sues 'iTunes' And Others For $15 Million

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2013 @ 05:37am

  Re: Re: Awesome

  Which will undermine her case, I think.

• On the post: Copyright Office Boss Admits Copyright Law Is Broken And Needs A Rethink… But Still Focused On Bad Ideas

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2013 @ 06:36am

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  If downloading == felony, then what the hell are you doing on this webpage? Don't you know that you broke the law by browsing the web, since that everything you see in a webbrowser (and email client) needs to be downloaded first?
  
  Expect the feds to come a-knocking.

• On the post: Super Meat Boy Developer To EA: DRM Hurts Your Bottom Line More Than Piracy Does

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 02:36pm

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  Please don't. Don't give EA the chance of increasing their statistics of their OMG PIRACY! - The Sky Is Falling spreadsheets.
  Just let the torrents of SimCity get bitrot, and leave the physical discs in the bargain bins.

• On the post: Super Meat Boy Developer To EA: DRM Hurts Your Bottom Line More Than Piracy Does

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 08:09am

  Re: Solution: vary your pirating according to source!

  You do realize that in certain parts of the world, you've just committed a crime, right? By linking to "infringing material".
  
  And I'll actually reverse what you're calling out for in your ill-advised response.
  
  I'll gladly pay those who don't mind if people share their work online, but I won't buy/download/touch with a 11 foot pole any stuff released by companies that don't give a rat's arse about my first sale rights.

• On the post: Maxis Insider: EA Lying About Needing Servers For Single Player SimCity

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2013 @ 08:51am

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  The exception is, that there's no expectation for Techdirt to be offline.
  That said, you could download the entire website to your hearts content to read it offline.
  Try doing that to SimCity.

• On the post: Maxis Insider: EA Lying About Needing Servers For Single Player SimCity

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2013 @ 08:25am

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  That'll only happen when Simcity hits the bargain bins at your local game store as a "silver collection" edition. Or perhaps a GOTY-edition.
  
  Until then, EA will double down on their stupidity. And to this day people are supporting them, by buying the crap that EA shovels out the door.
  
  I'm sorry, Maxis developers, but you won't be getting paid from my money. Nor will I play your game, because I refuse to be used as an anti-piracy statistic.
  I will not 'pirate' this, I will not pay for this.

• On the post: As Expected, Team Prenda Trying Desperately To Get Out Of Appearing On Monday

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 03:24am

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  Strawman tactics.
  
  Techdirt has never advocated for piracy, that's all inside your brain.

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