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• On the post: Bev Stayart Loses Yet Another Battle Against Levitra, Cialis And Search Engine Results

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 03:16am

  Re: Re: Bev Stayart uses Levitra?

  And I heard that she hates boxes with a passion.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: Hire Better Shills

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 07:58am

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  It's Hollywood, they're specialized in fake, unless they faked that too.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: Hire Better Shills

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 07:56am

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  "Movie smugglers" doesn't quite have the same ring to "movie pirates".
  
  
  ...
  
  Actually, I like the term smuggler better! Too bad smugglers don't have a distinct accent, or a peg leg. Arrrr.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: Hire Better Shills

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 07:54am

  Re: Re:

  All those poor bits that were harmed during the creation of the copy of that movie.

• On the post: Launch Day Punishment: SimCity's Online-Only DRM Locking Purchasers Out Of Servers, Purchases

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 07:40am

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  gog.com has seen me buy games I already owned on physical discs.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: Hire Better Shills

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 05:53am

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  Chickens?! That old shtick still? I thought we were discussing vapor trails.

• On the post: Launch Day Punishment: SimCity's Online-Only DRM Locking Purchasers Out Of Servers, Purchases

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2013 @ 07:34am

  Won't buy it then.

  This article made me decide never to put money into this new Simcity. It may look awesome, but these kinds of trouble will put me off gaming. I'll stick with Simcity 2000 and 3000.

• On the post: Bizarre Legal Threat Of The Day: Confused Zoo Owner Threatens Popehat Over… Well… Just Read It

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 04:12am

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  that 'wwebsite as on the internet' guy had absolutely made a typo. it should've read "website was on the internet".
  
  Matherne speaks gibberish.

• On the post: Bizarre Legal Threat Of The Day: Confused Zoo Owner Threatens Popehat Over… Well… Just Read It

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 04:09am

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  update 1 News flash: The monkeys have joined the giraffes in their attack, flinging poo absolutely everywhere.
  
  update 2 I have just learned that the monkeys are now in fact running the zoo.

• On the post: Bizarre Legal Threat Of The Day: Confused Zoo Owner Threatens Popehat Over… Well… Just Read It

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 04:02am

  Re: Re: TFUTR

  THE STUPID, IT BURNS!!!111ELEVENTYONE

• On the post: Bizarre Legal Threat Of The Day: Confused Zoo Owner Threatens Popehat Over… Well… Just Read It

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 03:58am

  Re:

  Aye, there apparently are such things as evil giraffes

• On the post: Misheard Will Smith Lyrics Results In Arrest Of Student And District-Wide Lockdown

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 03:57am

  Re: Re: Re:Da

  WHOOSH!
  
  You hear that?
  
  Ahow628's comment just went over your head.

• On the post: White House Turns Star Wars / Star Trek Mistake Into Funny Meme

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 03:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Obama's mind meld

  Ahum "Nucular"...
  
  Also, what Obama is proposing for the US is far removed from a socialist state. Please read up on what certain words mean before you use them.

• On the post: Ridiculous: Trademark Board Lets Yankees Control 'Evil Empire' Despite It Being An Insult Used By Another Team

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2013 @ 08:13am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Mike Masnick, supporter of legislated monopoly:

  Yeah, but you don't include the team that holds the title "World Champions" (that would be the Dutch, btw), nor many of the other nations that play baseball.
  
  1 team from canadia
  gazillion teams from the USA.
  Hardly 'world', is it?

• On the post: Ridiculous: Trademark Board Lets Yankees Control 'Evil Empire' Despite It Being An Insult Used By Another Team

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2013 @ 04:30am

  Re: Re: Mike Masnick, supporter of legislated monopoly:

  Or how about having a World Series that actually included teams from other countries?
  
  That said, go Tigers!

• On the post: Kickstarter-Funded Movie Wins Oscar For Best Documentary

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2013 @ 08:21am

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  Who cares if it's locked up in copyright. The makers will still be able to make money even if there was no copyright to be had at all!
  
  They can sell stuff that's not covered by copyright. But you're too stupid to accept that.

• On the post: Kickstarter-Funded Movie Wins Oscar For Best Documentary

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2013 @ 08:19am

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  No one is saying that they can't exercize their exclusionary rights.
  
  Of course there is copyright on the bloody movie, it's after all published in this day and age, where everything is copyrighted by default.
  
  And of course are the makers allowed to ask money for the sale of the discs and the digital goods, they are and people are paying to see the movie.
  No one (absolutely no one) has said that the makers can't ask money for their product.
  
  You keep insisting that the point of Techdirt is that stuff be available for free all the time, which is blatantly false, and a complete strawman of your own devising. Free stuff can be used for promotional goals, but it doesn't have to be.

• On the post: Kickstarter-Funded Movie Wins Oscar For Best Documentary

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2013 @ 08:03am

  Re: The real story: $52527 /294 = 178.66 average contribution...

  You are looking at 1 successful project and conclude that crowdsourcing has failed?
  
  Another thing, we don't say it's the be-all-end-all of funding anything in this world, it's ONE way of funding your project, another would be to go to angel investors, or raking up humongous credit card bills, or having a rich mommy and daddy, or going to a major movie studio and demand 10+million USD for your own project.
  And we also never said that it was new. It's just now becoming easier to do on a global scale.
  Kickstarter is nothing but a fancy ESCROW service.
  
  BTW, where are these free products? People paid to get the movie funded, and people who want to watch it are asked to pay to see it (either through a movie ticket or through itunes or some other distribution platform).
  
  Three strikes, Out_of_the_blue, I'm afraid you're out.

• On the post: Early Lessons From New Zealand's 'Three Strikes' Punishments

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2013 @ 08:29am

  Re: Piracy STILL wrong despite corporate abuses!

  Who are you called "you pirates"?

• On the post: NASCAR Abuses DMCA To Try To Delete Fan Videos Of Daytona Crash

  

  Marcel de Jong ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2013 @ 07:15am

  Re: Re: At last you've gotten to the concept of what belongs to others:

  Out of the blue doesn't care much for facts and reality. He's perfectly fine in that weird bubble of his. He's rejected our reality, and tries to substitutes his own. Except he's not Adam Savage, and Ootb only brings forth myths instead of busting them.

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