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• On the post: Canadian Copyright Reform Authors Know The Law Outlaws Circumvention Even If No Infringement… But Don't Seem To Care

  

  Miff ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 05:09am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Here.
  
  http://web.archive.org/web/19981205224124/http://www.techdirt.com/
  
  Was that so hard for either party?

• On the post: Canadian Copyright Reform Authors Know The Law Outlaws Circumvention Even If No Infringement… But Don't Seem To Care

  

  Miff ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2011 @ 05:02am

  Re:

  So should breaking the lock to your own house because you locked all the keys inside be illegal then?

• On the post: Theaters On Prescreenings: Bring Your Firearms, But No Mobile Phones

  

  Miff ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2011 @ 01:54pm

  Re: Yeah so?

  Wouldn't that be considered a change to the contract?

• On the post: Did Jim Henson Infringe on a Recently Approved Patent?

  

  Miff ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2011 @ 12:34pm

  Didn't Congress just make prior art completely irrelevant by changing to first-to-file? And Labyrinth grossed $12m by "stealing" ON-ART's precious intellectual property.

• On the post: Congress Moves Forward With Useless Patent Reform That Won't Fix Any Real Problems

  

  Miff ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2011 @ 01:10pm

  Re:

  But the other person is probably just as corrupt.

• On the post: Double Bogus DMCA Takedown All The Way!

  

  Miff ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2011 @ 01:05pm

  I should go ahead and DMCA him.
  
  It's not like I'd get fines or jailtime for it.

• On the post: All Of Justin Bieber's Music Removed From YouTube Via 'Prank' DMCA Claims

  

  Miff ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2011 @ 08:24am

  1) Write a script that problematically creates DMCA takedown notices.
  2) Make it crawl YouTube and send a takedown notice on everything it finds.
  3) ???
  4) Profit

• On the post: 60 Year Old Swedish Man Gets Sentenced To 'Conditional' Two Years In Jail For File Sharing

  

  Miff ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2011 @ 08:20am

  Something I've been wondering

  If filesharing is criminal instead of civil, does that mean that people who can't afford to defend would be able to get a public defender?

• On the post: No, Having Open WiFi Does Not Make You 'Negligent' And Liable For $10,000

  

  Miff ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2011 @ 12:12pm

  Every time I see one of these articles, I wonder how "open wi-fi" translates in relation to "insecurely closed wi-fi".

• On the post: Shouldn't The Infringement Tracking System Used In New Six Strikes Program Be Open To Scrutiny?

  

  Miff ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2011 @ 03:25pm

  Remember back when everyone thought that if your IP is revealed you become "hackable"? Well, now it's true!
  
  I forsee a severalfold rise in "injector" software that allows one to insert IP addresses into a BitTorrent swarm.
  
  Maybe we could shut down 76.74.24.200 (riaa.com), 69.172.201.20 (mpaa.org), 184.51.36.110 (whitehouse.gov), 143.228.181.132 (house.gov), and more- the possibilities are endless!

• On the post: California Appeals Court Strikes Down Law That Required DNA Samples From Everyone Arrested

  

  Miff ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2011 @ 04:48am

  Well the solution to that kind of thing is easy: I'll just get a patent on my own DNA and sue anybody who takes a DNA sample. ;)

• On the post: New Study: Piracy Increases The Quality Of Content

  

  Miff ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 02:31pm

  Of course Team Fortress 2 is freemium now, so take that as you will.

• On the post: DMCA Takedown Used To Try To Silence Science Blogger Providing Comet Facts

  

  Miff ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2011 @ 03:02pm

  Next time I'm court I'm just going to lie under oath if it helps my case, now that I know that perjury has no penalties whatsoever.

• On the post: It's Baaaaaaack, Yet Again: Totally Pointless, Unnecessary & Damaging Fashion Copyright Bill Returns

  

  Miff ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2011 @ 11:32am

  Re: What is it with you and the "fashion industry"?

  You rich people with your clothes have no idea what the concerns for the (naked) little guys.

• On the post: Swedish Occupational Psychologist First To Recognize The Debilitating Effects Of Heavy Metal Music

  

  Miff ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2011 @ 11:09am

  I don't get it.

• On the post: Rep. Anna Eshoo (From Silicon Valley!) Thinks PROTECT IP Is About Immigration?

  

  Miff ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 10:10am

  Writing to an elected constituent? You might as well send fan mail to Justin Bieber, you'd have a better chance of getting the intended person to read it.
  
  Hell, for all I know, modern technology allows them to open, OCR, respond with a pre-printed response, and destroy any trace of the letter without human eyes ever touching it.
  
  And god help you if you think email does anything.

• On the post: Vancouver Rioters Trying To Abuse Copyright To Avoid Being Identified, Which Only Helps Identify Them

  

  Miff ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2011 @ 11:39am

  Out of curiosity

  Has anyone ever been prosecuted for perjury for filing a false DMCA complaint?

• On the post: Marcel de Jong's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Miff ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2011 @ 03:02pm

  I personally think there need to be three words for free:
  
  Free as in freedom
  Free as in no money paid
  And free as in no cost paid period

• On the post: MPAA: Forget National Security, This Is About Internet Security!

  

  Miff ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 11:41am

  "... there is some kind of HTML super code out there that, if inputted into a simple blog post, would literally undo the internet."
  
  Oh yeah, Chrome added that as a proprietary feature: <x-webkit-destroy-internet>

• On the post: Can Google+ Succeed Merely By Being Not Facebook?

  

  Miff ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 11:44am

  I like my anonymity, does Google+ mean I have to verify my identity on my Gmail accounts or risk having them being deleted? ;_;

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