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• On the post: MPAA: Real Patriots Don't Share

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2011 @ 10:14am

  sharing is caring

• On the post: Proposal For UK Libel Reform Fixes Many Problems, Leaves Plenty Of Others

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2011 @ 12:11am

  About time but as you say more needs to be done.

• On the post: Newspaper Tells Reporters Not To Engage With Community

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2011 @ 12:05am

  As i work in media i can tell you they have it wrong. How do they think reporters work if you don't engage with the community you miss a large part of the story, weather that engagement is on line or in the field you have to engage with people. Our reporters are told to specifically engage with the community at all levels.

• On the post: House Hearing On File Sharing Turns Into 'But Why Can't Google Magically Stop All Bad Things Online' Hearing

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 11:53pm

  time to find another search engine mmm not bling that even worse its micro$.

• On the post: Are Homeland Security's Domain Seizures Actually Working? Doesn't Look Like It

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 11:48am

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  take out the word constitutional and you have what America is doing ignoring the rights of people who may be operating legally in their own country. Sooner or later they will be hit by one hell of a lawsuit for a legal site they took down. and i will dance on the ICE grave.

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: After 22 Years, Joyce Estate Finally Lets Kate Bush Use Lyrics She Wanted

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 10:55am

  Re: Re: Re:

  i wouldn't have put it like that but basically that was my point.

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: After 22 Years, Joyce Estate Finally Lets Kate Bush Use Lyrics She Wanted

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2011 @ 04:58am

  i am certain it would have given new life to a literary work in music which has happened many times in the past. I example war of the worlds
  Desiderata
  even the ugly duckling poem
  have been put to music and brought new life to the original works.
  
  However it could be argued that 20 years ago it would have worked it may not today.

• On the post: Record Labels May Owe Artists Close To $2 Billion; Lawsuits Ramp Up With Rick James In The Lead

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2011 @ 09:53am

  only 2 billion if you take the amount they SHOULD have paid the artists then over the past ten years only it should come out at 500 trillion. just the amount the RIAA think pirates lose them. Brilliant best thing to happen to major labels death.

• On the post: UK Advertising Board Says CD Jukebox With Hard Drive Can't Advertise That It Copies Music, Since That's Infringement

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2011 @ 10:50am

  Re: Re:

  those in the house of commons are the 0.000000001%

• On the post: Greek Site That Links To Legal Videos By Rightsholders… Sued For Infringement

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2011 @ 10:45am

  Re: Re: Re:

  They are idiots actually. But this is Greece how many cases of this nature have they had unlike the UK or USA not many i guess. Better they throw it quick than risk a AFPI win.

• On the post: Film Company That's Sued Thousands Might Not Even Own Rights To Film It's Suing Over

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2011 @ 09:34am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  you buy a house on a morgsuge who owns the house (the morgauge company) in law the same thing applies with this.

• On the post: UK Advertising Board Says CD Jukebox With Hard Drive Can't Advertise That It Copies Music, Since That's Infringement

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2011 @ 09:20am

  i forgot to say that it is acceptable to 99.999999999% of the UK population.

• On the post: UK Advertising Board Says CD Jukebox With Hard Drive Can't Advertise That It Copies Music, Since That's Infringement

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2011 @ 09:14am

  really never stopped me and never will a law is only enforceable if it is seen to be justifiable and coppywrong is certainly not enforceable. and yes i am in the UK.

• On the post: Film Company That's Sued Thousands Might Not Even Own Rights To Film It's Suing Over

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2011 @ 03:54pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  you are still wrong they had a loan it belonged to the bank not them use what little brain you have.

• On the post: Film Company That's Sued Thousands Might Not Even Own Rights To Film It's Suing Over

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2011 @ 09:51am

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  Stupid git yes you troll I for one am fed up with your silly stupid comments you need a brain transplant oh I know a Sinclair spectrum instead has better logic. As Camelot NEVER paid for the rights they never owned the rights therefore they have committed fraud on 6000 people. think about it. If you buy a car on instalments who owns the car? hint NOT YOU. if you don't pay the instalments who owns and eventually takes the car? hint THE REAL OWNERS.

• On the post: YouTube's Reply In Viacom Case Demolishes Each Of Viacom's Key Arguments

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2011 @ 08:58am

  Re: All this begs one question

  you tube or google have never supported their customers against the MAFiaa.

• On the post: YouTube's Reply In Viacom Case Demolishes Each Of Viacom's Key Arguments

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2011 @ 08:55am

  Re: 'Red Flags' and 'Pirate' Sites

  I have never seen a URL with dot PIR (pirate) or dot BTL (bootleg) recently.
  thet would be fun though.

• On the post: Bizarre UK Free Speech Ban Bars People From Telling Anyone — Including Elected Officials & Lawyers — About Potential Toxic Chemicals

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2011 @ 08:04am

  The company conxerned is HEMPLE a paint manufacturer I cant get much more information like whose ships have this paint but I understand the ministry of defence stopped using their products years ago. link may help
  http://cryptome.org/0003/hempel-toxic.pdf

• On the post: Appeals Court Still Says 'Down Under' Infringes On Decades Old Folk Song

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2011 @ 02:19pm

  Wrell having listened to both songs I CANT HEAR A SINGLE BIT OF THE OLD FOLK SONG tIf I had any thing to do with the band Men at work id tell the court and Larrikin to stick it not one penny or what ever counts for currency down under then leave the country stuff em

• On the post: Truck Drivers Told They Need To Pay A Licensing Fee To Listen To Music While Driving

  

  mike allen ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2011 @ 01:19pm

  Re: Re: Re: Derp

  you are correct as far as the radio station is concerned it has paid to broadcast this music. I fail to see how a lonely trucker IE he is the only person in the cab can possibly be classed as "public". I Therefore think this is the forerunner of having to pay a separate licence to listen to the radio at home or our private cars the word is stupid and SABAM can stick it.

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