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• On the post: SOPA Gives Me Powers That I Don't Want

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 12:25pm

  Re: Re:

  Crap, this was supposed to reply to the post 2 down.

• On the post: SOPA Gives Me Powers That I Don't Want

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 12:24pm

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  After reading this, I imagine SOPA as an elephant gun, and see businesses evolving because people go out and shoot down all the ones that aren't cute or fast enough.

• On the post: Facebook, Twitter, eBay & Other Big Internet Companies Come Out Against SOPA

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 10:54am

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  Wish granted, Mike! Pretty quickly as well.

• On the post: Same Talking, Different Heads: How Not To Localize News

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2011 @ 12:39pm

  All these newscasters receive my stamp of approval for pushing the envelope.

• On the post: Hollywood Front Group Rounds Up 4,000 Letters Sent To Congress, Pretending It's 100,000

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2011 @ 12:11pm

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  Oh they can be real replies. I have a friend in a band, and the other night he started asking me how I could possibly defend piracy because didn't I want my favorite artists to keep making money?
  
  Besides putting words in my mouth (claiming that stating that piracy is inevitable and people should stop suing over it means that I encourage piracy) when I asked him if an illegal download is stealing, his answer was an unequivocal yes. When I asked him why copyright should be so long, and did he really think that only his children's children should be able to use his work without permission, he again stated yes, and that no one else should be able to use it. When I said that copyright shouldn't be a welfare system, he asked why not and said he was perfectly fine with it being that way, and that maybe the public domain was given too much credit and perhaps we've gotten to a point where there shouldn't be a public domain anymore because why should anyone else get to profit off his labor?
  
  No, he wasn't trolling. Yes, he really believes that. No, I don't know how to argue with someone who has a viewpoint that strong in that direction.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Hates Libraries, Wants To Embargo DVD Sales To Libraries For A Month

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2011 @ 11:08am

  Can you believe the gall of those horrible, horrible libraries, and their support of freetard culture? What good have they ever done for anybody, hmm?

• On the post: Could Reddit Make Its Own 'Rome, Sweet Rome' And Compete With Warner Bros.?

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2011 @ 11:53am

  Re: Wait just a sec...

  Wasn't that the point of the whole article? Not that Warner couldn't do the movie, but that the question of exclusivity is where the issue lies? Or did I read a different article and then end up posting here?

• On the post: British Historian On Porn And Internet Censorship: North Korea Is Right — The Internet Is Our Enemy

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2011 @ 11:23am

  Re: Re: origami...

  I wish I was surprised

• On the post: Yahoo Dumps US Chamber Of Commerce Over Its Extremist Position On PROTECT IP

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2011 @ 12:22pm

  Lobby groups feel the same to me as home owner associations... there's gotta be a few good ones out there, that help people out, but I'll be danged if the ones that make the news don't just leave a bad taste in my mouth.

• On the post: Does Amazon Want to Monopolize The Entire Publishing Chain?

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2011 @ 10:07am

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  It depends... would they be Wonder Woman type of Amazons?

• On the post: Is Copyright a Moral Imperative?

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2011 @ 08:03am

  Re: Moral imperative?

  Enshrining moral imperatives in law reminds me of how some rules were enforced back when I was in school. If you got caught, you were forced to spend X number of hours volunteering at a local charity. I didn't have any issues with charity work as a punishment, but using the word 'volunteer' always sat poorly with me. If I was forced to do it, it was no longer volunteering.
  
  Same with morals being made a law. If you only do something because the law says you must / must not, it's no longer really a moral decision.

• On the post: Offering Solutions Rather Than Criticism

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2011 @ 08:36am

  Might I suggest and even larger club? ;)

• On the post: Blink-182 Rewards Fans Who Uploaded Unauthorized Clips On YouTube

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2011 @ 01:19pm

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  Not sure if serious.

• On the post: Blink-182 Rewards Fans Who Uploaded Unauthorized Clips On YouTube

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2011 @ 01:18pm

  I love it so much when I see stuff like this. Totally made my day :)

• On the post: Should ISPs Cut Off The Entertainment Industry For Pushing Them To Censor?

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2011 @ 09:24am

  I don't doubt that firms will eventually come around to embracing what technology can do. The cassette tape was eventually embraced. The VCR was eventually embraced. Lots of stuff was eventually embraced. I just wish they'd look back at these examples and then start embracing new technology more quickly instead of dragging out the same old tired schtick.

• On the post: Did The AP Claim Copyright On Public Domain NASA Pictures?

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2011 @ 06:12am

  Takedown

  I'm just waiting for Mike to get the notice that he has to remove these copyrighted photos

• On the post: University Of Calgary Refusing To Pay Access Copyright Any More

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 07:15am

  Re: Universities are to greedy

  Not to mention, auditors would have a heyday with this.

• On the post: University Of Calgary Refusing To Pay Access Copyright Any More

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 07:14am

  Re: Universities are to greedy

  I bet you're dead wrong. If universities were charging the access copyright money and throwing it into a pot, either tuition would go up, or the amount of student services would go down. Either way, it would affect their bottom line because they'd lose students over it.

• On the post: Copyright Troll John Steele Insists That 70-Year Old Is Responsible For Porn Downloads… Even If Someone Else Used WiFi

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2011 @ 04:28pm

  Even if it doesn't fall under "service provider" it still falls under "man is he stupid to be pursuing this case!"
  
  Having an open WIFI does not imediatly equate to guilt.

• On the post: Newspapers Win Suit Against Google, Get Their Wish To Be Delisted, Then Complain

  

  Mr. LemurBoy ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 10:46am

  Does this mean we're getting to see some Belgians waffle?

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