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• On the post: It's Never Enough: Both RIAA & MPAA Aren't Satisfied With Google Punishing 'Pirate' Sites

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2012 @ 08:26am

  This should result in improved rankings for the licensed music services that pay artists and deliver fans the music they love.
  
  So the *AA sites should be pretty low since they hardly pay the majority of artists right?

• On the post: Google Caves To Hollywood Pressure: Will Now Punish Sites That Get Lots Of 'Valid' DMCA Notices

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 11:24am

  Re:

  So you're saying they are essentially censoring, but since they are technically not doing it it's ok. And what about all the bogus copyright claims?

• On the post: Authors Guild Asks For $750 For Every Book Google Scans; While Google Points Out That There's No Evidence Of Any Harm

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2012 @ 08:09am

  Re:

  Google isn't working to index the content of the books for fun
  Oh Noes, Google is trying to make money while providing a useful service, those bastards! Seriously though, I didn't realize they were trying to hide the fact that everything they do is of some benefit to them, whether directly or indirectly. This gets people to view part of the book, which is fair use, whereas downloading the full scan would obviously not be fair use and no one, other than you is even trying to say that. Google will however let you buy the book, which in case you were wondering, is a good thing

• On the post: Charging $40,000 To Issue A Patch Makes Games 'Better,' Microsoft?

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2012 @ 10:36am

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  Don't you find it strange that we never needed updates to our Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PS1 and PS2 games? Those games shipped in working condition.
  
  Actually that's not true. There were lots of bugs in games. True, they did work, but so does this game. According to what I read it happens to about 1% of people who patch. How can you be expected to catch every bug, especially when it happens to such a small percentage? As to games not having patches before, they did, but they were done and new versions were released, so people who bought the original game had a different version with different bugs then someone who bought it 6 months or a year later. One specific example of that is Super Smash Brothers: Melee. There were bugs in the original that my friend has, but in my copy that I bought years later, they are fixed. I'm not saying devs don't release buggy games now, I mean almost every game on the Wii was just kinda thrown together and not done right (part of the reason Nintendo isn't doing so well now after the hype ran out), but a game/software will never be 100% working with no bugs when initially released.

• On the post: Yet Another Study Shows You Can Compete With Piracy

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2012 @ 11:52am

  Re:

  I think we broke him...

• On the post: Yet Another Study Shows You Can Compete With Piracy

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2012 @ 11:49am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Proving once again that you don't have any real/valid arguments but just like spouting out complete and utter nonsense.

• On the post: Lord Finesse Learning How The Streisand Effect Works: Tons Of People Re-Upload Dan Bull's Video

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2012 @ 05:31am

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  The copyright takedown wasn't even valid. The reason he didn't fight it himself was because to do so would put his youtube account in jeopardy, not because he thought his content was illegal. So by using a different medium he allows his youtube channel to be safe, while still sharing his video

• On the post: Lord Finesse Learning How The Streisand Effect Works: Tons Of People Re-Upload Dan Bull's Video

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2012 @ 05:28am

  Re:

  Lol, that's a form of punishment that society gives for not following the norms. That's how things work. If people aren't shamed or otherwise punished for doing something wrong they keep doing it. Glad you're starting to learn how we as a society work.

• On the post: MPAA Points To Its Roster Of Crappy Online Services And Asks What We're Complaining About

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 06:15am

  Re:

  I think you need to say pirate a few more times in your rant...

• On the post: MPAA Points To Its Roster Of Crappy Online Services And Asks What We're Complaining About

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2012 @ 05:37am

  The Problem

  'Look, why don?t we sell people what they want to buy,? and I think that will take care a huge proportion of the problem,?
  
  That would solve the problem, but the problem isn't piracy, the problem is a lack of legitimate options.

• On the post: Megaupload Extradition Hearing Postponed Until At Least Spring Of 2013

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2012 @ 08:33am

  Re:

  If he isn't guilty, why fight extradition?
  
  Maybe because he, and everyone else in the world can see that the US doesn't give 2 shits about whether or not what he was doing was legal, and they don't care about following their own laws in going after him, so why would he expect to find a fair trial once here?

• On the post: Petition With 90,000 Signatures Of People Worried About TPP Hand Delivered To USTR Negotiators

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2012 @ 11:26am

  Re: 2 > 90,000

  Obviously it is, cause everyone knows that really those groups represent hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people...

• On the post: Rep. Jackie Speier Puts Forth Bill To Extend TSA To Mass Transit

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 09:47am

  I thought everyone by this point (including their old boss) knew that the TSA was worse than useless, and all it did was let terrorists know how are 'security' works and violated are freedom...why would we want this expanded to anywhere when it should be going the other direction and shut down?

• On the post: US Copyright Office, MPAA Celebrate Handing Hollywood Stars Their Own Special Copyright Monopoly Powers

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 08:58am

  You know it's a bad sign when Dodd's is happy about something being passed

• On the post: Matthew Inman To Charles Carreon: Take Time Off, Stop Saying Crazy Sh*t To Journalists, Calm Down

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2012 @ 05:25am

  You left out his awesome ending where he says 'hugs and sexy bear kisses'

• On the post: Apple Steps Into Patent Fight To Unnecessarily Silence A Little Girl

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2012 @ 08:36am

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  Or until an injunction*, which is what this article is about, that they don't even bother asking for an injunction, which is the only thing that would make Apple have to remove this before the case ended. Without an injunction, they don't have liability

• On the post: Apple Steps Into Patent Fight To Unnecessarily Silence A Little Girl

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2012 @ 08:34am

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  They don't have to do anything until the court case is settled, that's kind of the whole point of the case, to determine if there is a violation or not

• On the post: Commerce Dept: Steve Jobs Had Patents, Steve Jobs Made Cool Things; Thus Patents Are Great

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 12:02pm

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  Lol, you don't actually read anything on this site do you? Mike has mentioned several times that Apple is a great innovator. He talks about how they take other products and makes them better, which is a good thing. They do create some stuff on their own, but a lot of what they do they pull from elsewhere and improve it. However, when someone tries to do the same with something Apple has, suddenly they are parasites who deserve to go out of business, even if it costs all of Apple's money (referring to Jobs' feelings about Android)

• On the post: Apparently The USTR Thinks 'Unprecedented Transparency' Means Hiding TPP Details From 98% Of Congress

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 25 May, 2012 @ 08:17am

  Re: The missing link

  It's classified, but Wyden had his staff get the necessary clearances, so classification shouldn't even be an issue

• On the post: YouTube Uploads Hit 72 Hours A Minute: How Can That Ever Be Pre-Screened For 'Objectionable' Material?

  

  Tim K ( profile ), 23 May, 2012 @ 12:09pm

  Re: Automating filtering

  Also, how do you automate taking fair use into account?

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