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  • On the post: New HTC Phones Stopped At Customs Due To Apple Patent Fight

    Tim K ( profile ), 17 May, 2012 @ 05:49am

    Re:

    This is for the pantent of clicking on a phone number in a browser and having it bring it up in the dialer

  • On the post: New HTC Phones Stopped At Customs Due To Apple Patent Fight

    Tim K ( profile ), 16 May, 2012 @ 08:44pm

    Also I believe it's pretty clear that this is solely to block competition as they did not attempt to block the HTC One S, the smaller member of the One family, but with the same software, that is being sold on T-Mobile who doesn't have an iPhone, but only on the two (though almost identical) phones that are supposed to be the most powerful phones on the market atm who are on Sprint and AT&T who both carry the iPhone. I pre-ordered the phone and was looking forward to getting it tomorrow, and this has not stopped me from wanting it, but rather made me want anything apple even less

  • On the post: Biggest Kickstarter Project Ever Surpasses $10 Million; Cuts Off Funding

    Tim K ( profile ), 15 May, 2012 @ 06:08am

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    Um, maybe because I'm on a Kayak in the middle of the water and my phone is tucked safely away in a waterproof box, yet I want to still be able to look at the time, or look at the runkeeper stats to see how long/far I've gone. Or say I'm riding my bike and have my phone in my backpack or pocket and want to check runkeeper, or play/pause/skip a song. There are lots of reasons where getting my phone out would be inconvenient compared to looking at/using the watch.

  • On the post: It's Amazing The Lengths 'Music Supporters' Will Go To In Trying To Trash Success Stories

    Tim K ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 06:24am

    the artists are paid (barely, maybe)

    ...resulted in a pittance actually finding its way to the artist?s pocket

    Does it seem ridiculous to anyone else how it's mentioned several times how they admit the artists frequently get almost no money?? How is that better for the artist then us giving them all the money?

  • On the post: Confused Jury Says Google Infringed On Oracle's Copyright, Sorta, But Maybe Not

    Tim K ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 12:02pm

    Sounds like the jury really doesn't know what the hell they are talking about...

  • On the post: Misguided Senators Propose Plan To Make It Harder For Law Enforcement To Track Down Human Trafficking Online

    Tim K ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 12:21pm

    Re: Re: Re: I agree...but also disgree

    I think Mike went into this a bit more in one of the previous posts about this. He mentioned that Craigslist was willing to work with law enforcement to help them track down these people, but when you force Craigslist to shut that part down, then they move to other services who may not be as willing to help as the previous users, on top of which, you have to find out where they scattered to. So no, you don't do nothing, you work with the company to find them.

  • On the post: Hasbro Offers Nerf Blogger Free Samples, Sends Lawyers And Investigators Instead

    Tim K ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2012 @ 07:07am

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    Along with the fact that the lawyers showed up, but the merch never did...

  • On the post: Tor Listens To Authors And Readers And Ditches DRM

    Tim K ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2012 @ 06:49am

    Re: How about a low-tech replacement to DRM

    They could do that, but I'm sure it would be easy enough for people to strip out, just as in the DRM they currently use. Then you also have the potential for people who have their files stolen, whether from hacking, lost e-reader, lost laptop, etc, and then those files get posted.

  • On the post: Tor Listens To Authors And Readers And Ditches DRM

    Tim K ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2012 @ 06:08am

    Now if they would not price fix...

    While this is a good step, I still won't buy from them because they are part of Macmillan who was one of the publishers not to settle to the price fixing charges. It's unfortunate too, cause I really like some of the authors, but when I went on Amazon to buy an ebook it was 11.99, which I'm not going to pay

    Kindle Edition $11.99
    Hardcover - New $14.95 -- New $13.45 -- Used $7.80

  • On the post: Cultural Insanity: You Can't Show A Painting In A Movie Without Paying The Copyright Holder

    Tim K ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2012 @ 01:28pm

    Re:

    From something over a hundred fucking years old, go whine somewhere else, or at least be a troll that puts some thought into their bitching

  • On the post: How Rumblefish Ended Up Claiming Copyright On A Song Uploaded By The Band Who Actually Held The Copyright

    Tim K ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2012 @ 06:00am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    So you're saying new companies will eventually screw you, so why not just stick with the company currently screwing you?? That sounds brilliant. Or if those new companies try and screw you, they'll just lose people to newer companies that are not the monopolistic market controller

  • On the post: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Quizzes US Register Of Copyrights Over Close Connection To Industry

    Tim K ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 10:10am

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    Wasn't Lofgren one of the leading Congress members to go against SOPA, which I'm sure would have already stopped some of those campaign contributions

  • On the post: Hollywood Still Trying To Kill The Golden Netflix Goose

    Tim K ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 06:37am

    People claim it's not greed...

    Yet Companies like Starz try to increase the price by 100 times their previous agreement,Netflix had been paying an estimated $30 million annually; Starz is believed to have demanded as much as $300 million a year to renew.

  • On the post: Hollywood Still Trying To Kill The Golden Netflix Goose

    Tim K ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 06:33am

    Re: Re:

    FTA: As it is, Netflix has already agreed to pay about $4 billion in licensing fees during the next few years. CEO Reed Hastings foresees spending billions more.

  • On the post: If Publishers Can't Cover Their Costs With $10 Ebooks, Then They Deserve To Go Out Of Business

    Tim K ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2012 @ 06:58pm

    Re: Cost Pricing

    According to Amazon, the way to maximize profit would be to sell it <= $9.99. Sure people will pay more, but more people will pay less. So in order to extract as much out of the market they need to lower their price

  • On the post: If Publishers Can't Cover Their Costs With $10 Ebooks, Then They Deserve To Go Out Of Business

    Tim K ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2012 @ 06:54pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Books don't cost all that much to print.

    DRM has definitely harmed the consumer, informed or not. DRM locks users into their specific devices, if I have a Kindle and it breaks or I want to switch to nook, I can't just switch any book I bought over to the nook. Unless by informed you mean those willing to break the DRM. There was an article on here awhile ago about I think it was Ubisoft where the legit consumers couldn't play their game because the DRM authentication servers were being migrated. Always online DRM prevents users from using their paid for content offline (and it's not just multiplayer/online products that use this). UltraViolet is so horribly broken because of the DRM people don't use it, I saw today on facebook Star Trek was advertising how you could get it on UV and almost all the comments talked about how terrible UV is. And there are lots and lots more examples of how DRM hurts consumers, while doing nothing to prevent unauthorized access.

  • On the post: US Gov't Says Megaupload Shouldn't Be Allowed To Use Top Law Firm It Hired For Its Defense

    Tim K ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2012 @ 11:58am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing my mind

    and should there exist digital evidence, allowing megaupload to destroy said evidence is absurd.

    You mean the evidence that the government wanted to destroy yet MU is fighting to keep alive?? Which btw, had you read the article you would have seen that Mike pointed that bit out already

  • On the post: Yes, Copyright's Sole Purpose Is To Benefit The Public

    Tim K ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2012 @ 10:44am

    Re:

    no offense intended.

    Why bother saying that when all you did was attack him without even talking about how he supposedly misinterprets everything?

  • On the post: Yes, Copyright's Sole Purpose Is To Benefit The Public

    Tim K ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2012 @ 10:37am

    Re: Harmed? I'm not harmed by rich artists. I'm made happier

    you probably think that making a copy of someone else's work is "innovation"

    Copying others work and building on it is innovation. Just copying is obviously not innovation, that's copying. You think google wasn't innovative? They weren't the first search engine, they weren't the first to do email, create a set of office applications, music locker, etc, but they are successful because they built off of what other people had already made.

  • On the post: Just How Much Do Shows Like Game Of Thrones Owe To Piracy?

    Tim K ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2012 @ 05:45am

    Re: Wrong-- It's the paywall

    HBO On Demand and HBO Go pretty much get rid of the reason for legit users to pirate stuff.HBO On Demand and HBO Go pretty much get rid of the reason for legit users to pirate stuff.

    Those would get rid of the reason to pirate if you didn't already have to have HBO through the cable companies. With it being pirated so much, how much money would they make if they offered it to those pirates at a low cost? And lower cost doesn't have to mean lower profits.

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