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• On the post: Redditors Launch A 'Rescue Mission' For Embattled Sci-Hub, With The Ultimate Aim Of Building A Decentralized Version

  

  Nop ( profile ), 23 May, 2021 @ 03:13am

  Re:

  They're 100GB chunks. I'm seeding one myself, & will do more when I have more disk space available.
  You're misunderstanding the purpose of this exercise, which is to ensure that the data behind SciHub isn't lost if the Kopyright Kops shut down the org &/or the people running it. It's vital that, no matter what they do, the data itself remains available, otherwise they win.

• On the post: Brew Dog, Aldi Get Into Brand Battle With Good Nature, Not Cease And Desists

  

  Nop ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2020 @ 08:10am

  Re: Re:

  "The IPA or the drinker?"
  Yes.

• On the post: Portland Journalists Ask For Sanctions As Federal Agents Continue To Assault Reporters And Legal Observers

  

  Nop ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2020 @ 09:43pm

  So, where are the States-Rights zealots?

  So much for their alleged 'principles'.

• On the post: Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting To Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs Are Executable

  

  Nop ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2020 @ 06:23pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Just a thought...

  Some universal remotes have a library of different manufacturers' IR codes, & you have tell it what brand & model of device you want to control - & hope that all your stuff is supported - some work by recording the signals from the proprietary remotes, & yet another kind do both; such as the one that's currently sitting on my lounge room table.
  As wrong as TP is about just about everything else, they're not wrong about the remotes.

• On the post: Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting To Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs Are Executable

  

  Nop ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2020 @ 05:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Just attach copyright to all text files...

  lol, no. Clearly, your nym 'tp' stands for "toilet paper".

• On the post: Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting To Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs Are Executable

  

  Nop ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2020 @ 05:39pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Yes, that was Judge Alsup, who ruled in favour of Google.

• On the post: The War On Fan-Subtitles Comes To Australia in The Form Of Site-Blocking

  

  Nop ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2018 @ 03:09am

  Re: Re:

  The law doesn't care about morales or ethics.

  [Citation needed] Maybe that's true where you live, but this is Australia, where courts have consistently slapped down overly-broad, American-style abuse by copyright holders for decades.

  You've lost this round

  [Citation needed]

• On the post: Appeals Court Tells Lower Court (For The Second Time) To Stop Coddling An Abusive Ex-Deputy

  

  Nop ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2017 @ 01:31pm

  Re: Re:

  You accidentally left out the sarcasm tag in your comment.
  
  HTH!

• On the post: Appeals Court Tells Lower Court (For The Second Time) To Stop Coddling An Abusive Ex-Deputy

  

  Nop ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2017 @ 11:47am

  Re: "We can't hand out more than a slap on the wrist, that wouldn't be fair!"

  You just know that the cop is someone's son in law, or has something on the lower court judge.

• On the post: Australia's AG Says Public Will Be Cool With Encryption Backdoors Because They Use Facebook

  

  Nop ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2017 @ 05:12am

  Re: Please, please, please, be respectful here

  Brandis & his colleagues are the worst kind of hypocritical scum, & they should be treated accordingly.

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  Nop ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2017 @ 10:54pm

  Fighting fund?

  Mike, would you please set up a GoFundMe or whatever so people can easily contribute to Techdirt's defence against this ridiculous lawsuit?
  I would be very happy to donate myself, & heavily promote it amongst my social-media circles.

• On the post: Tesla Gave Up Its Patents, But People Are Freaked Out That Faraday Future Put Its Own Into A Separate Company

  

  Nop ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 05:10am

  Re:

  Um, no, the article is by a climate-change denialist, so I won't be taking it seriously.

• On the post: Tesla Gave Up Its Patents, But People Are Freaked Out That Faraday Future Put Its Own Into A Separate Company

  

  Nop ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2017 @ 05:00am

  Re: Tesla isn't doing it "without relying on IP"

  Nailed it. Thank you for saving me from having to explain the same point.

• On the post: Google Finally Wins One Of Those Nutty Defamation Lawsuits Down Under

  

  Nop ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2017 @ 07:41pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  But what if it were about "barring employees from writing novels on a computer" ?

  Writing novels on a computer, you say? Hm. I bet you could patent that!

• On the post: Microsoft Finally Admits Its Malware-Style Windows 10 Upgrade Sales Pitch Went Too Far

  

  Nop ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2016 @ 05:41pm

  Re: Passive listening

  Thanks for confirming that you have no evidence for your ridiculous claims.

• On the post: Butterball Sues Australian Wine Company Over Its 'Butterball' Chardonnay

  

  Nop ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2016 @ 05:30pm

  Re: Might be proper tho

  Speaking as an Australian, when I was a little boy, "butterballs" were literally lumps of butter shaped into little balls, which were a fancy dinner-table thing to go with your bread rolls. My grandmother used to make them for our weekly family meal. I never heard of the American brand name until a couple of decades after her death.

• On the post: Border Patrol Stops Journalist From Heading To Dakota Pipeline Protests, Searches All Of His Electronic Devices

  

  Nop ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2016 @ 12:07pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Serious Questions...

  There are tons of Americans in foreign jails for crimes they did not commit on that nations soil.

  [Citation needed]

• On the post: Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad

  

  Nop ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2016 @ 08:28pm

  Re: Re: Re: Software Patents

  ignorant to this subject

  
  You mean: "ignorant [of|about] this subject".
  If you're going to grammar-flame someone, it behooves you to avoid making any of your own errors in the process. ;)

• On the post: John Oliver Explains Why You Should Side With Apple Over The FBI Better Than Most Journalists

  

  Nop ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2016 @ 11:53am

  Re:

  Torrent sites are your friend. As are VPNs.

• On the post: Facebook Prude-Patrol Nixes Another Work Of Art By A Feminist, Entirely Proving Her Decades-Old Point

  

  Nop ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2016 @ 10:17pm

  Re:

  You're missing the point. It's not accusing you of being a misogynist for misinterpreting the image, it's making the point that we - all of us - are taught by society to interpret pictures in sexual ways.

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