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• On the post: Olympics Crack Down On Anyone Mentioning Them Without Paying… As White House Tells Everyone To Set Up Olympics Parties

  

  Nick ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2012 @ 11:53am

  Has anyone seen the Citibank commercial where they use their points to rent a large outdoor TV to watch the Olympics? Somehow I think the Olympic trademark police would find this truly offensive if anyone did it in real life.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQ5Ew3YnKs

• On the post: Kim Jong Un's Mysterious Female Companion Hides The Real Issue: Piracy Of Disney Characters!

  

  Nick ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2012 @ 07:11am

  Authorization? North Korea don't need not stinking authorization! Plus, I doubt that even if they wanted to licence the characters there are no channels for them to do so.

• On the post: Announcing The Declaration Of Internet Freedom

  

  Nick ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2012 @ 09:18am

  Re: Question

  Go back and read this part:
  
  

  
  SIGN THE DECLARATION
  
  Individuals: Go to the action pages at Access, CREDO, EFF and Free Press to add your name.
  

• On the post: Announcing The Declaration Of Internet Freedom

  

  Nick ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2012 @ 09:12am

  Re:

  It is a public declaration. An anonymous declaration is meaningless. If you do not wish to publicly declare your support of privacy then you don't believe that strongly anyway. By publicly declaring you support privacy does not mean you give up privacy in other forums. But you are probably just one of the regular AC troll anyway.
  
  "I publicly declare a right to privacy!" said the AC. No, your doing it wrong.

• On the post: London Police Want To Crowdsource Guilt-Free Surveillance

  

  Nick ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 06:46pm

  Re:

  This comment was regarding Facewatch, the topic of the post. I just read through these other off topic comments, and well, no comment.

• On the post: London Police Want To Crowdsource Guilt-Free Surveillance

  

  Nick ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 06:36pm

  This program and its company sounds like a new hack target for Anonymous.

• On the post: Free Culture Is The Response To The Ethical Failings Of The Old Entertainment Industry

  

  Nick ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 11:54am

  Re: A response to the functional failings, rather

  That may be true, but the old model you are referring to would be pre-1709. So now that the pendulum swung too far in the other direction for 300 years we declare that it is unethical and has failed.

• On the post: Sports Stars Rushing To The Trademark Office: Fear The Brow & That's A Clown Question, Bro

  

  Nick ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2012 @ 09:21am

  This stuff is so ephemeral that by the time the mark is granted it is old and "so yesterday." And why would anyone want to smell like a unibrow?

• On the post: Greenpeace Parody Site Censored Using Copyright Infringement Claim

  

  Nick ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2012 @ 10:48am

  Someone needs to help these guys. We should make it possible for others to mirror the site as was done with Wikileaks. Greenpeace, release the source files.

• On the post: A Business Model Failure Is Not A Moral Issue

  

  Nick ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2012 @ 11:32am

  Re: Re:

  That is because grocery stores, electric companies, and ISPs control the supply. Digitized creative works can be copied infinitely. See, that is the difference.

• On the post: CBS Mocks Its Own Failed Copyright Lawsuit By Sarcastically Announcing New 'Completely Original' Show 'Dancing On The Stars'

  

  Nick ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2012 @ 12:16pm

  Re:

  (MTV, creators of The Real World)

• On the post: CBS Mocks Its Own Failed Copyright Lawsuit By Sarcastically Announcing New 'Completely Original' Show 'Dancing On The Stars'

  

  Nick ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2012 @ 12:14pm

  Now we just need The Onion to announce their own network that will start producing multiple original programs and MTV to rename the new Snookie and JW show "Two and a Half People" (her baby is the half).

• On the post: David Lowery Wants A Pony

  

  Nick ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2012 @ 07:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If he wants a pony...

  Mike, he just ran out of valid arguments so now he is taking shots at things he think will make you mad. It reminds me bratty kids on a playground.

• On the post: NSA: Figuring Out How Many US Citizens We Illegally Spied On Would Violate Their Privacy

  

  Nick ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2012 @ 07:11am

  Orwell and Kafka together could not have come up with a better headline!

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

  

  Nick ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 05:23pm

  Steve Jobs had cancer to, so all tech founders should run out and get cancer. I know, such bad taste. And I am an Apple fanboy. But really, the correlation makes about as much sense.
  
  What made Apple a success was Steve Job's good taste, attention to design detail and user experience.

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

  

  Nick ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 05:20pm

  So Mike, can you pass along the name of this spokesperson? I am sure they would love to have this brilliance associated with their name.

• On the post: Filmmaker Compares Copyleft Supporters To Anti-Gay-Marriage Advocates

  

  Nick ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2012 @ 08:15am

  David wants you all to know that his is not all bad, and has a pro-internet, pro-democracy, pro "the little guy" side to him. http://davidnewhoff.com/2012/06/07/greetings-techdirt-fans/

• On the post: Yet Another Of The FBI's Own Terrorist Plots… Involves A Group Of Senior Citizens

  

  Nick ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2012 @ 08:05am

  I wonder about these odds: are you more likely to get caught up in a fake FBI terror plot then you are to actual be killed by real terrorists?

• On the post: This Is Reporting? Fox News Ties Flame Malware To Angry Birds Because Both Use Lua

  

  Nick ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2012 @ 06:02am

  I don't think Fox News counts as one of the big news companies we need to keep around because of their investigative reporting. They are a propaganda outfit disguised as news.

• On the post: Dear Hollywood: The 'Stakeholders' For Copyright Policy Don't Fit In A Room

  

  Nick ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2012 @ 11:12am

  People should demonstrate outside his office and chant this.

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