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• On the post: Lobbyists Ramp Up Pressure To Get PROTECT IP Passed

  

  Nick ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 04:22pm

  A list of people and organizations against the PROTECT IP Act:
  http://nsputnik.com/2011/07/against-protectip-act-list-of-people-and-orgs/

• On the post: Lobbyists Ramp Up Pressure To Get PROTECT IP Passed

  

  Nick ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 03:13pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I am going to try and meet with my Congresswoman and explain why this is bad. Her office is down the street from me. The passing of this bill breaks the internet as explained by Paul Vixy. The DNS system works. Break it, and now you will have many decentralized DNS systems. This will not stop piracy. Take the time to study this. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110321/03124813572/paul-vixie-explains-why-coica-is-really-dumb-idea.shtml 100 law professors are against it because it is unconstitutional. The people supporting the most innovative companies in the US (VCs in Silicon Valley) are against it. Harming innovation will put the US enven further behind. The New Your Times is against it.
  
  THIS IS NOT ABOUT SUPPORTING FREE ENTERTAINMENT OR BOGUS MEDICATION! This is about the integrity of the internet and about the the ability from descending voices to be heard. See a post from earlier today here on TD about how legislation like this would be abused. Nice try, AC. Maybe if YOU had some conviction you would put your real name behind your comments.

• On the post: Lobbyists Ramp Up Pressure To Get PROTECT IP Passed

  

  Nick ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 02:10pm

  Re:

  sorry, I got excited, I didn't notice this link was already in the post until now.

• On the post: Lobbyists Ramp Up Pressure To Get PROTECT IP Passed

  

  Nick ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 02:09pm

  Fight while there is still time. Write to your Senator and House member to reject the POTECTIP act: https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=487

• On the post: Just Because Two Things Are Similar Doesn't Mean One 'Rips Off' The Other

  

  Nick ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2011 @ 01:59pm

  Re: Re:

  fixed.

• On the post: OECD Supports Making ISPs Copyright Cops

  

  Nick ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 09:08pm

  OECD?

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  http://www.oecd.org/

• On the post: Just Because Two Things Are Similar Doesn't Mean One 'Rips Off' The Other

  

  Nick ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2011 @ 11:10am

  Re: Abolish Copyright

  hi Crosbie.

• On the post: Sony CEO: We Were Hacked By Freetards Who Just Want Everything Free

  

  Nick ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2011 @ 11:01am

  Sony shareholders want Stringer out:
  http://www.industrygamers.com/news/sony-ceo-howard-stringer-asked-to-step-down-at-shareholders-meeting/

• On the post: Just Because Two Things Are Similar Doesn't Mean One 'Rips Off' The Other

  

  Nick ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2011 @ 10:51am

  Here is my response:
  http://nsputnik.com/images/crazy.png

• On the post: TSA Chief Pistole: Maybe We Can Stop Petting Your Children

  

  Nick ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2011 @ 02:24pm

  The US Intelligence Community: they can track down and kill people in foreign countries but they can't be sure you child is not a terrorist.

• On the post: A Filmmaker Explains Why Copyright Sucks Today: An Excerpt From 'Sell Your Own Damn Movie!

  

  Nick ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2011 @ 10:01am

  In fact, while Edison was shooting his films in New Jersey, some bright folks had the idea to get out of New Jersey and New York and head to California to make their movies. It wasn?t because they loved the beach; it was because they wanted to be farther away from Edison so he would have a harder time enforcing his patents.

  
  
  Two of those "bright folks" were bothers. The Warner Brothers. I thought that was an important point that was missed.

• On the post: Mixed Messages: US Talks Of Cleaning Up 'Rogue' Internet… While Underwriting Censorship-Proof Shadow Internet

  

  Nick ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 08:27pm

  One man's rouge website is another man's free speech fighting website.

• On the post: Former Obama Advisor Says Wikileaks Is Wonderful For The US Government

  

  Nick ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 10:46am

  Re:

  fixed.

• On the post: Apple Caves In, Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps For No Good Reason

  

  Nick ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 09:29pm

  It is my opinion that the apps would drive general awareness of checkpoints, not their individual locations. Do you really think drunks are going to take the time to figure out where checkpoints are? Don't you think it might scare them into thinking there might be more police in the general area and just designate a driver?

• On the post: Apple Caves In, Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps For No Good Reason

  

  Nick ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 06:28pm

  You've got to be a complete fucking moron to think posting the same comment three times by Anonymous Cowards strengthens their argument. Those Cowards making such claims seem to think that people will be deterred upon looking at the number of duplicate comments. This is astoundingly na?ve thinking. The fact is that there are few duplicate comments and they are rebutted by pointing them out.

• On the post: Apple Caves In, Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps For No Good Reason

  

  Nick ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 06:24pm

  Re: Re:

  It does not say it in this post, but some states/jurisdictions do require it. Please see some of the past Techdirt posts that are linked to in this post.

• On the post: Apple Caves In, Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps For No Good Reason

  

  Nick ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 05:21pm

  People pushing this need to ask themselves this: is the purpose of checkpoints to catch an lock up as many people as they can or to discourage drunk driving? If people know there was going to be a checkpoint at every intersection, don't you think this would minimize drunk driving overall?
  
  So, grandstanders are for locking people up, while checkpoint awareness advocates (app makers and users) are for reducing drunk driving.

• On the post: 'Geek Power': Best Buy Sends C&D To Newegg Over Marketing Campaign

  

  Nick ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2011 @ 02:34pm

  Re: Color Greed

  You mean yellow, not orange, right?

• On the post: Texas Politicians Back Off Anti-TSA Bill After Being Warned Of Potential Flight Loss

  

  Nick ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 10:31am

  Texas, I am so disappointed in you!

• On the post: Microsoft Blaming 'Piracy' Rather Than Basic Economics For Its Struggles In China

  

  Nick ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 10:19am

  I would say it is a cultural difference too. China is a communists country. Communists = commune = sharing. Sharing resources is the way one survives in China.

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