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• On the post: Short Sighted Newspaper Association Asks Trump To Whittle Down Fair Use, Because It Hates Google

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2016 @ 10:28am

  Trump Land Sky Color

  Sometimes I wonder what color the sky is in Trumpland?

• On the post: In His Final Days, Obama Quietly Expands War Powers Before Handing Them Off To Trump

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2016 @ 09:01am

  Should the CNN amd NYTimes Be Worried

  I wonder if the staff of CNN and NY Times are worried?

• On the post: What The Election Means For Stuff Techdirt Cares About?

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2016 @ 05:58am

  Re: One small silver lining that no one mentoined...

  IIRC the senate is responsible for foreign trade deals. The same republican senate that tried to fast track TPP is the senate that Trump has to work with. Do you think they will allow him to ditch the trade deal? After all, its good for American businesses (many of which are owned by non-Americans). Too many companies that will benefit from TPP gave too much money to senators and super pacs to not have the treaty go through.

• On the post: Finally Come The Calls In Major Media To Rethink Canada's 'Notice And Notice' Copyright System

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2016 @ 07:52am

  Best Strategy is to Ignore the Letters

  The best strategy is to ignore the letters. If you do end up in court, the penalty is the real financial loss to the company (what is the profit margin on a music CD) or a fixed amount of not less than $100 and not more than $5000 for all of your previous copyright violations (if the infringement is non-commercial).

• On the post: Appeals Court Says It's Perfectly Fine For The DOJ To Steal Kim Dotcom's Money Before Any Trial

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2016 @ 11:59am

  Can Kim Dot Com make a claim under TPP

  if New Zealand and the US sign the TPP treaty, I wonder if he could make a claim under the investor-state dispute mechanism? That would be interesting ....

• On the post: After Nine Years Of Censorship, Canada Finally Unmuzzles Its Scientists

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 12 May, 2016 @ 05:03am

  We Are Finally Dismantling the Previous Gov'ts Rights Violations

  The previous government in Canada was one that never allowed facts (or reality) to interfere with their ideology.
  
  This is just the beginning (I hope).

• On the post: FBI Won't Tell Apple How It Got Into iPhone… But Is Apparently Eager To Help Others Break Into iPhones

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2016 @ 08:48am

  Foreign Investors Should File A Dispute

  The foreign investors in Apple should file a claim under a trade deal. The fact that the apple phone has an unreported bug it in will lower sales and hurt the value of their investment.

• On the post: Ridiculous Copyright Fight Still Keeping The Only Video Of The First Super Bowl Locked Up

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2016 @ 12:34pm

  Re: Re:

  Lets assume he did buy the blank video cassette. If he did, can he not sell it under first sales doctrine since the physical item and the copyright are separate?
  
  He should sell it to someone in another country who will stick the game up on the Internet for everyone to watch.

• On the post: Express Scripts Pushing $1 alternative To Turing's $750 Daraprim Pills

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2015 @ 11:44am

  Capitalism?

  The US used to be believe in capitalism. It seems to have moved to a system best described as corporate socialism.

• On the post: Even If You Think Kim Dotcom Is Guilty As Sin, The US Government Stealing His Assets Should Concern You

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2015 @ 09:57am

  Could DOT.COM file a Complaint Under TPP Once IT IS In Force

  Under the terms of the TPP, would DOT.COM be able to file a claim under the investor state dispute tribunnal? This definitely seems like a sovereign nation undertaking actions to limit a company's profits

• On the post: Driverless Cars: Disrupting Government Reliance On Petty Traffic Enforcement

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2015 @ 08:58am

  Two Choices

  You have two choices when you are being tailgated
  1. Constantly slow to 5 miles below the speed limit and then back up.
  2. Buy an old boat of car and jammed your brakes on hard when you are beign tailgated. It is not your fault that the car behind you didn't see the "cat" dart out on the road.

• On the post: Rightscorp Claims Its Harassing Phone Calls Safeguarded By Multiple Constitutional Amendments

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2015 @ 10:07am

  I see A New Business Model

  If this is constituional, I think I will set up a company whereby people receiving these types of calls can pay a small fee and I will set up a ROBO caller to call every executive, senior manager, adn legal consul for the company stating that my client did not infringe every 60 minutes.

• On the post: Will Corporate Sovereignty Disputes Lead To Wars One Day?

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2015 @ 07:38am

  It Will Leadto Dirty Wars

  The trade deals protect corporations, not their employees.
  
  If a company does something you don't like, a country just has to declare it a terrorist act and start legal proceedings against the corporations. If the people are unreachable, the expression is exra-judial killings.
  
  The other option a country has is to buy up the stock if the corporation is publicly traded and they have the copnay give them an exemption on the claim, andthen sell the stock. In many cases its probably cheaper than going through the dispute mechanism.

• On the post: Australia Passes Its Own SOPA, Ignores All Concerns About It

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2015 @ 05:47am

  What About Australia's Obligations Under Trade Treaties

  I see some very bad consequences for Australia under their trade treaty obligations.
  
  Lets say I start a service to provide cloud file storage. Someone uploads copyright material to it. The site get banned by SOPA. I file a complaint under a trade treaty for a few hundred million dollars for lost business.
  
  Does Australia have to start paying out millions of dollars for the privilege of having SOPA?

• On the post: How Corporate Sovereignty Undermines Democracy By Irrevocably Binding Future Governments

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 27 May, 2015 @ 08:37am

  One Option for Corporations

  One option governments have for publicly traded companies is to buy up enough stock so that they can control the company, have the company give the government a "pass" on the claim, and then sell the shares (after firing the current management staff of course).

• On the post: The CIA Will Keep Killing Civilians With Drone Strikes Because The 'Rules' For Drone Strikes Aren't Actually Rules

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2015 @ 03:53am

  Re: Re: Question

  So which one is the coward?

• On the post: The CIA Will Keep Killing Civilians With Drone Strikes Because The 'Rules' For Drone Strikes Aren't Actually Rules

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2015 @ 11:40am

  Question

  What is the difference between an extrajudicial attack and a terrorist attack?

• On the post: Major Record Labels Use Lawsuit Against MP3Skull To Try To Backdoor In SOPA

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2015 @ 09:56am

  Does the US and Russia Have A Trade Deal to Cover This

  Does the US and Russia have a "free trade" deal. It sounds like such a court order would require the US government to conpensate the Russian company.

• On the post: No, Getting Your Music Played On The Radio Is Nothing Like Slavery

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2015 @ 10:12am

  Someone Should Submit a Counter Bill

  The radio stations lobbying association should get their favourite congressperson to submit a bill requiring record labels and artists to pay radio stations for promoting their music.

• On the post: Quebec Looking To Force ISPs To Block Gambling Sites In Order To Protect Its Own State-Run Gambling Portal

  

  paulclarksaintjohn ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2015 @ 08:25am

  IT Will Drag the Feds In

  To make it more fun, if Quebec bans online gambling sites and they make a claim under one of the so called free trade agreements, the federal government has to pay the compensation to the injured parties. There is really no downside to Quebec for doing this. I am surprised they do not require any Internet site accessible in Quebec to be provided in French.

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