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• On the post: The NFL Issues Takedown For Chrysler Super Bowl Commercial

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 07:56am

  Re: Too bad for those not watching the Super Bowl!

  Well, the NFL doesn't get paid for the commercials...NBC does.
  
  Granted NBC paid handsomely to air the Superbowl, but technically the ad fee was paid to NBC not the NFL.

• On the post: NBC News Doesn't Understand Fair Use; Demands Mitt Romney Remove Ads That Use TV News Clips

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 08:54am

  and also...

  Perhaps they shouldn't allow Brokaw to be a guest on political talk shows...

• On the post: Tiny Gamemaker Takes The Right Approach To Giant Zynga Copying Its Game: It Thanks Them

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 10:31pm

  Re: Re: Not a privacy fan

  They run the Android version of the apps through another company, Mobage.
  
  Which apparently is not terribly well liked due to things like the above.

• On the post: Tiny Gamemaker Takes The Right Approach To Giant Zynga Copying Its Game: It Thanks Them

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 01:32pm

  Not a privacy fan

  Tiny Tower on Android needs to be able to load your entire contact database.
  
  Fun or not, they don't get to harvest my data even if it's free. I'll deal with ads but this is just ridiculous.

• On the post: Paulo Coelho On SOPA: 'Pirates Of The World, Unite And Pirate Everything I've Ever Written!'

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 11:07am

  Re: Copyright, go away

  I disagree, copyright is something that needs to be preserved...but not in its current perverted quasi-infinite form.
  
  What needs to change is the acknowledgement that 'personal' use of any kind, including sharing, should constitute 'fair use'.
  
  If I'm 'selling' someone else's work...that's a problem and that's what copyright is *meant* to protect. But freely sharing things shouldn't be the same thing as profiting off someone else.

• On the post: Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 10:54am

  Re: Re:

  well except for the fact that they probably know about Truecrypt and would ask you if there are multiple passwords in use.
  
  No - perjury
  Yes - see answer for first password if you said yes
  no comment - see answer for first password if you refused

• On the post: Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 09:43am

  Re:

  If it was simply written in a language that they don't understand, I am supposed to translate it for them?
  
  Not hardly. They have it, they can do what they want with it, but *I* am not required to 'help' them do that. i.e. the 5th amendment.
  
  The proper way around this is to grant the subject immunity from prosecution for anything found. Then there is no 5th amendment grounds. If the data is that important you do this..but if you only want to prosecute this particular person, then no you aren't supposed to be able to force them to help you.

• On the post: Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 09:35am

  Re:

  I believe the specific request made by the court is that they will not consider providing the password as 'proof of ownership'. They are absolving the defendant of that point to get access to the data contained.

• On the post: Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 09:25am

  Re:

  Yes there was a perfectly valid warrant. This is about how far that warrant should be taken.

• On the post: Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 09:21am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  And then they put you away for destruction of evidence...perhaps it's a lesser charge but they have concrete evidence that you entered a password and the data then changed.
  
  Tampering with evidence is not taken lightly...

• On the post: Movie Theaters' Top Lobbyist Resorts To Making Up Facts Concerning SOPA/PIPA

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2012 @ 01:21pm

  Re: Re: Good Entertainment

  And then the MPAA will claim "See it's counterfeit! [the popcorn!]"

• On the post: Movie Theaters' Top Lobbyist Resorts To Making Up Facts Concerning SOPA/PIPA

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2012 @ 01:20pm

  Re:

  I read that as Fithian still believes Dodd is a Senator and is responsible for crafting the language.
  
  While the reality of today is that likely he (and the MPAA) do a bunch of the language crafting, he is now a private citizen and shouldn't be writing the language.
  
  The way Fithian phrased it though is nicely telling.

• On the post: Fourth Amendment Lives? Supreme Court Says GPS Monitoring Is A Search That May Require Warrant [Updated]

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 01:32pm

  Re:

  The difference is that with a phone, we willfully carry it as we do likewise willfully have GPS in a car we buy. You know it's there it's not a secret even if you can't see the 'data'.
  
  I would like to come into the 21st century where data 'generated' by myself is subject to the same 4th amendment restrictions as anything I have on my person.
  
  However, this case was not about that issue and I'm quite happy the court decided not to expand beyond the current case. I'd rather have more narrow rulings than overly broad ones.

• On the post: Network TV Execs Discover What Pirates Always Knew: Making Stuff Available Online Is Good Marketing

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 09:52am

  Re:

  Legally speaking it is a distinct difference.
  
  One group had legal permission to distribute the content and the other didn't.
  
  Now, the movie studios are humungous hypocrites of course, but the facts and laws are quite clear - and out of date with modern life, but that doesn't mean they don't still apply.
  
  We need to change the copyright laws to allow personal consumption or at least get the owners of the material to not prosecute those who distribute their works.
  
  I'm not taking over under odds on either thing happening :(

• On the post: Musician Peter Gabriel Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA; Website Will Go Dark

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2012 @ 12:08pm

  Re:

  whether a troll or just sarcasm it raises an interesting point.
  
  We shouldn't blindly assume that people coming out against SOPA/PIPA are altruistic in their reasons. Once something gains enough inertia, lots of people will want to be on the side with the momentum.

• On the post: Tim O'Reilly Explains Where The Federal Gov't Has Gone Wrong On SOPA/PIPA: Solving The Wrong Problem

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2012 @ 10:47am

  Re: Consumers ARE being underserved

  "WKRP in Cincinatti" is the poster child for this.
  
  A TV show about a radio station playing many of the hits of the day. It simply can't be reissued due to massive licensing issues.

• On the post: Tim O'Reilly Explains Where The Federal Gov't Has Gone Wrong On SOPA/PIPA: Solving The Wrong Problem

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2012 @ 10:45am

  Re: I still wonder

  The problem is the vast bulk of people opposed to SOPA/PIPA and even more the vast masses who are oblivious...still contribute to the MPAA/RIAA by purchasing and consuming their products.
  
  It sucks, but as long as we keep buying from them, they will always have the money to throw around at Congress.

• On the post: German Court: ISP Must Not Block Access To Foreign Sites, Even If They Are Illegal

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2012 @ 11:30am

  Nazi stuff?

  That'd be the true test for Germany.
  
  They are pretty militant about not even allowing speech on that topic I'm remembering correctly.

• On the post: US Can Extradite UK Student For Copyright Infringement, Despite Site Being Legal In The UK

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2012 @ 11:00am

  Re: Re: The implications...

  Eh, US wanting to bring someone to the US that 'harms' US companies? Not a terribly bad thing. Not great, but I can think of lots of ways this isn't a big deal.
  
  Britain agreeing with that for their own citizen? For something they've deemed legal? That's amazingly bad.
  
  But the precedent it sets for anyone to do similar charges is bad all around.

• On the post: US Can Extradite UK Student For Copyright Infringement, Despite Site Being Legal In The UK

  

  pixelpusher220 ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2012 @ 10:40am

  Re:

  I would say the UK system is rather doing it for them...

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