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• On the post: UK Prime Minister Wants To Ban Suspected Rioters From Facebook & Twitter

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2011 @ 02:14pm

  I think he'll find the answer to "is it possible?" is a deafening NO! Followed by "... you idiot".

• On the post: Judge Says Making It Harder To Exercise Free Speech Does Not Create Substantial Hardship

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 03:52pm

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  lmao... still making shit up I see, bitching about artists rights? you reading the same thread? Where in his post does he talk about artists rights then?

• On the post: Judge Says Making It Harder To Exercise Free Speech Does Not Create Substantial Hardship

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 02:04pm

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  I don't honestly know why they seized a domain name from an organisation declared legal in its home county using servers based in another... I use the site to watch sports that no one wants me to pay for here in the UK, I've offered to pay but then just say I can't as I don't live in the US...
  
  The didn't manage to take down the site or curtail its traffic did they. They just removed one of the many ways to get to it. If you want to take a site down you have to actually take the servers it runs on, what ICE did was take the number plates off the car but didn't take the car.

• On the post: Judge Says Making It Harder To Exercise Free Speech Does Not Create Substantial Hardship

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 01:57pm

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  It was, I spent the afternoon and following day streaming US sports that I can't get in the UK, I'd have prefered to pay for them but living in the UK no one in the US wants to take my money, they just tell me I can't view the streams... ho, hum.

• On the post: Judge Says Making It Harder To Exercise Free Speech Does Not Create Substantial Hardship

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 01:50pm

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  Please explain, given your answer "seizure of domain name = website taken down" how the webiste stayed up and after a brief blip saw its page views and usage increase?
  
  Do you know much about how the internet works?

• On the post: Judge Says Making It Harder To Exercise Free Speech Does Not Create Substantial Hardship

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 01:45pm

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  oooh a time traveller! Didn't I read somewhere that it was impossible? This AC seems to be proven that wrong!!

• On the post: Judge Says Making It Harder To Exercise Free Speech Does Not Create Substantial Hardship

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 01:43pm

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  OMG.... A troll with blinkers on and one who reads things that aren't there... Please let us know where we can find this information on Techdirt where Mike cheers the removal of artists rights? I for the life of me cannot find it... I can find numerous posts where Mike tries to help artists come up with new 21st century business models and tries to explain to industries how they can counter the "pirate/freetard model" with innovative products that offer the customer something of value... but, but... you're not interested in any of that are you?

• On the post: Judge Says Making It Harder To Exercise Free Speech Does Not Create Substantial Hardship

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2011 @ 11:55am

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  Which is pretty much where we are now in the UK with designated "Protest areas" where people are "kettled" together... I thought the US was founded on greater principals, pity they seem to be eroded at every oportunity to prop up the failing business models of the entertainment industries.

• On the post: Writer Explains How Copyright Has Prevented Her From Ever Seeing TV Shows She Wrote

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2011 @ 12:16pm

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  yes, yes... I'm sure studios still send out screeners you know. But do tv companies send out episode 19 of series 2 TV programmes from 15 years ago... that's the question.
  
  Answer probably starts with an N and sounds like blow.

• On the post: Arresting People Associated With Anonymous Unlikely To Have The Impact The Feds Expect

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2011 @ 11:10am

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  Just connect with a ?15 USB WiFi adapter which you can lob in the bin after the command is sent.

• On the post: Labels Finally Realize It's Better To License Music To Baidu Than To Fight It

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2011 @ 06:55am

  Well at least ICE won't have to seize baidu.com in the next round of Operation In Our Sites.

• On the post: Senators Ask Ingelligence Boss If He Thinks He Can Track People's Phone Locations

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2011 @ 02:53pm

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  Did you choose your name because you think you are a patriot or was the choice txpatriot ironic?

• On the post: American-Statesman: Suspect Position, Bad Example, Another Bad Example, Debunked Statistics, Contradiction

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 08:10am

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  and if Heroin and most drugs where legal like cigarettes and alcohol all that lovely enrichment of others could be regulated and taxed... but that's another story.
  
  As for the comment "In the case of piracy, the answer is pretty much no." I'd have to ask you to prove it is no. Lots of people have embraced piracy as a form of non paid for advertising and seem to be doing quite well.

• On the post: American-Statesman: Suspect Position, Bad Example, Another Bad Example, Debunked Statistics, Contradiction

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 07:58am

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  So after the 10th word in the post title you tuned out, yet without reading the actual post you still tuned back in to whinge.... lmao!

• On the post: Murdochs' Latest Attempt At Crisis Control: Kill Off News Of The World

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 12:48am

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  lol, the only reason they shut NOTW ws because the vast majority of its advertisers had pulled out, that several large wholesalers were refusing to suplly it to retailers and that plans were afoot to stop people buying it, it wasn't shut down by Murdoch @ Son it had no-where else to go, it wasn't a viable paper any more.
  
  Needless to say the main reason for this action on their part is to try and look like they are doing it for the right reason and take the heat off Murdoch's ambition to buy up the remaining 61% stake in BSkyB. OOPS! The cats out of the bag and lots of people who already didn't want Murdoch to solely own BSkyB have been joined by hundreds of thousands more.
  
  Personally I won't be happy till he has to sell off his entire UK empire and then feck off back to Oz or the US.

• On the post: Murdochs' Latest Attempt At Crisis Control: Kill Off News Of The World

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 12:40am

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  That's OK, all the advertising space is being given to charities etc for free and any money it makes from sales is being donated to charity as well. Intesrestingly I'm not sure where you can buy it, last I heard most of the newspaper wholesalers were refusing to supply it!

• On the post: Rupert Murdoch's Journalists Accused Of Hacking Into Murdered Girl's Voicemails, Deleting Some

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2011 @ 07:55am

  Bear in mind that he is also trying to take sole control of BSkyB the largest independant satellite TV service provider in the UK! Hopefully the government won't just give him the green light like they have suggested now that all this has hit the news.

• On the post: More Details On Spanish Music Collection Society Corruption: Accused Of Stealing $550 Million From Artists

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2011 @ 03:10am

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  Well on one hand hand we have actual numbers on the cash stolen (SGAE/SDAE/Microgenesis) and on the other we have no actual numbers on the cost of piracy as you cannot base it on 1 file shared = 1 sale lost.
  
  Mike has never said it is ok to rip off musicians through filesharing, but for some reason the part of your brain that should understand that seems to be defective.

• On the post: Homeland Security Working Hard To Make Sure No One Wants To Use .com Or .net Domains

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2011 @ 02:50pm

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  isn't it .brrrrrrrrr!

• On the post: Homeland Security Working Hard To Make Sure No One Wants To Use .com Or .net Domains

  

  Planespotter ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2011 @ 02:48pm

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  C'mon surely Mikes post above must be the No.1 Funny and Insightful on Sunday, get voting... w00t w00t!

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