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  • On the post: Ubisoft Learns Nothing From Its DRM Past; Condemns Paying Customers To Repeat It

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2011 @ 01:02am

    I was actually looking forward to Driver: San Francisco. Congratulations, Ubisoft, you've definitely lost at least one sale.

  • On the post: Fox Decides To Drive Fans To Piracy, Rather Than Giving Legitimate Options

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 02:26am

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    That would be a relevant point if it weren't for the fact that FOX network started broadcasting about 15 years AFTER the advent of cable television.

  • On the post: Fox Decides To Drive Fans To Piracy, Rather Than Giving Legitimate Options

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 02:09am

    Re: Re:

    People just think they're entitled to drink alcohol. Damn drunktards.

  • On the post: Fox Decides To Drive Fans To Piracy, Rather Than Giving Legitimate Options

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 02:00am

    Re: Re: Re:

    If it's not legal for you to get something, you don't get it.

    This scenario is your worst nightmare...and one I'm personally looking forward to.

  • On the post: Kevin Smith Shows The Importance Of Building A Brand As A Part Of CwF+RtB

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2011 @ 03:24am

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    "Dogma" wasn't an Oscar contender. He's talking about "Good Will Hunting." Smith co-produced it, and it earned $225 million worldwide box office.

  • On the post: Zero-Sum Economics

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 10:00pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Not just somethign to flatten your clothes with

    there are too many places in these here United States were you are no longer safe to walk after dark

    Such places existed in the United States 100 years ago, as well. My point is that it's not a probably only endemic to the current generation, as you're stating.

  • On the post: Zero-Sum Economics

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2011 @ 02:18am

    Re: Re: I understand it...

    "Peeing into the wind" is not a proverb.

    Carry on.

  • On the post: Zero-Sum Economics

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2011 @ 02:12am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Not just somethign to flatten your clothes with

    Go walk down your street and check out the graffiti,

    Graffiti has been common in any urban area since at least Roman times.

    the garbage missing the can

    Of course, there was no litter prior to the current generation.

    the cars driving by with too loud exhaust systems and even louder MP3 players.

    Low-restriction exhausts were introdueced in the 1940s, and car radios are even older than that. Hardly the current generation.

    Go to the mall and see people pushing and shoving, fighting over parking spaces (and I mean actual fist fights), the amounts of shoplifting, and so on that goes on.

    Which would have just as easily happened in any open-air market in London in the 1600s.

    Pay a visit to the washroom to check out the teens smoking a blunt and pissing on the toilet seats.

    Marijuana is new, apparently. As is poor bathroom etiquette.

    On your way home, don't cut anyone off, road rage could get you killed.

    "Road rage" has existed as long as the automobile, which itself is not an invention of the current generation.

    Don't walk down the wrong street wearing the wrong disrespectful color

    Sounds a bit like the Edo period in Japan, no? Again, not the current generation.

    Here it is, as bluntly as possible: You just sound like another short-sighted, under-informed elderly individual who pines for a rose-colored past that never existed anywhere but in his own mind. Just as people griped about declining moral standards when women starting showing their ankles 100 years ago. Time marches on, but people fundamentally don't change.

  • On the post: Why Sita Sings The Blues Is Perfectly Legal In Germany, But You Still Can't Watch It On YouTube

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2011 @ 02:41pm

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    It's a fail.

    Online discussions never look sillier than when one of the posters attempts to utilize internet slang in the middle of an otherwise serious post.

  • On the post: Pro-IP Blogger Feels Raising The Level Of Debate Means Locking Up Your Comments And Throwing Around The Word 'Freetard'

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 09:38pm

    Re: Re: Re: Fuck the high road

    Why should we fight fair against those with considerably more power to entirely shut us out?

    Because they *don't* have the power to shut us entirely out. Remember who has strength in numbers.

    I understand your frustration, and won't respond nearly as rudely as Mike did, but as it stands now, this is a cultural war, but not a physical one. Patience will pay off.

  • On the post: Pro-IP Blogger Feels Raising The Level Of Debate Means Locking Up Your Comments And Throwing Around The Word 'Freetard'

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 09:17pm

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    ...or state his disagreement on this blog. Which appears to be what he's doing.

    It is indeed called freedom of choice. Problem?

  • On the post: Monkeys Don't Do Fair Use; News Agency Tells Techdirt To Remove Photos

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 11:26pm

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    If he doesn't have to, why should he comply with the request?

  • On the post: Trolls: The Town Drunks Of The Internet

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2011 @ 08:06pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Show me any nasty responses from any regulars on this site that aren't in response to a trollish post by an AC. I doubt you'll find any.

  • On the post: Get Accused Of Copyright Infringement Under New Five Strikes Plan? It'll Cost You To Challenge

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 04:57pm

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    I don't understand why you pirate types can't understand that the party is over.

    Then what are you worried about? If you think the public will forgive you for stealing their public domain and throwing them in jail for creating YouTube mashups, then start paying you money because you seem to think that you produce some content they simply can't live without, then what is it that brings you here?

  • On the post: RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 01:42pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wait a sec, Mike: did the band get $1M? If so, that's plenty.

    I know enough about it to stay away from it, or the so-called "art" it produces.

    How is your career going? Not seeing your big mythical piles of cash, and assuming those darned PIRATES must be responsible? Your kind is so pathetic. You stand for nothing, and accomplish even less than that.

  • On the post: RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 01:40pm

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    Uh no, they didn't. Good job with that citation, by the way.

    The rest of your post is typical copywhiner ad-hominem, which is not worthy of in-depth response from me.

  • On the post: RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 12:45pm

    Re: Re: Re: Wait a sec, Mike: did the band get $1M? If so, that's plenty.

    They're all ridiculously bad.

  • On the post: RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 12:40pm

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    Paying an "artist" for their work is a "handout?" Did you actually just say that?

    And you douches keep trotting out some variation of, "if it's a bad contract, they shouldn't have signed it." Newsflash: If virtually every contract out there follows this same model (and they do, indubitably), AND you're naive enough to believe in the "golden ticket" the recording contract is supposed to represent, then you sign whatever contract is offered to you, or you go without one.

  • On the post: RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2011 @ 12:23pm

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    They got their mansions and fancy cars from record sales royalties.

    [Citation needed]

    Protip: No, they didn't.

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

    RadialSkid ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2011 @ 08:51pm

    Re: Re: I Blame the Artists

    because the fans want it for free.

    That's because the market dictates the cost, you selfish, entitled whiner. Supply the people what they want, or stay out of the way and let others do it.

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