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• On the post: Oh Look, The Number Of People Employed In The Movie And Music Recording Business Just Hit An All Time High

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2013 @ 04:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: According to OOTB -- you're close enough.

  Megaupload had similar terms of service.

• On the post: Sen. Feinstein Says Congress 'Ready To Take Action' To Rein In Violent Video Games

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2013 @ 09:03am

  Re: NRA is behind this.

  Err...No. It's just Feinstein grandstanding, as usual. She's not affiliated with the NRA, in fact she's one of their most hated government officials.

• On the post: EA COO: We Get Votes For 'Worst Company' Because We're Awesome And Voters Are Homophobes

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2013 @ 01:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Catch 22

  If you understand the relationship between primary and secondary markets, he's absolutely right...buying used does support the original company, albeit in a roundabout way.

• On the post: Recording Industry Lobbyists Accuse Pandora Of Deliberately Not Selling Ads To Plead Poverty To Congress

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2013 @ 12:20pm

  LOL

  I have to admit, I laughed out loud at that.

• On the post: Rather Than Fix The CFAA, House Judiciary Committee Planning To Make It Worse… Way Worse

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2013 @ 10:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Too late

  Not sure I follow. Are you suggesting that there is such a cartridge, or are you replying to the wrong post?

• On the post: Rather Than Fix The CFAA, House Judiciary Committee Planning To Make It Worse… Way Worse

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2013 @ 08:35pm

  Re: Re: Too late

  I don't know of a .30 Magnum pistol cartridge. The FBI were issued .38 Specials and .357 Magnums at the time...specifically, the Smith & Wesson models 10 and 19.
  
  The National Guard troops at Kent State were using M1 Garand rifles, which were chambered for .30-06 Springfield. This is the type of round embedded in the statue artp mentioned.

• On the post: Publishers Show Yet Again How To Make Money By Reducing The Price To Zero

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2013 @ 04:52pm

  Re:

  I'll never understand that mentality, AT ALL. You can't see the profits for the copyright...even though the whiners would be no better off if nobody consumes their content than if individuals consume it without paying, you still insist on the former.
  
  Personally, I believe in granting you your wish. Don't pirate, don't purchase. If a few more people jumped on that train, you fuckers would be BEGGING for the pirates to come back. Where there's relevance, there's always an opportunity for monetization, but where there's irrelevance, there's only irrelevance.

• On the post: Rep. Gohmert's Record For Stunning Technological Ignorance Is Broken By… Rep. Gohmert

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2013 @ 05:20pm

  Re: Re: Re: He's from Texas...

  Thanks for the level-headed response. And sure, Southern politicians are a weird breed, but then again so are most politicians in general. They tend to be flamboyant, grandstanding types to begin with, but you combine that with "home spun" charm and you end up with something...weird.

• On the post: Super Meat Boy Developer To EA: DRM Hurts Your Bottom Line More Than Piracy Does

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 07:40pm

  Re: Lost sales

  Rock Star, really? I've had good luck with them in the past. When did they jump on the annoying DRM and/or anti used game bandwagon?

• On the post: Congressman Already Claims That He Needs To Overturn Supreme Court Ruling In Kirtsaeng

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 07:29pm

  Re: Re: Mike favors grifters over publishers.

  I just sold a used truck recently. Obviously I'm a grifter as well.

• On the post: Rep. Gohmert's Record For Stunning Technological Ignorance Is Broken By… Rep. Gohmert

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 06:28pm

  Re: He's from Texas...

  Tempted to hit the "Report" button, but I won't. Just lay off the anti-South bullshit. It's not funny, it's not enlightening, and far too many people end up believing it, which reflects poorly on those of us who live there.

• On the post: SimCity Always-Online DRM Lets Hackers Play Godzilla With Anyone's Cities

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 12:58pm

  Re:

  I doubt you'll see anymore Prenda articles until the 29th. That's when the fireworks are scheduled, anyway.
  
  Personally, I never tire of the delicious egg on EA's face. I've had a bone to pick with them for about 13 years, ever since they turned the very-promising "Need for Speed: Motor City" into "Motor City Online" and made it online-only when a large percentage of internet users only had unreliable dial-up connections.

• On the post: Maxis GM: Our Vision Is More Important Than Our Customers & Lots Of People Love Our Crappy DRM

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Shills?

  Around 95%. The other five percent are just masochists.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Little Devices That Help You Out

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2013 @ 10:53am

  Over $386,000 pledged for a little dongle? For that kind of money, backers should at least get an average-sized dongle.

• On the post: More Details On Copyright Office's Suggestions On Copyright Reform; Some Good, Some Bad

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2013 @ 07:30pm

  Here's my counter-suggestion:
  
  1. Eliminate "copyright on creation." If you want it, you register for it, period.
  
  2. Copyrights must be renewed every ten years, for a maximum of 50. No exceptions. That maximum window allows a generous amount of time for exclusivity, and the ten year expiration windows helps to prevent the phenomenon of "orphan works."
  
  3. Perhaps most importantly, open up "copyfraud" to civil liability. Any entity that commits copyfraud, through the false claim of copyright, the overstating of copyright privileges (e.g., ignoring fair use), or blatant misuse of copyright takedown notices, can be made by law to compensate any effected parties.
  
  If those three criteria are met, they can "enforce" to their hearts content. Until then, any ideas they have on the subject are simply unacceptable.

• On the post: Avid Gamer (And Minnesota Vikings Punter) Chris Kluwe Does The Math On How Much EA's SimCity Debacle Cost EA

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2013 @ 05:51pm

  Re:

  Fine. We'll admit it's "maths" when you Brits admit there's no "r" in Peugeot.

• On the post: System Used By New Six Strikes CAS, Falsely Identifies Game Mods As NBC TV Shows

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2013 @ 11:03am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Some people that pirate are going to get caught and punished. End of story.
  
  Absolutely NOTHING compared to the punishment your crowd is about to start receiving. It won't be long and virtually everyone with an internet connection will be inundated with these stupid things. Do you think people will tolerate that?

• On the post: UK Lets The Recording Industry Decide What Websites To Censor

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2013 @ 05:10pm

  Re: Re: Re: Why does this blocking concern anyone here?

  You'll presumably be able to continue "perfectly legal activity" of torrenting Linux and so on.
  
  Unless the slimeballs in the "entertainment" industry shut down all the torrent programs and trackers, of course.
  
  They'll surely actually check the first ones they make examples of to be copyrighted content.
  
  Considering the industry has labeled public domain material and even official releases of copyrighted material to be "infringing," then I think it's safe to say they won't check a damn thing. This is the primary problem.

• On the post: Six Strikes Officially Begins On Monday

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2013 @ 07:26am

  Re: Re: Bittorrent Week

  And how, precisely, does your ISP know which files are copyrighted? Do they look at a torrent called "Sherlock Holmes," and know automatically whether it's a movie with Robert Downey Jr., or a Creative Commons published student film of the same public domain character?
  
  This is precisely why many here, including myself, are dubious of this plan...it's going to be rife with false flags. I plunged head first into Creative Commons and public domain media back in 2008 and haven't looked back...but if the retail media industries can label public domain repository "The Internet Archive" as a "rogue site," then they can just as easily cut off my means for appreciating said material altogether.

• On the post: Bestselling Author Of Children's Books Accuses Public Libraries Of Stealing His Paychecks

  

  RadialSkid ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2013 @ 12:01am

  Re: my attempt at trolling this guy.

  "America, land of the obese, because they are so weighed down by their egos."
  
  Wow, British anti-Americanism! That's outrageously original! What a witty, biting voice of rebellion.
  
  Italicized for sarcasm.
  
  Oh yeah, and fuck this moron. Fuck him sideways.

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