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• On the post: Streaming Rights On Whitney Houston Movie NOT Pulled In Order To 'Make Really A Large Amount Of Money On DVD Sales' [Updated]

  

  Chris ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 01:48pm

  Re:

  It's funny when trolls talk about supply and demand and somehow don't realize what this means about an infinitely copy-able good and the effect that inevitably has on content prices.
  
  Can't stream it? Just copy it off ThePirateBay for its natural supply-and-demand value.

• On the post: Streaming Rights On Whitney Houston Movie NOT Pulled In Order To 'Make Really A Large Amount Of Money On DVD Sales' [Updated]

  

  Chris ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 12:58pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  violate other people's rights

  You don't have a right to my hard-drive or to the contents thereof.
  
  You and the rest of the stone-age media can keep pretending that you do and even get laws passed to that effect, but that's just re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic that is so-called "intellectual property".
  
  Adapt or go extinct. Whining won't save you.

• On the post: Getting Past The Uncanny Valley In Targeted Advertising

  

  Chris ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 09:28pm

  Not the Pressing Issue

  Getting past the uncanny valley in advertising? I'd like to see us get past the uncanny valley in the GOP primaries. Has anyone actually watched Mitt Romney speak?
  
  I'd bet the contents of my wallet that the guy eats old people's medicine for fuel.

• On the post: If People Like You And Your Work They'll Pay; If They Like Your Work, But Don't Like You, They'll Infringe

  

  Chris ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 11:07am

  Re: Wow....It's just like high school

  So not liking someone is all it takes to excuse infringement.

  
  Not at all. "Infringement" is easily excused through rational thought about the nature of property rights.
  
  Not supporting companies who are dickheads is just icing on the cake.

• On the post: If The Internet Is Treated Just Like The Offline World, We'd Never Have Ridiculous Laws Like SOPA/PIPA

  

  Chris ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2012 @ 09:00am

  Re:

  10/10. Fantastic imitation of a clueless TD troll.

• On the post: People Rushing To Give Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars In Just Hours For Brand New Adventure Game

  

  Chris ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2012 @ 07:12am

  Re:

  If you hear a knock at the door, it's probably just the BBC.

• On the post: Can We Count The Ways In Which Lowe's 'License Agreement' For Linking To Its Site Is Insane?

  

  Chris ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 02:15pm

  Re:

  Alright, but first I have to go buy a fax machine to take care of some paperwork. Brb.

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

  

  Chris ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 01:39pm

  Hey, a lot of money went into that advertising! They can't let everyone watch it for free or they'll never recoup!

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

  

  Chris ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 01:37pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  And lose DMCA protections?

• On the post: The End Of The Global Internet? Google's Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship

  

  Chris ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 02:14pm

  Worse Than The Alternative?

  Scenario 1: Google continues like they are. Either they will be forced by corrupt government to censor posts entirely, or those governments will block Blogger entirely. End Result: The information cannot escape.
  
  Scenario 2: Google blocks content from inside those countries, but allows access to that content from outside the country. Information escapes.
  
  Scenario 2 seems better to me, at first glance.

• On the post: Homeland Security Denies Entrance To UK Tourist Because Of Twitter Joke

  

  Chris ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 07:43am

  Misunderstanding

  If I ever go to the UK, I'll tweet before hand that I'm going to "paint the town", and see if I get detained for planning to vandalize London.

• On the post: Copying Is Not Theft, But Censorship Is

  

  Chris ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 10:48am

  Re: yeah..

  Is copying also rape? Is it murder? Is it terrorism? Do the answers to those questions depend on whether or not I have produced content that was pirated?
  
  You argument is one giant non sequitur.

• On the post: Copying Is Not Theft, But Censorship Is

  

  Chris ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 10:45am

  Re: If keeping something from the market is censorship, then piracy=censorship.

  You didn't give me $100,000 last year so I could quit my job and start writing full time.
  
  STOP CENSORING ME!
  
  /insane_troll_logic

• On the post: Tales From Ubisoft DRM: Latest DRM Goes From Horrible To Slightly Less Horrible

  

  Chris ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 06:58am

  Sooooo

  They want me to pirate it, I guess? That's the only conclusion I can come to.

• On the post: TSA Critic, Senator Rand Paul, Prevented By TSA From Getting On His Flight To DC

  

  Chris ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2012 @ 12:52pm

  Re: Re: Re: TSA

  I don't think racist jokes should be punishable by the government because I believe in free speech. Does that mean I'm a racist who supports racist speech?
  
  Private business should be allowed to choose who they do business with. If they are real assholes about it, I'll be right there picketing their business along with 99.9% of the population, but that doesn't mean we should write laws that tell people who they have to associate with on their own property.
  
  Turn off Maddow; engage the brain.

• On the post: TSA Critic, Senator Rand Paul, Prevented By TSA From Getting On His Flight To DC

  

  Chris ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 02:47pm

  Re: Re:

  While I wouldn't consider myself hostile to the tea party, the whole "keep the government's hands off my medicare/social security" was kinda ridiculous.

• On the post: TSA Critic, Senator Rand Paul, Prevented By TSA From Getting On His Flight To DC

  

  Chris ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 02:45pm

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  He should have manned up and taken the pat down like every other citizen would do in that position.

  And by "man up", you mean "meekly submit"?
  
  We have very different definitions of "man up" . . .

• On the post: TSA Critic, Senator Rand Paul, Prevented By TSA From Getting On His Flight To DC

  

  Chris ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 02:43pm

  Re: I'm the opposite...

  The conspiracy theorist in me believes that these requirements were very much pushed by the corporations that produce these body scanners and similar invasive technology so that they could unload their technology on the domestic market and rake in the taxpayer-funded-government-subsidies.

  I wouldn't call that a conspiracy theory. I actually thought it was a well-known fact . . .

• On the post: TSA Critic, Senator Rand Paul, Prevented By TSA From Getting On His Flight To DC

  

  Chris ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 02:32pm

  Re: TSA

  I despise Paul as a racist and a 1%er

  Make Note: This is what happens when you get your news from MSNBC, folks.

• On the post: TSA Critic, Senator Rand Paul, Prevented By TSA From Getting On His Flight To DC

  

  Chris ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2012 @ 02:29pm

  Re: Re:

  Either that, or it detected a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution and sounded the alarm.

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