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• On the post: EFF Launches Lawsuit To Stop FOSTA/SESTA

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2018 @ 03:39pm

  Re: Re:

  a) No, it actually took effect retroactively. It was valid from the moment it was signed into law, and could be applied to anything even if it existed beforehand. That's actually one of the reasons it's being argued as unconstitutional.
  
  b) EFF knows better than to rush things. A case as important as this needs to be handled very carefully, and that takes time.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says You Can Copyright A Collection Of Facts… If You Leave Out A Few

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2018 @ 12:34pm

  Not too long ago, I listened to some old Greg Proops stand-up where he casually referred to them as the "9th Circus Court." That name seems to get more and more appropriate over time.

• On the post: Valve Decides To Get Out Of The Curation Business When It Comes To 'Offensive' Games

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2018 @ 05:56pm

  Re: Security Hole.

  Oh, all of those true. Valve has been collecting user data and selling it to prison phone companies for over a decade. And the RIAA has been openly paying to use Steam's screenshot uploader application to scan for pirated content. You are mistaken in stating that it's done for the government though. That would be dumb.

• On the post: Highlights From Former Rep. Chris Cox's Amicus Brief Explaining The History And Policy Behind Section 230

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2018 @ 06:16pm

  Re: Corporatists try to twist CDA into control of OUR PUBLISHING!

  Funded by GOOGLE? It's ALWAYS funded by "Google," isn't it? What about Microsoft? They have a search engine too, and they're particularly bad about violating the natural common persons law thing you keep referencing (I think). You really need to broaden your views and realize that Google does actually have competition. Slag off Yahoo! every now and then or something.
  
  And what about Ask Jeeves? That one has been kinda off the radar for a while. In fact, they would be quite angry at Google specifically, wouldn't they? And their inferior search engine would lead to less useful results to reference when trying to call out Google's corporate practices…
  
  Are…are you that butler? That would explain A LOT.

• On the post: Recording Industry Hypocrisy On Full Display In Continuing To Push The CLASSICS Act That Expands Copyright

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 31 May, 2018 @ 11:16am

  Re: coming out of the woodwork

  To my understanding, they WERE going to cite Masnick, but then they noticed a brave commenter on all of his "anti-copyright articles" that was calling them out with very consistent, well reasoned arguments. They opted not to call it out, and urged said commenter to keep up the good work.

• On the post: No, Counting The Number Of Patent Infringement Lawsuits Is Not A Good Way To Quantify A Company's IP Ethics

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 30 May, 2018 @ 03:31pm

  Re: So, you're trying to gin up a flame war with Techcrunch?

  Write more clearerly and with more focusization.

  You first.

• On the post: Forget The GDPR, The EU's New Copyright Proposal Will Be A Complete And Utter Disaster For The Internet

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 25 May, 2018 @ 04:58pm

  Re: Re: Anyone new: Misnack's shtick is disaster of Biblical proportions

  "Misnacks" sounds like a German breakfast cereal of some sort.

• On the post: Forget The GDPR, The EU's New Copyright Proposal Will Be A Complete And Utter Disaster For The Internet

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 25 May, 2018 @ 04:18pm

  Re: Anyone new: Misnack's shtick is disaster of Biblical proportions

  Can we get a list of all 934 of the predictions in question? That's a weirdly specific number.

• On the post: Many Of Those Desperate GDPR Emails You've Been Getting Are Violating A Different EU Regulation

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 23 May, 2018 @ 01:22pm

  To be "fair", the vast majority of the emails I've received so far weren't because of GDPR. It was just the companies feeling that privacy protections are good for everyone, so they wanted to extend that to everyone, not just EU residents. It's just an overabundance of kindness! The fact that roughly 100% of all of them say it the exact same way and conveniently happen to be right before the enactment of those rules is just a coincidence.

• On the post: How The Recording Industry Hid Its Latest Attempt To Expand Copyright (And Why You Should Call Your Senator To Stop It)

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 21 May, 2018 @ 11:40am

  Re: Re:

  This might be the single most creative thing you've ever done. Do another, do another! How about one for Masnick?

• On the post: How The Recording Industry Hid Its Latest Attempt To Expand Copyright (And Why You Should Call Your Senator To Stop It)

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 21 May, 2018 @ 10:16am

  You know, if the industry would just put the exact same amount of effort into reworking their distribution model that they put into coming up with these hideously forced acronym bill titles, the entire problem would probably start to fix itself.

• On the post: When In Doubt, Blame Terrorists: Patent Attorney Claims Terrorists Are Infringing And Killing Jobs

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 11 May, 2018 @ 10:52am

  Re:

  Yeah, about that...the terrorists apparently got a design patent on the look of that drone.

• On the post: New Hampshire Court: First Amendment Says You Can Call A Patent Troll A Patent Troll

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2018 @ 12:38pm

  Re: And I can call a Corporatist a Corporatist on one's site.

  That, and it's FREE content. So are you. :)

• On the post: Ted Cruz Demands A Return Of The Fairness Doctrine, Which He Has Mocked In The Past, Due To Misunderstanding CDA 230

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2018 @ 11:21am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: "Mark Harrill": Be one comment this year, like last year?

  He didn't specifically deny one thing, therefor you are proven right. Welp, can't argue with that logic. (and would rather not try...)
  
  So what's the adequate number of comments an account owner should be expected to make? What's the reasonable standard you're applying?

• On the post: More Drug Lab Misconduct Results In Massachusetts Court Tossing Nearly 12,000 Convictions

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2018 @ 04:33pm

  Re: Today's ONE per year ZOMBIE: "KJ" back after 18 months!

  Have you considered running for senate in Arizona, by any chance? Honestly, you stand a half-decent chance at this point.

• On the post: Ted Cruz Gets Section 230 All Wrong, While Zuck Claims He's Not Familiar With It

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2018 @ 09:31am

  Re: Re: Re: You're actually wrong, though.

  If the removal of content is not neutral, but rather politically motivated, then it is not being done in good faith, and they don't have immunity under the act.

  Where on earth does "politically motivated" show up in that law? Nothing anywhere in the actual legal wording references political issues at all. I don't even see a reference to "neutral" in there. Where is the section that explicitly denies protection to a platform shown to lack neutrality? That's the part Cruz is directly referencing, which is problematic since it doesn't seem to exist.

  see: e-ventures Worldwide, LLC v. Google, Inc.

  This case appears to target Google's use of SEO to prioritize results in its search indexing. The allegations are from a specific company on the basis that Google arbitrarily decided to delist them because they hadn't paid for better search prioritization. The claims here on the basis of anticompetitive practices, not political opinion. While the CDA 230 defense ultimately didn't apply, it's for an entirely unrelated reason.

  SEE ALSO: Smith v. Trusted Universal Standards In Electronic Transactions, Inc. (in which Comcast was found to be not acting in good faith when enforcing its terms of service rather than actually screening for objectionable content)).

  Again, nothing about political opinion. It looks like the specific reason for the denial of CDA 230 immunity was that Comcast had implied that a subscription to a higher level service was necessary to prevent the arbitrary blocking of the "objectionable" content. So again, nothing to do with political opinion or platform neutrality. That's three cases you've referenced so far that completely fail to back up any point you're trying to make. Would you like to try pointing to the actual specific wording, or is it possible that you're pulling a Cruz and just referencing wording that doesn't exist?

• On the post: Bob Murray Sends Judge Whiny Letter Saying That Losing Case To John Oliver Is Making People Say Mean Things To Him

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2018 @ 09:08pm

  Re:

  Are we 100% sure that out_of_the_blue hasn't actually been Bob Murray all along?

• On the post: Keeper Security Reminds Everyone Why You Shouldn't Use It; Doubles Down On Suing Journalist

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2018 @ 09:18am

  Re: The only important thing is: what does out_of_the_blue think?

  He actively tried to strongly disagree, but instead could only barely manage to just shrug it off and demand something else.
  
  In other words, Ars is 100% guaranteed a victory here.

• On the post: US Piracy Lawsuits Shoot Out Of The 2018 Gates As The Malibu Media 'Coaching Tree' Spreads Its Seeds

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2018 @ 04:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?

  You've only vaguely puzzled me. Is that "Yes" agreeing with all of my original comment? Or some sly wit that ripped me a new one?

  Yes, exactly that.

• On the post: US Piracy Lawsuits Shoot Out Of The 2018 Gates As The Malibu Media 'Coaching Tree' Spreads Its Seeds

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2018 @ 04:42pm

  Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?

  Yes, "power." We'll go with that. Well, here's a proper "on-topic" comment responding to the part that was not a jest:
  
  Yes.

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