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• On the post: EU Publishers Present Their 'Vision' For Copyright: A Permission-Based Internet Where Licensing Is Required For Everything

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2014 @ 05:24pm

  Really?

  The key point about a DRS is that once it exists, it can be searched, read, and actioned by any other machine connected to the Internet.
  You mean like CC Licenses already can be?

• On the post: EU Copyright Head Looking To Roll Back UsedSoft Decision, Makes Weak Noises About 'Infinite Contracts'

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2014 @ 05:09pm

  Maria Martin-Prat

  Somebody is well-named, methinks.

• On the post: IRS Rejects Non-Profit Status For Open Source Organization, Because Private Companies Might Use The Software

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2014 @ 05:01pm

  Wait, What?

  You have a substantial nonexempt purpose because you develop software published under open source compatible licenses that authorize use by any person for any purpose, including nonexempt purposes such as commercial, recreational, or personal purposes, including campaign intervention and lobbying.
  So does the above mean that 501c's with thrift stores will have to close them because people may wear clothes they buy there while at work in a company that doesn't qualify for 501c status? Gee, and I thought I had a cognitive disability!

• On the post: Nation's Largest Law Firm Still Sports Thinnest Skin, Sends Trademark C&D In Attempt To Bury Critical Speech

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2014 @ 04:51pm

  Have you seen the latest?

  On the Jones Day logo on the parody website, where the TM mark would normally go, the webmaster has replaced the letters with FU. You can see it for yourself either on the parody site's homepage when it scrolls around, or you can check out the static version.

• On the post: Facebook Fighting Against Massively Broad Warrant From NY District Attorney For All Information From 381 Accounts

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2014 @ 10:48am

  And this is why I don't have a Facebook account. That and atrocious default privacy settings along with a real name policy that exposes users to doxing while doing nothing about griefers who vandalise other people's memorial walls.

• On the post: Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2014 @ 02:22pm

  Re: Re:

  Good idea. A shame that, means it will never be implemented.

• On the post: Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2014 @ 02:26pm

  No wonder the collective noun for a group of bankers is 'wunch'.

• On the post: Music Freedom Or Holding Consumers Hostage? Letting ISPs Pick Winners And Losers Is A Problem

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2014 @ 11:33am

  Re: Re:

  That was kinda the point I was making when putting words into John Legere's mouth.

• On the post: Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2014 @ 11:28am

  Re: Re: breaking down borders

  These so-called "trade negotiations" are not at all about "liberalizing rules and opening borders", or about removing "restrictive, non-compatible financial laws".
  Correct. They're about creating restrictive, non-compatible financial laws.

• On the post: Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2014 @ 11:25am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: breaking down borders

  Fair point, I'll try to do that in the future. It's just that after all of OotB's nonsense (and that of those like him), I've unfortunately become a little less discriminating.

• On the post: Authors Guild Loses Book Scanning Case Once Again

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2014 @ 03:47am

  Re:

  Stephenie Lenz's son was a toddler at the time, not a baby. Just a point.

• On the post: Music Freedom Or Holding Consumers Hostage? Letting ISPs Pick Winners And Losers Is A Problem

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2014 @ 03:24am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Derek Kerton said: Samsung's notion that video stops playing when you look away from the screen
  Tha Lord help Blind people who can only watch videos by listening to them, which doesn't necessarily involve looking at the screen.

• On the post: Music Freedom Or Holding Consumers Hostage? Letting ISPs Pick Winners And Losers Is A Problem

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2014 @ 03:20am

  Re: Re: Re:

  AC said: Or perhaps you could elaborate on why Comcast, et.al. do not take advantage of this 'unlimited broadband' in their networks?
  Oh, gee. I don't know. Maybe to make more money out of people by imposing artificial limitations and then charging more for greater access? Because I do know that I'm surfing on an unlimited internet right now, courtesy of BT.

• On the post: Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2014 @ 03:05am

  Re: Re: breaking down borders

  @ John Federson: Whatever's problem is that he doesn't have a problem. In fact, I think he's a new iteration of OotB, except that he disagrees with every article here, not just Mike Masnick's. Basically, the prick's a troll, quit feeeding him.

• On the post: Senators To Obama: Hey You Can End Bulk Phone Data Collection Today; Obama: Ha, Ha, Ha, Nope!

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 03:24pm

  Obama to American people

  Okay, guys, bend over while we just search your phone records. Oh, that's not where you keep your data? Oops, sorry for the 'mistake'.

• On the post: That Time When People Thought Playing Chess Would Make You Violent

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 02:54pm

  Oh, that's nothing. My mum used to get concerned about me playing chess on my PC because it's a computer game, and "everyone knows how violent computer games make you".

• On the post: Australian Media Company CEO Accuses iiNet ISP Of Piracy 'Lies', Says Illegal Filesharing Is Theft

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 02:46pm

  Really?

  the cost of making a film in the studio model starts at $5 million, and ranges right up to $200 million for epics like Skyfall, Man of Steel and Avatar to name a few.
  Cool! Let the fuckers cost themselves out of the market while I continue to watch indies.

• On the post: Music Freedom Or Holding Consumers Hostage? Letting ISPs Pick Winners And Losers Is A Problem

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2014 @ 11:35am

  Re:

  Choo talkin' 'bout, Willis? Everyone knows that broadband itself is unlimited, and if what you say about LTE radios is true, then that is a physical limitation, not a limitation of the bandwidth. In fact, according to this Wikipedia article, broadband is unlimited because it isn't just what we use modems to access, but also includes dial-up Internet, landlines, analogue TV, and more. Did you even try to do your research before coming out with that crap?

• On the post: USPTO Cancels Trademark Registration For Washington Redskins

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2014 @ 11:04am

  So when the USPTO says they're removing the registration because the term is disparaging and they don't want to grant rights for the team to seek trademark damages to that kind of language in all of our names, I happen to think that make sense.
  Actually, it makes no sense at all. Now, if we were talking about changing the logo to a football (which has a reddish brown 'skin'), then that would make sense, but changing a decades old name because a vocal minority got butthurt? I don't think so.

• On the post: Music Freedom Or Holding Consumers Hostage? Letting ISPs Pick Winners And Losers Is A Problem

  

  Sheogorath ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2014 @ 10:46am

  Let me make John Legere's argument for him before someone else thinks of it: "Just as Tom Wheeler is not a dingo, I am not an arsonist. And before John Oliver chimes in, the proof is in the fact that I have never been charged with such crimes."

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