Silver Fang 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (72)

• On the post: Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2012 @ 04:00pm

  He should've just uploaded the video and hoped he didn't get caught.

• On the post: How Copyright Has Driven Online Streaming Innovators Insane

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2012 @ 04:26pm

  It seems like copyright and the Internet are incompatible with each other.

• On the post: Chris Dodd Says MPAA Is On The Wrong Track; We Agree

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2012 @ 06:17am

  What truly disturbs me is copyright was originally supposed to be a case for the civil courts, but in the past 20 years, it's been taken over by the criminal justice system, which is why ICE is involved. So much for being a nation of laws!

• On the post: Google Lifts The Veil On Copyright Takedowns: Reveals Detailed Data On Who Requests Link Removals

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 24 May, 2012 @ 06:34pm

  These big corporations need to learn that the Net is the people's medium to do as we please on, not their little fiefdom where they own everything and can set down rules for us to go by.

• On the post: CISPA Is A Really Bad Bill, And Here's Why

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2012 @ 03:00pm

  Legislators are old and out of touch

  I think the problem with our legislator and the Net is they are old! Most of them are over 50 and grew up with black and white TVs with dials, rotary phones and old stuff like that. To them, the concept of a digital world is foreign. Thus, they tack the prefix cyber- onto anything referring to the Net in order to attempt to sound like they understand and only make themselves look more foolish in so doing.
  
  Because of this, I propose that no one over 50 be allowed to propose any laws for the Net. If you don't know how it works, you've no business trying to regulate it.
  
  Since I know that won't happen, I think all Net users need to declare the Internet a sovereign nation, entity, etc., which circumvents the globe, bypasses all borders and unites all peoples in a way unprecedented in history and thus cannot be bound by any terrestrial laws.
  
  I know that won't happen either...

• On the post: European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 01:16pm

  Re: Re: Daring to speak out

  There was an article about game makers wanting to make it so video games can only be played on the consoles they were first installed on, doing away with second hand video games.
  
  New XBox May Block Used Games

• On the post: European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 01:13pm

  Re: to them it's basically a done deal

  I'm starting to think SOPA/PIPA were a blindside for ACTA so American citizens wouldn't be aware of it until it was too late.

• On the post: European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 01:10pm

  It won't be a done deal if Net users everywhere hack their websites and regular people riot in the streets. Governments had better start respecting the will of their citizens, or Arab Spring could spread across the globe.

• On the post: SOPA/PROTECT IP Would Be Hideously Bad For Video Gamers

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2012 @ 07:24pm

  Re: Microsoft

  Exactly! Throughout history all art and innovation has come from copying and improving on something that came before. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was derived from an Ancient Greek story called Pyramus and Thisbe. By modern standards, Willie would be a pirate instead of a playwright.
  
  Human nature is to copy, remix and mashup anything and everything we sense. These bills that want to make it so people only publish things that are 100% their own fly right in the face of one of our most basic impulses and will be the death knell of creativity as we know it.

• On the post: Sen. Joe Lieberman Asks Google For A 'Report Blog As Terrorist' Button

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2011 @ 09:26am

  Muzzling the Net

  Copyright, kiddie porn and terrorism are the three excuses politicians use to crack down on online freedoms. It isn't about any of those things really. It's about control.

• On the post: SOPA/PROTECT IP Would Be Hideously Bad For Video Gamers

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 08:35am

  Game Playthroughs

  So if this were to pass, would all the videos I've posted of my UT2004 playthroughs suddenly be removed from YouTube, or would Epic and Atari have to pitch a bitch first?

• On the post: New Study Shows Majority Of Americans Against SOPA; Believe Extreme Copyright Enforcement Is Unreasonable

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 07:33am

  Re:

  The Senate version of the bill (SOPA) would have to pass, then it would have to be signed into law by the President.

• On the post: New Study Shows Majority Of Americans Against SOPA; Believe Extreme Copyright Enforcement Is Unreasonable

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 07:11am

  Oppose SOPA

  Copyright has its place in guaranteeing that the author of a work gets to derive profit from it. But it has been perverted obscenely beyond that, allowing the author's great, great, great grandchildren to keep a work out of the public domain and to continue to profit from it.
  
  If the content publishing industry gets its way, there won't even be a public domain or fair use in the future.
  
  If you want to see what the future would be like under SOPA, just google Performing Rights Society and read about the havoc they've wreaked in England!

• On the post: New Study Shows Majority Of Americans Against SOPA; Believe Extreme Copyright Enforcement Is Unreasonable

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2011 @ 07:08am

  Re:

  And so what if we have? What can really be done about it? It's the way things are now. The paradigm has shifted. There is no going back.

• On the post: How The US Crackdown On Online Gambling Hurt Americans

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2011 @ 07:14am

  I wish the nanny state would stay out of people's private business. What a person chooses to do with their hard-earned money should be their choice, and theirs alone.

• On the post: Senator Leahy Ignores Serious First Amendment Concerns With COICA

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2011 @ 01:52pm

  Ah, yes the recording industry's puppet politician, Leahy. Where's his little buddy, Oren Hatch? These guys are dirty politicians going way back. Long have they waged war on file sharing.

• On the post: Middle School Principal Tells Parents To Ban Facebook And Spy On Text Messages

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2010 @ 11:05am

  Principal Orsini is a socially stunted troll who doesn't get any, so rants and raves about technology that helps the rest of us to get some.

• On the post: Can Oprah Do What Driving-While-Yakking Laws Can't?

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2010 @ 10:39am

  I hate to see more laws come on the book. People will simply ignore them and TWD anyway.
  
  Last year, my friend and I were almost sideswiped by a woman one lane left of us who was texting away. She looked up and corrected in time, but it was close!

• On the post: Phone Calls Are For Old People? Just Not Efficient Enough

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2010 @ 10:21am

  Texting is better

  I like texting way better than talking because it is faster and more discrete.

• On the post: Phone Calls Are For Old People? Just Not Efficient Enough

  

  Silver Fang ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2010 @ 10:11am

  Re: Crap, I'm old

  Face to face? I didn't think anyone did that anymore.

Next >>