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• On the post: Hollywood Super Agent Ari Emanuel Mystified That Google Doesn't Just Invent A Magic Stop Piracy Button

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 09:58am

  Re: Disagree

  What is X? It is a bunch of sequential bits, right? Now, consider I change a bit in that sequence from 1 to 0. To a human looking at the thing those bits represent, an image, movie, or song, minor changes will be unnoticeable. But to a computer, that sequence of bits is no longer X.

• On the post: Hollywood Super Agent Ari Emanuel Mystified That Google Doesn't Just Invent A Magic Stop Piracy Button

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 09:39am

  Re: Re: Analogies

  I can't think of a way to use a DVD sexually that would not be painful.

• On the post: Apple CEO: When Others Violate Our Patents, They're Copying Our Hard Work; When We Violate Patents, The System Is Broken

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 30 May, 2012 @ 10:56am

  Re: Really?

  So because all companies are (presumably) behaving badly we cannot hold any single one of them to account?
  
  You seem to be the one with a bias. Apple CEO is being a hypocrite in public so he is being called out for it.

• On the post: CEO Says SOPA & CISPA Are Needed Because A Disgruntled Customer Once Set Up A Parody Site To Mock Him

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 30 May, 2012 @ 09:55am

  it is not his privacy to trade with

  Notice that he thinks it is worth it to give up yours, mine, and everyone's privacy to protect his business. Yeah, big sacrifice he is making there.

• On the post: Guy Files Lawsuit To Strip Google Of Its Trademarks

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 29 May, 2012 @ 02:04pm

  Re: Glossed the most important part of the story

  Clearly he is trying to scam, but I don't see how? How does having domain names that start with "google" help him to scam?

• On the post: Resetting The Balance To Save Copyright (Part III)

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 26 May, 2012 @ 09:37am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You cannot just equate Society and Government that way. That is only an ideal. The fact is that Govt right now does not reflect what me and my friend and their friends and everyone else (Society) have mutually agreed upon.
  
  You can imagine "right" and "privilege" are synonyms all you want, but that doesn't make it so.
  
  defn. priv-i-lege [noun] A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to one person or group of people.
  
  You might want to consider that your imagined definitions of words goes against the mutually agreed upon understanding of them. :)

• On the post: Spotify In A Box: Why Sharing Will Never Be Stopped

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 26 May, 2012 @ 09:08am

  this calls for more laws!

  Once the *AA figures this out, they will just call for more laws limiting the size of disk drives and/or requiring a tariff to the *AA for every MB over a certain size.

• On the post: You're Only Making Things Worse For Yourself (And Us Too), Media Industries (Part II)

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 23 May, 2012 @ 04:12pm

  Re:

  The president carries it with him in a brief case at all times.

• On the post: Chelsea Clinton: We Must Protect The Children On The Internet

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 04:39pm

  Re:

  Eventually the system learns and stops asking that... unless you have kids that actually click that button sometimes.

• On the post: Chelsea Clinton: We Must Protect The Children On The Internet

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 04:33pm

  Re:

  I was brainwashed from early childhood in the beliefs of Christianity. My mother thought she was doing the right thing, so it is hard to blame her. But what was done to me was wrong!

• On the post: Why Hollywood Is Doomed: It Takes Sensible Advice Like 'Make Good Movies' And Turns It Into A Screed About Piracy

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 09:16am

  Re: AVENGERS MADE OVER $1 BILLION! PIRACY IS NOT THE PROBLEM!

  But without piracy it would have made $2B or even $100B!

• On the post: Why Hollywood Is Doomed: It Takes Sensible Advice Like 'Make Good Movies' And Turns It Into A Screed About Piracy

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 09:13am

  Re:

  One boogeyman at a time.

• On the post: Crysis 3 Studio Reminds You It Still Owns Your Copy Of The Original Crysis

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 08:58am

  Re: I'll wait for the GoG version.

  I prefer the Magog version, personally.

• On the post: Crysis 3 Studio Reminds You It Still Owns Your Copy Of The Original Crysis

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 08:27am

  Re: ??

  There is a couple of things... one is that people are weak willed. Games are fun and people want to play them. Even with the DRM restrictions, you at least get to play the game. Appliances aren't fun.
  
  Another thing, and an important one I think many game makers are missing, is that people want to pay for games. Maybe not always the price they are asking, but in principal they want to reward the producer of a game they enjoy. There is also in humans a tendency to feel obligated when somebody does something for them. So what happens is people purchase the game and then also download the crack so they can use it as nature intended. For your appliance example to be comparable to the situation we have with games, people would need to know there is an unrestricted appliance out there that they can just take for free. That there is a pirate ecosystem for PC games is probably the only reason games with restrictive DRM sell well at all.

• On the post: Research Shows Little Relationship Between Stricter IP Laws And Innovation Or Economic Growth

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 17 May, 2012 @ 10:06am

  Re: Re: Re:

  If you can tell that was supposed to be sarcastic, you must be the one who wrote it.

• On the post: Federal Appeals Court Rejects Illinois' Eavesdropping Law As Likely Violating The First Amendment

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 12:16pm

  recording arrests should be mandatory

  It should be mandatory that police record every encounter with the public. Why rely on he-said/she-said given that we have the technology? Also, if you are always recording yourself anyway, it is hard to get startled if you notice someone else recording you.

• On the post: Cultural Insanity: You Can't Show A Painting In A Movie Without Paying The Copyright Holder

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2012 @ 03:02pm

  Re:

  There was a show on PBS that asked a room full of MBA students if they thought executive pay was too high or unfair. None of them thought it was. When asked why not, the answer was because they themselves wanted the opportunity to become a CEO making that kind of money. The selfishness of the human being knows no bounds. It is all about how does this affect me. The good of the many never comes into it.

• On the post: Too Much Copyright: This Generation's Prohibition

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2012 @ 09:10am

  Forgetting Something

  This generation's prohibition is still the war on some drugs.

• On the post: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Quizzes US Register Of Copyrights Over Close Connection To Industry

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 01:32pm

  Re:

  defn. do-a-dodd
  1. exercise the revolving door between congress and industry, 2. destroy the world economy by enacting lax lending standards for banks, 3. just generally be a dumb-ass

• On the post: TSA Security Theater Described In One Simple Infographic

  

  Simple Mind ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2012 @ 01:41pm

  Re: Re:

  I'd be curious where they got the 100% turnover, too. Half the staff would need to be hiring managers.

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