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• On the post: When Judges Are Determining Whether Or Not Art Should Exist… We Have A Problem

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2012 @ 09:01am

  Re:

  I agree but I also think that this artist like the artist that did the Barak Obama hope poster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey did so without attribution to the original.

• On the post: When Judges Are Determining Whether Or Not Art Should Exist… We Have A Problem

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2012 @ 08:47am

  Re: I really am confused

  [edit] {remove this part "without attribution" because even with attribution you should not claim they are your works}.

• On the post: If Politicians Pushing SOPA/PIPA Want To Create Jobs, They Should Support The Internet — And Stop Treating Copyright Companies As Special

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2012 @ 08:44am

  Really?

  Are we back to the bugger whip maker arguments again? Innovation always will be the driving force behind job growth. Period. Deal with it, stop fighting it, and move the hell on to something more constructive like integrating your business with it.

• On the post: When Judges Are Determining Whether Or Not Art Should Exist… We Have A Problem

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2012 @ 08:33am

  I really am confused

  On the internet if you use words or pictures from another site you are not allowed claim they are your own in whole or part even if you substantially add to them via your own commentary or embellishment without attribution. I think that is fair.
  
  Anybody object to that?
  
  Mike, I know you rely on works of others for most of the content on this site but you always when possible link to the original information. You also don't claim that the information is your's. Most of your website is really a work of appropriation with modification. You appropriate the reporting of others and then modify it with your commentary. This happens everyday with probably millions of websites. I don't have any issue with it whatsoever, nor do most logical thinking people. But this guy is taking works of others and modifying them with out attribution to the original.
  
  Your use of information is fair use. His works are appropriation with modification without attribution.
  
  Am I wrong?

• On the post: Documentary Filmmaker Arrested At Congressional Hearing For Filming With A Different Opinion

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 11:08am

  Freedom

  is never a defense it should always be the default. Anyone standing against it should be called out.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 11:01am

  Re: Re:

  I just reread. Netflix and Redbox did not choose this so your point is invalid.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:54am

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  As both a Redbox and Netflix (going back 11 years(client)) The issue is that redbox AND netflix don't get the movie until it is 30 days past the DVD release date.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:52am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "Not I" said the slightly aware person.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:49am

  Re: Re: Re:

  "Who the hell are you?" Who the hell are you? You are nothing because your voice is nothing more than a strange voice randomly expressed in a world of voices. Screaming for attention. None meaning anything as they are not people since they forget that we read a lot but hear only those that are real.

• On the post: Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:44am

  Re: Re squared

  But it really was. No apology. I am human and therefore I can always be wrong. But I will always be human and therefore judgmental.

• On the post: Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:42am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Piracy would not be needed...

  Glad top hear that. What is and is not property is the dividing line. Period.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:39am

  Re: Re: Re:

  As always. AC's turn to physical attacks. Bash meaning stop. Most ACs' want us all to experience pain. Physical pain. No accounting for reality.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:22am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmm

  Or from those companies from requiring us to only eat fish.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:15am

  Re: Re: Re: Hmmm

  Amen brother/sister!!! I want steak!!!!

• On the post: Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:14am

  Re:

  No, but I also wanted to see that movie go away since it was a work of political fiction shown as fact.

• On the post: Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:12am

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

  And where am I wrong? Give something as information to say I am wrong. Anything.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:09am

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  We must bash them any that try. In war everything is OK.

• On the post: Beach Boys Lyricist Goes After Artist Who Dared To Paint Works Inspired By Beach Boy Songs

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:05am

  Re: Lawyers like to support...

  'edit' "Loser" not lose

• On the post: Beach Boys Lyricist Goes After Artist Who Dared To Paint Works Inspired By Beach Boy Songs

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 10:04am

  Lawyers like to support...

  the lawyers. What do lawyers care? They only care about fees. Win, lose it is all just a lawsuit. So fees are paid no matter what.
  
  All the lawyers care about is strife. The more strife, the more fees.
  
  Lose pays helps stop that.

• On the post: Redbox Won't Cave To Warner Bros. Demands; Will Buy WB DVDs From Other Sources And Rent Them

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2012 @ 09:56am

  Re:

  Simple they hold the rights.

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