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  • On the post: DOJ Says Judge Can't Order Its Lying Lawyers To Attend Ethics Classes

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2016 @ 08:51am

    I think the DOJ have something of a point.

    After all, while the cost of teaching ethics to lawyers is quite high. Imagine the cost of teaching ethics to individuals who may have no ethical abilities at all?
    And who can say how many of those work for the DOJ?

  • On the post: Ignorant Bigot Arrested In UK For Tweeting About Being An Obnoxious Ignorant Bigot

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2016 @ 04:10pm

    Umm

    'the majority of people recognize him for what he truly is..'
    Mind you if that were generally true; no one in America would be worried about the possibility of a trump presidency

  • On the post: Oh Look: Police Can Use Backpage.com To Track Down, Arrest & Convict Pimps & Prostitutes

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 10:18pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    I do understand though. These are distressing issues and it's so much easier to stop your distress by hiding the issues than to try to find ways of actually addressing the problems.

  • On the post: Oh Look: Police Can Use Backpage.com To Track Down, Arrest & Convict Pimps & Prostitutes

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 10:13pm

    Re: Re:

    Not really, you're actually just pushing the when we can't see it it isn't happening argument which is the same thing that caused the majority of abuse victims to suffer without any help or even acknowledgement for generations.

  • On the post: Gangnam Style Shows What Can Happen When You Don't Lean On Copyright

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 03:20pm

    Re: Re:

    Duh! Because... Piracy!

  • On the post: Gangnam Style Shows What Can Happen When You Don't Lean On Copyright

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2012 @ 03:19pm

    Re: Re:

    Because we are Legion.

  • On the post: Newspaper Ad Revenue Fell Off Quite A Cliff: Now On Par With 1950 Revenue

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2012 @ 05:08pm

    Re:

    Why do you think that talking about other print media that also failed to adapt sensibly and is also sinking, in some way makes his point less valid?

    Why do you think he mentioned craigslist.?

  • On the post: Ubisoft Learns Hitting Customers Over The Head And Calling Them Thieves Is Not Good Policy

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2012 @ 07:28am

    Re:

    Can't wait for the headlines
    Piracy killing DRM industry

  • On the post: SurfTheChannel Owner Anton Vickerman Sentenced To Four Years In Jail For 'Conspiracy'

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2012 @ 02:51am

    Re: Re:

    Probably should have signed in for that one.

  • On the post: Copyfraud: Techdirt Book Club Selection For April

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2012 @ 06:31am

    Re: Intellectual Property is Theft

    Faulty meter

  • On the post: Copyfraud: Techdirt Book Club Selection For April

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2012 @ 06:30am

    Re:

    "Just because it's a book doesn't make it a fact."

    His opinion is in favour of strong IP rights, so can we take it that you disagree with those?
    Or is your opinion based on a complete lack of knowledge on that which you opine about?

  • On the post: UK Copyright Industries Suddenly Become Fans Of Evidence-Based Policy Making

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 09:39am

    Wasn't the Industry Canada study the one that concluded that P2P file sharing tended to increase music purchasing?

  • On the post: Egypt Turns Internet Back On For Same Reason It Was Turned Off: To Try To Quell Protests

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2011 @ 01:30pm

    Actually it seems far more likely
    that the internet was turned off in an attempt to disrupt organisation of anti Mubarak protests.

    While it may be that it was turned back on, in an attempt to aid the organisation of pro Mubarak protesters

  • On the post: HDCP 'Master Key' Found? Another Form Of DRM Drops Dead

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2010 @ 07:43am

    Re: Technical effectiveness is not the point

    True, DRM without this context makes no sense at all.
    With it, it explains the industry willingness to part with well over a billion dollars a year on this anti-customer technology.

  • On the post: HDCP 'Master Key' Found? Another Form Of DRM Drops Dead

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2010 @ 06:54am

    "The problem is that it creates an unnecessary inconvenience for consumers and violates their property rights."

    Agreed, but that has not been enough to stop the companies from using it.
    The fact that it also doesn't actually work to keep the people who will copy and distribute the material from doing so, should be the decisive factor for these people.
    While they like to claim they are losing money to piracy, the only money that they are actually definitively quantifiably losing is the money they waste on DRM.

  • On the post: Australia Once Again Decides You Have No Freedom To Tinker With Your Gaming Console

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2010 @ 06:38pm

    Re: Re:

    Note to self,

    If attempting to do what you were attempting to do in the above post, it would be most helpful not to leave out random words, letters or to write the phrase for example both before and after the example.

    Getting your grammar right would also be helpful.

    Furthermore, please find some way to identify to the poster whose comment you were commenting on and any potential readers that you simply meant to have fun with an opportunity presented and are doing so without malice.

  • On the post: Australia Once Again Decides You Have No Freedom To Tinker With Your Gaming Console

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2010 @ 06:32pm

    Re:

    "Wolfy, Aug 27th, 2010 @ 4:59pm
    Call me old fashioned, but I come from the old US of A, where we were free to do with our belonging as we chose."

    How is it old fashioned to have been born somewhere?

    Admittedly, being born somewhere is something even our most ancient ancestors did, but it is also current universal practice.
    Please advise of the new trend you are hinting at that is more modern than the old fashioned, being accidentally born in a particular place.

    The second part of your statement suggests but does not state that being free to do with one's belongings what one chooses is a good thing.

    Was your intention to say that you believed that being free to do with your belongings what you like was a good thing and being thankful that you were randomly born in the United States was equally a good thing, for you, because you believe that in the pre-stated United States you are indeed free to do with your belongings what you wish.

    That would indeed be comprehensible, if unfortunately untrue as you are not for example legally allowed to break drm to make a backup of a movie, for example.

    Perhaps you would like to rephrase to simply state,
    that you believe that when a person buys something that are morally entitled to do what they wish with said, presumably non living thing and while your own country may not be perfect on legislation about this, some countries appear to be worse.

    Or perhaps I have misunderstood.

  • On the post: Another Reason To Buy: A Unique CD For Fans That No One Else Will Get

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2010 @ 08:48pm

    Minigolf

    Honestly Mike, Minigolf!

    and you're saying that's how all businesses should work now, do the stuff for free but charge for minigolf.

    Obviously unworkable even to a backwards child.

    Oh, I guess that isn't what you're saying.

    I guess what you're saying is there are a lot of ways to make money charging for things you can control and giving away for free the stuff that you can't control anyway although it will get you known and if people enjoy it, will create demand.
    And if that doesn't them millionaires then we have to remember that most musicians, performers and creative people aren't millionaires, they mostly barely scrape by and that's even if they are lucky enough to have a label/studio/gallery/whatever, sign them.

    But maybe, just maybe, I want to pretend you're saying something entirely different.
    Did you thank of that, did you?

  • On the post: Airport Scanner Technology Mounted On US Gov't Vans To Scan What's In Nearby Vehicles

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2010 @ 01:42pm

    Re: Old technology, you only know about it NOW ?

    oh dear.

  • On the post: TV, Cable Companies Convincing Themselves People Don't Want To Cut The Cable

    SomethingHasToGive ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2010 @ 07:55am

    Re: Just an observation.

    Berners-Lee is credited with being the father of the web, not the internet.

    Vint Cerf might qualify as father of the internet, or one of the fathers anyway.

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