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  • On the post: Is Apple Suggesting That The DMCA Prevents Terrorism?

    stat_insig ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2009 @ 10:13am

    Simple logic

    Hackers jailbreak iPhone + Terrorists jailbreak iPhone => Hackers are terrorists.

    You don't get it? Let me give you another example:

    Hitler was a vegetarian + I am vegetarian => I am Hitler!

  • On the post: Monopoly Rents: Canadian Collection Society Wants To Massively Increase Rates

    stat_insig ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2009 @ 08:01am

    Re: Oh here we go...

    If you want to be spoon fed information you should stop visiting Techdirt. They tend to contradict themselves and have strange focuses at times. (For instance it's OK for google to make street views but it is NOT OK for the government to have pictures of your car that is on the street)


    Hehe. Now carry out your threat.

    That government must be a very evil thing. Why do we allow it to control military, police and even postal service! Who is in the government anyways and who selects them? Nobody knows!

    Google, like all its corporate brethren, is a benevolent entity. As we all know they do don't commit any evil at all. I would give any information they ask for (including all my browsing history, documents, mails etc) without any hesitation.

  • On the post: Tiburon Wants To Photograph Every Car Entering And Leaving… But Don't Worry About Your Privacy

    stat_insig ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2009 @ 08:02am

    Just to satisfy you......

    They should put all the pictures on Google streetview (with time change option). As happened before that should help in solving many crimes.

  • On the post: USPTO Fast Tracks Michael Jackson Patent Tribute

    stat_insig ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2009 @ 09:22am

    Re:

    Wait for Jesus to file water-walking-shoes and you will know he isn't special either.

  • On the post: PR Firm Accused Of Setting Up Fake Twitter Account Of Competing Firm

    stat_insig ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2009 @ 07:23am

    Re: Re: Re: One question

    I forgot to login before posting my question (i.e. I am the author of first post).

    I think it was a valid question as this is a fairly complex issue.

    BTW, why does questioning/opposing mikes view should always amount to trolling?

  • On the post: Google To Newspapers: Here, Let Me Introduce You To Robots.txt

    stat_insig ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2009 @ 09:46am

    Re: The response I expect to hear...

    Well......... There is an easy solution if you don't want people to access your content..... keep it offline!

  • On the post: Why Might China And India Want To Strengthen National Intellectual Property Policy?

    stat_insig ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2009 @ 11:42am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Cost of doing business with western world!

    Have you heard of Ayurveda? Yoga?

  • On the post: Why Might China And India Want To Strengthen National Intellectual Property Policy?

    stat_insig ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2009 @ 07:24am

    Re: Re: Cost of doing business with western world!

    One example if pharmaceutical industry. Without patents Indian companies were able to manufacture low cost medicines immensely helping itself and a bunch of other countries (including many in Africa). Now, being a member of WTO, had to pass stricter patent laws.

    Ironically one blessing in India is lack of enforceability. Even if it illegal many infringers are not going to prosecuted.

  • On the post: Why Might China And India Want To Strengthen National Intellectual Property Policy?

    stat_insig ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2009 @ 09:22pm

    Cost of doing business with western world!

    While I was growing up in India I was completely unaware of the concept of copyright. While in university I always bought xeroxed copies of expensive american textbooks. Nobody bothered to pay the copyright holder the fees to play their music publicly. Small companies used images of cricketers and bollywood stars for advertising without paying a paisa (i.e. indian penny).

    Huh! Those were the good old days.

    PS: Guess how the book companies competed with xeroxing! By releasing low cost locally written textbooks :)

  • On the post: NPR Plays Spot The Healthcare Lobbyists At Healthcare Reform Hearing

    stat_insig ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2009 @ 06:44am

    Talking of NPR..

    I heard Chris Anderson's interview yesterday. It was pretty interesting. Link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106347439

  • On the post: How Does Offering Free Content Insult Those Who Pay?

    stat_insig ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2009 @ 09:19pm

    Just a note

    I agree with your basic premise of opposing the other guys view. But the the comparisons you give are absolutely rubbish!

  • On the post: Turns Out It's Not Sex Discrimination To Get Fired For Looking At Porn Sites

    stat_insig ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2009 @ 11:07am

    what difference does it make

    Surfing porn, reading news, buying stuff: are all have the same effect, paid employee time being used for procrastination.

    Why did they fire the guy! What is wrong with browsing porn at work.

  • On the post: RIAA Has A Blog? And They Use It To Read My Mind!

    stat_insig ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2009 @ 10:37am

    Mindblogging!

  • On the post: Town Outsources Video Camera Surveillance To Resident Volunteers?

    stat_insig ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2009 @ 05:58am

    Google streetview

    So Google Streetview is good, but video cameras bad?

  • On the post: Popular Band Claims Music Is Better Because Of Piracy

    stat_insig ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2009 @ 12:32pm

    You forgot the second part of the statement!

    "I mean, how much money does one person need? I think it's disgusting when people complain about that, personally."

    Bunch of hippies if you ask me ;)

  • On the post: Teen Gets 23 Years In Jail For Killing His Mom; Judge, AP Blame Video Games

    stat_insig ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2009 @ 10:49am

    Don't be so defensive!

    First of all, the video game did play a role in the murder. The kid was obsessed with the video game, parents took it way, he killed them.

    Nobody is blaming that the video game is the sole reason for the murder and is calling for a ban.

    Let me put it this way. We all know the McD burgers are bad for health. As a free market society we cannot ban the sale of McD burgers, but we can still talk about.

    Video games, like many other things, are bad when used excessively. AP is right in suggesting that parents/users should use caution.

  • On the post: French Court Orders P2P News Site To Report On File Sharing Convictions

    stat_insig ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2009 @ 01:37pm

    Re: France...

    I wonder where Iran fits in your list!

  • On the post: It's Not About Being First… It's About Market Adoption

    stat_insig ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2009 @ 01:32pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: BS from Mikey as usual

    Well..... currently we do have such a monopoly law but still new products are innovated everyday!

  • On the post: JK Rowling Accused Of Plagiarizing Harry Potter… Yet Again

    stat_insig ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2009 @ 01:29pm

    pay time!!

    JKR also believes in strong copyright laws (remember the harry potter dictionary website fiasco?).

    So now it is pay time!

  • On the post: It's Not About Being First… It's About Market Adoption

    stat_insig ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2009 @ 10:40am

    Re: Re: BS from Mikey as usual

    Hmmm. From the article about innovation (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Innovation.html)

    The prospect of monopoly profits is a particularly important incentive to innovation. A “new mousetrap” gives its producer an advantage against competitors, at least until the competitors imitate the innovation. As Schumpeter writes,“Every successful corner may spell monopoly for the moment.”37 One example of how innovations often begin with a desire for monopoly profits is the movie industry. In the early days of motion pictures, entrepreneur Adolph Zukor began Paramount Pictures. Like many other movie studios, Paramount integrated the entire film production process, from script writing to filming to distribution to movie theaters owned by the film company itself.38 Because motion pictures were still a relatively new idea, it made sense for a single firm to both produce and show movies—just as broadcast television networks were sometimes owned by the same companies that manufactured televisions.39 An antitrust lawsuit ended the movie studios’ ownership of theaters in 1948,40 but actual monopolies have also assisted innovation in some cases. One legal device designed to encourage innovation is the patent, a legal monopoly giving the holder the exclusive right to profit from the implementation of an idea. Any person who attempts to profit from the sale of something covered by another’s patent can be prosecuted and forced to disgorge his profits.

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