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• On the post: How To Turn A Legitimate Buyer Into A Pirate In Five Easy Steps

  

  Michael ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 05:42pm

  Re: Re: I was doing this 4 hours ago

  Imagine all the crappy shows HBO distributes that you don't want to watch. If they offered direct streams, they wouldn't have to participate in the voodoo ratings system to figure out which those are. Costs cut. Your welcome, HBO.

• On the post: How To Turn A Legitimate Buyer Into A Pirate In Five Easy Steps

  

  Michael ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 05:37pm

  Re: Frustrating

  Adblock or userstyles.org can auto-filter that stuff.

• On the post: When We Copy, We Justify It; When Others Copy, We Vilify Them

  

  Michael ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2012 @ 06:30pm

  Re: Re:

  Star Wars is highly derivative.

• On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

  

  Michael ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 05:41pm

  Re: Re: Re: I have an idea for a law

  What do you think of applying a kind of legal due process to legislation?

• On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

  

  Michael ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 05:38pm

  Backward

  The world of safety and security will never exist.

• On the post: Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US

  

  Michael ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 05:36pm

  Re: Re: doesn't matter

  Tool #1: The ability to communicate freely over the internet.
  
  Tool #2: The ability to seize domains or hardware.
  
  Designerfx is talking about #1.

• On the post: Wikileaks Denied A Speaking Opportunity At UN Conference About Wikileaks?

  

  Michael ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 01:46pm

  Re:

  Congress Calls Birth-Control Hearing for Men

• On the post: Wikileaks Denied A Speaking Opportunity At UN Conference About Wikileaks?

  

  Michael ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2012 @ 01:43pm

  Should have called it "Post-Digital Propoganda"

  "News Journalism in a Digital World" should include Wikileaks, because Wikileaks is digital journalism. Excluding Wikileaks is a political attempt to redefine journalism to be the restricted, government-approved dispersion of information.

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

  

  Michael ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2012 @ 02:19am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Since this is Redbox's second push to overcome the waiting periods, success here could help legitimize "remote viewing."

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

  

  Michael ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2012 @ 02:16am

  Re: Re: Re: Find away for customers to buy the discs.

  WB has to outbid Redbox on the crowdsourcing, then. Not going to happen.

• On the post: Homeland Security Denies Entrance To UK Tourist Because Of Twitter Joke

  

  Michael ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 11:28am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: How things have changed

  Are you a police officer? Otherwise, you don't get to murder whoever you want because a threat existed somewhere in your unique world view.

• On the post: Homeland Security Denies Entrance To UK Tourist Because Of Twitter Joke

  

  Michael ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 11:24am

  Re: Thank You

  This should make the TSA's top 20 for sure this year. They were going to destroy our country!

• On the post: The SOPA/PIPA Protests Were Not Pro-Piracy… They Were Anti-Crony Capitalism

  

  Michael ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 05:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Supreme Court out of touch

  This is depressing. How to you appeal to an objective source in the presence of groups like the MPAA and RIAA?

• On the post: The SOPA/PIPA Protests Were Not Pro-Piracy… They Were Anti-Crony Capitalism

  

  Michael ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 05:34pm

  I'm beginning to see the problem here

  Today, people don't spend very much time talking around communal fires. The campfire has expanded to encompass a lot of new places. Story telling is done by recordings.
  
  A wonderful technology has been built around the use of electricity -that's what lightning is made of!- it allows you to easily record and play back all the stories you like. You can send them far away with a tele-vision system! You can look up other stories on something build from a world wide web!
  
  Best of all, nobody is stopping you from playing stories around a television, or on your long-term electronic storage devices. No one is going to stop human nature. That would be bullshit.

• On the post: Is The 'Legislative Solution' To Online Infringement To Create A Content Use Registry?

  

  Michael ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 04:58pm

  Re:

  It isn't presented as a dichotomy. At most, it requires a zero-sum system.
  
  The implication is that while you might imagine making some money by stopping piracy, there is a more optimal solution that focuses more on making money (involving means other than pirate fighting).
  
  Nor is it false. Were it false, the ability to make the most money in business would be to stop piracy. Since bringing piracy down to zero doesn't win you infinite money (unless your technique includes some kind of apocalyptic economy-consuming machine), there is an obvious ceiling to gains from the pirate-fighting strategy.

• On the post: The SOPA/PIPA Protests Were Not Pro-Piracy… They Were Anti-Crony Capitalism

  

  Michael ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 03:52pm

  Re: Supreme Court out of touch

  How about some kind of education system? Too bad we've been cutting support for elderly college tuition.

• On the post: The SOPA/PIPA Protests Were Not Pro-Piracy… They Were Anti-Crony Capitalism

  

  Michael ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 03:29pm

  Re:

  It is easy to accept we're on the same side as pirates in this. The mistake this article addresses is a generalization that we are only fighting for piracy.
  
  It is not our responsibility to show up and say "here is how you fight piracy without X or Y that we don't like." Nor is it our responsibility to police the Internet on behalf of legacy institutions.
  
  It is still wrong to burn the entire forest down just because there are some pirates in there.

• On the post: Bill Maher Comes Out In Support Of SOPA/PIPA Despite Knowing Nothing About The Bills

  

  Michael ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 02:58pm

  Re:

  Same here! Too bad he goes on and on later about other people "living in bubbles." I think Falkvinge made a decent attempt to describe Maher's bubble.

• On the post: Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops

  

  Michael ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2012 @ 09:22am

  Re:

  No, sir. This is just my encrypted files collection. I never intended to decrypt ANY of them before.

• On the post: Clay Shirky: Why SOPA's Not Going Away

  

  Michael ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2012 @ 09:45pm

  Re: Re:

  You have monopolies when you monopolize more than one thing.

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