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• On the post: Google Defends The DMCA's Safe Harbors Against The MPAA's Attempts To Reinterpret Them In Hotfile Case

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2012 @ 02:46pm

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  Lawyers may THINK that the term "service provider" is too broad, but legal precedent agrees with the present definition. Only if other caselaw supersedes that precedent will that definition change. What people think and what actually is are two completely different things.

• On the post: Google Defends The DMCA's Safe Harbors Against The MPAA's Attempts To Reinterpret Them In Hotfile Case

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2012 @ 02:41pm

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  You forgot the children. Always think of the children.

• On the post: Australian Gov't: Not In The Public Interest For The Public To Be Interested In Secret Anti-Piracy Negotiations

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2012 @ 09:44am

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  Which sadly is exactly why transparency will have to be dragged kicking and screaming out of them. Politicians don't want to be held accountable for absolutely everything, only the things that make them look good.

• On the post: Summit Entertainment Claims To Own The Date November 20, 2009; Issues Takedown On Art Created On That Day

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 12:51pm

  Re: Hey...that's my...

  How about my 22nd? And a really crappy day at that. They somehow made it WORSE.

• On the post: Why Hollywood's Six Strike Plan Should Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 09:53am

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  I'm doing it too. Managed to find some dang good stuff from both independent European metal labels and some US-based electronic indies. And I wasn't trying really hard to discover.

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

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 08:52am

  Here's hoping this is a start of the pendulum's swing back into something remotely rational. But who am I kidding, money will eventually speak its marvelous wonders to the politicians and things will get worse.

• On the post: UK Decides Hollywood, US Gov't's Interests More Important Than Own Citizens; Extradites Student For Linking

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2012 @ 01:46pm

  Re: Let's Just Be Grateful

  Where's my sad but true button?

• On the post: Obama Administration: ACTA Is Binding & Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Heads About TPP

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2012 @ 08:55am

  Re: ocd

  Hear hear to that sentiment. Problem...must...solve...it...

• On the post: Louis Vuitton's International Tour Of Trademark Bullying Runs Smack Dab Into UPenn Law School Who Explains Trademark Law In Return

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 12:46pm

  Re: Higher Resolution

  You could always just select the "tile" option, since it's a regular pattern.

• On the post: Who Cares If Piracy Is 'Wrong' If Stopping It Is Impossible And Innovating Provides Better Solutions?

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 11:43am

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  Ares Galaxy isn't new by a long stretch. It's been around since Limewire was popular in 2005-2006, though it hasn't mainstreamed until recently.

• On the post: Who Cares If Piracy Is 'Wrong' If Stopping It Is Impossible And Innovating Provides Better Solutions?

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 09:42am

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  And now the market is going back to the small local level, but with the global reach that only B&N, BAM!, and Borders (RIP) used to have. Interesting how technology works.

• On the post: Kenny Rogers' Lawsuit Shows The Many Ways That A Major Label Screws Artists (Even The Big Ones)

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2012 @ 09:00am

  Re: criminal prosecution !!!!!!!!!! ??

  It'll never work, the acronym (ACFPA) is too hard to say.

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

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 12:22pm

  Re: Bad now, wait till after cybersecurity law is passed

  Ditto. Already done. Gotta love the resources available nowadays to actually send out letters and what-not to your representatives.

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

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 12:12pm

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  Most jobs in terms of "new jobs." Unlike an existing company building a new manufacturing plant somewhere and "adding jobs," a startup is creating them for scratch to address the needs of that startup. The ease of creating such a company in the internet age allows for some rather powerful scaling. Most of them may not be internet-focused, but they wouldn't be possible without the internet.

• On the post: Mass Protests Against ACTA All Across Europe

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 08:49am

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  The only problem with that logic is that if implied powers are taken to their extreme (as the ACTA executive agreement brings center stage), the checks and balances built into the Constitution are essentially null and void. I hope I don't have to explain why that is a bad thing. There may be shades of gray, but in this case it's so close to black it might as well be.

• On the post: Mass Protests Against ACTA All Across Europe

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2012 @ 08:32am

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  It's actually a deliberate safeguard built into the representative system. Knowing that they can be kicked to the curb is how our representatives are held accountable if they decide to be less than honorable.
  
  Bummer that the American people have gotten lazy about staying up to date.

• On the post: According To Lamar Smith, Data Or Criticism From Anyone Who Doesn't Like SOPA Isn't Valid

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2012 @ 07:16am

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  Most of my favorite bands are European, coming from the power metal and symphonic metal genres. My personal favorite is Within Temptation, a dutch band.

• On the post: People In Poland Come Out To Protest ACTA In Large Numbers; Polish Gov't Calls It 'Blackmail'

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 11:14am

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  He kinda HAD to sign the NDAA, because otherwise the entire military doesn't get paid. The NDAA has never been vetoed in the history of such acts. I will agree that adding the indefinite detention provision was against everything America stands for and is total BS, but they should hammer through a revision (there is an HR along the lines) to strike that out WITHOUT nixing the military's paychecks.

• On the post: Public Interest Groups Speak Out About Next Week's Secret Meeting In Hollywood To Negotiate TPP (Think International SOPA)

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2012 @ 11:06am

  Here's hoping the ball of active participation by the public in issues that heavily affect the public keeps on rolling. I'd love to have all of extremely-powerful-and-drunk-on-it folks wake up to realize that the "idiot" public is no longer so idiotic.