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  • On the post: Copy Protection Does Not Mean More Sales

    taoareyou ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2011 @ 11:04am

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    Yes, I used offline mode to play Steam games on my laptop when traveling outside a wifi connection. :)

    Steam is actually very useful. It keeps all my games patched, I can play wherever I want and many games I can even use the "cloud" to save my games. So if I am on my laptop (connected to the Internet for this of course) and I progress in a game and save it, I can pick up where I left off when I get back to my PC.

    Also, when getting a new computer, reinstalling games is NO effort at all. :) All this and NO monthly service fee. Not to mention great deals. I bought Civ 5 recently for $17 from Steam instead of $50 at the retail store.

    I don't see Steam as a form of DRM.

  • On the post: Copy Protection Does Not Mean More Sales

    taoareyou ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2011 @ 10:55am

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    FYI, Steam has an offline mode.
    https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3160-agcb-2555

  • On the post: Football Player Sues Hanes; Says It Can't Fire Him Over Controversial Things He Said On Twitter

    taoareyou ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 07:46am

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    If you believe most U.S. citizens are not decent, intelligent people, are you any better than the ones you denounce? Judgmental generalizations don't work no matter what piece of land you are standing on when you make them.

  • On the post: Football Player Sues Hanes; Says It Can't Fire Him Over Controversial Things He Said On Twitter

    taoareyou ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 07:42am

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    You must be one of the majority of Americans who are not decent, intelligent people. :) Otherwise you would have been able to infer this meaning from the evidence that is invisible to you due to your lack of decency and intelligence.

    lol

  • On the post: Football Player Sues Hanes; Says It Can't Fire Him Over Controversial Things He Said On Twitter

    taoareyou ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2011 @ 07:32am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: there's more to it, right?

    Don't you believe your viewpoint to be true? Is it not based entirely on something someone told you. Something that is theory, since scientifically, this theory has not been proven by testing and recreating the result.

    Your belief in an unproven theory is your choice, but criticizing others who believe in an unproven theory does nothing for your own credibility.

    That being said, I believe Hanes should be able to terminate a relationship with a sponsor if that sponsor's positions could cause controversy and damage to their reputation and sales. Nobody is telling the NFL player he can't express his opinion, but when those opinions can cause moral outrage, I believe it's well within Hanes' right to separate themselves.

  • On the post: ABC Sports Threatens To Hit Tim Pawlenty With Copyright Infringement Claim Over Miracle On Ice Footage

    taoareyou ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 08:15pm

    Re: Re: My god! A cease & desist letter!

    It's not about anyone being interested, it's just about money.

    Personally, I think the footage should be considered historical, but I don't agree that the video footage should be able to be used by someone else for profit, and that's what a political campaign is all about these days.

  • On the post: Swedish Appeals Court Increases File Sharing Fine By A Factor Of Six

    taoareyou ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 12:27pm

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    The United States is not a simple representative democracy, but rather a constitutional republic. There is no majority rule.

  • On the post: Is Filing A Defamation Lawsuit Really The Best Way To Respond To A Potentially False Hotel Review?

    taoareyou ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 12:16pm

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    If a child kicks a man in the knee and the man respond by punching him in the face with his fist, the man can be seen as a bully. When people see an action that seems heavy handed, that is the perception. The couple seems to me as if they connected the bugs to the hotel in their head. It also seems to me that their assumption was inaccurate.

    Simply responding to the review with factual evidence refuting the review should have been enough. Going one step further and taking some sort of conciliatory action to make the couple feel their wrong, even if it was unfounded, had been righted would have been better.

    Filing a hefty defamation lawsuit not only appear excessive, but leaves a negative on top of a negative in the eyes of observers. Even if they win the lawsuit, they have lost much more than they will gain.

  • On the post: Is Filing A Defamation Lawsuit Really The Best Way To Respond To A Potentially False Hotel Review?

    taoareyou ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 10:44am

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    The error here is the misconception that if someone strikes you, your best option is to strike back harder. Which is the point of Mike's post as I see it.

    Fighting back is not always the best option. Many business' and people have learned this. A negative response to a negative stimulus rarely results in a positive resolution.

    However a positive, defensive rather than offensive, response can refute the attack and generate goodwill from observers and even the attacker.

  • On the post: Swedish Appeals Court Increases File Sharing Fine By A Factor Of Six

    taoareyou ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 06:58am

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    "Correct, it is not a human right: it is only a law the majority of the population had enacted as legislation at some point in history."

    When did the majority of the population vote to enact IP legislation? Did lawmakers all run on a platform of "if you vote for me, I will create a new, made up property of the mind so you, my constituents, can be legally harassed and shaken down for sharing things you like".

  • On the post: The Absurdity Of Comparing Copying To Stealing

    taoareyou ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 12:08pm

    Re: You forget what is being "stolen"

    They need to disable all these rogue recording devices: cassette tape decks, CD/DVD burners. They are obviously tools for stealing sales. Without these rogue devices, we can win the war on piracy. Confiscate any such device without a warrant and without a court order. Only by such decisive action can we protect the artists and the dying music and movie industry.

  • On the post: The Absurdity Of Comparing Copying To Stealing

    taoareyou ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 10:06am

    If Copying is Theft

    Then everyone who has taped a song off the radio should be arrested for theft. Everyone who has copied an article from a book or a magazine should be arrested for theft. Everyone who has taken photos of anything covered by copyright has committed theft and should be arrested.

    Sharing copyrighted works have been around since the photocopier. People would make copies of interesting things they read and share them around the office. Now days they just copy/paste to e-mail.

    Equating theft with infringement is less a flaw in logic and more an act of desperation to attempt to garner public support for outrageous claims.

    Except the public isn't as stupid as they want to believe.

  • On the post: 54-Year Old School Teacher Who Doesn't Know How To Download Movies First To Be Kicked Off The Internet In France

    taoareyou ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2011 @ 09:06am

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    US Courts. See Casey Anthony.

  • On the post: Verizon Tells Customer To Get A Lawyer & A Subpoena To Get An Itemized Bill

    taoareyou ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2011 @ 09:56am

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    Seriously, do you think a completely different company can use the Verizon graphic with the red corner check and the stylized red Z in the name Verizon and then put a different word under it like say "Haircuts" and not get sued?

    Or would Verizon.com put a link directly to Verizon Haircuts on their main page just as they do to the Wireless company. Which is a completely different company as well.

    While they are on paper different, they try and appear as separate divisions of Verizon. At Verizon.com the first link is to "Wireless". Maybe that explains why I have trouble separating the two: shared graphics, shared website style, shared links, bundling services together on a shared bill.

    Looks completely different to ... no, actually. It doesn't.

  • On the post: One More Time, With Feeling: Winklevii Lose Yet Again

    taoareyou ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2011 @ 09:37am

    Re: Re: Winklevii

    Don't worry, it will soon be gone as they continue to pay lawyers large sums for no returns.

  • On the post: Star Trek In The Age Of Intellectual Property

    taoareyou ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2011 @ 11:20pm

    Replicator Needs

    Why does anyone need to mine materials from a replicator? All you need is protons, neutrons and electrons. It breaks them down and reassembles them. Sort of like transporters. The fuel for a replicator is any sort of matter. If you want earl grey tea, you only need enough matter to equal the amount used in final product.

    Like many who have stated this, if replicator technology existed, jobs in the normal sense would vanish and everyone would have all their needs easily taken care of without the need for money or property.

    People would likely be devoting their time to academic pursuits, exploration and arts.

  • On the post: AP Finally Learns That On The Internet, You Can Link To Other Sites

    taoareyou ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2011 @ 04:55pm

    Re: They've still missed part of the html spec

    Perhaps that is for people who don't receive their stories in an HTML format and are thus unable to hyperlink directly from the message?

  • On the post: You Know What's Missing From The Aaron Swartz Indictment? Any Mention Of Copyright

    taoareyou ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2011 @ 12:52pm

    Re: Where does the law say infringement and theft are different.

    "infringement" is breaking a law or rule,
    if copyright is a law then breaking copyright is breaking a law,

    theft is a law,
    and therefore theft is infringement of said law...
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    Also indecent exposure is a law
    and therefore indecent exposure is infringement of said law...

    Irrational connections are fun!

  • On the post: Copyright Troll John Steele Insists That 70-Year Old Is Responsible For Porn Downloads… Even If Someone Else Used WiFi

    taoareyou ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2011 @ 08:50am

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    Millions of invalid claims can make valid claims invalid? This logic flaw is why it's so hard to get the insurance companies to pay.

  • On the post: Newspapers Win Suit Against Google, Get Their Wish To Be Delisted, Then Complain

    taoareyou ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 12:02pm

    Re: Argument for Monopoly?

    Except Google does not have a monopoly. There are dozens of search engines which are all equally accessible. Just because Google is more popular does not mean it has a monopoly. Having a monopoly implies no choice.

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