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On the post: TV Analyst: Kids Love Netflix, And Disney Should Break Them Of That Nasty Habit

Tek'a R ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2012 @ 09:03am

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The "Disney Vault" already shows us how much they love ideas like this.

sidenote: Happy Treason Day Everyone!

On the post: A Business Model Failure Is Not A Moral Issue

Tek'a R ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2012 @ 01:09pm

VALUE CHAIN VALUE CHAIN PIRACY VALUE CHAIN!
ETHICS ETHICS ETHICS APPEAL TO AUTHORITY SITUATIONAL CLAIM!
NAMEDROP APPEAL TO MORALITY VALUE CHAIN VALUE CHAIN!

On the post: Lamar Smith & House Judiciary Committee Don't Want To Know How Often The NSA Spies On Americans

Tek'a R ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2012 @ 03:56pm

Re: The truth and it's not Left or Right

Their ineptitude is not a defense of the trespass.

On the post: Police Ticketing Informal Rideshare Participants Based On No Law, But To Protect Port Authority Revenue

Tek'a R ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2012 @ 03:11pm

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Port Authority functions like a massive joint private police structure that likes to consider the bridges, tunnels, ports, airports and areas adjacent to these things as their personal domain across the southern new york/northern new jersey area.

On the post: Yes, Public Radio Shows Can Do Cool CwF+RtB Experiments Too

Tek'a R ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2012 @ 09:34am

A local public radio station offered an interesting premium in the pledge drives this year. Sadly i did not have the kind of donation budget it would take to get one.

The device was described as a radio-bookmark. Just press a button when you were hearing an interesting story, then later you could plug the device into your computer and it would pull up the podcast of the show you had been listening to, possibly at the right moment.

So all-day listeners could skip right to something they were interested in going over instead of trying to remember she show, time, segment, etc.

Even the tote-bag-givers are experimenting with new methods and new rewards.

On the post: DailyDirt: Piece Of Cake

Tek'a R ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2012 @ 09:25am

too big a cakeception to eat. Now, if those were very shallow tarts.. hmm...

Its like the age-old hamburger problem. a hamburger made 'fancy' but too big to eat with bites is a waste.

and the comment about cake dispensing posters threw me off at first, until I saw the linked page and subbed "poster" for "street-level billboard".

Speaking of those, is it just me or are malls Full of those now? light-up, animated, digital, scrolling, its a wide world.

On the post: DMCA Notices So Stupid It Hurts

Tek'a R ( profile ), 30 May, 2012 @ 08:31pm

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The enforcement side of the equation is terribly weakened by "best of my knowledge" type weasel phrases.

even with a signed document (with witnesses) outlining someones direct intent to unlawfully and falsely file a takedown notice you would probably Still have a hard time getting actual charges pressed.

On the post: Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed With Thousands Of Nortel Patents

Tek'a R ( profile ), 23 May, 2012 @ 11:42am

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iirc the Year of Chaos was 2011. we should be on the back side of VITAS with UGE going strong. Still reeling from Dunkelzahn's explanation and all that.

at least the New York quake has been delayed, still time to escape NY and LA.

/nerd

On the post: Guy Who Was Buying & Selling Foreclosed Homes In Florida Wins $124 Million Patent Lawsuit

Tek'a R ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 11:48pm

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are you insane or just foolish?

you are literally saying that you support patent rights being used as a tax, forcing successful businesses to pay out the nose for "licensing" things that they created in-house just because someone claims they own the rights on all widgets that turn clockwise, despite never producing, licensing or innovating a thing themselves.

Promote the progress (of everyone)? no, no, the system is supposed to make "many a inventor and company very wealthy", right?

don't let them treat you like such a fool.

And stop saying IDEA. Patenting IDEAs is not just foolish, it is contrary to the law. a patent is meant to protect a very particular expression of an idea.

On the post: Real Estate Listing Services Use Questionable Copyright Claims In Attempt To Block Criticism Of Agents

Tek'a R ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 02:23pm

Re: Value of realtors

Realtors have held onto their "market" by using the same methods as any other industry.

There is a wonderful amount of legal capture and what i call "standards capture", where things may technically be legal to do by oneself except for the incredible amount of insider knowledge required. Unfortunately the pitfalls of the industry are mostly unknown to anyone not trying to navigate it and anyone trying to navigate it is either pressured to accept as-is (home buyers and sellers) or they profit from the current arrangement.

On the post: SpaceX 'Test' Flight Off And Running

Tek'a R ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 02:17am

oops, nevermind, that is video from the abort.

second time was the charm it seems!
it's not like this is rocket science or something

On the post: How Copyright Extension Undermined Copyright: The Copyright Of Parking (Part I)

Tek'a R ( profile ), 22 May, 2012 @ 02:09am

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actually, everyone personally chooses which laws they will obey and which they will not.

I ignore many imaginary property laws. They do not have any positive effect for me and deserve nothing.

I follow almost every real-property law and bodily-integrity law. These laws actually have a positive effect when they are followed and i am happy to be a part of their effect on society.

It is meaningful when most people ignore/unknowingly-break imaginary property law while at the same time most people follow real property law.

On the post: Copyright Troll Demands $8,500 From Rarely Visited Lindsay Lohan Fansite

Tek'a R ( profile ), 18 May, 2012 @ 12:18pm

Nothing contained or omitted from this correspondence is, or shall be deemed to be, either a full statement of the facts or applicable law, an admission of any fact, or waiver or limitation of any of AKM Images' rights or remedies, all of which are specifically retained and reserved.

am I reading this right?
it sure seems this says (in backwards lawyer talk) that they are specifically disclaiming the legalese statements as not a "full statement of the facts or applicable law", among the other claims.

you owe us a bajillion dollars for totally legitimate and legal reasons that are legally binding!*

*may not be legally binding

On the post: New Study Says Leaked Albums From Popular Artists Lead To More Sales

Tek'a R ( profile ), 18 May, 2012 @ 09:14am

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It's incredible hard to look at the buying decisions of millions of people and in any sane way attribute it solely to a leaked copy.

i don't think that is what is being said.
If anything it is just an example showing that a leak does not hurt a release and may be part of the fans showing the kind of dedication that makes it sell even better.

or in other words.. and symbols.

leak/"piracy"/file-sharing =/= lower sales.

On the post: Tenenbaum To Supreme Court: Let's Get This Constitutional Debate On Statutory Rates For Copyright Infringement Rolling

Tek'a R ( profile ), 16 May, 2012 @ 07:30am

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Because the common Joe & Jane Sued Public does not have the money or the will to start a legal battle.

For most people a lawsuit is not something you look forward to, it is an excruciating process that can leave you broke even if you win under the letter of the law. Combine that with having million-dollar legal teams waved at you and a media system (controlled by the same people you would sue in some cases) that loves talking about these few cases the media groups have won and never mentions the loses and you have a recipe for fear.

On the post: Counting Crows Distributes Songs And More Via BitTorrent

Tek'a R ( profile ), 14 May, 2012 @ 04:54pm

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I wish i could just decide what is TRUE or NOT by CAPITALIZING words in a HAMhanded attempt FOR emphasis.

I could JUST declare that GOOGLE is taking ALL MONEY EVER and PIRATE-THIEF-TERRORISM-BAY is their THIEF accomplice. and THE SKY is full of MARZIPAN because I AM AN ARTIST.

On the post: ICE & FBI Hatch Ingenious Plan To Make DVD Piracy Warnings Longer

Tek'a R ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 08:19am

Re: Re: No thats great

This is even better!
if the Ars report is correct these screens come After the main menu. You have to pree Play, Start Movie, Begin, whatever on the menu and Then you get another steaming helping of value-adding content, paid for in part or whole with Your tax dollars, calling you a dirty criminal scumbag because you bought a dvd or BR.

On the post: FBI Stops Yet Another (Yes Another) Of Its Own Terrorist Plots; This Time: Anarchists!

Tek'a R ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 08:22pm

Re: Re: Re: C'mon people... really?

you are eager to send people to jail for thought-crimes that a skilled FBI agent manipulates them into, with the added bonus of insisting that they are sexually assaulted while being unlawfully imprisoned for these un-crimes.

wow.

This is the kind of person they must be recruiting. Scary, isn't it?

On the post: DailyDirt: Fusion Without A Star

Tek'a R ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 10:25pm

Re: Fusion

E-Cat.. isn't that the amazing invention that will be revealed to everyone and opened to unlimited scientific review next week?

i mean, next month.

next year, certainly.

well, eventually probably.

On the post: Will RIM Go Full-On Patent Troll?

Tek'a R ( profile ), 01 May, 2012 @ 05:57am

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recovering the unpaid license fees

It is almost like you are reading out of the patent-troll playbook.

"recovering the unpaid license fees" for something that they did not actually create, market or sell might be profitable but it is not right. And more and more this kind of action weakens the framework they lean on to pull off these stunts.

Even if there were no more patents that claim to cover smartphones (and/or handheld computer devices and/or computerized phone tablet devices and/or anything not yet invented) issued starting Today we would still be looking at a mess of cross-suits and patents claiming to cover the idea of pressing a button to input a number for the next 20 years.

20 more years of lawyers being paid instead of actual engineers, of money being moved from companies that are successful to companies that are failures.

The period of patent is short when compared to the period of non patent (less than 20 years, versus infinity going forward).

golly, you are something special.
Let me take that absurd reduction even farther! 20 years compared to infinity is nothing, so lets just end all of these patents now. I mean, it is just not a big deal, right?

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