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  • On the post: How The Redskins' Delightfully Vulgar Court Filing Won Me Over

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2015 @ 10:07pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    "Mighty niggers" lacks appeal. Try Niggaz Wit Attitudes instead.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2015 @ 09:58pm

    Aw, shucks: I spend a few days away from this place, and you've gone and given me a front-page slot! Thanks for the honor, small though it may be. I'm glad I could contribute something of value to the comments section.

  • On the post: Court Tosses Bogus Wiretapping Charge Against Man Who Recorded Cops Who Raided His House

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2015 @ 10:21pm

    Re: Re: I've got jury duty in Boston this month

    Incorrect. Juries are entitled to judge both fact and law:
    http://disinfo.com/2010/03/juries-are-allowed-to-judge-the-law-not-just-the-facts/

    This appears to be an ancient and honorable tradition within American law. I don't know how other countries handle it.

  • On the post: Law Professor Pens Ridiculous, Nearly Fact-Free, Misleading Attack On The Most Important Law On The Internet

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2015 @ 09:36pm

    DMCA Unleashed

    Here's the thing about using the DMCA model for anything besides copyright: it would remove all the sanity checks still contained within the DMCA.

    As long as the notice-and-takedown system is confined to copyright, anyone wanting to take something down has to connect the targeted information to some specific copyrighted information. This isn't a very good sanity check, hence all the abuses of the DMCA, but it ensures that, at least some of the time, takedowns have to be justified by their connection to some very specific piece of information.

    But what if you apply this to true threats? Or libel claims? Or invasions of privacy? Or the nebulous category of "hate speech"? The limit is gone. "Take down this information because it looks too much like that information" has been replaced with "take down this information because it hurts my feelings". The monster has broken free of its last chain, and is now set to devour everything. The new ContentID would have to programmed to destroy all content, just in case.

    Of course, that wouldn't really happen. What would happen, after the huge initial surge of takedowns, is that the major players - the ones with money and connection - would have unchecked power to destroy anything they didn't like. Think of the recent showdown between Mother Jones and VanderSloot, but imagine Mother Jones being completely censored during the three years of litigation. Could Mother Jones even survive three years of silence? I think not.

    I suspect that this is what Ann Bartow wants. And maybe Arthur Chu wants it, too.

  • On the post: Nina Paley Argues Why Copyright Is Brain Damage

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2015 @ 11:04pm

    Re: "Flagged by the community" is a LIE! Took five minutes late on Friday night?

    Consider yourself flagged again.

  • On the post: One Man Troll Army Arrested For Supporting Terrorists: Where's The Line Between Trolling And Terrorism?

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2015 @ 01:40pm

    Dagnabbit, guys, I've been investigating this Cohen person, and now you completely scoop me! What am I supposed to do with my unpublished piece now?

    But while we're on the topic of "Tanya Cohen", did you see his article on The Mary Sue?
    https://web.archive.org/web/20150904144038/http://feministing.com/2015/09/04/reaction-to-idea-of-samus-being-transgender-shows-how-transphobic-gaming-really-is/

  • On the post: Microsoft Retrofitting Windows 7, 8.1 With Windows 10's Privacy-Invading 'Features'

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2015 @ 10:40am

    Re: Re: Re: You are all right and wrong.

    So just what did you mean when you claimed that they weren't good with computers?

  • On the post: Microsoft Retrofitting Windows 7, 8.1 With Windows 10's Privacy-Invading 'Features'

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2015 @ 10:36am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You are all right and wrong.

    Hardly. She didn't pick out and install Windows, did she?

    Personally, I've installed three different versions of GNU/Linux on computers I own (Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora) but I've never been able to install Windows. I did try; I removed my Linux installation, stuck in my Windows install CD, and did my best, but I failed. I've stayed with FOSS OSes ever since.

  • On the post: LMFAO, The Band, Sends Cease And Desist Over LMFAO, The Beer

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2015 @ 10:28am

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    Sorry for trademark blocking
    Every day I'm Cease-and-Desisting

  • On the post: Despite Recent Court Rulings, Getting Behind The Wheel Is Pretty Much Kissing Your 4th Amendment Protections Goodbye

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2015 @ 12:36am

    Re: Re: What if your home has wheels?

    You may not search me in my house
    You may not search my kids or spouse
    You may not search me in my car
    You may not search me at the bar
    You may not search me on a train
    You may not search me on a plane
    You may not search me here or there
    You may not search me anywhere
    I do not like this searching scam
    I do not like it, Uncle Sam

  • On the post: John Oliver Takes On The US Government's Legalized Theft Programs, Asset Seizure And Civil Asset Forfeiture

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2014 @ 03:28pm

    South Dakota vs. Fifteen Impounded Cats?

    Man, the guys at "Epic Rap Battles of History" are seriously running out of ideas.

  • On the post: After 2-Year-Old Emails Detailing Impropriety Surface, Los Angeles School Board Votes To Limit Retention To One Year

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 04:09pm

    Next thing you know, they'll figure out OTR chat.

  • On the post: Audio Equipment Manufacturer Threatens Amazon Reseller With 'Mandatory Jail Time'

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 08:27am

    Sock and Buster?

    Are we sure they didn't mean Sockpuppet and Bluster?

    Also, do they cover emergency services as well as policing? Because it looks to me like Velodyne could use a waaahmbulance right about now.

  • On the post: This Week In Techdirt History

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2014 @ 09:46pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    I confess that I'm having a hard time parsing the original. The interpretation you chose might be correct, and mine might be incorrect, but I can't say for sure. This sucks.

  • On the post: This Week In Techdirt History

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2014 @ 04:25pm

    Re:

    You're forgetting something important:

    "The decision held that authors, according to common law, had the exclusive right to the first publication for perpetuity, but the right was annulled once the work was published." From this site:
    http://www.copyrighthistory.com/donaldson.html

    In other words, artists can choose, at their own discretion, to publish or to not publish, but once they do publish, they have no right, or at least no common-law right, to prevent others from republishing.

  • On the post: As Police Get More Militarized, Bill In Congress Would Make Owning Body Armor Punishable By Up To 10 Years In Prison

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2014 @ 02:56pm

    A little joke for you

    When a bunch of men with guns but no armor get into a fight, it's called a massacre.

    When a bunch of men with armor but no guns get into a fight, it's called a hockey game.

    Why does Rep. Mike Honda hate hockey?

  • On the post: Court Finds Aereo Competitor FilmOn In Contempt For Claiming To Be A Cable Service

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2014 @ 11:43pm

    Re: Re: Re: So to sum up:

    Actually, after rereading the Copyright Office's letter, I think they're saying that Aereo cannot possibly be a cable company, no matter what they do:
    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1222903-aereo-letter.html

    So we truly have a worst-of-both-worlds situation: Aereo's business model is something that only cable companies are allowed to do (because it feels so much like cable), but Aereo is not allowed to be a cable company (because it's on the internet instead of cable).

    Taken together, the Aereo and ivi rulings create an environment where competition is treated as theft. This is very bad news.

  • On the post: Court Finds Aereo Competitor FilmOn In Contempt For Claiming To Be A Cable Service

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2014 @ 11:29pm

    Re: Show of hands

    It's quite possible, but I think this is more adequately explained by Hanlon's Razor:
    "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

  • On the post: Court Finds Aereo Competitor FilmOn In Contempt For Claiming To Be A Cable Service

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2014 @ 11:24pm

    Re: Re: So to sum up:

    A hopeful prospect... and wouldn't that be weird, to see the ruling against Aereo transformed into a mechanism for rescuing net neutrality! I'd love to see that.

    But I worry about the prospect of giving the FCC more power to decide who gets to transmit. How easy is it for the FCC to not grant a license to anyone they don't like? How much pressure could legacy industries put on the FCC to deny licenses? If the incumbents can control the licenses, then they're still in charge and this has all been for nothing.

  • On the post: The Aereo Ruling Is A Disaster For Tech, Because The 'Looks Like Cable' Test Provides No Guidance

    Tice with a J ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2014 @ 09:37pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    I know what the law is, Whatever. And I know that it is wrong. Just as official state religion could not coexist with freedom of religion, copyright cannot coexist with free speech. Our collective failure to acknowledge that is becoming our collective undoing.

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