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• On the post: Kim Dotcom Cleared To Pursue Case Against New Zealand For Illegal Spying

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2012 @ 05:53am

  Re: Gov't spying IS bad, and "Dotcom" IS a grifter! Not mutually exclusive.

  Is it possible to simply apply a "Mike" filter when I'm browsing the comments on Techdirt. Every comment that starts "Mike" seems to be written by some fucking nutter who should go out and get a proper job.
  
  As for me, I'm going to go back to the important job of stacking the cat muzzle shelf at the Glastonbury Tor gift shop.

• On the post: Kim Dotcom Cleared To Pursue Case Against New Zealand For Illegal Spying

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2012 @ 05:13am

  Am I the only person who doesn't think Kim Dotcom is a slimeball?

• On the post: Google Asks Germans To Protest 'Pay To Link' Proposal As It Comes Close To Becoming Law

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2012 @ 07:41am

  Block country?

  The IQ Block Country Wordpress plugin allows you block traffic relating to a particular country. As a form of protest it would be pretty easy for people to deny visits to their website from people in Germany.

• On the post: Colbert Takes On First Sale Rights; Mocks Kirtsaeng Case

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2012 @ 03:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Selling a vinyl copy is more TV show staging, not relevant.

  Commercial scale is when someone notices that you are earning money and wants it for themselves.

• On the post: Patent Office, Perhaps Forgetting What Year It Is, Locks Down Mobile App Development Platforms

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2012 @ 10:09am

  The sole purpose of the USPTO is to stifle progress.

• On the post: RIAA Prefers Customers Who Buy A Little To Pirates Who Buy A Lot

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2012 @ 12:49pm

  The biggest thing that comes out of those numbers is that bands who make money out of merchandise and concert tickets should absolutely love people who do p2p - they are the customers who will make the bands rich - they should do everything they can to encourage them and show they love them in every possible way. Any hint that they dislike them would directly cut into their profits.

• On the post: UK Newspaper Licencing Agency Says Musicians Need To Pay To Quote Reviews

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2012 @ 12:03pm

  Having briefly looked at their website I see that the NLA is a private company created by UK's eight national newspapers to protect their interests that arise from copyright law. They don't seem to have powers delegated to them by parliament. The thing that worries me is that I don't see what's stopping them from saying it's not just copyrights relating to physical newspapers - they also control rights relating to their online equivalents. And it's not just music, it could relate to any area of interest in which they publish. And why stop with PR agencies? At which point, if you Tweet the headline of an article from an online paper, then would the NLA expect to charge you for having published that Tweet?

• On the post: UK Court Furious At Apple Dragging Its Heels Over Samsung Court Order

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2012 @ 04:59pm

  Weirdly, Apple seem to think that if they employ some mildly clever technical bullshit to take the piss out of the judges that they will never realise. They seem to think that the army of savvy techies out there will side with them. But they are actually siding with the judges and pointing out every tiny detail of the way they are being mocked by Apple.
  
  Everyone is getting out the popcorn waiting to see in what way the judges demonstrate their authority. And they have to - the judiciary can't tolerate being held in contempt.
  
  But Apple's big miscalculation might be that they are turning their own customers against them. They are sabotaging the Apple brand.

• On the post: GEMA Gets Bailed Out By Germany's Parliament; Allowed To Proceed With Venue-Killing Rate Hikes

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2012 @ 06:53am

  If everyone in a club were to wear headphones playing their own music, but synced to a timecode that unifies the beat would GEMA have any basis on which to levy charges?
  
  Surely someone can invent a way of letting the party continue?

• On the post: Judge Rejects Fox's Attempt To Shut Down Dish's Autohop Feature, But Indicates It May Still Infringe

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2012 @ 05:30am

  Why doesn't Dish simply block all Fox channels on their device? Would anyone miss them?

• On the post: Faulkner Estate Keeps Suing: Sues Washington Post Over Ad That Quoted One Sentence

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2012 @ 07:53am

  His Wikipedia page says he had extra-marital affairs and his neighbours didn't like him.
  
  Maybe Faulkner Literary Rights are taking these legal actions to make his misdeeds seem a little more likeable by comparison.

• On the post: Google To French Media: We May Have To Cut You Off

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2012 @ 07:47am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I'm unclear whether the "funny" button means "I am laughing at the stupidity of the person who said this". That's the only reason I click it.

• On the post: Why It's Almost Impossible To Get Punished For A Bogus DMCA Takedown

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2012 @ 12:42pm

  "would their be fees awarded"

• On the post: Gary Mckinnon Extradition To US Blocked By UK Home Secretary

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2012 @ 04:27am

  Re: Re: Re: Hmm...

  Scott - would you say it is a disability?

• On the post: The 'Cloud Computing Act Of 2012'… Or How Internet Regulation Can Go Awry

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2012 @ 12:36pm

  This is a law that makes it illegal for the US government to delete legitimate user data on Megaupload?

• On the post: Pete Townshend Makes Required Annual 'Blame iTunes' Appearance, Global Deathclock Reset

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2012 @ 10:09am

  Re: $100 bills as shims

  Just patent the three-legged table. They require no leveling.

• On the post: Pete Townshend Makes Required Annual 'Blame iTunes' Appearance, Global Deathclock Reset

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2012 @ 09:19am

  Pete Townshend was foolish enough to add his name to the list of "artists" I'll never buy music by again

• On the post: Sony Sues Actor For Trademark Infringement For Looking Too Much Like Himself In Another Commercial

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2012 @ 04:29pm

  It sounds suspiciously like someone at Sony said to Jerry Lambert "I'll make sure you never work in this town again".

• On the post: GoDaddy Receives Patent On 'Announcing A Domain Name Registration On A Social Website'

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2012 @ 06:52am

  In my innocence I thought I would pop over to the US patent office website and say "hey guys, this was a silly patent, you shouldn't have issued it" but discovered a bureaucratic institution of infinite complexity. I'd rather spend the afternoon restocking the cat muzzles in the gift shop.

• On the post: Nestle: Buy Our Candy So We Can Hunt You Down

  

  Titania Bonham-Smythe ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2012 @ 05:44am

  Unfortunately I discovered this week that my bag-of-Skittles-every-lunchtime habit appears to have given me diabetes. No more sweets for me. All joy has left my life.

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