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  • On the post: Legacy Recording Industry Claims Pandora Is Playing A 'Sick Joke' In Seeking The Same Rates Others Pay

    Togashi ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 12:05pm

    Re: HOLY COW! Thanks RIAA for protecting me from tyranny!

    If that's what you think about Pandora, I'd love to hear your thoughts on old school broadcast radio.

    Oh no, this radio station is FORCING me to listen to half an hour of nonstop ads! And they play songs I don't like, and they don't let me skip them! I can't turn it off or change the station or they'll EAT my SOUL!

  • On the post: Legacy Recording Industry Claims Pandora Is Playing A 'Sick Joke' In Seeking The Same Rates Others Pay

    Togashi ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 12:01pm

    Re: Re: Internet stations have THE WHOLE WORLD for market.

    Sources have also quoted said business experts as saying, "What sick man sends babies to negotiate with me?"

  • On the post: Senator Lindsey Graham Apparently Not Sure If Bloggers Deserve 'First Amendment Protection'

    Togashi ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2013 @ 03:13pm

    Re:

    Well, when you're not doing journalism I'd say you probably won't have sources you need to protect, so this law wouldn't really apply to you anyway.

  • On the post: IRS Audited Over Inappropriate Spending, Claims It Can't Find Its Receipts

    Togashi ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 02:01pm

    Re: Re: Re: NULLIFY + REPUDIATE

    How is the 10% of their income more important to them than the 10% I pay of my earnings to me?

    Well, if somebody's literally living paycheck to paycheck, barely making rent/utility payments and having to carefully budget what they can afford to eat, I'd say that 10% of that money is pretty damn important to them. A lot more than to somebody with a $50k/year job who has $40k/year of expenses, for example. Sure it's always nice to have as much extra to save as you can get, but to some people it's a matter of survival, not convenience.

  • On the post: Why Are UK Police Allowing Entertainment Industry Employees To Arrest And Interrogate People With Their Help?

    Togashi ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 02:11pm

    So he's not allowed to go to the movies because somebody who used to live where he lives now may have recorded/uploaded one? That's insane.

  • On the post: Ron Paul Doesn't Win RonPaul.com And Is Guilty Of Reverse Domain Hijacking

    Togashi ( profile ), 24 May, 2013 @ 10:03am

    Re: It's a for profit site

    Ummm... didn't the WIPO panel just explicitly say otherwise?

    The forum is primarily a noncommercial service and the products advertised and sold are ancillary to the website's primary purpose as a political forum.

  • On the post: Sophisticatedjanedoe / FightCopyrightTrolls Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Togashi ( profile ), 18 May, 2013 @ 07:55pm

    Re: How droll

    Because a belief in privacy is completely irreconcilable with a desire to fight copyright trolls? I don't even see where you thought you were going with this one.

  • On the post: A Framework For Copyright Reform

    Togashi ( profile ), 17 May, 2013 @ 04:03pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: WHOA! Stop at: "everyone just wants stuff for free".

    I have not once asked Mike to debate me.


    You may not use the word "debate", but you're awfully loud about "him discussing his views on the merits". Sounds a whole lot like a synonym for debate to me.

    Hint, each of those words is a separate link to you saying the same thing, all from just your last 2 pages of logged in comment history.

  • On the post: Lots Of People Don't Turn Off Their Devices When They Fly

    Togashi ( profile ), 17 May, 2013 @ 03:49pm

    Re: I'm genuinely shocked

    Eh, I just go ahead and turn my phone off and leave it in my backpack when I get to the airport. Anybody who knows me enough to call or text will either know that I'm traveling or not be surprised at the lack of a swift response, so it's just easier for me not to have to deal with any of it.

  • On the post: Eric Holder Claims Terrorists Are Involved In 'IP Theft'

    Togashi ( profile ), 16 May, 2013 @ 02:07pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    And under your logic, I can say that my closet is lined with unicorn fur, and you couldn't say it's not true because you can't prove it. I am the one who would have the evidence, not you.

    See, a rational person would just not believe that what I say is true until I showed them some compelling evidence. As the person making the positive claim, the burden of proof is on me.

  • On the post: Greenheart Games Trolls Pirates With Altered Cracked Version Of Game Dev Tycoon

    Togashi ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2013 @ 02:21pm

    Re: Definitions

    I was thinking exactly the same thing.

    ...Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy...
    How can it be an illegal copy if the copyright holder itself is making it available for free download? I would think that would at the very least be an implied license for it.

    Also, I wonder if their piracy and sales rates would have been different had they not released their "cracked" version of it. The majority of the responses that I've heard are that it's a slightly worse version of a game that's already available for free. Could be that nobody would have bothered to crack it, leading to a much lower piracy rate. Even then, would more people have bought it?

  • On the post: CBS Will Sue Aereo In Boston, Preferably In The Alternate Reality Where CBS Is Winning

    Togashi ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2013 @ 07:15am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    So how do you determine where the line is? Would you think it ok if I paid them to come install the antenna and set up the web server, but on my property? How about if they offered space for me to rent for an antenna, but I had to come out and personally install an antenna and server I had bought myself? How does the same exact result (transmission to a single person over the internet) get to be a private performance one way and a public performance another?

  • On the post: As Expected, Senate Has No Interest In CISPA; Planning Its Own Cybersecurity Bill Instead

    Togashi ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2013 @ 11:27am

    (last year there were multiple versions before the compromise Cybersecurity Act became the bill of choice)
    It took me several reads before I figured out that you hadn't forgotten to capitalize all the right letters of the Compromise Cybersecurity Act. I was wondering when they became so candid about it!

  • On the post: CBS Will Sue Aereo In Boston, Preferably In The Alternate Reality Where CBS Is Winning

    Togashi ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2013 @ 04:26am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    The broadcasters give it away for free to those with antennae to receive it.
    And Aereo is renting out antennae to receive it. If I set up an antenna at my apartment connected to a personal web server that only I could access, would you argue that I needed to pay a retransmission fee if I were to stream from it while on vacation across the country? Why should anything be different if I'm paying someone else to set up and maintain the antenna and server instead of doing it myself?

  • On the post: California Court Rules It Illegal To Check Maps On Your Phone While Driving

    Togashi ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2013 @ 11:42pm

    Re: Re:

    Hmmm, punishment of causing death by reckless driving... Let's just say we're in Georgia for the sake of easily available sentencing data. For those of you who don't know what the blue letters in the previous sentence are for, Georgia's law prescribes 3-15 years of imprisonment, with no parole for at least 1 year, for killing another person with your vehicle while driving recklessly.

    So with the above suggestion: Look at a billboard? 3 years in jail! Have a kid in the back clamoring for your attention? 3 years in jail! Glance at your phone to make sure which road you're supposed to turn on? 3 years in jail! Hell, look down to read the directions you've written down for yourself so you don't have to use your phone's GPS? You guessed it, 3 years in jail!

    Yeah, sounds pretty reasonable to me.

  • On the post: Key Players In Prenda Lawsuits Also Involved In Questionable 'Class Action' Objections

    Togashi ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2013 @ 04:29am

    Re: Re: Mike will follow a lawyer into any rat-hole!

    He's got the preposition, the article is what he needs! That must be why it's missing; he never bothers to read or think about articles.

  • On the post: PETA Goes After Assassin's Creed For Its Depiction Of Whaling; Ubisoft Responds With A Heaping Dose Of Sarcasm

    Togashi ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2013 @ 10:42am

    Re: PETA Reminds StarCraft Players That Zerglings Have Feelings, Too

    Wait wait wait...

    They call their blog "The PETA Files"?! Are they not aware of a) how most people pronounce their organization's acronym and b) the British pronunciation of "pedophile"?

  • On the post: Comcast: We Won't Terminate Your Account Under Six Strikes; We'll Just Block Every Single Website

    Togashi ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2013 @ 10:56am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So... To all pirates who think 6 Strikes can't work...

    Java and JavaScript are completely separate. You don't have to update/install JavaScript, and Java doesn't have anything to do with your computer accessing the internet. Which one are you claiming they're using here?

  • On the post: Game Of Thrones Director: I'm 100% Opposed To The Piracy I Just Said Helps My Show Survive

    Togashi ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2013 @ 09:41am

    Re: Re: Re: Yawn. Mountain-out-of-a-molehill Mike rants again.

    Yes, please spam the site with vulgarity.

    To respond on behalf of DH, I'd like to quote an earlier comment of yours.
    Stop telling me what to do. Who the hell do you think you are? Do you think I'll obey? What a little tyrant.

  • On the post: Comcast: We Won't Terminate Your Account Under Six Strikes; We'll Just Block Every Single Website

    Togashi ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2013 @ 09:21am

    Re: Re: Re: @ Mike: I ask you to state that the first out_of_the_blue is false.

    Gosh, it's a common notion to think your screen name is protected. WELL IT AIN'T, SEE?

    Go register an account with the same screen name and avatar as Gwiz which also posts to his comment history, then I'll believe that there's inadequate protection on the names.

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