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• On the post: Google Fiber Is Official; Free Broadband Up To 5 Mbps, Or Pay For Symmetrical 1 Gbps

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:39pm

  great, now they'll get DMCA takedowns at 1Gbps.

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:33pm

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  aw that pesky Pirate Eric!

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:31pm

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  Was he responsible for Billy Idol too?!

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:30pm

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  Actually, that's a good point. Elton John and Rolling Stones try to not spend a lot of time in UK because of the taxes. Oh the irony...

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:27pm

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  yep, now he has to allow others to profit from his recorded work :-)

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: May's doctorate

  i think both are right. IIRC Brian did hold an honorary doctorate (just as a lot of other musicians do, albeit not in astrophysics), but then he actually finished his thesis and became a real doctor.

• On the post: Not Long After Passing Censorship Legislation, Russian Government Censors All of LiveJournal

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:20pm

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  Russia doesn't always censors websites, but when it does, it censors them all.

• On the post: Not Long After Passing Censorship Legislation, Russian Government Censors All of LiveJournal

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:19pm

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  well, coincidentally, livejournal is also a place where a lot of political bloggers (and yes, "extremists") post their writings too.

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:16pm

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  i'll have to say that milking the back catalog certainly has its merits too. i've seen Brian May live, playing Bijou. i can now die without regrets.

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:12pm

  Re: Wait... what?

  For a long time i thought that IFPI stood for International Federation of Pornographic Industry...
  
  Back to the point - i guess, it's because the music industry overall is expanding, while *legacy* music industry is shrinking.

• On the post: Not Long After Passing Censorship Legislation, Russian Government Censors All of LiveJournal

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 03:06pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Have you ever dealt with computer-illiterate people, especially those with a ban hammer in their hands? Those who have no idea what is the Internet?
  
  About a quarter of population in Russia believes that the Internet is Yandex, Mail.Ru Vkontakte (local Google, GMail and Facebook). A sizable number of (mostly old, 40+) people believe that the Internet is some kind of place where people can hack your computer by just looking at it, where there's terrorists and hackers everywhere, and where a good, law-abiding citizen has no business in being. Do you *really* think these people know the difference between an IP address, domain name and a website?
  
  You obviously judge it by looking at yourself and your little sister. You are young, and so is she. 6 year old people don't go to be a judge. But some old-ass technology illiterate schmuck in his 60's - perfectly can. Especially if his daddy was a judge too.
  
  In other words, you have no idea of what is Russia.

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 02:49pm

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  Queen did an album with Paul Rogers four years ago.

• On the post: Legacy Artists Sign Letter Demanding ISPs & Search Engines Pitch In To Return Them To Their Former Glory

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 02:46pm

  It's especially depressing seeing Brian on this list. I wounder if he even knows if he's on this list. It did happen before, right? (*cough* Creative America *cough*)

• On the post: Not Long After Passing Censorship Legislation, Russian Government Censors All of LiveJournal

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 02:30pm

  Re: Re: "...perhaps after a vodka binge..."

  You obviously never met a Russian "don't correct me, bitch" person in power.

• On the post: Not Long After Passing Censorship Legislation, Russian Government Censors All of LiveJournal

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 01:27pm

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  it wasn't an accidental block in a sense that they meant to block a certain livejournal blog. it was an accidental block in a sense that they really didn't mean to take down ALL of livejournal, it's just that they lack the necessary competence to distinguish between websites, domains and IP addresses.

• On the post: Not Long After Passing Censorship Legislation, Russian Government Censors All of LiveJournal

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 01:25pm

  As much as i would like otherwise, it wasn't the case of "collateral damage". It's simple incompetence. Something similar happened a few times (IIRC, with LiveJournal as well) already, so you would think those in power would at least think twice before dealing with what they have no clue about at all, but that's not how Russia works. As the Russian saying goes, "who lived in Russia, doesn't laugh in circus".

• On the post: DC Police Chief Lays Down New Cell/Camera Policy: 'Don't Seize. Don't Delete. Don't Interfere.'

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2012 @ 09:05am

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  that would be the rare time i would like the whole country to actually listen what D.C. guys have to say...

• On the post: DC Police Chief Lays Down New Cell/Camera Policy: 'Don't Seize. Don't Delete. Don't Interfere.'

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2012 @ 08:48am

  Re: Re:

  when was the last time Constitution really mattered to anyone in power?

• On the post: Syria Briefly Deletes Itself From The Internet, Because That Worked So Well In Egypt & Libya

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2012 @ 02:39am

  Lybia?

  Mike, i'm sorry, but obviously you didn't pay attention to what was happening in Lybia. It wasn't an uprising. I don't know what's up with Syria as i haven't been watching closely, but Lybia was a completely different scenario from Egypt.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 08:53am

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  this is why selling pirated stuff is frowned upon in the pirate community.

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