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• On the post: Antigua Says It Will Certainly, Absolutely, Definitely Use WTO Permission To Ignore US Copyright And Set Up A Pirate Site, Maybe

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2016 @ 04:16pm

  Bullwinkle: "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a threat out of my hat!"
  
  Rocky: "Again?"
  
  Bullwinkle: "This time for sure! Presto!"
  
  *thud*
  
  Bullwinkle: "I need to get a better hat."

• On the post: Actual Creators Of Email Not At All Happy The Fake Creator Of Email Got Paid For His Bogus Claim

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2016 @ 03:05pm

  URL for the website collecting donations to sue him and distribute his estate to those who actually created email?

• On the post: Clinton Campaign Also Not A Fan Of Free Speech: Sends Legal Threat Letters Over Trump Ads

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2016 @ 02:31pm

  "actually respected the damn First Amendment?"
  
  You mis-spelled "Unites States of America".

• On the post: Yahoo Secretly Built Software To Scan All Emails Under Pressure From NSA Or FBI

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2016 @ 01:11pm

  So who watched the NOVA episode about 15 years of terrorism and was annoyed when it wasn't a documentary about the abuses of .gov, it was a puff piece about security theater?
  
  We don't have the ability to stop them because we don't know who they are, what they're doing and we're denied legal means of fighting back. Some might call it searching for a needle in a haystack. These days, it seems more like finding the hay in a stack of needles.

• On the post: New California Law Attempts To Fight Hollywood Ageism By Censoring Third-Party Websites

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2016 @ 11:13am

  Next up, casting directors using IMDB for searches, ignore any actor who's hid their age, because that's proof they are old enough to be worried about it.
  
  Next year, new version of the law, age's can't be reported at all, years that movies were released have to be removed, etc. After all, if the actor was in a movie that came out in 1980, you can probably figure out their age. :)

• On the post: NYPD Says Software Built To Track Seized Property Can't Actually Do The One Thing It's Supposed To Do

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2016 @ 01:25pm

  "Until you can track it, you can't seize it anymore. Seizing after this date and failing to provide tracking when requested results in the instant firing of everybody involved, for cause, as well as prosecution."

• On the post: AT&T Will Zero Rate its Upcoming Streaming TV Service, Doesn't Think FCC Will Act

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2016 @ 02:55pm

  Why do we have Net Neutrality Rules in the first place?
  
  So that the companies ignoring them have yet one more thing they can feel smug about, of course.

• On the post: If You're A Journalist Who Thinks That Pointing Out Lies Shows Bias, You're Not A Journalist

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2016 @ 04:36pm

  And can we stop with the "Truth" versus "False Statement" stuff? It's either true or it's a lie, whether it's a deliberate lie or not. Calling it anything else is just playing word games.
  
  "We checked and he was telling the Truth"
  
  "We checked and he was making a False Statement" versus "We checked and he was Lying."
  
  Did somebody remove the word Liar from the dictionary?

• On the post: Thanks, Google, For Fucking Over A Bunch Of Media Websites

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2016 @ 11:59am

  Could they figure out how not to break things? Sure. But they have to care first, and they don't.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Issuing Takedowns For Its Own Site Is No Laughing Matter

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2016 @ 12:37pm

  Give them what they asked for ...

  Let's see, who is their registrar?
  
  Domain Name: warnerbros.com
  Registry Domain ID: 2039311_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
  Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com
  Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
  
  Ah, so Mark Monitor is guilty of providing technical support for an accused pirate site, they need to be taken down also.
  
  The DNS records for both companies are now offline, right? :)

• On the post: PayPal Stops A Payment Just Because The Payee's Memo Included The Word 'Cuba'

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2016 @ 01:11pm

  In related news, people reading online news stories see the word PayPal and assume it's yet another story of how screwed up that company is.
  
  
  
  Yep, like I needed more confirmation.

• On the post: Lots Of Newspapers Discovering That Paywalls Don't Work

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2016 @ 04:39pm

  And why is their print edition dying?
  
  How about the price going through the roof the last couple of years and the size of the paper shrinking even faster.
  
  I subscribe to the daily paper that I used to deliver every day long ago. They just bumped the price another 20% for the next renewal and I've had enough. I've delivered, read and subscribed to it for over 40 years and watched as every other house nearby removed their newspaper box from the end of the driveway. Mine will be the last one to go for the area, but it's time to retire it.

• On the post: Why Does The Copyright Office Keep Acting Like A Lobbying Arm For Hollywood?

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2016 @ 10:52am

  Follow the money trail going back, say, ten years, now, and keep an eye on where any employee goes after they leave office.
  
  I suspect you'll have your answer.

• On the post: Copyright Office Intent On Changing The Part Of Copyright That Protects Libraries & Archives, Even Though No One Wants It Changed

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2016 @ 03:43pm

  "So, just who is the Copyright Office serving in trying to update Section 108?"
  
  Uh, the people paying them under the table? Or because they don't think we can do anything about it, above the table?

• On the post: Democratic National Committee Claims That Wikileaks Has 'Malware Embedded Throughout The Site'

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2016 @ 10:56am

  And being the upstanding citizens they are, with safety in mind, the immediate notified WikiLeaks about the problem, right?
  
  After they tried to hide the fact they'd put it there ...

• On the post: Ted Cruz Campaign Infringed On Copyright, But Will Probably Be Treated With Kid Gloves Just Because

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2016 @ 02:42pm

  We'll consider obeying the insane laws they get paid to write, when they obey them first?

• On the post: USOC Demands That Company Take Down Twitter Posts Of Olympic Athlete It Sponsors

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2016 @ 03:23pm

  "But the reality is, if it were not for small private entities who actually support athletes, you’d have a beautifully branded stadium with no athletes in it."
  
  Which is exactly what should happen.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Government Email Stored On Private Servers Is Still Subject To FOIA Requests

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2016 @ 12:32pm

  And of course if you're running a private server, instead of using a public account someplace else, you still get to answer the FOIA request with "sorry, we had a disk crash".
  
  You get to hide what you're doing and because it's a private machine one good kick to the side of it while it's running and you just won a "Stay out of Jail Free" card.

• On the post: Dish Agrees To Make Ad-Skipping DVR Less Useful In Settlement With Comcast, NBC Universal

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2016 @ 03:22pm

  SageTV and Comskip, simply doing what I want for a decade+
  
  My incentive to go buy a product that can't match what I've been able to do for all those years is what exactly?

• On the post: Terrible Ruling In Germany: Digitizing The Public Domain Creates New Copyright

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2016 @ 01:13pm

  Visit the museum, take pictures, digitize them. If the museum is ever mentioned in an article that includes pictures of anything you photographed, file a copyright claim.
  
  They want to invent a new hammer, let them feel the pain when it gets used on them.

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