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• On the post: Dear Hollywood: Hire Better Shills

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 04:56pm

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  By dragging the government and the ISPs into this, the media companies are able to reduce their costs of enforcing silly IP laws. DOJ, FBI and police forces love it because it gives them a new hammer they can use for additional funds, especially if they can tie it back to organized crime or terrorism (or both).

• On the post: So Much For Protecting US Interests – Most Big 'IP Intensive' Firms Are Foreign-Owned

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 04:49pm

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  "If it pays no taxes, year to year, then it doesn't support the nation and as such doesn't qualify for consideration."
  
  I so despise that statement. Yes, because companies don't employ people and don't buy goods or services from other companies. Companies shouldn't be paying taxes on income in the first place.

• On the post: So Much For Protecting US Interests – Most Big 'IP Intensive' Firms Are Foreign-Owned

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 04:41pm

  Re: Re: Re: Misleading. Whatever % US has HERE, protect it HERE!

  One more thing. Comcast is not owned by Vivendi. It is a publicly traded corporation with its headquarters in Philadelphia. Vivendi did own part of NBCUniversal until Comcast purchased NBCUniversal. If Vivendi is French, then Comcast is American.

• On the post: So Much For Protecting US Interests – Most Big 'IP Intensive' Firms Are Foreign-Owned

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 04:32pm

  Re: Re: Re: Misleading. Whatever % US has HERE, protect it HERE!

  News Corp is an American company with its headquarters in New York. It was reincorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law and is a publicly-traded corporation. Murdoch became a naturalized citizen in 1985.

• On the post: Turns Out The NSA Doesn't Really Want Drop-In Visitors (With Cameras) At Their New Utah Spy Facility

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 04:13pm

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  It's not really secret if an article about the place was published a year ago and if you have a sign that has your agency's logo on it. And apparently, it's not very secure either.

• On the post: Bogus Copyright Numbers Enter The Fight Over Cyberhacking As Well

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2013 @ 09:44am

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  This is an area where you cannot get figures, period. There is no such thing as "losses due to piracy" on any Consolidated Financial Statement anywhere. At best, any "loss due to piracy" represents a lost opportunity of making a sale.

• On the post: Bogus Copyright Numbers Enter The Fight Over Cyberhacking As Well

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2013 @ 09:40am

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  Show me the item on a corporate balance sheet that shows "losses due to piracy".
  
  Enough said.

• On the post: Bogus Copyright Numbers Enter The Fight Over Cyberhacking As Well

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2013 @ 09:39am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Show me the item on a corporate balance sheet that shows "losses due to piracy".
  
  Enough said.

• On the post: Bogus Copyright Numbers Enter The Fight Over Cyberhacking As Well

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2013 @ 09:22am

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  I was just about to say this. Someone needs to add up the 'numbers' from various pro-copyright studies and see how much money and jobs the economy has lost.

• On the post: DailyDirt: How Much Are Coins Worth?

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2013 @ 09:16am

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  Rounding is only used for cash transactions. Any purchase via credit card, cheque, or debit is to the penny.

• On the post: DailyDirt: How Much Are Coins Worth?

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2013 @ 09:11am

  Re: Re: Pennies ARE effectively worthless...

  Agreed. I never understood how you could equate the value of non-work time with the value of work time.

• On the post: NASCAR Abuses DMCA To Try To Delete Fan Videos Of Daytona Crash

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2013 @ 06:41am

  Re: Terms of entry

  Then where are all the DMCA takedowns for all the photos and videos taken at every single NASCAR-sanctioned event and posted online?

• On the post: NASCAR Abuses DMCA To Try To Delete Fan Videos Of Daytona Crash

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2013 @ 06:28am

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  NASCAR's intentions were not true and honest. Instead of abusing the DMCA, they could have contacted the poster of the video and asked him to remove it out of respect of the people injured.

• On the post: Bank Threatens Reporter Over Trademark For Using The Term 'Virtual Wallet'

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 06:43am

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  It's unlikely that another bank would use the term "Virtual Wallet" because that term is already associated with PNC. Companies tend to overvalue their trademarks. Is it a bad thing for Kimberly-Clark when people use the term Kleenex instead of tissue?

• On the post: Bank Threatens Reporter Over Trademark For Using The Term 'Virtual Wallet'

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 06:09am

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  Microsoft didn't trademark the word Windows. It did get a trademark on a stylized version of the word "Windows" and a trademark on "Microsoft Windows".

• On the post: Bank Threatens Reporter Over Trademark For Using The Term 'Virtual Wallet'

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2013 @ 06:07am

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  Except that the potential 'loss' from having your trademark become generic has been overstated. No other photocopier manufacturer uses Xerox and no other tissue manufacturer uses Kleenex.

• On the post: How Much Does HBO Pay MarkMonitor To Send DMCA Notices Removing Its Official Content From Google?

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2013 @ 01:27pm

  Re: And so what if there are glitches?

  Criminals have to be found guilty after some sort of due process to earn a strike. You have a lawyer. There are procedures and minimum standards that are supposed to be followed. There is a judge and/or jury.
  
  A strike in the ISP world means receiving a DMCA complaint from a third-party on behalf of a copyright owner because the third-party detected supposed-infringing data being sent to or from an IP address. There is no due process.
  
  So I have to agree with any original poster: kick HBO off the Internet and let them follow your mythical Six Strike appeal process.

• On the post: Japanese Government To Start Seeding P2P Networks With Faux Files Containing Copyright Warnings

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2013 @ 08:47am

  Or how about the movie and TV industry do what David Grohl did with his new Sound City Movie: sell it DRM-free for a low price that includes both streaming and download (in four different versions). I got it for $10 via Paypal. No hassle. No complications. No FBI/Interpol warning. Just a digital file of the movie in 1080p.

• On the post: Sen. Charles Grassley: An Unregulated Video Game Market Is A Dangerous Thing

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2013 @ 05:42pm

  So where are the people smashing people and things with hammers? Or people gobbling up yellow dots?

• On the post: CBS Bans Commercial That Disparages Coke & Pepsi, But Lets Them Disparage Each Other

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2013 @ 05:37pm

  So if a supermarket advertised that it sold food that you could cook at home, would Clearcast ban that commercial because it "constituted denigration" of the restaurant market? What the fuck is happening in this world?

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