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• On the post: Police Department Rewards Officer Caught By An Online Pedophile Sting With Full Retirement Benefits

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2013 @ 06:28am

  Never trust a cop or district attorney. It's that simple.

• On the post: Newspaper Editorial Insists Hackers Must Be Punished, While Misunderstanding Nearly Every Detail

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2013 @ 11:19am

  I read that editorial yesterday and can't believe it that the Globe and Mail published it.
  
  The best part is that, while they say that privacy rights are important, their own website creates at least 12 cookies. What the Globe and Mail meant to say was that "our privacy rights" as in the Globe and Mail's was important.

• On the post: Hollywood Accounting Strikes Again: Investors In 29 Paramount Films That Earned $7 Billion Dollars Get No Return

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2013 @ 09:03am

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  There is nothing unprofitable about the TV or movie industry. Hollywood has been a racket since day one.

• On the post: Details Of Various Six Strikes Plans Revealed; May Create Serious Problems For Free WiFi

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2013 @ 04:16am

  Re: Re: Expect to see...

  Don't you have to be found guilty of infringement before you can become a repeat-infringer? Accusing someone is much different then being found guilty.

• On the post: EFF Gets Secret Interpretation Of FISA Spying Law… And It's Almost Entirely Redacted

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2013 @ 08:11am

  Well done the United States of America. You have completely demolished the whole "government of the people, by the people, for the people" thing.

• On the post: To Boost Its New Crappy DRM, Hollywood Tries Giving Away Free Movies

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2013 @ 09:18am

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  DRM is completely pointless. My wife recently got into the whole Resident Evil movie series, so while she was out one day she bought a bunch of Resident Evil DVDs. 3 of the 4 discs played fine in our desktop computer. The fourth wouldn't play.
  
  Opened DVDFab and ripped a DRM-Free Region-Free DVD, burned that to a blank DVD (for the time being it's just easier to do it this way for my wife) and voila, she could watch the movie on the computer.
  
  The only thing DRM achieved in this case is frustrating my wife, inconveniencing me and using up a blank DVD.

• On the post: Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Courts To Issue Confidential Warrants To Block Web Sites Allegedly Involved In Copyright Infringement

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2013 @ 10:13am

  Re: Re: NO harm in NOT having "unauthorized access to copyright materials,"

  Correction:
  
  ...all because someone ALLEGEDLY copied some 1's and 0's

• On the post: Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Courts To Issue Confidential Warrants To Block Web Sites Allegedly Involved In Copyright Infringement

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2013 @ 10:12am

  Re: NO harm in NOT having "unauthorized access to copyright materials,"

  But I am harmed if a site I use for legitimate purposes is blocked based on an allegation. Then again, you never have cared for due process.

• On the post: Patent Trolling Carnegie Mellon Wins What Could Be Largest Patent Verdict Ever: $1.2 Billion

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2012 @ 10:14am

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  Or cutting out the people that actually 'invented' this 'invention'. Will CMU forward any of that award to Kavcic and Moura?

• On the post: Patent Trolling Carnegie Mellon Wins What Could Be Largest Patent Verdict Ever: $1.2 Billion

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2012 @ 10:11am

  How does a jury go from infringing on two claims to 1.17 billion dollars? There are 28 claims in the 6201839 patent. If we assume that half of the award is for this patent, then this patent is worth at least $16 billion.

• On the post: Graphic Novel Declared A Terrorist Operation By US Government, Advance Money Seized

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2012 @ 12:40pm

  Just remember all those people who say laws can't misused. Yup, no examples of that every happening.

• On the post: David Cameron Plans 'Radical' Child Protection Internet Measures

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2012 @ 07:03am

  Has any kid every been harmed by pornography?

• On the post: FTC's Overzealous Attempts To 'Protect The Children' May Do Serious Harm To The Internet

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2012 @ 01:31pm

  I like how EA says it's OK for my 8-year old to play Black Ops 2 Campaign Mode but he can't play online because he is under 13 (even though I do not ever recall entering in his birth date when creating an EA Origin account).

• On the post: SimCity Developers' Reddit AMA Swiftly Turns Into WTF With The Online-Only DRM?

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2012 @ 06:39pm

  Origin is Horrible

  Why do I need to create a separate EA Origin account to play a game on my PS3? I already have a PSN account - and that should be enough. My son's online EA account thinks he is under 13 - he isn't - so won't let him play EA games online. There is no way to override this and I don't ever recall entering his birth date in - leaving me to create another PSN and EA Origin account.

• On the post: Richard O'Dwyer Cuts Deal To Avoid Extradition To The US

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2012 @ 05:48am

  Re: Re: Yet again, Mike is FOR commercial scale infringing.

  All people want is simple access to content at reasonable prices. They don't want DRM. They don't want regions. They don't want windows. Apple has shown it can make hundreds of millions of dollars from selling 99 cent apps and songs.
  
  Instead of giving consumers what they want, the media gatekeepers lobby for more complex laws and regulations and demand that the government enforce those laws and regulations. Throw in old contracts that determine royalties and you end with crap like the DVD release of WKRP in Cincinnati - where songs were removed or replaced, lines dubbed over and scenes deleted.
  
  Hey media gatekeepers, I was really looking forward to buying WKRP on DVD, but when I heard that contracts, royalties and copyright 'forced' you to alter the show, I didn't buy it. The entertainment business has no one but themselves to blame for this mess.

• On the post: Report Claims Confidential Police Info Used As Confetti At Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2012 @ 06:38am

  More breaking news on this story

  http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-parade-shredded-1126,0,6831776.story

• On the post: Early-Morning Raid Sent To Confiscate 9-Year-Old's Winnie The Pooh Laptop For Downloading Music

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2012 @ 07:51am

  Glynn, you can't hardly be surprised by the tactics of law enforcement. The overall crime rate has been falling in most western democracies. Police are bored and they have to justify their ever growing budgets. Enforcing out-of-date business models is their new bread and butter.

• On the post: TSA/Airport Security: Killing Us On Christmas

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2012 @ 11:01am

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  US monoculture? You haven't really travelled in the US then.

• On the post: TSA/Airport Security: Killing Us On Christmas

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2012 @ 10:43am

  "Mueller and Stewart estimate that government spending on homeland security over the 2002-11 period accounted for around $580 billion of that total."
  
  Meanwhile, 9/11 first responders are still waiting for compensation.

• On the post: Homeland Security Spent $430-Million To Tune Its Radios To A New Frequency, And Failed

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2012 @ 01:25pm

  Re: Not the Way It Works

  3. People who screwed up in the first place are promoted as a 'reward'.

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