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• On the post: Google's Fiber Makes MPAA Skittish. Why Does Hollywood See All Technology In Terms Of Piracy?

  

  WDS ( profile ), 03 May, 2012 @ 07:21am

  Progress is slow

  Hey, they just finished figuring out how to get them big reels of film onto those shinny plastic disks. Now you expect them to already figure out how to get the shinny plastic disks down pieces of glass fiber. It may be possible, but it is going to take time.

• On the post: How A Free Movie Made $1 Million In 14 Days

  

  WDS ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 03:33pm

  Re: Once again, the studios were there first...

  And you see no difference between a preview screening at 1 or 2 theaters, and releasing the film over the net to the entire world to anybody and everybody that wants to watch it for a 10 day period?
  
  I think I understand your problem.

• On the post: How A Free Movie Made $1 Million In 14 Days

  

  WDS ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 03:27pm

  Sure it will work here but....

  This scheme will only work if your movie is about food and you have a recipe book that you can bundle with it.
  
  /sarcasm

• On the post: UK Tabloid Known For Publishing Naked Photos Complains About The Harm Of Porn Online

  

  WDS ( profile ), 02 May, 2012 @ 08:24am

  What I Believe

  1. The Daily Mail is about as trashy publication as there is, and has no right to complain about anything.
  2. If someone wants to watch Porn, it is none of my or the governments business.
  3. Nude or Naked is in no way the equivalent of Porn. (i.e. The Picture of Madonna linked & Venus di Milo classy. "Debbie gets creamed" not so much).

• On the post: London 2012 Olympics Win Gold Medal For Cluelessness By Banning Video And Photo Uploads To Social Media During Games

  

  WDS ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 10:29am

  Makes Sense

  This makes perfect sense to me. I can't keep track of the number of times I've been in a restroom and looked down at the brand label on the urinal and thought to myself, "If these people just sponsored the Olympics, I'd buy one of these!"

• On the post: Case Study On How An Indie-Rock Composer Musician Makes Money

  

  WDS ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2012 @ 10:58am

  Re: Re:

  Actually if you look at 2010 he had recording expenses but no recording income. In 2011 he had recording income but no recording expenses. It appears to me he recorded and album in 2010 that was released in 2011.

• On the post: Free 3D-Printable Kit To Connect Different Toy Construction Sets Released — But Partially Blocked Due To Patents

  

  WDS ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 07:43am

  "and we assert that the home printing of the Free Universal Construction Kit constitutes protected fair use."
  
  And of course every home has a 3D printer sitting in the office.

• On the post: Wyden Tries To Get Anti-ACTA/TPP Amendments Included In JOBS Act Vote

  

  WDS ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 07:30am

  Re: Tag alongs

  I guess I should have read all of the comments before I made mine. Hulser said the same thing better.

• On the post: Wyden Tries To Get Anti-ACTA/TPP Amendments Included In JOBS Act Vote

  

  WDS ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 07:23am

  Tag alongs

  While I like the idea of both proposals that Senator Wyden wanted to put it, I don't like the idea of putting them in a totally unrelated bill any more than I like the entertainment industry hiding additional IP restrictions in unrelated bills.

• On the post: WaPo's Kaplan Scolded For Demanding $300 From Student Trying To Sell One Of Its Books On eBay

  

  WDS ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 12:37pm

  Original Letter

  Any chance of getting a copy of the original cease and desist from Kaplan????

• On the post: Canadian Universities Agree To Ridiculous Copyright Agreement That Says Emailing Hyperlinks Is Equal To Photocopying

  

  WDS ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2012 @ 07:11am

  Re:

  It wasn't $27.50 per hyperlink, it was 27.50 per student. Don't know if that is per year or per semester.

• On the post: The Sky Is Rising: The Entertainment Industry Is Large & Growing… Not Shrinking

  

  WDS ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 08:38am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Getting one idiot to spend $250 million for a single seat to a movie would make it a high grossing movie, but if that is the only ticket sold, it wouldn't be successful with the public, which is key.
  
  Maybe if they had lowered the price of the ticket to $249 million that could have sold two.

• On the post: The Sky Is Rising: The Entertainment Industry Is Large & Growing… Not Shrinking

  

  WDS ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2012 @ 08:14am

  Re:

  " Why not point out that the vast majority of the video game players are playing free or penny games, not buying the big titles? People playing farmville isn't really something to use to justify anything, sorry!"
  
  Is it possible that the people choosing to play farmville instead of buying "the big titles" has more to do with the quality (or lack there of) of the big titles than with the sky falling. If more people are having fun playing games and the overall money being made is higher, why should I care that people aren't buying "the big titles".

• On the post: Denial: MPAA Pretends That No Big Sites Have Joined SOPA/PIPA Protests

  

  WDS ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2012 @ 03:30pm

  A defense?

  Maybe Google could use this in their Anti-Trust defense.
  
  "How could we possibly be guilty of anti-trust violations, when we don't have enough traffic to be counted as a 'Big' site?"

• On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

  

  WDS ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2011 @ 07:18pm

  Re: Moderated

  It obviously wasn't bad grammar or the post wondering about it would have been held. :)

• On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

  

  WDS ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2011 @ 06:50pm

  Moderated

  I had a post held for moderation. With all the malevolence sometimes found in some of the posts by the AC's, I wondering what kicked the trigger, to have a post held for Moderator review.

• On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

  

  WDS ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2011 @ 06:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Also, I don't believe that Gideons International has their own translation. They may copyright the introduction and the study aids, but in the US at least the bible itself is in fact KJV.

• On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

  

  WDS ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2011 @ 06:16pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I think there are a lot more editions that are copyrighted than that. The Revised English Bible for example is copyrighted by Oxford and Cambridge Press. The Revised Standard Version, and the New Revised Standard Version are both copyrighted by the National Council of Churches of Christ. With a little research I'm sure you could find others. The only one I found that was copyright waived was the World English Bible.

• On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

  

  WDS ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2011 @ 11:07pm

  Re:

  Congratulations AC @ 8:10pm. Not only did you get the first comment in, but you gave an example that will be pointed to for years in the blogosphere on how to establish a truly meaningful dialog while holding an opposing view. Your skill at prose is simply amazing.

• On the post: Righthaven Tries New Strategy: Maybe If It Just Ignores Marc Randazza, He'll Go Away

  

  WDS ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2011 @ 10:57am

  Re: Re: Re:

  As I pointed out above. Righthaven supposedly has some software that they developed or paid to have developed that they own the IP to. They specifically mentioned it in one of their replies explaining what a hardship it would put on them if it were seized.

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