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• On the post: Indie Records Sue Limewire; Feeling Left Out From RIAA Settlement

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2011 @ 04:13am

  Clearly those indie labels deserve to be paid too. I mean think of the artists!

• On the post: The Rest Of The Story: Fair Use School Created To Respond To YouTube's Questionable Copyright School

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 06:30am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I am sorry for the casual decline from educated parlance toward that of vapid trolls and the ever comedic ludite elitists. I had just awoken to these paragons of detailed insight and could not resist the urge to make an ass of myself. Though I suppose the commonly ignored [citation needed] might have sufficed.

• On the post: The Rest Of The Story: Fair Use School Created To Respond To YouTube's Questionable Copyright School

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 03:25am

  Re: Re: Re:

  butt... Butt... PIRACY!!!

• On the post: The Rest Of The Story: Fair Use School Created To Respond To YouTube's Questionable Copyright School

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 03:18am

  Re:

  but... But... COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!!!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7nqwGt4-I

• On the post: The Rest Of The Story: Fair Use School Created To Respond To YouTube's Questionable Copyright School

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 03:17am

  Re:

  but... But... COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!!!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7nqwGt4-I

• On the post: Definition Of Irony: Deus Ex Leak Spawns Conspiracy Theories

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2011 @ 04:57am

  Five thousand partial dollars would have only been partially ironic. I think they might be setting up a Monty Python style lawyer joke.

• On the post: WikiLeaks Planning Legal Action Against PayPal, MasterCard & Visa

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2011 @ 08:35am

  Generic jingoist troll statement. Lie feigning empathetic insight. Criticism of author, not content. Criticism of those who dare discuss the content. Baseless accusation of condoning child pornography toward those who challenge obvious attempts at obfuscation.
  
  There, now that most of the stupid comments are categorically out of the way, let's get down to business.

• On the post: Judge Who Doesn't Understand Technology Says WiFi Is Not A Radio Communication

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2011 @ 08:24am

  Re: Re: Re: Light has mass ????

  Play nice children:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_mass
  (having cake and eating it too... mmmmm, scrumptious!)

• On the post: Judge Who Doesn't Understand Technology Says WiFi Is Not A Radio Communication

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2011 @ 08:15am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Although...

  Take that up with DeBroglie.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeBroglie_wavelength

• On the post: Judge Who Doesn't Understand Technology Says WiFi Is Not A Radio Communication

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2011 @ 08:13am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Knowing you don't know, is knowledge enough.

  "I guess you can't."
  
  Citation please?

• On the post: RIAA: LulzSec & Anonymous Show Why We Need PROTECT IP

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2011 @ 03:21pm

  Re: lawless

  SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! You're making too much goddamn sense! Stop asking intelligent questions! Stop drawing rational conclusions!
  
  There's some candy in this van for you...

• On the post: Righthaven Loses Big Yet Again, Cementing Two Previous Issues

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 08:58am

  Re:

  "Unfortunately, this case goes a long way to proving that the current laws (DMCA) heavily favour the" copyright owner, "and as such, is likely to get changed to block the clear holes that" the other stakeholders (the rest of us) are being litigated "though.
  
  Thanks to the courts for making it clear!"
  
  FTFY... except for the horrible grammar errors; they are more illustratively useful as is.
  
  :-P

• On the post: New York Post Tries Hamfisted Safari Browser Block To Try To Sell More iPad Apps

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 05:01am

  I'm still waiting for Apple to try to trademark iBrowse...

• On the post: Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2011 @ 04:34pm

  Re: Arguing...

  EVERYONE PLEASE STOP FEEDING THE TROLL!!!!!

• On the post: Reminder: Please Help Us Calculate The 'Cost' Of Overprotective Copyright Laws

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 06:23pm

  Re: My Annual "Losses"

  I suppose I ought to include the cultural cost of software, music, and any other copyrighted media I can think of in my analysis. OOOO, and litigation costs. But that's a bit much work to do for this, the cost might become a self-fulfilling recursion toward infinity.

• On the post: Reminder: Please Help Us Calculate The 'Cost' Of Overprotective Copyright Laws

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 06:19pm

  My Annual "Losses"

  In the interest of being funny, because I am almost certain my analysis will be tossed as a humorous outlier, here is how I (hastily) calculated my "losses" over the past year:
  
  

  I took a rather terse engineering approach to this problem, and assumed that if I were watching movies during 100% of my downtime, that I would be losing equivalent work pay and gaining equivalent MPAA earnings from the cultural impact of the movies. Thus, I removed sleep and work hours from a full year's worth of hours and came up with this simple formula:
  
  ((365.25 days / year) * (24 hours / day - 8 hours sleep / day) - (50 weeks work / year) * (5 days work / week) * (8 hour work / day)) * (($105,664/year [chem. eng., 1]) / ((50 weeks work / year) * (5 days work / week) * (8 hours work / day)) - ($10,455,147,898/year [2010 box office gross, 2]) / (667 movies / year) / (2 hours / movie)) = -$30,126,924,739.81
  
  Notice the sign...
  
  Taking into consideration I have a terrible case of insomnia (which is true), I have to remove the equivalent number of hours on average. Since I only sleep every 2 or three days, that is a total of three nights per week on average that those 8 hours will be over-estimated to exist; which substantially impacts the tota value I am missing out on! See for yourself:
  
  ((365.25 days / year) * (24 hours / day - (3 / 7) * 8 hours sleep / day) - (50 weeks work / year) * (5 days work / week) * (8 hour work / day)) * (($105,664/year [chem. eng., 1]) / ((50 weeks work / year) * (5 days work / week) * (8 hours work / day)) - ($10,455,147,898/year [2010 box office gross, 2]) / (667 movies / year) / (2 hours / movie)) = -$43,213,125,734.27
  
  So I am being seriously shafted here even with work pay factored in, and I was generous!!!!!

  
  
  Also, here are the sources I forgot to list in the submission:
  1) http://www.the-numbers.com/market/movies2010.php
  2) http://www1.salary.com/Chemical-Engineer-V-Salary.html
  
  *I may have fudged the division by 2 for hours per movie, but its still perfectly within the ridiculous MPAA method of determining "losses" due to "piracy."
  **To perform the calculation yourself, remove all the units and it should be a straight forward scientific calculator nightmare.
  ***This formula assumes no music was listened to, nor any music value was consumed during the movies, nor any additional value from the works licensed to the studio by their IP paranoia department, nor any other extraneous factors aside my insomnia, just the movies were counted based on average earnings.

• On the post: Man Tries To Patent Godly Powers; Justifies It By Pointing To Software & Business Method Patents

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 02:24pm

  You mean to tell me that COPYRIGHT MAN might be illegally protecting IP?!?!?
  I hope some sort of disaster spawns PATENT MAN to come and save the day!
  
  [/sarc]

• On the post: Mixed Messages: US Talks Of Cleaning Up 'Rogue' Internet… While Underwriting Censorship-Proof Shadow Internet

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 02:18pm

  Re: Would You Trust a US Government version of TOR?

  I have a feeling a USG approved TOR network would involve very little work to setup.
  It would only require one webpage:
  
  "HTTP 404 Error: File not found.
  Your Intellectual Property address [REDACTED] and login time [REDACTED]
  have been recorded and your computer is now seized persuant to [REDACTED]
  pending a full investigation. Thank you for using the United States TOR Network.
  
  Next time just bend over."

• On the post: Rojadirecta Sues US Government, Homeland Security & ICE Over Domain Seizure

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 02:08pm

  Re: Re:

  Interesting that CP is similarly brought up as just a talking point by those seeking to undermine the First Amendment. Validating logical rule based solely on emotional appeals would have us back in the stone age. CP is already considered unprotected speech; stop trying to strip the rights of others for the illusion of your own self-satisfactory smug comfort.
  
  [/rant]

• On the post: Former Obama Advisor Says Wikileaks Is Wonderful For The US Government

  

  xenomancer ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2011 @ 06:12am

  Re: but... but...

  Counterfeiters, whistle-blowers, and pirates! Oh my!
  Counterfeiters, whistle-blowers, and pirates! Oh my!
  Counterfeiters, whistle-blowers, and pirates! Oh my!
  
  (the chant of executives and officials who want to enshroud their lives in secrecy and lock up as much content as possible while foaming at the mouth for everyone else to lay bare their life's details)

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