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• On the post: Minnesota Carpet Cleaning Business Sues US Olympic Committee Over Its Ridiculous Social Media Rules

  

  ysth ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2016 @ 01:35pm

  Don't they first need to get a declaratory judgment allowing them to use the terms Olympic, Olympics, Rio, etc. in a lawsuit?

• On the post: Good News: Carla Hayden Easily Approved As The New Librarian Of Congress

  

  ysth ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2016 @ 05:03pm

  Re: Steal their thunder

  Corrected:
  
  Start lobbying for the Patent and Trademark Office to be moved into the Library of Congress.

• On the post: Good News: Carla Hayden Easily Approved As The New Librarian Of Congress

  

  ysth ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2016 @ 05:02pm

  Steal their thunder

  Start lobbying for the Patent and Trademark Office to be moved into the library of commerce.

• On the post: Minneapolis PD Issues Questionable DMCA Notice To Bury Its Controversial Recruitment Video

  

  ysth ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2016 @ 11:14am

  The problem here is clearly...socialism

  In a better world, the MPD would not have the copyright; they would have hired a private company to produce the video and license it to them. Ideally with contract terms requiring the private company to police unauthorized use of the video.

• On the post: Dish Sues Tribune Because It Called The Company 'Dishgusting'

  

  ysth ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2016 @ 07:37pm

  No accusation there

  The website (at least the picture of it shown here) does not accuse dish of being a regulatory profiteer - it just quotes someone else doing so.

• On the post: Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill To Make Tax Season Return-Free

  

  ysth ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2016 @ 05:03pm

  Re: Second Article I've Seen on this Subject

  Kind of like free college or universal health care, huh?

• On the post: Can Lawyers 'Overcome' The Bogus Copyright On 'We Shall Overcome' And Free It To The Public Domain?

  

  ysth ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2016 @ 03:49pm

  I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them." - Pete Seeger

• On the post: Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill To Make Tax Season Return-Free

  

  ysth ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2016 @ 03:00pm

  here be dragons

  This sounds awesome. It would just take a $2 billion dollar, 5 year software project that ends up costing $4.5 billion and takes 9 years and is still incomplete, and we are good to go!
  
  Or, you know, they could get some people interested in automating their tax filing to start an open source project that would end up accomplishing the same goal in a hundredth the man-hours and a tenth of the time.

• On the post: Techdirt Reading List: Free Books From Verso (Mostly)

  

  ysth ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2016 @ 05:03pm

  It's over

  Apparently they have an interesting definition of "today".

• On the post: Apple Tells Court That The DOJ Is Lying About It Advertising The Fact That Encryption Keeps Out Law Enforcement

  

  ysth ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2016 @ 08:46am

  Beautifully put

  "malicious attacks, most of which are not from law enforcement"
  
  Almost worthy of putting on a T-shirt.

• On the post: DOJ Reached Out To San Bernardino Victims For Legal Support Before Going To Court Against Apple

  

  ysth ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2016 @ 12:36pm

  We've always been at war with Eastasia

  That said, maybe there's something particularly concerning about Commie Islamists.

• On the post: Apple Rejects Game Based On Bible Story Due To Content Including Violence Against Children

  

  ysth ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2016 @ 11:00pm

  In the original story

  Isaac was 40 years old and knew exactly what he was doing.

• On the post: South Carolina Politicians Propose Ridculous Plan To Register Journalists… To Make A Statement About Gun Control

  

  ysth ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2016 @ 01:52pm

  SCRAWL

  I'm surprised they resisted the temptation to make it "South Carolina Responsible Article Writers Law".

• On the post: Once Again, Piracy Is Destroying The Movie Industry… To Ever More Records At The Box Office

  

  ysth ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 08:21am

  Re: Re: Real creators get angry at those who pirate their works

  Hint: the content is freely available on his website.

• On the post: Clarifying The Bullshit From John Legere: What T-Mobile Is Really Doing And Why It Violates Net Neutrality

  

  ysth ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 02:19pm

  choice by end user

  I'm reading that paragraph completely differently. To me, it is saying there is a carve out for "slowing down an end user’s connection to the Internet" if chosen by the end user, but *only* if it is not content-specific. So the user choice provision simply doesn't apply.
  
  I'm not sure how you are interpreting "In contrast" that you reach a different conclusion.

• On the post: Clarifying The Bullshit From John Legere: What T-Mobile Is Really Doing And Why It Violates Net Neutrality

  

  ysth ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 02:16pm

  proprietary technology

  I thought the other thing their "proprietary technology" did was identify what might be a video (even if encrypted).

• On the post: Once Again, Piracy Is Destroying The Movie Industry… To Ever More Records At The Box Office

  

  ysth ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2016 @ 04:41pm

  Real creators get angry at those who pirate their works

  A case in point: https://twitter.com/ubersoft/status/685522710043201536

• On the post: The Great Dirty Soda War In Utah Is Trademark Gone Stupid

  

  ysth ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2015 @ 12:36pm

  "trademarked the idea"

  they trademarked the idea in 2013 — and they are suing Sodalicious for taking their idea

  
  
  Surprised you aren't calling out the article author for thinking you can trademark ideas. Maybe you think it's a lost cause?

• On the post: US Counterterrorism Official Says US Is 'The Angel Of Death' And Should Be Target Killing ISIS Tweeters

  

  ysth ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2015 @ 12:10pm

  Self-radicalization poaching

  The drone-struck ISIS tweeter should have known better; only the FBI is allowed to self-radicalize American youth.

• On the post: Irish Businessman Denis O'Brien Sues Parliament, Sends Legal Threat To Satirical Newspaper

  

  ysth ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2015 @ 11:02am

  not only funny, but self-contradictory

  "the reference to a 'parallel universe' are a sham" implies "the reference" is plural, which is only true if you accept that it exists in multiple parallel universes.

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