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• On the post: Microsoft Takes Down A Bunch Of Non-Infringing YouTube Videos Over People Posting Product Keys In Comments

  

  z! ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2014 @ 10:58am

  MS may have a rough road on this. It'll be very hard to argue that a seemingly-random collection of letters and numbers has any creative content (copyright), circumvents DRM (it's a KEY, it opens locked content), is a trademark, or deserves trade-secret protection.

• On the post: Roca Labs Threatens To Sue All Three Former Customers Who Provided Evidence Against Roca In PissedConsumer Case

  

  z! ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2014 @ 02:32pm

  If Roca made legal threats to former customers then waited 3 years to bring them up again, the doctrine of laches ought to apply and kill any possible actions.

• On the post: Law Enforcement Freaks Out Over Apple & Google's Decision To Encrypt Phone Info By Default

  

  z! ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2014 @ 01:58pm

  Children???

  Just like we have Godwin's law (As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1), we need to name the effect for how fast a variant of "Think of the children!!" will appear when discussing civil liberties and related topics.
  
  We also need to say that Yes, we thought of the children, and they're irrelevant to the discussion.

• On the post: Behind The Veil Part 2: Let's All Look At Comcast's Customer Retention Playbook For Its Employees!

  

  z! ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 05:02pm

  "I'm calling to cancel my service."
  "Why?"
  "Because after (insert date) I won't be paying any bills I get from comcast."
  "oh, is there anything we can do?"
  "yes, stop sending bills. I'll leave the modem on the doorstep."

• On the post: Appeals Court Uses Bogus Sherlock Holmes Case To Slam Copyright Trolling For License Fees, Suggests Antitrust Violations

  

  z! ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2014 @ 04:21pm

  Re:

  And so it comes to an end with the Doyle estate finally losing the copyright it has held and jealously defended all these years.

  
  
  The estate actually lost those copyrights some time ago, but it didn't understand or acknowledge that. This case simply confirms the loss.