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• On the post: Author Who Lost Copyright Case Over The Da Vinci Code In The US In 2007 Looks To Revive It In The UK In 2017

  

  Zem ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2017 @ 09:33pm

  Threats are cheap, actually going to court isn't. I wonder if it will ever happen.

• On the post: Neighbor Sues For $2.5 Million After Renovation Looks Too Much Like Their Own House

  

  Zem ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2017 @ 09:42pm

  Re: Easy way out for defendant.

  I am an architect. Many of us see copyright over architecture a bit of a joke. We share, steal, borrow ideas from each other all the time. This has been going on for 100's if not 1000's of years. and we are all better off because of it.
  
  Normally when someone gets done for copyright infringement it isn't for the actual building, but the plans the building were built with.

• On the post: Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt

  

  Zem ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2017 @ 05:16pm

  Inc New T-Shirt

  so like can you now make a "I didn't invent email" t-shirt and put it up in the store?

• On the post: Man To Spend 180 Days In Jail For Turning Over Non-Working Password

  

  Zem ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2017 @ 07:28pm

  And what if the password was correct and they entered it incorrectly 3 times locking the phone for good? Or the phone was already locked from previous attempts to guess the password?

• On the post: Strike Three: Lexmark Can't Use Patents, Trademarks Or Copyright To Block Third Party Ink Cartridges

  

  Zem ( profile ), 30 May, 2017 @ 09:36pm

  Re: Re:

  Exploding INK. It's now a NSA Homeland Sec Issue. Non genuine cartridges enable terrorism.

• On the post: US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract

  

  Zem ( profile ), 19 May, 2017 @ 12:27am

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  Groklaw is stil in my bookmarks. I will never take it out.

• On the post: Stupid Patents Of The Month: Taxi Dispatch Tech

  

  Zem ( profile ), 01 May, 2017 @ 10:29pm

  Opening line for the defence "what's a taxi, is that like a dodo?"

• On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: Storing Files In Folders

  

  Zem ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2017 @ 03:45pm

  Surely Zoolander proved this patent does not stand up to logic. How do you get the folders inside the computer?

• On the post: Ed Sheeran Vs. The CopyBots: Artist Goes To Bat For Musician That Covered His Song On Facebook

  

  Zem ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2017 @ 03:04pm

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  Shoosh you. It's why we are lowering schooling standards, so future musicians can't read comments like this.

• On the post: Despite Stream Of Leaks Exposing Tremendous Gov't Surveillance Capabilities, James Comey Still Complaining About 'Going Dark'

  

  Zem ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2017 @ 02:05pm

  Encryption is the buy in. What he really is saying is "privacy is a problem".

• On the post: Here Come The AIs To Make Office Workers Superfluous

  

  Zem ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2017 @ 05:09pm

  Hasn't Mike already been replaced by a google shill bot?

• On the post: Study Says Police Body Cameras Have Contributed To Increased Uses Of Deadly Force

  

  Zem ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2016 @ 06:30pm

  This report is suffering a serious case of failing to realise " Correlation does not imply causation"

• On the post: Getty Makes Nonsensical Statement On Photographer Carol Highsmith's Lawsuit For Falsely Claiming Copyright

  

  Zem ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2016 @ 05:03pm

  We need to sick PETA onto Getty. They are clearly using a room full of monkeys on type writers.

• On the post: Democratic National Committee Claims That Wikileaks Has 'Malware Embedded Throughout The Site'

  

  Zem ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2016 @ 02:56am

  The X Files almost got it right.
  
  The Truth Is Malware

• On the post: MIT Media Lab Launched Disobedience Award, Funded By Reid Hoffman

  

  Zem ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2016 @ 11:03pm

  Destined for failure when the winner refuses the award.

• On the post: Oracle v. Google Not Over Yet: Oracle Seeks Another New Trial While Google Seeks Sanctions On Oracle's Lawyers

  

  Zem ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2016 @ 03:25pm

  oracle should be proud. They have transformed Google, from a tech giant into a windmill.

• On the post: Standards Body Whines That People Who Want Free Access To The Law Probably Also Want 'Free Sex'

  

  Zem ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2016 @ 04:19pm

  So wait, does this mean they are demanding legislated, compulsory, prostitution ?

• On the post: Guy In Australia Pleads Guilty To Criminal Trolling On Facebook, Faces 3 Years In Jail

  

  Zem ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2016 @ 04:42pm

  Re:

  Australia does not have any "freedom of speech" enshrined in legislation. There is no "protection".
  
  Your high horse is geographically flawed.

• On the post: Supreme Court Says, Yes, The Patent Office Can Review Crappy Patents Using Broad Standards

  

  Zem ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2016 @ 07:40pm

  Your honor, with all due respect, the Supreme Court Ruling was "theoretical"....

• On the post: CIA Director John Brennan Says Non-US Encryption Is 'Theoretical'

  

  Zem ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2016 @ 07:51pm

  This guy is an amateur

  To quote Donald Rumsfeld
  
  "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones"
  
  And the best Brennan could come up with is to label something "theoretical". Lazy FUD is lazy.

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