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• On the post: Techdirt Reading List: The Little Book Of Plagiarism

  

  Zem ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2015 @ 01:20pm

  I was just going to cut and past an insightful and witty comment from "That Anonymous Coward" and pass it off as my own. Alas I am too lazy.

• On the post: That Didn't Take Long: MLB Plans Action Against Fallout 4 David Ortiz Mod

  

  Zem ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2015 @ 02:53am

  Could have been worse

  Richie should count himself lucky. If they game had been set in Chicago instead, he would have also been done for cheating in game.

• On the post: Appeals Court: No You Can't Copyright Yoga

  

  Zem ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2015 @ 07:28pm

  Waiting for Hanna Barbera to lodge a third party appeal

• On the post: Microsoft Retrofitting Windows 7, 8.1 With Windows 10's Privacy-Invading 'Features'

  

  Zem ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2015 @ 07:44pm

  Re: Re:

  The best CAD for architects, Archicad, runs on both mac and pc. So does vector works.
  
  It's only autodesk products that are trapped on windows. And since they have now gone to an overpriced subscription model I can only see their user base shrinking.

• On the post: DC Mayor Reverses Course On Body Cam Footage, Opens Up Recordings To Citizens And Researchers

  

  Zem ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2015 @ 01:38am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Good cops would welcome the cameras

  OldGeezer, you still don't get it. Even then they are still equal under the law.

• On the post: DC Mayor Reverses Course On Body Cam Footage, Opens Up Recordings To Citizens And Researchers

  

  Zem ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2015 @ 09:31pm

  Re: Re: Re: Good cops would welcome the cameras

  "The way some people complained you would think they shot Mother Teressa!"
  
  As we are all equal under the law, they did shoot Mother Teressa. They shot me, and they shot you.

• On the post: Paramount Pictures Goes After The Codfather Fish Shop Over A Fish That Looks Like Marlon Brando

  

  Zem ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2015 @ 10:04pm

  Seeing this from the cod's pov
  
  Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in

• On the post: If Google Shouldn't Apply EU's 'Right To Be Forgotten' Everywhere, Why Should It Apply US DMCA Takedowns Globally?

  

  Zem ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2015 @ 04:43pm

  Looking forwards to the day google purchase a small country. Must be a few island nations that would gladly sell as they go under water.

• On the post: Daily Dot Latest To 'Keep Conversation Moving Forward' By Not Letting Site Visitors Comment At All

  

  Zem ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2015 @ 03:24pm

  It's like turning up to the movies, armed with popcorn, only to find the movie has been replaced with 60 minutes of adds.

• On the post: Warner Music's Response To Evidence Of Happy Birthday In The Public Domain: Who Really Knows Anything, Really?

  

  Zem ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2015 @ 04:10pm

  Special Permission

  I bet warner that the judge has a powerful tool available to decide what "special conditions" mean. It's called a dictionary.

• On the post: What's Behind The Attack On EU's Outdoor Photography? The Usual Copyright Maximalism And Anti-Americanism

  

  Zem ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2015 @ 06:15am

  Pro tip to the EU, from an architect. we LOVE IT when people take pictures of our buildings and share them.

• On the post: 70's Band 'Player' Sues Keith Urban For His 'Player Guitar Kit' For Trademark Violation

  

  Zem ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2015 @ 03:45pm

  I wonder if he will do a "Taylor Swift" and write a new hit song about how some man did him wrong, possibly called "The Player".

• On the post: YouTube's Inane Response To Handing Popular YouTuber's Channel To Cosmetics Company: Blame The Algorithms

  

  Zem ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2015 @ 11:33pm

  How long till we see Mr Algorithm added to Cludo?

• On the post: Guy Who Inspired The Term 'Patent Troll' May Be Leaving The Patent Trolling Business

  

  Zem ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2015 @ 05:28pm

  missed a headline opportunity. Niro plays the liar as Rome burns.

• On the post: Bell Exec Urges Public To Shame Users Who 'Steal' Netflix Content Via VPNs

  

  Zem ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2015 @ 06:29pm

  Betcha Mary Ann forces her daughter to listen to music on a Zune.

• On the post: Why Do Our Senators Keep Calling Ed Snowden 'Eric Snowden'?

  

  Zem ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2015 @ 07:36pm

  It's because he is a viking.

• On the post: Suicide Girls Reappropriate Art That Appropriation Artist Richard Prince Appropriated — At A 99.9% Discount

  

  Zem ( profile ), 28 May, 2015 @ 06:39pm

  Re: tranformative

  you don't get it. Suicide girls already "own" the original image. They "own" their added byline. The only thing they are appropriating is the added text by Prince.
  
  The Prince text is being transformed by the addition of the added byline. Transforming someone else's work does not give you the right to lock it up, preventing them from using it.

• On the post: Security Audit Of TrueCrypt Doesn't Find Any Backdoors — But What Will Happen To TrueCrypt?

  

  Zem ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2015 @ 05:47pm

  What better way to stop the public using an encryption you can't crack. Bail up the anonymous author, threaten them with jail, and make them post that it is not secure.
  
  TBH if that post was genuine, the anonymous author would have also told us how and why it was no longer secure.

• On the post: Nature Drops Its Paywall… But Replaces It With Insane, Anti-Research Proprietary DRM

  

  Zem ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2014 @ 02:43pm

  Only an idiot would believe that you can download something and display it on a computer screen that can't be copied, printed or downloaded. Just delivering the document covers 2 of the 3.
  
  Looks like the premier science magazine has just demonstrated it is run by people with no understanding of computer science.
  
  Probably should rename the publication NatureLOL.

• On the post: If You Don't Mind A Little Perjury, You Can Convict Two People For The Same Crime

  

  Zem ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2014 @ 06:24pm

  The entire concept of a plea deal is flawed. They should actually be illegal. No deal, ever. They allow our politicians to write lazy laws and it perverts the system so it becomes more important than the justice it is meant to serve. Plea deals make criminals of the prosecution and fools of the court.

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