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• On the post: Company That Issued Bogus Takedown Says It Was All A Mistake, Apologizes

  

  Miff ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 05:57pm

  Forget criminal copyright infringement; ICE should be going after false DMCA senders-- sending one is already a federal crime!
  
  What's needed is a private right of action.

• On the post: The NFL Issues Takedown For Chrysler Super Bowl Commercial

  

  Miff ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2012 @ 12:37pm

  Re:

  It is a crime- perjury to be exact. It's just never prosecuted.

• On the post: Shattering pyrex To Show A Massive Weakness In Trademark Law

  

  Miff ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 09:10am

  Of course, the market already offers a natural remedy for this- Pyrex stops being associated with borosilicate glass and starts being associated with shitty glass cookware.

• On the post: Why Can't Europe Just Forget The Ridiculous Idea Of A 'Right To Be Forgotten'

  

  Miff ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 04:12pm

  Well if I have a right to be forgotton

  Does that mean if I lived in Europe I could call up my ISP or phone company and say "hey, I want to be forgotten so I demand you erase any and all logs you have of my activity."?

• On the post: Hollywood Studio Execs Upset That President Obama Didn't Stay Bought; Insist They Won't Donate More

  

  Miff ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2012 @ 11:29am

  Re:

  Citizens United!

• On the post: Justices Finally Notice Naked Statues In The Supreme Court While Arguing Why Nudity Should Be Censored

  

  Miff ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2012 @ 02:15pm

  The majority of content of "plenty of cable networks" is either syndicated shows from broadcast TV or shows who's producers eventually want syndication deals on broadcast TV.

• On the post: Candidates Starting To Turn SOPA Into A Campaign Issue: Karen Kwiatkowski Goes After Bob Goodlatte

  

  Miff ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2011 @ 10:57pm

  Re: I was about to send Kwiatkowski some money until I looked at some other issues

  It's not like she'd keep those promises.
  
  Hell, she probably won't keep the SOPA one either.

• On the post: Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works

  

  Miff ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2011 @ 10:52am

  The other day I actually came up with an idea to prevent copyfraud: "Three strikes" should go both ways: if one gets three claims on the same copyrighted material refuted, then the copyright it revoked and that material enters the public domain.

• On the post: Microsoft Reminds Everyone: You Do Not Own Your Software

  

  Miff ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 06:08pm

  Re: Re:

  You have to in order to install Linux!
  
  Also by the way every major desktop environment has to be redesigned to run only with a touchscreen sorry about that.

• On the post: Microsoft Reminds Everyone: You Do Not Own Your Software

  

  Miff ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 06:07pm

  Re: Back. It. Up.

  I save all my data to the cloud!
  
  And by the cloud, I mean a file server sitting in my bedroom named cloud.

• On the post: How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website

  

  Miff ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 10:39am

  I should anonymously write a stack of takedown letters against pretty much every popular website out there and toss 'em in a mailbox the day the bill passes.

• On the post: Senator Briefly Brings Fake Driver's License App To The Public Eye Before Having It 'Taken 'Round Back And Shot'

  

  Miff ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2011 @ 11:16am

  > ... which they can easily print ...
  
  On an iDevice!?

• On the post: Software Developer Connects With Fans At The Altar

  

  Miff ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2011 @ 07:25am

  Re: Re: Re: Awesome

  It's on Steam!
  
  http://store.steampowered.com/app/107100

• On the post: Facebook, Twitter, eBay & Other Big Internet Companies Come Out Against SOPA

  

  Miff ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2011 @ 11:30am

  Re: Re:

  What they should do is, not shut down, but redesign their landing pages for a day- do things like put censor bars on the logos and have information about SOPA.
  
  Right now Amazon's homepage has an ad for the Kindle, eBay's pushing their daily deals, and AOL's full of news stories. Heck, even Google uses the space below their famous search box from time to time to spread awareness about things such as cancer research.

• On the post: Why PROTECT IP/SOPA Is The Exact Wrong Approach To Dealing With Infringement Online

  

  Miff ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2011 @ 12:29pm

  Is it just me?

  Or does this story run every other day or so with minor changes?

• On the post: Hollywood Front Group Rounds Up 4,000 Letters Sent To Congress, Pretending It's 100,000

  

  Miff ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2011 @ 09:29am

  So by Creative America's math, Fight for the Future has sent several million letters!

• On the post: Hollywood's Kinder, Gentler DRM: UltraViolet, Getting Slammed In Reviews

  

  Miff ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 11:47am

  "It?s sort of like Facebook, only instead of friends and family, you have a humongous powerful group of international corporations hanging on your every datum. "
  
  So it's exactly like Facebook then?

• On the post: RIAA Law Lets Law Enforcement Ignore 4th Amendment, Search Private Property With No Warrants

  

  Miff ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2011 @ 12:30pm

  Re:

  So let me ask you, look at your computer's CD/DVD drive and tell me if it's a burner or not.

• On the post: US Government Refuses To Say Who's On The Intelligence Oversight Board

  

  Miff ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 10:39am

  I still think it should be possible to sue Obama for fraud.
  
  If a plumber said that he'd fix my sink if I paid him, and he just made it worse, I'd want a refund.

• On the post: NY State Senators Say We've Got Too Much Free Speech; Introduce Bill To Fix That

  

  Miff ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2011 @ 10:32am

  So...

  Copyright is an inalienable right but free speech is a privilege?

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