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  • On the post: Tales From Ubisoft DRM: Latest DRM Goes From Horrible To Slightly Less Horrible

    Matthew ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2012 @ 07:24am

    I am so fucking sick and tired of having companies treat me like a criminal when i try to do business with them. The easiest answer is to NOT do business with them.

    When will they realize that their DRM only drives away legitimate customers, not pirates?

  • On the post: Rep. Lamar Smith Decides Lying About, Insulting And Dismissing Opposition To SOPA Is A Winning Strategy

    Matthew ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2012 @ 01:43pm

    Who are you going to believe?

    As the punchline to an old joke goes...

    "Who are you going to believe, your lying eyes, or me?"

  • On the post: German Court Decisions Make Everyday Use Of The Internet Increasingly Risky There

    Matthew ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2012 @ 10:20am

    It gets better...

    Those packets probably passed through a lot of different nodes on their way to the viewer, so all those node operators should be held responsible for infringement as well.

    It's obvious. The only way to save the copyright holders is to kill the internet. Unplug before you accidentintentionally commit more thought crime.

  • On the post: Breaking: GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support

    Matthew ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2011 @ 11:31am

    Re: SOPA Was The Perfect Racket For GoDaddy

    That has MBA written all over it. Legal just told them they could get away with it.

  • On the post: Breaking: GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support

    Matthew ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2011 @ 11:17am

    non-apology by checklist

    community - check
    integrity of the internet - check
    innovation - check
    free speech - check
    first amendment - check
    IP rights - check

    I imagine "Stephanie Bracken, PR Specialist" got an earful of "Tell the lawyers to shut the fuck up - the jig is up on this one, get us out of it today!"

  • On the post: Universal Backs Away From Planned $60 VOD Release Of Tower Heist

    Matthew ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 07:53am

    Re: Re:

    If you were super rich and played the VOD movie on a non-stop loop on 20 different sets and paid for each play on each set and 100 more idiots like you were willing to do the same then this might be a viable revenue stream. ...And the theater owners still wouldn't have to worry about it because it would only be taking a few hundred butts out of their seats.

  • On the post: Does Google Have What It Takes To Be A Platform, Rather Than A Product, Company?

    Matthew ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 07:10am

    Re:

    This looks like it was written by Mark Zuckerberg.

    Damage to the marketplace? Drag everyone else down with them?

    That doesn't seem to be a logical or supportable claim. What does that mean in this context? What would this look like if it were true? Will a failure by Google drive people away from other Social Networking services?

  • On the post: Does Google Have What It Takes To Be A Platform, Rather Than A Product, Company?

    Matthew ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 07:03am

    The biggest problem with Google+

    The platform stuff is all very high-level and important, but the biggest problem with Google+ is that all the casual u
    sers are still on Facebook.

    They don't want to learn a new system, even if it is a better one (debatable). So you can be on Google+ and only interact with other early adopters or you can be on Facebook and communicate with practically everyone. In the short game, Facebook seems to be succeeding at maintaining its market share by making it hard for people to switch and because Google didn't make it easy enough to interconnect. Time after time Facebook enrages its users, but they (we) show that anger by posting a status update about it and then continuing to use the service. The alternative is cutting off a significant avenue of socialization.

    This will probably fail in the long run, but the question is whether Google can get its high-level platform shit figured out in time to take advantage of the eventual diaspora or whether it will be some other players.

  • On the post: The DHS Says 'No' To Requests For Public Affairs Contact Numbers; Hysterically Cites 'Privacy' Concerns

    Matthew ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2011 @ 10:15am

    Government...

    Government of the government, by the government, for the government.

  • On the post: Harlan Ellison Sues Again; Because No One Could Have Possibly Came Up With The Same SciFi Ideas As He Did

    Matthew ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2011 @ 10:18am

    Re: Re:

    Thanks for writing this for me. The check is in the mail.

  • On the post: Harlan Ellison Sues Again; Because No One Could Have Possibly Came Up With The Same SciFi Ideas As He Did

    Matthew ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2011 @ 10:16am

    Ellison

    Ellison came up in an era when publishers, studios, and corporations in general really were out to screw artists...so really no different from now. His broad claims of ownership are (in his view) really just defensive measures against a predatory industry.

    He also has an ego the size of Jupiter and assumes that not just companies, but pretty much everyone is out to get him. The internet generally validates these views by providing him with equal measures of ass-kissing and abuse. Maybe it's because the present doesn't match his visions of how the future should have turned out, but for whatever reason, he just seems kind of incompatible with modern life.

  • On the post: Portlandia: We Satirize Portland, But If You Satirize Us, We'll Go Legal On You [Updated]

    Matthew ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2011 @ 12:15pm

    Dear Portlandia,

    The Bloggess is funnier than your show. You should be thanking her for the exposure. Stop acting like the kind of uptight douchebags that your show so often mocks.

  • On the post: Gibson CEO: US Government Won't Even Tell Us What Law They Think We've Violated

    Matthew ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2011 @ 09:18am

    This must be sc-fi...

    If this whole saga does not culminate in a battle against invading aliens whose only weakness is to exotic woods, i will be sorely disappointed. I expect to be disappointed as a matter of course.

  • On the post: California Wants To Put Jurors In Jail For Tweeting About Trial

    Matthew ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2011 @ 12:13pm

    Re: Good golly, Mike. It's an old standard merely clarified.

    People should always be free to raise concerns about something even if they're not absolutely sure it's bad. That's one of the best ways to promote discussion and ultimately come to a conclusion.

    A better use of your time and effort would be explaining why you think it is bad. Right now you just seem to be a hater who is determined to disagree with anything posted here, thus making it very easy for people to dismiss you as irrelevant to the discussion.

  • On the post: California Wants To Put Jurors In Jail For Tweeting About Trial

    Matthew ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2011 @ 12:01pm

    I must admit...

    I must admit, i may not be convinced that we need a new law to handle this, and i would want protections in place to make sure a petty judge didn't abuse it, but i have no qualms with the basic idea of putting a juror in jail for a short stint if they go public with the details about an ongoing case. Let them tweet/blog/facebook it after the fact, but not during.

  • On the post: Concord PD Hits For The Cycle: Lemonade Stand + Camera + Wiretap Law

    Matthew ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2011 @ 07:46am

    Re:

    Steve Blasdell, is that you?

  • On the post: Concord PD Hits For The Cycle: Lemonade Stand + Camera + Wiretap Law

    Matthew ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2011 @ 07:44am

    Re:

    Well...civil disobedience is pretty much, by definition, instigation, but that doesn't make him a jackass. He was not disruptive and he remained calm and courteous in the face of threats and attempts at intimidation. I don't see him antagonizing or trying to get a rise out of anyone. Bringing along a camera is a smart and reasonable defense against violence and oppression - people usually behave better when they know they're being recorded.

    This is a good example of how to do these sorts of things.

  • On the post: Don Henley Hatred Of YouTube Clouding His Vision On PROTECT IP

    Matthew ( profile ), 24 Aug, 2011 @ 01:24pm

    So basically,

    "I don't care if it breaks the internet, just so long as I get paid."

    "I don't care if millions of original works get silenced, just so long as I get paid."

    Sorry Don, those kids are not going to get off your lawn any time soon.

  • On the post: Will John Sununu And Harold Ford Jr. Agree To Pay Netflix's Broadband Bill Next Month?

    Matthew ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2011 @ 11:29am

    Re:

    That's a rather generous assumption of ignorance for them. More likely, they are just shilling for the companies that bought them off years ago. I know the saying goes, "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence," but I think an exception should be made for obvious corruption.

  • On the post: Of Course: New Fox Delay Means More Unauthorized Downloads Of Fox Shows

    Matthew ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2011 @ 12:49pm

    Buy a clue?

    "Or will someone there finally buy a clue..."

    Why would they buy one when they can get them for free online? Clue piracy is single-handedly destroying the clue market. Mike and the rest of the freetards here who are giving clues away are a big part of the problem. If they aren't stopped soon, everyone will have a clue and they won't have paid a dime for it. Tragic.

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