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• On the post: Canon Becomes The Online Equivalent Of Madonna Or Prince, Becoming The First Single Word Domain Holder

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2010 @ 01:27pm

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  That's because they own "com.com." I'm guessing the browser is just inserting the ".com" when you type "http://com" in.
  
  In related news, Yahoo ranks #1 in Google for "com," making it the I'm Feeling Luck result if you just type "com" into the address bar.

• On the post: Canon Becomes The Online Equivalent Of Madonna Or Prince, Becoming The First Single Word Domain Holder

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2010 @ 01:24pm

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  It works for me on the Mac version of Firefox, too. It doesn't in Safari or Chrome though.

• On the post: Apparently The Word 'Piracy' No Longer Sufficiently Derogatory For Entertainment Industry

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2010 @ 02:47pm

  Robin Hood-ism

• On the post: Alice In Public Domainland; Just Because Something Is Free And Open Doesn't Mean You Can't Make Money Off Of It

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2010 @ 03:50am

  Re: Here's the reply you'll get...

  News for them: that's not what copyright law is supposed to be for. It's original intent was to prevent plagiarism (e.g. passing off someone else's work as your own), not to prop-up someone's business model.

• On the post: Free Is Not An Aberration; It's Basic Economics

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2010 @ 08:16am

  All I have to say is "good luck" to any plans of charging for access to online content. It won't work very well.

• On the post: Guy Who Makes Simple Caller ID App For Android Forced To Shut Down Due To Patent Threat

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2010 @ 10:14am

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  Remind you of anybody? http://www.bestnettech.com/articles/20100222/1816398260.shtml

• On the post: If A Blogger Links To The New Paywalled NY Times, And It Leads To A Subscription, Will The NYT Pay The Blogger?

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2010 @ 10:13am

  Paywalls just don't work well on the internet. They should stick with paid advertisements and demand that they be paid fairly for them, rather than accepting that $1 CPM crap (or even worse, PPC ads...) that online advertising has become.
  
  Why is it that companies would rather pay a million dollars for a TV ad with no statistics or targeting, but they won't pay any real money for online ads that offer invaluable features not offered by other media?
  
  Hulu should be making a killing on their ads (it's like TV ads would be if every viewer had a Nielsen box), but no, advertisers want to stick with the same overpriced formats they're accustomed to.

• On the post: Internet Addiction Might Actually Get Recognized By The Official Book Of Mental Disorders?

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2010 @ 09:48am

  1. The internet is a communications and informational medium. So can I be addicted to talking or reading newspapers, then? 2. I use the internet daily, and for extended periods of time, but I don't have some sort of "addiction." I can take a week off and not use the internet at all if I had cause to. I would have to make preparations first, so my websites would have fresh content stocked before my absence, but I could do it without any mental or physical effects. I'd like to see a real addict do that. This is bullsh*t, and entirely motivated by profit.

• On the post: Should YouTube Allow Artful Nudity?

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2010 @ 09:35am

  Re: Nudity on Youtube

  It's because you Europeans forced those annoying Puritans to come over here. Thanks. :P

• On the post: Amazon Has To Pay Microsoft To Use Linux?

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2010 @ 09:08am

  Posts like this always remind me of how stupid it is that people call Apple "evil" for banning apps from their own store, or things like that. They're not going around suing companies for using Linux, when they probably have patents that give them as good an excuse as MS...
  
  I don't want to start yet another flamewar here, but it needed to be pointed-out.

• On the post: Teen Remixes The Works Of Others Into Best Selling Novel… And Critics Love It

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2010 @ 03:56am

  I'm not too bothered by borrowing from other authors; it's a cornerstone of the arts, after all.
  
  I am, however, completely opposed to plagiarism. (Plagiarism, for those who need a refresher, is the act of passing someone else's work off as your own.) That's what copyright law was originally about, before it was tainted by people trying to prop-up their business models.
  
  If you copy works from others, and don't attribute them properly, that's plagiarism. And there is no excuse for it. I don't see anything wrong with making a copy of a book you like and giving it to someone, just as I have no problem with people quoting passages liberally. Copying without attribution is another thing entirely. It's just wrong.

• On the post: NBC Universal Boss Jeff Zucker Lies To Congress About Boxee

  

  redwall_hp ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2010 @ 04:55am

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  You have a really narrow idea of what a browser is.
  
  A browser is a device that parses HTML and displays it in some manner of its choosing, usually determined by a set of standards ratified by the W3C.
  
  All Boxee does is parse Hulu's web pages and display them, with the videos' ads intact, in a manner of its choosing.
  
  iTunes, as well, is technically a web browser. It may only let you access pages on the iTunes store domain, but it still parses and renders HTML. Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/) is also a browser. It aggregates media for you in a manner of its design, but it's still collecting said media from HTML pages, RSS feeds, or whatever.