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• On the post: German Court Tells YouTube To Change 'Content Blocked' Notice After GEMA Complains About Its Hurt Feelings

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2014 @ 04:57pm

  Re: Re: Just apply the Streisand effect

  "The people responsible for sacking the people who wrote the previous message have now been sacked."

• On the post: Austin Begins To Show Us What Broadband Competition Was Supposed To Look Like

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2014 @ 05:53pm

  Re: Re:

  Are you paying $65 for 60 Mbit internet, 100 channels of cable, landline and cellular service together? If so, you're getting a hell of a deal compared to most people in the US. With no cable or landline, I'm paying $75 total ($45 and $30, respectively) for 15 Mbit internet and cellular service.
  
  You're not getting ripped off because you're paying 2-3x as much, you're getting ripped off because you're paying 2-3x as much for 1/4 the service.

• On the post: Pioneering French Electronic Artist Thinks Creative Industry Should Get '$300-400' Of Each Smartphone Sale

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2014 @ 06:10pm

  Re: Wrong Wrong Wrong!

  I have a small collection of ~40 songs that I keep on my phone just in case I want to listen to them. The kicker is that all of those songs have already been paid for. I bought them, be it from Amazon, Microsoft's Zune marketplace, or on a physical CD. I also have four or five books; again, every one has already been paid for.
  
  Not only does the creative content on my phone represent a stunningly small portion of the time I spend using it, but I also have already given them money for that small portion.

• On the post: U2 Manager Paul McGuinness: Google Should 'Take Down' Sites And 'Keep Them Down'

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2014 @ 10:09pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I also tend to gravitate toward female artists, though it's typically more in the Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation, Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Delain, We Are The Fallen, After Forever, Edenbridge, etc. direction.

• On the post: Copyright Week: How Copyright Is Being Use To Destroy Property Rights

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2014 @ 04:33pm

  Re: Re:

  Except that the Zune Marketplace sold DRM-free MP3s. I'm not worried about losing a single song I bought from them.

• On the post: RIAA's Boss Thinks He Knows Better Than Google How To Build A Search Engine

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 04:08pm

  Re:

  Why put so much focus on Google? Simple. Google has money.

• On the post: Little Evidence Of 'Infringement Risk' For 'Copyright Intensive' Companies

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2014 @ 04:58pm

  Re: This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it

  'report this comment as abusive, spam, trollish, or otherwise inappropriate'
  
  What else is it but spam, when the exact same comment is copied and pasted to literally every post tangentially connected to copyright?

• On the post: Myth Busting: Yes, An Advertisement Can Be Fair Use Parody

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2013 @ 04:51pm

  Re:

  A toy company used a backing track for a song onto which it superimposed its own words. The song was a parody using similar rhythms and phrasing of a famous song performed by The Beastie Boys for one of their albums. Important factors: The toy company's use was transformative because it imitated the band's style for comic effect or ridicule.
  
  The picture of Leslie Nielsen was an ad for Naked Gun 33 1/3. It wasn't claimed to be some sort of art done solely for comment or ridicule, it was a movie poster.

• On the post: Study Of 11K Children: Video Games Probably Don't Alter Behavior

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2013 @ 04:31pm

  Re: Yes, "probably" is "resounding affirmation" for the brain-damaged.

  But the increasing levels of violence in what used to be civil society -- cops beating up kids for instance -- show correlation.

  Irrefutable evidence that time causes violence! Everyone call your senators to outlaw the passage of time!

• On the post: Accidentally Revealed Document Shows TSA Doesn't Think Terrorists Are Plotting To Attack Airplanes

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2013 @ 06:36pm

  Re: Why is it redacted

  Ted: The company has classified this as confidential.
  
  Linda: But it's a good thing. Why does it need to be confidential?
  
  Ted: Because, uh, if only bad things were confidential, then every time they labeled something as "confidential," people would know it was bad.

• On the post: Eli Lilly Officially Sues Canada For 'Lost Profits' Because Canada Rejected Eli Lilly's Patents

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2013 @ 07:29am

  If they win, I should start a company whose sole business model is to ask Eli Lilly for money. My expected future profits will be the $100 million that I will ask for from them. By not giving me that money, they are undermining my expected future profits, so I will sue them. When it gets to court, how can I lose when they won with the exact same argument?

• On the post: Police Admit That NZ Spy Agency Illegally Spied On Kim Dotcom, But Aren't Going To Do Anything About It

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2013 @ 02:37pm

  Re:

  Well of course you do. I've never heard a rock lie in my life. If Mike has ever told even the smallest lie (and who hasn't?), then all rocks must be more honest than he is.

• On the post: Bad News: Court Says Cyberlocker & Its Owner Can Be Liable For Copyright Infringement

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2013 @ 06:05pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: GOOD NEWS! "Safe harbors" not for pirates!

  Yeah, complying with DMCA notices is such a great way to spit in the face of law enforcement. That'll teach them!

• On the post: Bad News: Court Says Cyberlocker & Its Owner Can Be Liable For Copyright Infringement

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2013 @ 06:02pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GOOD NEWS! "Safe harbors" not for pirates!

  Multiple gigs? So like... 3 movies? That's a pretty strong accusation with exactly no supporting evidence.

• On the post: Bad News: Court Says Cyberlocker & Its Owner Can Be Liable For Copyright Infringement

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 05:02pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GOOD NEWS! "Safe harbors" not for pirates!

  Every cyberlocker I've seen has little besides obviously infringed content.

  Funny, everything I've seen on cyberlockers has been perfectly legitimate. Guess we find what we're looking for. Video game mods and personally developed games are very frequently distributed through cyberlockers such as Rapidshare, Mediafire, and 4shared.

• On the post: CNBC Argues That 'Call Of Duty' Keeps Guys From Finding Dates

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2013 @ 03:21pm

  Re: Am I the only one bothered by this?

  There's a difference between an ad hominem argument and an insult. This is insulting, but I read it more as "She's dumb because of what she says" than as "What she says is wrong because she's dumb".

• On the post: Microsoft Uses DMCA To Block Many Links To Competing Open Office

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2013 @ 11:58am

  Re: A suitable punishment

  Hell, $5 raised to the power of the number of bogus takedowns filed. With the way they do it, that could easily get into the billions.

• On the post: Germany And US Government's Agree Not To Spy On Each Other… But What About Their Citizens?

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2013 @ 11:30am

  This sort of thing just makes me think of playing Civ 5. "Hey Washington, stop spying on me." "Oh of course, I'll move my agents into someone else's territory."
  
  ...5 turns later, "You have discovered an American spy operating in your capital!"

• On the post: A 'Watershed' For The Internet, An Invitation To Use A N. Korean ISP And Other Fallout From The UK's Porn Filtering Plan

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2013 @ 04:12am

  Re:

  It's not blocked, it's not removed, it's not censored. It's just hidden from view, restored with a single click. Nobody is kept from reading the comment. You don't have to sign yourself up for the People Who Want To Read All The Comments list to see them. The only way someone will know if you read it or not is if you reply.
  
  The report feature is intended for "abusive, spam, trollish, or otherwise inappropriate" content. Maybe if you would put your arguments forward in a way that wasn't trying to insult everyone else here, people wouldn't find your comments abusive/trollish. Plenty of dissenting comments remain unhidden when they're actually civil about it.

• On the post: A 'Watershed' For The Internet, An Invitation To Use A N. Korean ISP And Other Fallout From The UK's Porn Filtering Plan

  

  Togashi ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2013 @ 03:57am

  This seems to me like saying that not placing a copy of Anna Karenina in every home, pre-web, was censorship against Russian novels.

  
  Except that there already is a copy of Anna Karenina in every home, and the government is coming around and taking yours if you don't object.
  
  Also, how in the seven hells are (most) games on the web inappropriate for children? I can't seem to twist my mind enough to come up with the ridiculous explanation they'd have for that.

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