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  • On the post: Judge In Free Speech Case Over Twitter Fight Apparently Fooled By Parody Account

    Rikuo ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2016 @ 08:08am

    Just want to say this is a bit refreshing. I'm an anti-feminist and every other article I've read concerning this case makes mention of the feminist drama on the Internet...but BestNetTech doesn't. There's nary a mention of it in this article or the preceding one.
    Gotta say, it's nice to read about this case in such a neutral tone, there's no indication given as to whether the author is feminist or anti-feminist.

  • On the post: Cartoonist Who Claimed 'Kung Fu Panda' Ripped Off His Work Might Be Headed To Prison

    Rikuo ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2016 @ 09:27am

    Re:

    If I'm not mistaken, those programs look for where the files in question are stored, delete the file and then overwrite the areas where those files are stored with random 1s and 0s. However, there are still ways to recover the data even then, which is why you have to do a number of 'passes' that is, delete, overwrite, delete, overwrite again and again a number of times.
    I'm going to guess that he only did one pass with the program.

  • On the post: EU Broadens Right To Be Forgotten In Dangerously Vague Ways With New 'Data Protection' Directive

    Rikuo ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2015 @ 09:01pm

    I'm in Ireland. Whenever I do a Google search that includes a name (pretty much any name) I always see at the bottom that Google may not be displaying some results due to the RTBF law. Not that it actually is in each particular case, but that it MIGHT be, and it can't tell me whether or not it actually is.

    This has become so annoying and problematic that I've started avoiding Google.ie and now default to Google.ca

  • On the post: French Law Enforcement 'Wishlist' Includes Banning Open WiFi, Tor Connections And Encrypted Communications

    Rikuo ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2015 @ 09:18am

    I'm surprised no-one's mentioned once the ridiculousness of banning open wifi. What if I'm being held captive in a building by terrorists, a building that offers free wifi that's still switched on and I've run out of cellular data on my phone?
    I might, in that situation, if I'm lucky, be able to use my phone to connect to wifi and use that as a communications channel.

  • On the post: Campus Police Chief Says Former Faculty Member A Threat To Public Safety Because Of A Game He Made 10 Years Ago

    Rikuo ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2015 @ 01:11pm

    Re: Legality?

    You might want to look up the shenanigans involved in the ConcernedStudent 1950 at the University of Missouri. Students protesting there, with help from some faculty members, took over some public land in a park and then prevented student journalists from approaching, saying the media was barred.

    This is just par for the course from what I can see in the good ol' US of A, land of the free.

  • On the post: Dumb Idea… Or The Dumbest Idea? Seize Terrorists' Copyrights And Then Censor Them With The DMCA

    Rikuo ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2015 @ 10:29am

    Re: Re:

    I know not to take it seriously, it's just something that gave me a chuckle. The person who pointed me towards that site also believes that Satan was an alien who came down to Earth and who subscribes to Freemasonry conspiracy theories. I honestly doubt myself that they read that part about copyright being God's law, or the implications of such a claim (given that copyright has only been in existence for about 300 some odd years, that would mean that copyright was for some reason not mentioned at all in the Bible. Was it a forgotten Eleventh Commandment?)

  • On the post: Dumb Idea… Or The Dumbest Idea? Seize Terrorists' Copyrights And Then Censor Them With The DMCA

    Rikuo ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2015 @ 09:37am

    I wonder if Paul is a Christian and subscribes to the following site
    http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n2032.cfm

    In my online debates with certain Christians, one person pointed me to that site. I noticed at the bottom the following lovely gem

    "Copyright © 2004 Cutting Edge Ministries. All rights reserved. This password protected article and its contents are protected under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. This article is provided by subscription only for use by the subscriber and all other rights are expressly reserved by the copyright owner. Copying and pasting this article, in whole or in part, into e-mails or as attachments to e-mails or posting it on the Internet is strictly prohibited and may subject the offender to civil liability and severe criminal penalties (Title 17, United States Code, section 501 and 506).

    Copying and distributing this article in violation of the above notice is also a violation of God's moral law."

    So apparently, copyright law is a religious law now. Should've expected it.

  • On the post: Just About Everything About Twitter Suspending Deadspin And SBNation Accounts Is Ridiculous

    Rikuo ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2015 @ 05:23am

    Re:

    Did you miss the part in the article where it pointed out that the GIFs in question are without audio? Or do you watch all of your paid for highlights without audio?

  • On the post: Joseph Goebbels Estate Wins Copyright Suit Over Use Of Nazi's Diary In Biography

    Rikuo ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2015 @ 10:36am

    "The Munich district court ruled in favor of the estate's claims, although it pointed out that the royalty rights to Goebbles' writings would expire at the end of 2015, 70 years after his death."

    So the estate are getting only about five/six months of copyright protection out of this ruling? Why bother suing in the first place, if that's all they would have gotten?

  • On the post: FBI's James Comey: I Know All The Experts Insist Backdooring Encryption Is A Bad Idea, But Maybe It's Because They Haven't Really Tried

    Rikuo ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2015 @ 04:39am

    "The other comment: multiple times he and some of the Senators hinted that the FBI actually stopped some sort of nefarious plot that was supposed to happen on July 4th weekend."

    If they're able to stop these nefarious plots without backdoors...then why do they insist they need backdoors?

  • On the post: Infringing Game A Tabletop Award Nominee Before Disqualification

    Rikuo ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2015 @ 01:50pm

    Re: Not Copyright, Trademark

    Link please to download? Preferably a torrent.

  • On the post: GCHQ Asked Court To Let It Infringe On Anti-Virus Copyrights… For National Security

    Rikuo ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2015 @ 01:56pm

    Re:

    How do you verify if the hash on the website is secure?

  • On the post: Guy Reveals Airtel Secretly Inserting JavaScript, Gets Threatened With Jail For Criminal Copyright Infringement

    Rikuo ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2015 @ 11:13am

    Re:

    Couldn't the same argument be used for all digital software? After all, for DRM to allow the user to actually use the software, they have to give the key to the user.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At BestNetTech

    Rikuo ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2015 @ 06:33pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    I always thought blue and AJ were different people...

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At BestNetTech

    Rikuo ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2015 @ 03:39pm

    Re:

    Didn't I once offer to do a live Skype call, with video of your desktop being streamed, so that you could prove these allegations of yours? And you went nuts over it, and refused to do so?

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At BestNetTech

    Rikuo ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2015 @ 03:28pm

    Re: Funny: Future of Spotify is turn "free users" into "paying subscribers"!!!

    I could take the time to debunk what you said, but I won't. Instead, I'll ask this:
    Since when has anybody on this site, whether Masnick, his employees or any of the long time users here, advocated "give away and pray"?
    That's a term that YOU use. I want you to give us a direct quote, time stamped and linked.

  • On the post: While Other Countries Debate Copyright Terms, Canada Just Takes Record Labels' Word That It Needs To Increase

    Rikuo ( profile ), 18 May, 2015 @ 11:43am

    Re: Re: Re:

    "This means that a songwriter will continue to be paid royalties for sound recordings, even after they've entered the public domain."

    Can you explain that for me? Is public domain in Canada different to everywhere else? I thought that once a work hits the PD, it's a free for all. You can use it, take it, copy it, edit it, all without having to pay or seek permission from the author(s).

  • On the post: Head Transplant Doctor Ponders Likeness Lawsuit Over Supposed Appearance In Metal Gear Solid 5

    Rikuo ( profile ), 08 May, 2015 @ 05:32am

    "Cavanero goes on to point out that this isn't such a bad thing, as he's raising money for his HEAVEN project"

    ...Heaven? As in Outer Heaven?

  • On the post: This Week In BestNetTech History: April 12th – 18th

    Rikuo ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2015 @ 09:44pm

    Re: Re: Re: Yet again claiming that success of copyright proves it isn't needed.

    "Copyright gives you a deal to get entertainments for tiny fraction of the production cost,"

    If you presume that the only "entertainments" people want are Hollywood movies, maybe. Thing is, they're not the only "entertainments" in existence. The vast overwhelming majority of "entertainments" (I'm going to continue using that term just to show you how idiotic you are) that I watch are made by their creators for free, and often in spite of copyright. Youtubers basically. Copyright doesn't help them, and in fact, often hinders them. Look up the troubles Angry Joe and Total Biscuit go through with copyright from time to time (Joe getting his videos claimed by Nintendo, TB not being able to have in-game music in his videos)

  • On the post: This Week In BestNetTech History: April 12th – 18th

    Rikuo ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2015 @ 09:40pm

    Re: Re: Re: Yet again claiming that success of copyright proves it isn't needed.

    "My inarguable statement is: without copyright upheld and the moral imperative that creators own their products, Hollywood would get little."

    ...you don't just state something as 'inarguable' and presume that the rest of us here will accept it as such. We don't. Why is it you think the rest of us would? You have to present your case, not just pretend it's a statement of fact. It's like arguing religion with fundamentalists.
    Besides, even granting your argument for the sake of argument...why should we care about Hollywood? Given the actions of Hollywood (specifically Disney), arguments can be made that Hollywood shouldn't exist.

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