Well, if Patrick Webster needs to set up a legal defence fund, I know I'll be pitching in a symbolic buck or two.
Not that I've ever been able to find a security problem, but I do probe; if whatever website I'm using has security so bad even I can crack it, why would I continue to use it? (And being aware of security problems, why wouldn't I let them know so they can fix it?)
"Recorded music sales still "dwarf" things like concert revenues and t shirt sales. Because they are the most desired commodity."
They do? Wait, why was it then that Lady Gaga's record company took a hit on sales of her songs to offer them at below what the affiliates and middlemen took? They claimed it was because it would boost concert sales, but geez, I guess that can't be correct if music sales dwarf concert sales.
Yes, but if people ever start selling counterfeit 'scrolls' merchandise, Mojang will be able to ask them to change the name.
Counterfeit is a charged word though; I mean that if someone sells similar merchandise or games, and consumer confusion occurs, then mojang can legally force the issue if needed. (For example, there are minecraft clones that have been confused with the real minecraft before. Lawyers were not required there).
I find it hard to believe there are people who would defend USPS this way.
(Just to join the chorus), up here, in Canada, we have no such laws, (that I've ever heard of), and there really aren't any problems. As it happens, it's cheaper, (and more effective), for companies to use the local flyer printing service than to print & deliver themselves, so once a week, I get a yellow bag full of fliers in the mailbox that goes directly into recycling.
I've never been around while the flier boy is delivering, but if I were, I could tell him to stop delivering to my house and that'd be that.
And surely if someone does something mischievous, like stuff a mailbox full or use it to store slugs or something, I'm sure there are other laws that have nothing specifically to do with mailboxes that can be used to punish the person responsible.
The scanlation dudes . . . I never mind when they're behind a deadline or mistranslate something. I didn't pay them, they paid to be able to give me their work.
OTOH, the store, where I pay $10 for what, 30 pages? Which often has mistranslations, or what really bothers me, no translators notes for idioms, puns & allusions?
We know how much evidence they've had, because some of those sites carried absolutely no infringing material, or the claimed infringing material was in fact given to the site by the copyright owner.
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Y'know, a friend of a friend of a liar I know told me about a scientific study that DID try to compare musicians & music listeners to cocaine users in just that way!
They found out about half-way through about an unavoidable experimental error that meant the (positive) results were worthless :p
That link will put you 3150 posts back into the archives, which is actually only back to Dec 23rd, 2010 right now. Yeah, I know, that's an insane amount of articles.
From there, just keep clicking 'older posts' until you've scanned all the stories from the year.
I suppose you could also use a good google search. Go into advanced searches, and search specifically for hits from techdirt between 2009, Jan 31st and 2010, dec 31st for whatever search terms you'd like.
I'll say that you won't convince me until I've seen, and understood, the research, but man, you've managed to hit all my skepticism buttons :p
Irrelevant comment: people like you are the ones who make me think the REAL upcoming dilemma in the computer world is that there are only 17k 3-letter acronyms :p
Just something I've noticed over your posts.
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Not that I've ever been able to find a security problem, but I do probe; if whatever website I'm using has security so bad even I can crack it, why would I continue to use it? (And being aware of security problems, why wouldn't I let them know so they can fix it?)
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Meanwhile, I suspect someone will say that if you want to read insightful comments, there's already a way to see only insightful posts.
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Of course, the point of it is, in fact, to troll.
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FTFY, I think?
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They do? Wait, why was it then that Lady Gaga's record company took a hit on sales of her songs to offer them at below what the affiliates and middlemen took? They claimed it was because it would boost concert sales, but geez, I guess that can't be correct if music sales dwarf concert sales.
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Counterfeit is a charged word though; I mean that if someone sells similar merchandise or games, and consumer confusion occurs, then mojang can legally force the issue if needed. (For example, there are minecraft clones that have been confused with the real minecraft before. Lawyers were not required there).
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What are you arguing against? It seems to be something that wasn't said in the article.
The issue with the request, is mainly that phphosts.org =/= techdirt.com, and secondly, that defamation =/= copyright.
Neither of which have anything to do with not understanding 'we request you to deactivate'.
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(Just to join the chorus), up here, in Canada, we have no such laws, (that I've ever heard of), and there really aren't any problems. As it happens, it's cheaper, (and more effective), for companies to use the local flyer printing service than to print & deliver themselves, so once a week, I get a yellow bag full of fliers in the mailbox that goes directly into recycling.
I've never been around while the flier boy is delivering, but if I were, I could tell him to stop delivering to my house and that'd be that.
And surely if someone does something mischievous, like stuff a mailbox full or use it to store slugs or something, I'm sure there are other laws that have nothing specifically to do with mailboxes that can be used to punish the person responsible.
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If the latter, I'd be glad to explain the differences.
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OTOH, the store, where I pay $10 for what, 30 pages? Which often has mistranslations, or what really bothers me, no translators notes for idioms, puns & allusions?
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And to answer his question, he can read the goddamn fucking article.
"Our request to NYC turned up [snipped to make AC read the goddamn article]"
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Basically, not much.
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They found out about half-way through about an unavoidable experimental error that meant the (positive) results were worthless :p
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It doesn't make itself particularly navigable, going back in time, but it's possible.
Here:
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?start=3150
That link will put you 3150 posts back into the archives, which is actually only back to Dec 23rd, 2010 right now. Yeah, I know, that's an insane amount of articles.
From there, just keep clicking 'older posts' until you've scanned all the stories from the year.
I suppose you could also use a good google search. Go into advanced searches, and search specifically for hits from techdirt between 2009, Jan 31st and 2010, dec 31st for whatever search terms you'd like.
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Irrelevant comment: people like you are the ones who make me think the REAL upcoming dilemma in the computer world is that there are only 17k 3-letter acronyms :p
Just something I've noticed over your posts.
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Y'know, I can't understand it either.
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