Dear Customer Unfortunately, the prices listed on the Amazon website for our products were incorrect. We are currently working to rectify this situation, but in the meantime, are pleased to offer you a discount of a third of the official price on each of the products you selected as a goodwill gesture if you still wish to go through with your order. Yours sincerely, Hannah's Attic and Place.
How many complaints you think the guy would have got if he'd just written something like the above to customers who'd placed orders before all this kicked off? Customer Service: it ain't just for corporations.
Iran, now actively trying to foster an image of a kinder, softer version of the same theocracy that put a contract on Salman Rushdie's head [...]
You're jokin', you're jokin' I can't believe my ears I really must correct this guy I'm drownin' in my tears It's funny, I'm laughing You really are too much And now, with your permission I'm going to do my stuff: Iran have actually revived the fatwa. (Lyrics nicked from 'Oogie Boogie's Song' in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.)
Perhaps a massive public phony DMCA take-down party by hundreds/thousands of citizens against the companies that have been abusing the system will wake up law enforcement. Yes, and all those who take part should live outside the US so the penalties for filing false DMCA notices don't apply to them. I live in England and am willing to join in.
This reminds me of when the Feds were trying to pin charges on Al Capone for his various crimes, but couldn't find enough evidence, so they put him away for tax evasion instead.
[I]t seems abundantly clear that these labels "withdrawing" from ASCAP had nothing to do with competition or market rates. It appears that it had little to do with even withdrawing from ASCAP. Instead, it seems to have been designed from the start to basically screw over Pandora, in what certainly smells an awful lot like collusion, by forcing Pandora to pay exorbitant rates or suddenly face a massive copyright liability because no one would tell them what songs were being "withdrawn" from an existing licensing agreement. Then, ASCAP and the other labels could turn around and use those "agreements" pretending they represented a "market rate" to argue for higher rates at the Copyright Royalty Board, which is supposed to try to come up with a "market rate" for various licenses (even though the high rates were supposed to have a confidentiality agreement tied to them). And then it's ASCAP going around claiming that Pandora is somehow trying to game the system? Hypocrisy by any other name still smells as rank.
Re: Surprised anyone still buys from them anyway...
"Asian people have a hard time making the sound for L, and it's funny to watch them try." Yay for generalisations! As a guy named Benny said in 'Lethal Weapon 4', "Flied lice? It's fried rice, you plick!"
�Should the viewing of a web-page where this implies the temporary reproduction of a work protected under copyright on the screen and in the cache memory of the user�s computer be subject to the authorization of the rightholder?� Technically, it already is. For example, I watched the video of She-Wolf last month with the full authorisation of David Guetta and VEVO.
[T]he end user sees it as part of the site [...] Oh, I didn't realise I do that despite the address bar displaying www.youtube.com when loading a video embedded on a third party website.
1. Does the regulation serve an important governmental interest? Not as far as can be ascertained. 2. Is the government interest served by the regulation unrelated to the suppression of a particular message? There is no government interest, period. 3. Is the regulation narrowly tailored to serve the government's interest? Doubtful. How often do members of the government fly in economy or even business class? 4. Does the regulation leave open ample alternative means for communicating messages? At five bucks a minute? Are you fuckin' kidding me?
Which is stupid. I'm an admin of a forum, and on the homepage there are boxes in which to put a user name and password. So do I or the webmaster have an issue if you access the forum without being signed in? Of course not, it's open to public view. Thus the evidence that the mere existence of user name/password boxes do not prove that a network is a 'private intranet'.
The exhaustion principle/first sale doctrine doesn't apply only to copyrights, but also to patents and trademarks, and it's being interfered with by Lululemon's unfair policy. I believe there's also interference with the second-hand market under European law since they have a UK website.
Right at the bottom of the page for each individual app in Google Play is a little clicky which allows you to file an objection about it and potentially get it pulled. The objection I filed is as follows: Company is maximising star ratings in abuse of Google's terms. Bad game, crashes all the time, can't play without money, and now can't rate less than five stars. Feel free to copy/paste.
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Here's what I'd have done
Dear Customer
Unfortunately, the prices listed on the Amazon website for our products were incorrect. We are currently working to rectify this situation, but in the meantime, are pleased to offer you a discount of a third of the official price on each of the products you selected as a goodwill gesture if you still wish to go through with your order.
Yours sincerely, Hannah's Attic and Place.
How many complaints you think the guy would have got if he'd just written something like the above to customers who'd placed orders before all this kicked off? Customer Service: it ain't just for corporations.
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Seriously?
You're jokin', you're jokin'
I can't believe my ears
I really must correct this guy
I'm drownin' in my tears
It's funny, I'm laughing
You really are too much
And now, with your permission
I'm going to do my stuff:
Iran have actually revived the fatwa.
(Lyrics nicked from 'Oogie Boogie's Song' in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.)
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Re: Public Action
Yes, and all those who take part should live outside the US so the penalties for filing false DMCA notices don't apply to them. I live in England and am willing to join in.
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Al Capone
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To paraphrase Shakespeare...
Hypocrisy by any other name still smells as rank.
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Re: Surprised anyone still buys from them anyway...
Yay for generalisations! As a guy named Benny said in 'Lethal Weapon 4', "Flied lice? It's fried rice, you plick!"
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Re: Weasel to english translation:
Technically, it already is. For example, I watched the video of She-Wolf last month with the full authorisation of David Guetta and VEVO.
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Re: you can try to paint it wrong, but..
Oh, I didn't realise I do that despite the address bar displaying www.youtube.com when loading a video embedded on a third party website.
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Re: Re: As soon as someone challenges this law
Not as far as can be ascertained.
2. Is the government interest served by the regulation unrelated to the suppression of a particular message?
There is no government interest, period.
3. Is the regulation narrowly tailored to serve the government's interest?
Doubtful. How often do members of the government fly in economy or even business class?
4. Does the regulation leave open ample alternative means for communicating messages?
At five bucks a minute? Are you fuckin' kidding me?
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Re: George Orwell was a slacker
In Texas, yes. Above them are Navy SEALS, the real experts in detonation of flash bangs.
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Headline is incorrect
FTFY, Glyn.
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Re: Re:
Disclaimer: I'm from the UK.
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Re: Re: Hey, Lululemon...
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*quickly and quietly cancels Hulu subscription* Cunts don't deserve my money.
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File an objection
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Miss Tina Turner!
Sung: What's Square got to do, got to do with it?
What's Square? The company's Square-Enix.
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