That Anonymous Coward (profile), 12 Aug 2020 @ 11:00am
Re: Maybe it's just Google
Check the bottom of the test... bet it says cloudflare.
I've been running into the ZOMG you have a virus thats why we have to make sure you are a real person before allowing you into the site, now take this annoying non google captcha test & accept you did something wrong & it is in no way our shit being over zealous.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Aug 2020 @ 7:10pm
The real problem is every exec is sure they can make more money doing it themselves.
I mean iTunes is the devil, but there are only a couple competitors. Willing to bet most of them have the same pricing deals b/c the market isn't what it once was & its cheaper to make sure its available than to look for an extra penny. (Music is also making big bank by ripping off artists & still blaming the pirates).
People do not want 12 different platforms to subscribe to.
10 different platforms who will refuse to allow anyone to make a single box that supports them all.
7 different platforms that will offer various tier levels so they can get ad revenue still.
5 different platforms that will have "exclusives" but make it hard to use when you want.
3 different platforms who will only offer 4K streams ignoring how 'amazing' the broadband in the US isn't.
1 platform who will hurt their growth by getting pissy when an unnamed character is given a cute name by fans & becomes a meme & going full dipshit trying to crush it all out... then decide to make merch to cash in... in 3 years.
Then customers find out they can just type a name into a search, click a link, wait 30 minutes & have the episode of what they wanted to see when & how they want to.
Nope can't see how they can keep shooting themselves in the dick & blame the gun for not being big enough...
The world changed in a huge way.
The grand old days of windowed releases & ignoring consumer demand in other countries as not being important enough to release a 1st run movie there is over.
The world is mostly connected, people hear about shows that no ones bringing to their country & want to join in... but them wanting to see it now doesn't fit with the pattern we've used for releases since 1964 & we can't change the pattern!!! We'll lose money!!!
Stop lying about loses.
Stop pretending we still need ice men bringing ice to keep our food cold.
We aren't using the pony express to send movies across the country, there is no reason things can't open everywhere at once or be offered on a streaming service (maybe a small extra fee for getting a 1st run film for 3 weeks or something)
But for the love of everything, stop making your own streaming empires. You fragment the cash, you are forced to compete for no good reason, & maybe not running your own service you might figure out you all hold hundreds of years of content that people might want to watch again... if it was available.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Aug 2020 @ 6:50pm
We could no longer recognize the truth if it offered to give us $300 million dollars as soon as we send some cash to pay the export fees to that nice prince.
Everything is a plot.
Everything is a conspiracy.
Everyone is out to get us.
Everyone is treated better. (as it should be).
'Merica where the spoiled bratty kids are in charge.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Aug 2020 @ 6:48pm
We are shocked just shocked how much money they are making selling out citizens...
Perhaps y'all should do some quick audits & find all of the other magical sources of income various branches of government are making by screwing citizens.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Aug 2020 @ 6:46pm
Re: 'It's not even fun anymore...'
It was not a clearly established right that stealing tens of thousands to settle a minor debt was wrong.
One does wonder how much they might end up on the hook for.
Of course one also wonders about ties between the buyers & officials (because if you will steal a house over $10 you will have a hard time convincing anyone that you wouldn't then give your bestie a gift).
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Aug 2020 @ 6:41pm
Same thing over & over....
"has invested $500 million dollars since 2015"
And did you pay that money to the same companies who were already robbing the USF of billions while doing nothing?
Are you a special kind of stupid?
I give it another 10 years until they notice those 'breaking' news stories about small towns building out their own shit & getting way better service & ROI.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Aug 2020 @ 10:35am
Re: Re:
Members can have great ideas, but its getting the rest of them to support it where it falls apart.
We see things suggested that are then just shoveled to the side & the publics attention span forgets about it.
We still today have people dying b/c it was insulin or rent, and other than a photo op of them buying cheap insulin (that couldn't meet the needs of most diabetics) nothing has changed.
150k+ people are dead & they still can't do anything for us without making sure they & their donors get something out of it.
While it sounds nice history as a guide says nothing will come of this & people will forget it was ever mentioned.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Aug 2020 @ 7:17am
Sorry but I am not going to hold my breath for this.
It sounds nice & oh ventilators we needed but couldn't fix blah blah blah...
Its a short term problem that will be abandoned after a couple donations.
They can't be bothered to punish the insulin makers who hold people's lives hostage, do you think a couple vent makers are scared?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Aug 2020 @ 4:21am
It takes a bunch of moxie to destroy your finances by launching a pointless lawsuit, over an area you aren't working in, in a state your "help" is illegal to give.
BuT iF I dOn'T DeFeNd It I lOsE iT!!
There are all of these things people just "know" that are fscking stupid, but they refuse to verify.
But hey you're investing in a boutique lawyer who should know the law better but still wanted your retainer and billables. Perhaps your financial advice isn't worth very much.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Aug 2020 @ 11:11am
Any day now I am just SURE that Trump will learn his lesson and stop being a grifting conman robbing everyone to line his own pockets....
any... day... now...
(This is the part where I remind y'all I'm immortal and might be the only one to live to see the day where he learns anything.)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Jul 2020 @ 10:58pm
"it's common sense what the Court's focus is"
Have you managed to find any yet?
Prior restraint.
Holding them responsible for the actions of 3rd parties.
How DARE they tell people we are trying to extort money from them using questionable patents, stupid arguments, and a Judge who seems to have forgotten the 1st Amendment is a thing & he is not a king.
Christ what an asshole.
(go ahead include me in your next crying filing, dumber lawyers that you have put my posts on dockets)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Jul 2020 @ 10:53pm
Top... Men....
Its a pity they've lost their way this badly, but its hard to do the job when you are always jumping at shadows while ignoring actual threats & you serve at the beck and call of the toddler in chief who will demand you pull @Jack from his house for questioning b/c a mean thing trended that hurt his feelings.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Jul 2020 @ 10:51pm
Something something I swear I've mentioned a few hundred times that any type of penalty for defective notices would immediately make them improve the systems.
They live in an imaginary world where they own everything, no one else can have anything, and if it even has a feel of something they own they own that too.
They can have a small penalty for the left hand taking down what the right hand was doing... but when it comes to taking down others content it should hurt a bit more.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Jul 2020 @ 10:28pm
shocked face goes here
You mean bad actors are misusing our sacred copyright laws?!!?
Say it isn't so!!!!!!
And yet all of the talk from the Copyright Office is about how we can implant cameras in peoples heads so we can charge them everytime they see an owned piece of content.
Oh my younger days, when people told me it wasn't an extortion scheme & made fun of my thats a nice life you have there it would be a terrible thing if something happened to it.
If only we had some agency that looked at facts instead of hype.
The law is fundamentally broken.
Courts have ruled accusations are actual proof.
Scammers have made millions of dollars shaking down people with the help of the courts.
Scammers have made money shutting down online accounts of actual creators (you know who the law seems to always protect as long as that creator is a corporate person).
Assholes are suing ISPs claiming their fast speed advertising is proof they make money off pirates so the ISP needs to pay.
They have shown there is no limit to the lies that are told in the pursuit of imaginary money & they are fully believed while actual evidence of malfeasance is ignored b/c copyright means you get different law in this country.... well unless you are just a person who thinks you can own what you make... it is yours until a corporate person claims it as their own & then you can spend more money than you earned last year in court or just accept the sandpaper condom.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Jul 2020 @ 10:16pm
Re: Prenda?
I dunno, I think Hans might be cracking...
he filed a motion with the court to unseal some information for an interview with a reporter & to use in lawsuits going forward to shine a light on the evil evil bad guys running MN courts.
(I laughed my ass off as the guy who had daddy using his political clout to keep him from being drawn and quartered is throwing shade at other people.)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Jul 2020 @ 11:02am
Re:
Oh wait... they are coming back again...
Troll with ties to CEGTEK and Prenda has been shaking down instagram accounts... he's being sued by Paper magazine.
He only managed to get their account deactivated and wanted 4.6 Million to tell Insta everythign was okay now.
On the post: Why Are There Currently No Ads On Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous
Re: Maybe it's just Google
Check the bottom of the test... bet it says cloudflare.
I've been running into the ZOMG you have a virus thats why we have to make sure you are a real person before allowing you into the site, now take this annoying non google captcha test & accept you did something wrong & it is in no way our shit being over zealous.
On the post: Baltimore's Aerial Surveillance Program Has Logged 700 Flight Hours, One (1) Arrest
Is it sad that this is a better success rate than what we got when we gave up our rights to be 'safe' from terrorists?
On the post: The Harry Potter Films Are Now Exclusive To Comcast, And The Streaming Sector Remains Oblivious To Piracy's Looming Resurgence
The real problem is every exec is sure they can make more money doing it themselves.
I mean iTunes is the devil, but there are only a couple competitors. Willing to bet most of them have the same pricing deals b/c the market isn't what it once was & its cheaper to make sure its available than to look for an extra penny. (Music is also making big bank by ripping off artists & still blaming the pirates).
People do not want 12 different platforms to subscribe to.
10 different platforms who will refuse to allow anyone to make a single box that supports them all.
7 different platforms that will offer various tier levels so they can get ad revenue still.
5 different platforms that will have "exclusives" but make it hard to use when you want.
3 different platforms who will only offer 4K streams ignoring how 'amazing' the broadband in the US isn't.
1 platform who will hurt their growth by getting pissy when an unnamed character is given a cute name by fans & becomes a meme & going full dipshit trying to crush it all out... then decide to make merch to cash in... in 3 years.
Then customers find out they can just type a name into a search, click a link, wait 30 minutes & have the episode of what they wanted to see when & how they want to.
Nope can't see how they can keep shooting themselves in the dick & blame the gun for not being big enough...
The world changed in a huge way.
The grand old days of windowed releases & ignoring consumer demand in other countries as not being important enough to release a 1st run movie there is over.
The world is mostly connected, people hear about shows that no ones bringing to their country & want to join in... but them wanting to see it now doesn't fit with the pattern we've used for releases since 1964 & we can't change the pattern!!! We'll lose money!!!
Stop lying about loses.
Stop pretending we still need ice men bringing ice to keep our food cold.
We aren't using the pony express to send movies across the country, there is no reason things can't open everywhere at once or be offered on a streaming service (maybe a small extra fee for getting a 1st run film for 3 weeks or something)
But for the love of everything, stop making your own streaming empires. You fragment the cash, you are forced to compete for no good reason, & maybe not running your own service you might figure out you all hold hundreds of years of content that people might want to watch again... if it was available.
On the post: Scientists Forced To Change Names Of Human Genes Because Of Microsoft's Failure To Patch Excel
Meme I wish I could post.
Venn Diagram
Circle 1 - Excel
Circle 2 - Incel
Overlap - Thinking everything is a date.
On the post: Yes, Facebook Treats Trump Fans Differently: It Has Relaxed The Rules To Give Them More Leeway
We could no longer recognize the truth if it offered to give us $300 million dollars as soon as we send some cash to pay the export fees to that nice prince.
Everything is a plot.
Everything is a conspiracy.
Everyone is out to get us.
Everyone is treated better. (as it should be).
'Merica where the spoiled bratty kids are in charge.
On the post: Congressional Reps Want To Know Why The California DMV Is Making $50 Million A Year Selling Driver Data
We are shocked just shocked how much money they are making selling out citizens...
Perhaps y'all should do some quick audits & find all of the other magical sources of income various branches of government are making by screwing citizens.
On the post: Michigan Supreme Court: Selling A $24,000 House (And Keeping The Proceeds) Over An $8.41 Debt Is Unlawful
Re: 'It's not even fun anymore...'
It was not a clearly established right that stealing tens of thousands to settle a minor debt was wrong.
One does wonder how much they might end up on the hook for.
Of course one also wonders about ties between the buyers & officials (because if you will steal a house over $10 you will have a hard time convincing anyone that you wouldn't then give your bestie a gift).
On the post: New York State Leaders Finally Realize U.S. Broadband Availability Data Is Hot Garbage
Same thing over & over....
"has invested $500 million dollars since 2015"
And did you pay that money to the same companies who were already robbing the USF of billions while doing nothing?
Are you a special kind of stupid?
I give it another 10 years until they notice those 'breaking' news stories about small towns building out their own shit & getting way better service & ROI.
On the post: Congress To Consider National Right To Repair Law For First Time
Re: Re:
Members can have great ideas, but its getting the rest of them to support it where it falls apart.
We see things suggested that are then just shoveled to the side & the publics attention span forgets about it.
We still today have people dying b/c it was insulin or rent, and other than a photo op of them buying cheap insulin (that couldn't meet the needs of most diabetics) nothing has changed.
150k+ people are dead & they still can't do anything for us without making sure they & their donors get something out of it.
While it sounds nice history as a guide says nothing will come of this & people will forget it was ever mentioned.
On the post: Congress To Consider National Right To Repair Law For First Time
Sorry but I am not going to hold my breath for this.
It sounds nice & oh ventilators we needed but couldn't fix blah blah blah...
Its a short term problem that will be abandoned after a couple donations.
They can't be bothered to punish the insulin makers who hold people's lives hostage, do you think a couple vent makers are scared?
On the post: Law Firm Southtown Moxie Responds Hilariously To Stupid Cease And Desist Letter
It takes a bunch of moxie to destroy your finances by launching a pointless lawsuit, over an area you aren't working in, in a state your "help" is illegal to give.
BuT iF I dOn'T DeFeNd It I lOsE iT!!
There are all of these things people just "know" that are fscking stupid, but they refuse to verify.
But hey you're investing in a boutique lawyer who should know the law better but still wanted your retainer and billables. Perhaps your financial advice isn't worth very much.
On the post: In 10 Years Of Existence, The Long-Running French Farce Known As Hadopi Has Imposed Just €87,000 In Fines, But Cost Taxpayers €82 Million
Re: That's not a useful metric
Something something man who had to pay the fine for actions he knew nothing about & the panel knew who the back actor was but that didn't matter.
Stupid plans like this sound great in the abstract, but in practice they make everyone detest copyright a little bit more.
On the post: Judge Hits District Attorney Who Issued Fake Subpoenas With A $50,000 Penalty For Blowing Off Records Requests
At somepoint you should just realize you are screwed, there is nothing you can do to stop it. That train has left the station.
Trying to hide it will make everything 100x's worse in the end, better to just hand it all over & take the lumps.
But then these lumps might take decades to pay off.
On the post: From The Stupid To The Bizarre: Trump Demands That His Government Should Take A 'Substantial' Cut Of TikTok's Purchase Fee
Any day now I am just SURE that Trump will learn his lesson and stop being a grifting conman robbing everyone to line his own pockets....
any... day... now...
(This is the part where I remind y'all I'm immortal and might be the only one to live to see the day where he learns anything.)
On the post: Patent Troll Gets Court To Order Startup It Sued To 'Edit' Blog Post; Troll Now Asks Startup To Get Us To Change Our Techdirt Post
"it's common sense what the Court's focus is"
Have you managed to find any yet?
Prior restraint.
Holding them responsible for the actions of 3rd parties.
How DARE they tell people we are trying to extort money from them using questionable patents, stupid arguments, and a Judge who seems to have forgotten the 1st Amendment is a thing & he is not a king.
Christ what an asshole.
(go ahead include me in your next crying filing, dumber lawyers that you have put my posts on dockets)
On the post: The FBI Issued Warning To Law Enforcement Agencies After Being Duped By A Satirical 'Paid Protester' Website
Top... Men....
Its a pity they've lost their way this badly, but its hard to do the job when you are always jumping at shadows while ignoring actual threats & you serve at the beck and call of the toddler in chief who will demand you pull @Jack from his house for questioning b/c a mean thing trended that hurt his feelings.
On the post: Viacom's Copyright Bots Take Down 'Star Trek' Comic-con Panel Because These Bots Suck Out Loud
Something something I swear I've mentioned a few hundred times that any type of penalty for defective notices would immediately make them improve the systems.
They live in an imaginary world where they own everything, no one else can have anything, and if it even has a feel of something they own they own that too.
They can have a small penalty for the left hand taking down what the right hand was doing... but when it comes to taking down others content it should hurt a bit more.
On the post: Copyright Trolling Evolved: Okularity Accused Of DMCAing Social Media Accounts, Then Demanding MILLIONS To Reinstate
shocked face goes here
You mean bad actors are misusing our sacred copyright laws?!!?
Say it isn't so!!!!!!
And yet all of the talk from the Copyright Office is about how we can implant cameras in peoples heads so we can charge them everytime they see an owned piece of content.
Oh my younger days, when people told me it wasn't an extortion scheme & made fun of my thats a nice life you have there it would be a terrible thing if something happened to it.
If only we had some agency that looked at facts instead of hype.
The law is fundamentally broken.
Courts have ruled accusations are actual proof.
Scammers have made millions of dollars shaking down people with the help of the courts.
Scammers have made money shutting down online accounts of actual creators (you know who the law seems to always protect as long as that creator is a corporate person).
Assholes are suing ISPs claiming their fast speed advertising is proof they make money off pirates so the ISP needs to pay.
They have shown there is no limit to the lies that are told in the pursuit of imaginary money & they are fully believed while actual evidence of malfeasance is ignored b/c copyright means you get different law in this country.... well unless you are just a person who thinks you can own what you make... it is yours until a corporate person claims it as their own & then you can spend more money than you earned last year in court or just accept the sandpaper condom.
On the post: Richard Liebowitz Goes Against Client's Interests: Presents Evidence That His Client Did Know About Lawsuits; But Not About Settlements
Re: Prenda?
I dunno, I think Hans might be cracking...
he filed a motion with the court to unseal some information for an interview with a reporter & to use in lawsuits going forward to shine a light on the evil evil bad guys running MN courts.
(I laughed my ass off as the guy who had daddy using his political clout to keep him from being drawn and quartered is throwing shade at other people.)
On the post: Richard Liebowitz Goes Against Client's Interests: Presents Evidence That His Client Did Know About Lawsuits; But Not About Settlements
Re:
Oh wait... they are coming back again...
Troll with ties to CEGTEK and Prenda has been shaking down instagram accounts... he's being sued by Paper magazine.
He only managed to get their account deactivated and wanted 4.6 Million to tell Insta everythign was okay now.
This new breed of trolls seems... extra stupid
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