That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 12:52pm
Sadly this will give him the boost he was looking for from the base who believes unless it is fawning admiration it is fake news.
Who cares if bad people died, they were bad. Who cares if brown people were hassled, they should have been white. Who cares if bad people got bad food, they needed moar punishment! Who cares if kids got diddled, it was probably done by the brown people he was already harassing.
This will quickly be followed by complaints about activist Judges ruling against him for being a white god fearing american & not an illegal terrorist who slipped over the canadian border to steal our jobs!!!!!
It really is sad to see a nation go so deep into denial to "protect" the image of people who have proven themselves unworthy of such.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 9:39am
Re: Re:
We really really need to stop demanding a law for everything.
Person fails to read contract, cries foul when contract is followed. The terms & conditions were there, in really plain words according to people who went & read them. Imagining that this will make you tons of cash because someone else did it and they got paid well, means you are dumb. Don't ask if they signed the regular contract. Don't ask if they asked a lawyer to review the terms. Just assume that because you are an 'artist' you are specially protected.
Car contract said AS-IS, you didn't bother to have your own mechanic check it out and discover there is no engine in it. Do we need a law saying it has to have an engine? Do we need a law forcing the seller to go down a checklist of things the average car buyer should do when looking to buy a used car? The contract says steering wheel extra, so we need laws or we need to slap the buyer who signed the damn contract?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 9:32am
Re: Re: Re: The benefit to Walmart
Unwritten rules of TechDirt #1918 Always assume anything TAC says is dripping with enough sarcasm you could slip on.
Human nature (and what we've been allowing now far to often) is to assign blame elsewhere & demand change. The driver was texting, Apple shoudl pay. My kids are fat, McDonalds should have to remove toys form happy meals. The bar shoudl pay for serving the driver booze, they should have known he had 14 DUI's & would be a danger. We need more warning signs to protect selfie takers form doing stupid dangerous things & dying to get a shot. I saw the kid lick the pole & get his tongue frozen to it in a movie, so its the movies fault my kid decided it was just movie magic & set out to prove it. DC comics should pay me because my kid put on a bath towel as a cape & tried to fly off of the top of the garage. It's not the kids fault that he got loaded & killed a bunch of people in yet another drunk driving crash, he wasn't raised right. We shouldn't be angry there was video of him violating probation by drinking, not be angry his mother helped him flee the country to avoid the punishment, he had no understanding of cause & effect so it is societies fault.
I'd give more examples but i'm sick to my stomach right now...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 7:13am
Re: It gets even better
Q: How is this a gotcha? Failure to read contracts isn't any one elses fault.
I note even recently some recording contracts still set money aside to pay back the label for vinyl breakage... even when it was never released on vinyl.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 7:10am
Re: The benefit to Walmart
*giggles*
Things are only famous because they stole the content of creators! I know I often make sure to see which stock photo on bottles is the best when making decisions to purchase things.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 6:36am
Use the exception on everything & then you never have to worry about if what you are doing is legal or ethical. Occasionally some things might get released & will show nothing so people will stop asking questions.... eventually....some decade... in an alternate universe where regulatory capture is actually banned & punished.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 6:31am
Tale as old as time. blaming everyone but yourself... o/~
Artist signs a deal with a gatekeeper to make all of that money they hear about others making. Artist assumes gatekeepers are there to protect & help the artists. Artist see's work in use in commerce. Artist assumes a windfall is waiting. Artist gets check for $0.088 cents. Artist reads terms. Artist wonders who they can blame other than themselves. Artist imagines the trillions of dollars they should have been paid. Gatekeeper cashes their checks. Artist blames company who followed the law & did everything legally. Artist screams at 3rd party for robbing them & demands satisfaction. Wonks try to play this as a big corporation robbing the artist, but blame the other guy not the gatekeeper. Wonks lobby for more laws to 'protect' artists, but make sure that it is still legal to click a box at the end of 3pt legal contracts online & screw yourself. Artist becomes another horror story about how copyright scofflaws rob artists blind. Gatekeeper gets more artists to click the box sealing their fate. Gatekeepers stay rich, artists stay poor, & they blame everyone else rather than admitting the system is the problem & artists believe the hype that gatekeepers are their friends. Years later image is used in a fairly popular meme & a flurry of take down notices follow killing it in its infancy. Content remains locked up and unknown. Artist laments on death bed that if not for people stealing the content they could have been rich. 100 years later gatekeeper lobbies for another copyright extension because they only had 170 years to squeeze every cent out of the content. 125 years the artists children file a lawsuit against an artist who took a picture that had some similarities and argue to the court that the new artist stole the 'feel' of the original work and they deserve 90% of the profit of the new work. 150 years later, it all repeats once again because somehow artists still think gatekeepers are their friends not foes.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 5 Jan 2019 @ 3:00am
Re: Re:
And yet the very common refrain from the copyright cartels is we just don't respect copyright enough so we need moar law to teach us to respect us... pity they don't understand they need to give respect to get respect.
To "protect" their rights...
Rootkits on computers Claiming ownership of a bird song Hampering technology because it MIGHT be used in a way they disapprove of Extending the time they have to squeeze every cent out, while ignoring market demand for content they don't want to bother with releasing but chase people who obtain it in other ways with ferocity Screwing up rights to a point where they have to release a series with all the music replaced, despite the music being important to the series A video of a baby dancing was in court for so long I think the kids in college now The utter silence about copyright trolls abusing the legal framework they created & refuse to let anyone try to fix The utter silence about shitty movies magically generating millions as they "somehow" got online and they deserve thousands for a movie that coudl have been rented for $1 Ultraviolet Fighting every new platform tooth and nail to make the service worse for customers just in case they might miss a cent if 2 people listen at the same time on 1 account We secretly redited things & digitally added things to make a few more cents but won't tell you until the package is open & you can't return it 15 unskippable ads before you can press play... and then there are 14 more submenus to deal with
They go out of their way to shit on people who try to play by the rules & are given the worst possible experiences while wasting money chasing people who got fed up with being shit on and don't think there is a reason that the 'Little House on the Prairie' should cost $250 other than greed.
They have locked away huge swaths of our culture & demand payment if you even think about it & can't be bothered to look to see what they own but if they do have the rights & you even tried to get permission they will threaten to sue you.
We bear all of these burdens, our culture is stagnating, all so a fscking mouse can remain protected & the cartels don't have to remember the business is to sell product to customers not demand TV's tell them how many people are in the living room watching and stop playback if the number of people is to high for their likes.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Jan 2019 @ 10:54pm
Re: Re:
They applied for & were granted a patent on a system to protect stupid people from themselves, they never moved it much further than the application. Because it exists on paper, it must be completely possible & opens the door for us to collect 42 bajillion dollars from Apple. Waiting for the followup suits against the car makers & the company that poured the concrete for the road.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 4 Jan 2019 @ 10:45pm
Re:
*stares*
What are you babbling about?
I've made the lists a couple of times, but its never because I just keep coughing up crap posts and praying. Sometimes when I can align the stars just right something I say resonates with people or puts a new spin on things they hadn't considered. (see also: my expletive filled rant at the asshat who compared copyright & gay marriage that was a very different take than others had)
While I enjoy the light bulbs & lols, they aren't my goal. My goal is to share my view of things & read others views to help complete my picture of things. Sometimes there are people who challenge my thinking & sometimes there are people who challenge reality and one can learn from all of these.
Tracking my history one can see that Twitter was a horrible decision on my part if I wanted to dominate the leaderboards. Much of my insanity leaks out there rather than here... feel bad for the staff here I follow them & often leave them shaking their heads & having to explain me to other followers who were unprepared for me.
I've also been bitten by the but I thought I was being really insightful not badging & a random throw away comment hitting insightful at the speed of light. You can't plan for that or try and game it, so I just keep posting like always. Regular commenters can predict my responses to things (I'm a tiny bit transparent) and sometimes I shock them because sometimes I look at things sideways.
The site works because it isn't an echo chamber of 1 idea & multiple view points have a chance (well unless you are posting from under a bridge). While many of us agree on big pictures (Pai is the industry's lap dog & will leave office to get a super cushy well paying industry "job" once he's done destroying the FCC) there is/are other areas inside the bigger picture where we disagree and can discuss them.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Jan 2019 @ 6:19pm
"putting Ribeiro right back where he was three days before this lawsuit was filed" Incorrect, he'll be out several thousand in costs & fees, and learn that sometimes the lawyer who answers your call to I should sue with you betcha isn't the best pick.
This is permission culture at its finest. The law gives you no rights in this area because to do so would lead to the end of the world as we all were in litigation for having moved like someone moved that one time.
You have no right to demand to get paid, forever, for anything. You don't have the right to demand no one else do it without paying you.
You did a shitty dance, never tried to cash in on it, until someone found a way to make a buck with it. They put the time & effort into building upon your creation (which is how its supposed to work you jackasses) to create something new... an expression in a videogame.
I hope the judge slaps you all down & suggests ethics charges against the law firm, a copyright case brought over something clearly uncopyrightable with no issued copyrights & filed in some cases days before the lawsuit with no hope of being issued. These lawyers are ripping off their clients & wasting judicial resources trying to create a new area of law & income for people who apparently aren't that relevant beyond being 1 hit pop culture wonders.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Jan 2019 @ 6:09pm
The government needs to get its shit together. They are forcing everyone else to bear the costs of their ineptness, pretending that it is perfectly normal. We do not allow big box retailers to demand a local tax to offset shoplifting, we expect them to deal with it in their business model & bear the costs of protecting their product. (In before one of the regular asshats claims I admitted piracy is theft. GFY.) Several alarm systems have proven to be faulty & some cities instituted a fine, not on everyone, but on the source of the problem to cover the costs of false alarms. The people with shitty alarm systems were shifting the costs of their shitty alarm system calling 911 every 3 hours to people not doing it... seems fair that the person screwing it up should pay.
These "outfits" that send notices have proven time and time and time again they are incompetent, seriously HBO paid you & you demanded Google delist the entire domain for piracy. Rather than deal with the flurry of lawsuits the corporations would file for being delisted (at their own request) Google pays people/coders/lizard aliens to verify a legal document. I've seen some doozys filed in courts where the submitter has been benchslapped... yet somehow penalty of perjury means nothing really. (Copyright wonks will tell you that moar law & moar enforcement will make people respect copyright... despite decades of that not working... perhaps making the system completely unfair & unbalances makes people lose respect.)
Someone needs to sue & ask a judge why defective legal documents, with the alleged penalty of perjury, are allowed to inflict costs on the recipients to fix the defects because not jumping high enough or fast enough means they can be on the hook for large damages... and without anything motivating them to get better they will keep sending more and more defective notices. (Of course this does not even touch on the idea that Google is not a proper target as the law says send it to the host & Google isn't hosting the alleged infringing content.)
Everything is infringment, everything can be used for infringment, perhaps we need to stop listening to the little corporations who cry infringement & loss of money while depositing record profits.
The law only works when all are treated fairly, it is time to balance this glaring omission of penalties for senders while threatening to inflict large penalties on recipients & that portion of the law is the only part with teeth.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 Dec 2018 @ 10:21pm
But but but they are in constant danger!!! He could have secretly been 3 rabid raccoons in a trenchcoat that would have bitten the officers & turned them into were terrorists!!!!!!!!!
They wanted to teach the old bothersome man a lesson... Seems like they got schooled.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 Dec 2018 @ 12:41pm
Re: Re: Missing a few details in the summary.
Oh just noticed going deeper into the stories she has a case against the police department as well...
"She said Summit County Sheriff Deputy Brian Breeden visited Croghan and asked her to delete her posts and to stop making new posts because she was causing public alarm."
"Coventry Superintendent Blough said if Croghan had stopped her posts in the beginning, the case wouldn’t have been necessary. She said people with safety concerns should contact her or another administrator.
“Posting on Facebook is not an effective way to get things resolved,” she said. “This case clearly shows that.″
Banbury was pleased by the jury’s decision.
“I think justice was served and I think she needs treatment,” she said of Croghan."
So posting denials on facebook was not an effective way of dealing with this??
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 Dec 2018 @ 12:35pm
Re: Missing a few details in the summary.
So what you are trying to say is she screamed fire in a crowded theater so she deserves to be punished?
Prior restraint is illegal, it violates her rights and after a very costly lawsuit the state will pursue trying to pretend SCOTUS never said that, there will be even more 0's on her settlement.
If an administrator was so put out having to answer questions from concerned parents, perhaps they are in the wrong job. The real crime is the assistant was off so they boss had to handle the calls.
Ohio needs to round up ever fscking Anti-Vaxxer and punish them, they are inducing panic in parents. Then the politicians who rails against the imaginary others who are responsible for all of the bad things that happen without evidence. Then anything Trump says because hes proven to be lying about very serious things to rile people up and panic them that MS-13 is under each and everyone of their beds. Then all of the adherents of Qanon who go on and on about the democratic pedophile ring that Trump will bring down just as soon as he defeats the Deep State.
Parent hears mention of a gun being seen, teacher kicks it up the chain, who tell her it wasn't on campus. A mass shooting happens elsewhere & she remembers the story about a gun being seen & how she wasn't quite satisfied about the answer because people in power NEVER lie to cover their own asses.
(Aside: Kids on the bus saw another student in his yard with a pellet gun, allegedly. No details about on the way to or from school or time of day.)
Mother who is most likely convinced that man walking towards the Target behind her in the parking lot is a human trafficker, gets upset about Parkland & mentions something from months ago she head & OMG WE GOT PHONE CALLS! It sounds like they weren't that polite in responding to her concern which of course set off the ever popular the more they say no the more true it must be.
Well we told her it was just a rumor...tell me what your boss said to you 6 months ago on a thursday... you might not remember that detail but you remember that you almost were in a car accident because it upset you.
This is bullshit and one can only hope the number of 0's on her settlement keep growing. Her crime was making an employee answer phone calls & making them mad, so the found a way to punish her... and its going to bite them in the ass hard.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Dec 2018 @ 3:01pm
I guess if we really wanted the citizens to care about cops doing this you need to put it in terms that they seem to care about...
Because of what this asshole did your property taxes just went up $10.
You'd see them at the council meeting with torches and pitchforks... pity they didn't care that much about the kids being abused like this or the city wasting tax dollars defending the indefensible.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Dec 2018 @ 2:42pm
Dear India,
Perhaps you shoudl focus on real problems like men raping young women on trains, buses, the street that has been happening for decades & your system fails the victims over and over before deciding you need to control the internet.
Oh darn a Bollywood movie got leaked so we blocked 90% of the internet in India to protect it... but a young woman is raped as 30 people watch but we can't do anything about that.
Perhaps you are busy focusing on things that don't benefit your citizens & trying to grab more special powers you think will solve everything... as another girl is raped & then ignored by the police.
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Who cares if bad people died, they were bad.
Who cares if brown people were hassled, they should have been white.
Who cares if bad people got bad food, they needed moar punishment!
Who cares if kids got diddled, it was probably done by the brown people he was already harassing.
This will quickly be followed by complaints about activist Judges ruling against him for being a white god fearing american & not an illegal terrorist who slipped over the canadian border to steal our jobs!!!!!
It really is sad to see a nation go so deep into denial to "protect" the image of people who have proven themselves unworthy of such.
On the post: Photographer Licenses Photo To Shutterstock, Is Shocked When It Plays Out Exactly How Everyone Would Imagine
Re: Re:
Person fails to read contract, cries foul when contract is followed.
The terms & conditions were there, in really plain words according to people who went & read them.
Imagining that this will make you tons of cash because someone else did it and they got paid well, means you are dumb.
Don't ask if they signed the regular contract.
Don't ask if they asked a lawyer to review the terms.
Just assume that because you are an 'artist' you are specially protected.
Car contract said AS-IS, you didn't bother to have your own mechanic check it out and discover there is no engine in it.
Do we need a law saying it has to have an engine?
Do we need a law forcing the seller to go down a checklist of things the average car buyer should do when looking to buy a used car?
The contract says steering wheel extra, so we need laws or we need to slap the buyer who signed the damn contract?
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Re: Re: Re: The benefit to Walmart
Always assume anything TAC says is dripping with enough sarcasm you could slip on.
Human nature (and what we've been allowing now far to often) is to assign blame elsewhere & demand change.
The driver was texting, Apple shoudl pay.
My kids are fat, McDonalds should have to remove toys form happy meals.
The bar shoudl pay for serving the driver booze, they should have known he had 14 DUI's & would be a danger.
We need more warning signs to protect selfie takers form doing stupid dangerous things & dying to get a shot.
I saw the kid lick the pole & get his tongue frozen to it in a movie, so its the movies fault my kid decided it was just movie magic & set out to prove it.
DC comics should pay me because my kid put on a bath towel as a cape & tried to fly off of the top of the garage.
It's not the kids fault that he got loaded & killed a bunch of people in yet another drunk driving crash, he wasn't raised right. We shouldn't be angry there was video of him violating probation by drinking, not be angry his mother helped him flee the country to avoid the punishment, he had no understanding of cause & effect so it is societies fault.
I'd give more examples but i'm sick to my stomach right now...
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Re: It gets even better
Failure to read contracts isn't any one elses fault.
I note even recently some recording contracts still set money aside to pay back the label for vinyl breakage... even when it was never released on vinyl.
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Re: The benefit to Walmart
Things are only famous because they stole the content of creators!
I know I often make sure to see which stock photo on bottles is the best when making decisions to purchase things.
On the post: The Ajit Pai FCC Often Battles FOIA Requests For No Reason, Showcasing Its Hostility To Transparency
Occasionally some things might get released & will show nothing so people will stop asking questions.... eventually....some decade... in an alternate universe where regulatory capture is actually banned & punished.
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Re: The Early Days of Netflix
special editions missing 90% of the features of a real disc to 'protect' sales...
hell I am old enough to remember Disney putting VHS tapes back into the Disney Vault for a few more decades to drive sales.
On the post: Photographer Licenses Photo To Shutterstock, Is Shocked When It Plays Out Exactly How Everyone Would Imagine
Artist signs a deal with a gatekeeper to make all of that money they hear about others making.
Artist assumes gatekeepers are there to protect & help the artists.
Artist see's work in use in commerce.
Artist assumes a windfall is waiting.
Artist gets check for $0.088 cents.
Artist reads terms.
Artist wonders who they can blame other than themselves.
Artist imagines the trillions of dollars they should have been paid.
Gatekeeper cashes their checks.
Artist blames company who followed the law & did everything legally.
Artist screams at 3rd party for robbing them & demands satisfaction.
Wonks try to play this as a big corporation robbing the artist, but blame the other guy not the gatekeeper.
Wonks lobby for more laws to 'protect' artists, but make sure that it is still legal to click a box at the end of 3pt legal contracts online & screw yourself.
Artist becomes another horror story about how copyright scofflaws rob artists blind.
Gatekeeper gets more artists to click the box sealing their fate.
Gatekeepers stay rich, artists stay poor, & they blame everyone else rather than admitting the system is the problem & artists believe the hype that gatekeepers are their friends.
Years later image is used in a fairly popular meme & a flurry of take down notices follow killing it in its infancy.
Content remains locked up and unknown.
Artist laments on death bed that if not for people stealing the content they could have been rich.
100 years later gatekeeper lobbies for another copyright extension because they only had 170 years to squeeze every cent out of the content.
125 years the artists children file a lawsuit against an artist who took a picture that had some similarities and argue to the court that the new artist stole the 'feel' of the original work and they deserve 90% of the profit of the new work.
150 years later, it all repeats once again because somehow artists still think gatekeepers are their friends not foes.
On the post: Antipiracy Outfits Routinely Claim Copyright Infringement Against Sites That Simply Report When Torrents Are Released
Re: Re:
To "protect" their rights...
Rootkits on computers
Claiming ownership of a bird song
Hampering technology because it MIGHT be used in a way they disapprove of
Extending the time they have to squeeze every cent out, while ignoring market demand for content they don't want to bother with releasing but chase people who obtain it in other ways with ferocity
Screwing up rights to a point where they have to release a series with all the music replaced, despite the music being important to the series
A video of a baby dancing was in court for so long I think the kids in college now
The utter silence about copyright trolls abusing the legal framework they created & refuse to let anyone try to fix
The utter silence about shitty movies magically generating millions as they "somehow" got online and they deserve thousands for a movie that coudl have been rented for $1
Ultraviolet
Fighting every new platform tooth and nail to make the service worse for customers just in case they might miss a cent if 2 people listen at the same time on 1 account
We secretly redited things & digitally added things to make a few more cents but won't tell you until the package is open & you can't return it
15 unskippable ads before you can press play... and then there are 14 more submenus to deal with
They go out of their way to shit on people who try to play by the rules & are given the worst possible experiences while wasting money chasing people who got fed up with being shit on and don't think there is a reason that the 'Little House on the Prairie' should cost $250 other than greed.
They have locked away huge swaths of our culture & demand payment if you even think about it & can't be bothered to look to see what they own but if they do have the rights & you even tried to get permission they will threaten to sue you.
We bear all of these burdens, our culture is stagnating, all so a fscking mouse can remain protected & the cartels don't have to remember the business is to sell product to customers not demand TV's tell them how many people are in the living room watching and stop playback if the number of people is to high for their likes.
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Re: Re:
On the post: Techdirt 2018: The Stats.
Re:
What are you babbling about?
I've made the lists a couple of times, but its never because I just keep coughing up crap posts and praying. Sometimes when I can align the stars just right something I say resonates with people or puts a new spin on things they hadn't considered. (see also: my expletive filled rant at the asshat who compared copyright & gay marriage that was a very different take than others had)
While I enjoy the light bulbs & lols, they aren't my goal. My goal is to share my view of things & read others views to help complete my picture of things. Sometimes there are people who challenge my thinking & sometimes there are people who challenge reality and one can learn from all of these.
Tracking my history one can see that Twitter was a horrible decision on my part if I wanted to dominate the leaderboards. Much of my insanity leaks out there rather than here... feel bad for the staff here I follow them & often leave them shaking their heads & having to explain me to other followers who were unprepared for me.
I've also been bitten by the but I thought I was being really insightful not badging & a random throw away comment hitting insightful at the speed of light. You can't plan for that or try and game it, so I just keep posting like always. Regular commenters can predict my responses to things (I'm a tiny bit transparent) and sometimes I shock them because sometimes I look at things sideways.
The site works because it isn't an echo chamber of 1 idea & multiple view points have a chance (well unless you are posting from under a bridge). While many of us agree on big pictures (Pai is the industry's lap dog & will leave office to get a super cushy well paying industry "job" once he's done destroying the FCC) there is/are other areas inside the bigger picture where we disagree and can discuss them.
On the post: Creators Of Dance Moves Suing Creators Of Fortnite Over Copyright Infringement That Can't Possibly Have Happened
Re: Re:
Marvin Gaye's children have launched another lawsuit for stealing the 'feel' of a song.
On the post: Creators Of Dance Moves Suing Creators Of Fortnite Over Copyright Infringement That Can't Possibly Have Happened
Incorrect, he'll be out several thousand in costs & fees, and learn that sometimes the lawyer who answers your call to I should sue with you betcha isn't the best pick.
This is permission culture at its finest.
The law gives you no rights in this area because to do so would lead to the end of the world as we all were in litigation for having moved like someone moved that one time.
You have no right to demand to get paid, forever, for anything.
You don't have the right to demand no one else do it without paying you.
You did a shitty dance, never tried to cash in on it, until someone found a way to make a buck with it. They put the time & effort into building upon your creation (which is how its supposed to work you jackasses) to create something new... an expression in a videogame.
I hope the judge slaps you all down & suggests ethics charges against the law firm, a copyright case brought over something clearly uncopyrightable with no issued copyrights & filed in some cases days before the lawsuit with no hope of being issued. These lawyers are ripping off their clients & wasting judicial resources trying to create a new area of law & income for people who apparently aren't that relevant beyond being 1 hit pop culture wonders.
On the post: Antipiracy Outfits Routinely Claim Copyright Infringement Against Sites That Simply Report When Torrents Are Released
They are forcing everyone else to bear the costs of their ineptness, pretending that it is perfectly normal.
We do not allow big box retailers to demand a local tax to offset shoplifting, we expect them to deal with it in their business model & bear the costs of protecting their product.
(In before one of the regular asshats claims I admitted piracy is theft. GFY.)
Several alarm systems have proven to be faulty & some cities instituted a fine, not on everyone, but on the source of the problem to cover the costs of false alarms. The people with shitty alarm systems were shifting the costs of their shitty alarm system calling 911 every 3 hours to people not doing it... seems fair that the person screwing it up should pay.
These "outfits" that send notices have proven time and time and time again they are incompetent, seriously HBO paid you & you demanded Google delist the entire domain for piracy. Rather than deal with the flurry of lawsuits the corporations would file for being delisted (at their own request) Google pays people/coders/lizard aliens to verify a legal document. I've seen some doozys filed in courts where the submitter has been benchslapped... yet somehow penalty of perjury means nothing really. (Copyright wonks will tell you that moar law & moar enforcement will make people respect copyright... despite decades of that not working... perhaps making the system completely unfair & unbalances makes people lose respect.)
Someone needs to sue & ask a judge why defective legal documents, with the alleged penalty of perjury, are allowed to inflict costs on the recipients to fix the defects because not jumping high enough or fast enough means they can be on the hook for large damages... and without anything motivating them to get better they will keep sending more and more defective notices. (Of course this does not even touch on the idea that Google is not a proper target as the law says send it to the host & Google isn't hosting the alleged infringing content.)
Everything is infringment, everything can be used for infringment, perhaps we need to stop listening to the little corporations who cry infringement & loss of money while depositing record profits.
The law only works when all are treated fairly, it is time to balance this glaring omission of penalties for senders while threatening to inflict large penalties on recipients & that portion of the law is the only part with teeth.
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Re:
On the post: County Pays $90,000 Settlement To Man After Seizing $80,000 Judgment From Him Using 24 Deputies And An Armored Vehicle
They wanted to teach the old bothersome man a lesson...
Seems like they got schooled.
On the post: 'Fake News' Results In Real Jail Time For Ohio Woman
Re: Re: Missing a few details in the summary.
"She said Summit County Sheriff Deputy Brian Breeden visited Croghan and asked her to delete her posts and to stop making new posts because she was causing public alarm."
"Coventry Superintendent Blough said if Croghan had stopped her posts in the beginning, the case wouldn’t have been necessary. She said people with safety concerns should contact her or another administrator.
“Posting on Facebook is not an effective way to get things resolved,” she said. “This case clearly shows that.″
Banbury was pleased by the jury’s decision.
“I think justice was served and I think she needs treatment,” she said of Croghan."
So posting denials on facebook was not an effective way of dealing with this??
Sooo many 0's on the lawsuit.
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Re: Missing a few details in the summary.
Prior restraint is illegal, it violates her rights and after a very costly lawsuit the state will pursue trying to pretend SCOTUS never said that, there will be even more 0's on her settlement.
If an administrator was so put out having to answer questions from concerned parents, perhaps they are in the wrong job. The real crime is the assistant was off so they boss had to handle the calls.
Ohio needs to round up ever fscking Anti-Vaxxer and punish them, they are inducing panic in parents.
Then the politicians who rails against the imaginary others who are responsible for all of the bad things that happen without evidence.
Then anything Trump says because hes proven to be lying about very serious things to rile people up and panic them that MS-13 is under each and everyone of their beds.
Then all of the adherents of Qanon who go on and on about the democratic pedophile ring that Trump will bring down just as soon as he defeats the Deep State.
Parent hears mention of a gun being seen, teacher kicks it up the chain, who tell her it wasn't on campus. A mass shooting happens elsewhere & she remembers the story about a gun being seen & how she wasn't quite satisfied about the answer because people in power NEVER lie to cover their own asses.
(Aside: Kids on the bus saw another student in his yard with a pellet gun, allegedly. No details about on the way to or from school or time of day.)
Mother who is most likely convinced that man walking towards the Target behind her in the parking lot is a human trafficker, gets upset about Parkland & mentions something from months ago she head & OMG WE GOT PHONE CALLS! It sounds like they weren't that polite in responding to her concern which of course set off the ever popular the more they say no the more true it must be.
Well we told her it was just a rumor...tell me what your boss said to you 6 months ago on a thursday... you might not remember that detail but you remember that you almost were in a car accident because it upset you.
This is bullshit and one can only hope the number of 0's on her settlement keep growing. Her crime was making an employee answer phone calls & making them mad, so the found a way to punish her... and its going to bite them in the ass hard.
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Because of what this asshole did your property taxes just went up $10.
You'd see them at the council meeting with torches and pitchforks... pity they didn't care that much about the kids being abused like this or the city wasting tax dollars defending the indefensible.
On the post: Indian Government Wants Tech Companies To Give Law Enforcement 24-Hour Access To User Data And Broken Encryption
Perhaps you shoudl focus on real problems like men raping young women on trains, buses, the street that has been happening for decades & your system fails the victims over and over before deciding you need to control the internet.
Oh darn a Bollywood movie got leaked so we blocked 90% of the internet in India to protect it... but a young woman is raped as 30 people watch but we can't do anything about that.
Perhaps you are busy focusing on things that don't benefit your citizens & trying to grab more special powers you think will solve everything... as another girl is raped & then ignored by the police.
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