It kicks off with a debate over how to pronounce the @ symbol, with Gumbel properly saying "at,"
Well, technically, at that time, that wasn't entirely correct.
Of course, I can't find any references to back up my claim, but trust me, I took typing in Jr. High and that's not what it used to be called.
I'm fairly certain that the majority of people familiar with that symbol (outside of the computing world) at that time would know it as an accounting symbol signifying "each at", as in, "five pairs of shoes @ at $100"
And, of course, if the video is found to be fair use -- as I would bet it would be -- we'll have yet another example of how the DMCA's takedown process is a clear violation of free speech. Even if the video is eventually allowed back online due to a counter-notice, copyright law was being used to silence political speech in the middle of a campaign.
The threat (and promise) of the internet is that it gives voice to common people - sometimes on par with corporations, the entertainment industry and politicians.
This cannot be stressed enough because daily, elements in those three groups are trying hard to change this.
This (the internet) was just not supposed to happen. By the early '90's, these three groups pretty much had everything sewn up for themselves. The actual delivery of a pulpit to the masses has made a mess of their happy little world.
I think I would go with the simplest of all solutions: a single page that explains why the movie is a greatly fictionalized account, and not an accurate depiction of either the company or its employees, past or current...
I saw Mellencamp a few years ago. John Fogarty (of Creedence Clearwater) opened
for him. Fogarty really got the crowd going with extended git-tar jams and
smiles and good vibes.
When Mellencamp took the stage, the crowd was ready for the energy level to
increase, but a strange thing happened. We cheered the first couple of
songs, but not as enthusiastically as the closing Fogarty tunes. To my
way of thinking, it meant that "Cougar" needed to up his game and pull the fans
along. Instead, he got sulky and made a smart-ass comment about how maybe we
liked Fogarty better.
As difficult as it may be for some here to believe, it is not a "given" that a cease and desist letter would immediately be sent. I daresay that if this exact situation played out in 2010 the outcome would most likely be the same.
You honestly think that if someone put up a website offering to sell large, hand silk-screened prints of pictures of iPods that Apple would just offer to send a few to the artist?
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Reworded
So iiNet told them to go pound sand.
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BM
"Yeah. If we can just get people to stop making their own"
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Well, technically, at that time, that wasn't entirely correct.
Of course, I can't find any references to back up my claim, but trust me, I took typing in Jr. High and that's not what it used to be called.
I'm fairly certain that the majority of people familiar with that symbol (outside of the computing world) at that time would know it as an accounting symbol signifying "each at", as in, "five pairs of shoes @ at $100"
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Prescience
There's Ted's "Tubes" again.
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Battle Cry
"Remember the doMaine!"
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Technonymous
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See Also
Shoring up artificially high house prices while working to provide affordable housing.
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Oceana
Ha ha! hahahahahahaha!
The "evidence" will be "classified" because it's about Homeland Security and it could aid the terrists, donchaknow?
1984 got here about 17 years late...
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Warning!
"YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!"
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Shazbot!
How can you say that?
After all, look at how successful drug enforcement laws have been...
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Again
The threat (and promise) of the internet is that it gives voice to common people - sometimes on par with corporations, the entertainment industry and politicians.
This cannot be stressed enough because daily, elements in those three groups are trying hard to change this.
This (the internet) was just not supposed to happen. By the early '90's, these three groups pretty much had everything sewn up for themselves. The actual delivery of a pulpit to the masses has made a mess of their happy little world.
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Re:
This C&D is invalid.
They misspelled "Nutlab"
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Just Wondering
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Alors!
What? There's a Techdirt movie???
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Channeling Jack
"You can't handle the truth!"
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Not Surprising
for him. Fogarty really got the crowd going with extended git-tar jams and
smiles and good vibes.
When Mellencamp took the stage, the crowd was ready for the energy level to
increase, but a strange thing happened. We cheered the first couple of
songs, but not as enthusiastically as the closing Fogarty tunes. To my
way of thinking, it meant that "Cougar" needed to up his game and pull the fans
along. Instead, he got sulky and made a smart-ass comment about how maybe we
liked Fogarty better.
I guess we did...
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Skyy
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Uh.
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Rightio
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Re:
You honestly think that if someone put up a website offering to sell large, hand silk-screened prints of pictures of iPods that Apple would just offer to send a few to the artist?
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