The entire structure of setting up a $31 million pool, such that if the people impacted actually claim their money they get less of it, is just mindbogglingly pointless.
Which has pretty much been my opinion of class action suits for a while now. They exist to penalize a wrongful party, but not to offer remuneration to those who were wronged.
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Reminds me of a comment I wrote (omg) seven years ago about how all copy restrictions were in response to new technology reducing the power of entrenched interests.
Oh, and in true form, "The Song" was actually just a ripoff of "The Ultimate Song" but they used IP to scour the actual source material from the face of the Earth.
Oh, see I was confused. I thought there was only one song because someone wrote a song, copyrighted it, and now making any other songs would be copyright infringement. That seems more plausible than no one writing songs because there's no way to get paid without preventing someone else from looking/touching/using your stuff.
If you want to talk about telephone companies, I'm right there with you. They're common carrier services prohibited by Title II from interfering with the content of their customers' communication. Makes sense, right?
But Telecom also refers to telecommunication companies, ie ISPs who have somehow wriggled out of any oversight whatsoever, who can and absolutely have prioritized and replaced customers' content.
This suit is essentially from people so deep in vendor lock-in that they can't see a world without it. That's why I ran as fast as I could when I realized what Apple was doing.
"Condemned totally" yeah, except for their method and message, and the "fine people" who were there to promote both. People don't just walk around supporting confederate icons with that many tiki torches by accident.
Sure, they probably didn't know Patagonia would enter their market. They probably just registered ALL THE TRADEMARKS and then sat on them, not making use, so if some competitor decided they wanted to enter the market InBev had a weapon to deploy. That's NOT the purpose of trademark.
Seems like a Trademark that's only effective in preventing someone else from trademarking the words. As a descriptive phrase, surely you can't expect to prevent people from saying it in cases where they aren't referring to your goods and services.
Reminds me of the GTA Lohan suit where they claimed the likeness was too similar but also defamed for being different.
Please, tell me more about how we should demand companies break their encryption systems so that "only police" will be given access to our private communications, documents, bank accounts, and other private sundries.
Maybe theater owners should work with Netflix to screen high profile movies at their establishments at the same time they're available in homes. Unless they're worried that a big screen in a dark room with lots of seats doesn't add anything to the experience. You'd think that'd give them just the opportunity they want to prove that the silver screen is superior.
I was under the impression that before ALPRs they didn't manually run every set of plates which crossed their field of vision. It was too labor intensive, that's the attraction of automation. Which means that the driver would have had to do something to attract the attention of an officer in order to induce an inquiry. Now all a driver has to do is exist in certain physical space.
The unions going to bat so hard for these "bad apples" makes it seem like the bad apples are much more pervasive than they lead us to believe when an incident actually gets exposure. Shouldn't unions and diligent officers welcome this public oversight as a means to finally rid themselves of the stigma that they care more about themselves than the communities they police?
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Which has pretty much been my opinion of class action suits for a while now. They exist to penalize a wrongful party, but not to offer remuneration to those who were wronged.
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Reminds me a lot of search engines driving readers to news sources.
Uh, sorry guys. I figured you'd enjoy the eyeballs on screen soaking up your freely distributed ads.
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Re: "Imagine a world without Bach. Oh, wait."
And Jonas Salk would never have created the Polio vaccine...
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Reminds me of a comment I wrote (omg) seven years ago about how all copy restrictions were in response to new technology reducing the power of entrenched interests.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120824/12382120149/authors-guild-continues-to-battle- present-attacks-another-legal-service-as-infringing.shtml#c760
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Re: What's the incentive to create if everyone can take your wor
You created this... "argument". What was your incentive? The right to keep other people from using that combination of words ever again?
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Re: A world WITH copyright?
Oh, and in true form, "The Song" was actually just a ripoff of "The Ultimate Song" but they used IP to scour the actual source material from the face of the Earth.
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Re: Extreme IP
We get it. ;-)
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A world WITH copyright?
Oh, see I was confused. I thought there was only one song because someone wrote a song, copyrighted it, and now making any other songs would be copyright infringement. That seems more plausible than no one writing songs because there's no way to get paid without preventing someone else from looking/touching/using your stuff.
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Siri, define 'condone'...
Sure as shit sounds like they're condoning this illegal behavior by law enforcement.
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If you want to talk about telephone companies, I'm right there with you. They're common carrier services prohibited by Title II from interfering with the content of their customers' communication. Makes sense, right?
But Telecom also refers to telecommunication companies, ie ISPs who have somehow wriggled out of any oversight whatsoever, who can and absolutely have prioritized and replaced customers' content.
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Re: habeas corpus
This suit is essentially from people so deep in vendor lock-in that they can't see a world without it. That's why I ran as fast as I could when I realized what Apple was doing.
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You're confusing censorship with people not liking you again.
https://xkcd.com/1357/
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"Condemned totally" yeah, except for their method and message, and the "fine people" who were there to promote both. People don't just walk around supporting confederate icons with that many tiki torches by accident.
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Re: Trademarks are by product type
Sure, they probably didn't know Patagonia would enter their market. They probably just registered ALL THE TRADEMARKS and then sat on them, not making use, so if some competitor decided they wanted to enter the market InBev had a weapon to deploy. That's NOT the purpose of trademark.
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You Don't Own The Words
Seems like a Trademark that's only effective in preventing someone else from trademarking the words. As a descriptive phrase, surely you can't expect to prevent people from saying it in cases where they aren't referring to your goods and services.
Reminds me of the GTA Lohan suit where they claimed the likeness was too similar but also defamed for being different.
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Maybe they had a golden key?
Please, tell me more about how we should demand companies break their encryption systems so that "only police" will be given access to our private communications, documents, bank accounts, and other private sundries.
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Moar Screenz
Maybe theater owners should work with Netflix to screen high profile movies at their establishments at the same time they're available in homes. Unless they're worried that a big screen in a dark room with lots of seats doesn't add anything to the experience. You'd think that'd give them just the opportunity they want to prove that the silver screen is superior.
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Secret secrets are no fun
How is having a secret court any different than having a public court that no one is allowed to tell any one about?
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Re:
I was under the impression that before ALPRs they didn't manually run every set of plates which crossed their field of vision. It was too labor intensive, that's the attraction of automation. Which means that the driver would have had to do something to attract the attention of an officer in order to induce an inquiry. Now all a driver has to do is exist in certain physical space.
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Bad Apples
The unions going to bat so hard for these "bad apples" makes it seem like the bad apples are much more pervasive than they lead us to believe when an incident actually gets exposure. Shouldn't unions and diligent officers welcome this public oversight as a means to finally rid themselves of the stigma that they care more about themselves than the communities they police?
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