Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 Aug 2019 @ 4:26pm
Re: Re: Lack of integrity
MLB claims copyright over every broadcast made by news outlets, even though they weren't the ones taking the pictures. That might be in the agreement where the allow the broadcasters to record the games, I'm not sure.
But they have claimed the monetary value of Jomboy's videos because the original video which Jomboy edits and enhances, is theirs, and MLB won even when fair use was claimed. Now whether that is right or not, it is. But it also shows that because it is the control of the copyright that caused that shift in monetary value and the failure of the fair use claim makes it about copyright.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 Aug 2019 @ 11:48am
I'm speaking for them, so listen, but I didn't get permission.
"The state's harassment law says a crime is committed if anyone "intentionally harasses or annoys another person" via lines of communication (phones, email addresses) they've been "forbidden" to use."
My reading of the article says that State Rep. Greg Smith was the one asking the paper not to contact employees on their personal email accounts. I did not see anything about individual employees asking the paper to not contact them on their personal email accounts. Does State Rep. Greg Smith think he can speak for and forbid the paper from contacting employees on their personal email accounts? If I was an employee, I might have strong objections to having State Rep. Greg Smith speaking on my behalf without my express permission.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 21 Aug 2019 @ 3:51pm
Re: Re: Re: translation request
If a company has to pay to clean up after itself, and they make a concerted effort to not make a mess, to avoid the cost of cleanup, then they have accomplished some 'social responsibility' stuff.
If you mean satisfying some unduly passionate spasm of the week, there may or may not be any economic value in that, especially when next weeks spasm might cause courses to be reversed, wasting money.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 21 Aug 2019 @ 3:17pm
Blame goes anywhere but here
Dear Mr Barr and McSwain,
"Frequently, these candidates ambush an incumbent DA in the primary with misleading campaigns and large infusions of money from outside groups."
So you admit that there is fraud in our election system. What are you doing about that?
In addition, for all the complaining, Krasner was in fact elected, and while I do not follow Philladelphia politics (at all) I would be very surprised if those that voted for him did not know his character and understand his intent when in office.
"And when they do deign to charge a criminal suspect, they are frequently seeking sentences that are pathetically lenient. So these cities are headed back to the days of revolving door justice."
40 some years of the failing and maybe failed 'war on drugs' with significant incarceration being a big part of that effort, what improvement has there been? The whole 'flogging will continue until morale improves' methodology has not shown any positive results.
I would suggest legalization and control along with rehabilitation and counseling as alternatives, but I don't think we could stomach the rhetoric you would spew in response.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 21 Aug 2019 @ 2:50pm
Computer Trading
They are going to need to write a whole bunch of new algorithms for all those computers that trade on nano second reactions. While computer trading did not cause or even start this phenomenon, they sure are likely making it worse. And those new algorithms will not be easy to write, as there is a certain amount of human cognition in the decisions, and there will likely be a variety of strategies in play that will be difficult to quantify. At the same time, there will be a certain amount of secrecy (aka trade secrets) involved in those decisions as no one wants their strategies to be copied.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 20 Aug 2019 @ 6:23pm
I wonder who paid for law school?
"“The logos that each party uses on their respective law firm websites, the name GEORGE SINK is more prominent than the auxiliary words,” writes Norton.""
Well, that looks like a solution, make the auxiliary words and logo more prominent, but I bet the other wouldn't let that pass.
On the other hand, one has to wonder which of the two George Sinks rues the legal name of the son more? Of course, senior is to blame, but junior has to live with it, ...erm...I should say they both have to live with it.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 20 Aug 2019 @ 11:06am
Re: Re: Re:
Sorry, you are correct. At the same time the claim was made falsely under penalty of perjury, which hasn't had much traction even though fairly easy to prove. It's simple, if the entity making the claim doesn't own the copyright or have a contract authorizing them to act for the copyright holder, then it is perjury.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 20 Aug 2019 @ 10:34am
Re:
Didn't the enacted law from the EU require each country to implement a local law in conjunction with this edict? If a country doesn't make such a local law, do they get kicked out of the union? If Poland is successful in this endeavor would that invalidate any local laws that have been implemented?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 20 Aug 2019 @ 10:18am
The philosophical emanations of corrupted power mongers
Barr: Do as I say, not as I do. We have the power and we will execute the power and no power on earth can effect our ability to do so.
Congress (or what they should say): Stand down Barr, or be in contempt of Congress, and we might consider impeaching your boss more seriously. At the very least we could revoke your confirmation.
Barr: But I was only talking to my buddies in law enforcement.
Congress: No man is an island, and your communication was not in private. While we like power too, the peons are getting upset.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 Aug 2019 @ 1:47pm
We dug the hole, but got no dirt
Why isn't the question...why? If they were losing that much money, there seems to be little opportunity to make the payoff. If they were skimming off the monthly fees, and adding that to their $40 million a month of losses, the actual money to purchase tickets had to come from someplace. Were investors still pouring money in? Ponzi doesn't even seem to work.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 16 Aug 2019 @ 7:32am
Re: Regulatory Capture
We should expect government, even bureaucrats, to do their jobs. The problem is that politicians, and bureaucrats, have been working at reducing expectations for many years, so much so that expectations are not only at a historic low, and trending down, but every time there is some hope for a bottom, someone does something because there is a need to do something about something and the bottom falls away. Again.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Aug 2019 @ 6:01pm
Re: Re: Bring back civil rights investigations
Do you understand the uses of punctuation? Paragraphs? Sentences? How about logic? Coherent thought? Principles of expressing yourself?
Now, it is difficult to ken what you are saying, but if I do, then what you are suggesting would be a violation of the law. Holding those in charge accountable isn't necessarily a bad thing, but shooting them isn't gonna get the rule of law back on track.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Aug 2019 @ 4:27pm
Re: “Bad apples”?
The problem is that the 'good' apples don't rat out the 'bad' apples.
If we were really talking about apples, then it wouldn't be realistic. But we are talking about people. People with a certain job. The 'bad' apples probably stand out as being bad apples. The question remains, why don't the 'good' apples let significant authorities know about the 'bad' apples? The answer likely, but not conclusively, lies in the probable retribution, either from those in authority (who may or may not be 'bad' apples themselves but are just trying to protect those that serve under them, so long as they don't make waves, so to speak) or from the 'bad' apples themselves.
Getting home for dinner has more connotations than when the shoot first, ask questions later crowd approach an unarmed, unresistant 'suspect' whom has not been convicted of anything but doesn't comply with an illegal order from those in authority, or who think they are 'the authoritay'.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Aug 2019 @ 1:29pm
Re: Re: Bring back civil rights investigations
Ask Barr, the quote is his.
But for my mind, the Constitution would be enforced with no exceptions, 100 miles of the border or not, and all searches would require probable cause and warrants, no fishing expeditions.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Aug 2019 @ 12:52pm
Bring back civil rights investigations
"Whenever there is a confrontation involving the use of force by police, they automatically start screaming for the officers’ scalps, regardless of the facts."
Including, or maybe even especially when the cops are in the wrong, see qualified immunity and good faith exceptions, two examples of court made up pro police rules. (They aren't actually law as Congress hasn't acted on them, to their eternal shame).
"We need to get back to basics. We need public voices, in the media and elsewhere, to underscore the need to “Comply first, and, if warranted, complain later.” This will make everyone safe – the police, suspects, and the community at large."
The military knows that one shouldn't follow illegal orders, cops (and apparently Barr) just don't care.
When the governments (the various federal, state, municipal) start to take their responsibilities seriously, I think they might find the populace going along with them, after sufficient action by them to control their watch dogs, and some time for that to sink in (that is if they are actually serious about it).
On the post: Why Is MLB Claiming Revenue From Obviously Fair Use Videos On YouTube?
Re: Re: Lack of integrity
MLB claims copyright over every broadcast made by news outlets, even though they weren't the ones taking the pictures. That might be in the agreement where the allow the broadcasters to record the games, I'm not sure.
But they have claimed the monetary value of Jomboy's videos because the original video which Jomboy edits and enhances, is theirs, and MLB won even when fair use was claimed. Now whether that is right or not, it is. But it also shows that because it is the control of the copyright that caused that shift in monetary value and the failure of the fair use claim makes it about copyright.
On the post: Why Is MLB Claiming Revenue From Obviously Fair Use Videos On YouTube?
Lack of integrity
Because they can, and to date there is nothing to stop them.
Copyright is about control, when in the hands of big companies. Copyright is supposed to be about rewarding creators.
On the post: State Rep Tries To Bring Criminal Harassment Charges Against Journalists For Being Journalists
I'm speaking for them, so listen, but I didn't get permission.
My reading of the article says that State Rep. Greg Smith was the one asking the paper not to contact employees on their personal email accounts. I did not see anything about individual employees asking the paper to not contact them on their personal email accounts. Does State Rep. Greg Smith think he can speak for and forbid the paper from contacting employees on their personal email accounts? If I was an employee, I might have strong objections to having State Rep. Greg Smith speaking on my behalf without my express permission.
On the post: Potentially Big News: Top CEOs Realizing That 'Maximizing Shareholder Value' Isn't A Great Idea
Re: Re: Re: translation request
If a company has to pay to clean up after itself, and they make a concerted effort to not make a mess, to avoid the cost of cleanup, then they have accomplished some 'social responsibility' stuff.
If you mean satisfying some unduly passionate spasm of the week, there may or may not be any economic value in that, especially when next weeks spasm might cause courses to be reversed, wasting money.
On the post: Potentially Big News: Top CEOs Realizing That 'Maximizing Shareholder Value' Isn't A Great Idea
Re: translation request
Short term profit hunting not necessarily good.
Long term thinking about total results over say a 10 or 20 year plan might be better, depending on the plan.
On the post: Federal Prosecutor Blames Philadelphia DA For Shootout That Wounded Six Philly PD Officers
Blame goes anywhere but here
Dear Mr Barr and McSwain,
So you admit that there is fraud in our election system. What are you doing about that?
In addition, for all the complaining, Krasner was in fact elected, and while I do not follow Philladelphia politics (at all) I would be very surprised if those that voted for him did not know his character and understand his intent when in office.
40 some years of the failing and maybe failed 'war on drugs' with significant incarceration being a big part of that effort, what improvement has there been? The whole 'flogging will continue until morale improves' methodology has not shown any positive results.
I would suggest legalization and control along with rehabilitation and counseling as alternatives, but I don't think we could stomach the rhetoric you would spew in response.
Sincerely,
Actual adults
On the post: Potentially Big News: Top CEOs Realizing That 'Maximizing Shareholder Value' Isn't A Great Idea
Computer Trading
They are going to need to write a whole bunch of new algorithms for all those computers that trade on nano second reactions. While computer trading did not cause or even start this phenomenon, they sure are likely making it worse. And those new algorithms will not be easy to write, as there is a certain amount of human cognition in the decisions, and there will likely be a variety of strategies in play that will be difficult to quantify. At the same time, there will be a certain amount of secrecy (aka trade secrets) involved in those decisions as no one wants their strategies to be copied.
On the post: Intra-Family Trademark Violence: SR Sues JR For Using His Own Name In Law Firm Marketing
I wonder who paid for law school?
Well, that looks like a solution, make the auxiliary words and logo more prominent, but I bet the other wouldn't let that pass.
On the other hand, one has to wonder which of the two George Sinks rues the legal name of the son more? Of course, senior is to blame, but junior has to live with it, ...erm...I should say they both have to live with it.
On the post: YouTube Sues Guy Who Tried To Extort People Through Bogus DMCA Takedowns
Re: Re: Re:
Sorry, you are correct. At the same time the claim was made falsely under penalty of perjury, which hasn't had much traction even though fairly easy to prove. It's simple, if the entity making the claim doesn't own the copyright or have a contract authorizing them to act for the copyright holder, then it is perjury.
On the post: It's On: Details Emerge Of Polish Government's Formal Request For Top EU Court To Throw Out Upload Filters
Re:
Didn't the enacted law from the EU require each country to implement a local law in conjunction with this edict? If a country doesn't make such a local law, do they get kicked out of the union? If Poland is successful in this endeavor would that invalidate any local laws that have been implemented?
On the post: YouTube Sues Guy Who Tried To Extort People Through Bogus DMCA Takedowns
Re:
I'm no lawyer, but so far as I know the penalty for perjury isn't monetary, it's jail time.
On the post: The Attorney General Who Doesn't Respect Or Comply With His Oversight Wants Citizens To Respect And Comply With Cops
The philosophical emanations of corrupted power mongers
Barr: Do as I say, not as I do. We have the power and we will execute the power and no power on earth can effect our ability to do so.
Congress (or what they should say): Stand down Barr, or be in contempt of Congress, and we might consider impeaching your boss more seriously. At the very least we could revoke your confirmation.
Barr: But I was only talking to my buddies in law enforcement.
Congress: No man is an island, and your communication was not in private. While we like power too, the peons are getting upset.
On the post: Moviepass Changed User Passwords So They Couldn't Use The Flopping Service
We dug the hole, but got no dirt
Why isn't the question...why? If they were losing that much money, there seems to be little opportunity to make the payoff. If they were skimming off the monthly fees, and adding that to their $40 million a month of losses, the actual money to purchase tickets had to come from someplace. Were investors still pouring money in? Ponzi doesn't even seem to work.
On the post: FCC Forgets About, Then Dismisses, Complaint Detailing Verizon's Long History Of Net Neutrality Violations
Re: Regulatory Capture
We should expect government, even bureaucrats, to do their jobs. The problem is that politicians, and bureaucrats, have been working at reducing expectations for many years, so much so that expectations are not only at a historic low, and trending down, but every time there is some hope for a bottom, someone does something because there is a need to do something about something and the bottom falls away. Again.
On the post: Attorney General William Barr Declares War On The General Public
Re: Re: Bring back civil rights investigations
Do you understand the uses of punctuation? Paragraphs? Sentences? How about logic? Coherent thought? Principles of expressing yourself?
Now, it is difficult to ken what you are saying, but if I do, then what you are suggesting would be a violation of the law. Holding those in charge accountable isn't necessarily a bad thing, but shooting them isn't gonna get the rule of law back on track.
On the post: Nintendo Hates You: Company DMCAs Over 100 Videos Celebrating Nintendo Game Music
Something Nintendo wants to hear.
What's a Nintendo?
On the post: Attorney General William Barr Declares War On The General Public
Re: “Bad apples”?
The problem is that the 'good' apples don't rat out the 'bad' apples.
If we were really talking about apples, then it wouldn't be realistic. But we are talking about people. People with a certain job. The 'bad' apples probably stand out as being bad apples. The question remains, why don't the 'good' apples let significant authorities know about the 'bad' apples? The answer likely, but not conclusively, lies in the probable retribution, either from those in authority (who may or may not be 'bad' apples themselves but are just trying to protect those that serve under them, so long as they don't make waves, so to speak) or from the 'bad' apples themselves.
Getting home for dinner has more connotations than when the shoot first, ask questions later crowd approach an unarmed, unresistant 'suspect' whom has not been convicted of anything but doesn't comply with an illegal order from those in authority, or who think they are 'the authoritay'.
On the post: Attorney General William Barr Declares War On The General Public
Re: Re: Bring back civil rights investigations
Here is another take on that quote:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/08/15/hold-bill-barr-to-his-comply-first-complain-later-stanc e-on-congressional-oversight/
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Re: Re: Bring back civil rights investigations
Ask Barr, the quote is his.
But for my mind, the Constitution would be enforced with no exceptions, 100 miles of the border or not, and all searches would require probable cause and warrants, no fishing expeditions.
On the post: Attorney General William Barr Declares War On The General Public
Bring back civil rights investigations
Including, or maybe even especially when the cops are in the wrong, see qualified immunity and good faith exceptions, two examples of court made up pro police rules. (They aren't actually law as Congress hasn't acted on them, to their eternal shame).
The military knows that one shouldn't follow illegal orders, cops (and apparently Barr) just don't care.
When the governments (the various federal, state, municipal) start to take their responsibilities seriously, I think they might find the populace going along with them, after sufficient action by them to control their watch dogs, and some time for that to sink in (that is if they are actually serious about it).
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