sporkie’s Comments

• Aug 6th, 2015 @ 10:58am

  (untitled comment)

  on Insanity Rules: NSA Apologists Actually Think Apple Protecting You & Your Data Could Be 'Material Support' For ISIS
  "In all these years, the FBI still can't come up with a single example where such encryption was a real problem."
  
  But can they think of 21 million+ recent examples of where the lack of encryption was an issue?
• Aug 21st, 2013 @ 1:48pm

  Cease and Desist notice

  on Unfortunate Ruling Says Changing Your IP Address Can Be 'Unauthorized Access' To A Public Website
  I see the C&D notice along the lines of an author telling someone that they are not welcome to read a copy of the author's book that is in a public library.
  
  Publishing a website is akin to seeding a torrent. By placing the site in public view, unrestricted access is implied.
• Feb 20th, 2013 @ 2:07pm

  Re:

  on RIAA Still Can't Figure Out How To Use Google's DMCA Tools, Blames Google
  How about a 6 strikes rule. Make 6 bogus DMCA take down requests and all of your subsequent requests are denied and the party receiving the request can sue you for time and expenses. Loss of internet access could be included.
• Feb 8th, 2013 @ 8:53am

  An interesting subject

  on Campaign Launched To Stop School From Claiming Copyright On Student Work
  The work for hire angle has some ugly implications - The public pays for the schools so work generated by the school is in effect property of the public.
  
  This should follow through for any public funded work; IE the public funds the court system through taxes, so all of the PACER documents are effectively works for hire, funded by the public.
• Feb 8th, 2013 @ 8:23am

  Please stop trying to debunk this story

  on Why Hasn't The Washington Post Admitted That It Totally Screwed Up Its 'Free Super WiFi' Report?
  and let the train wreck continue. Eventually the pressure will build up on this one to the point where something explodes. It will probably be someone from within the service provider industry having a complete meltdown over how this will end the universe as we now know it due to loss of revenue.
  
  If this allowed to run far enough, one of our congress critters will pick upon it and try to actually create some legislation. This could result in the start of a meaningful discussion on human rights and how unfettered access to information plays into that.
• Feb 7th, 2013 @ 9:51am

  Please let this law pass

  on Here's A Taste Of What Publishers Will Do If First Sale Rights For Foreign Goods Disappear
  and give the publishers exactly what they are asking for.
  
  Anything they would then purchase overseas would then not be resellable in the US by them or anyone else. Any product with any purchased overseas component would also not be resellable. This would kill Apple and every other hardware vendor immediately.
  
  Or will this restriction just apply to consumers and not to corporations?
• Oct 5th, 2012 @ 9:30am

  Re: Re: Copying IS like theft...

  on Why The MPAA Can't 'Win The Hearts And Minds' Of The Public: File Sharing Is Mainstream
  Partially quote == Douchebag at work.
  
  Full quote is:"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
  
  Could possibly parse "properly reward" as not exactly equal to "exclusive Right", but really?