md1500’s Comments

• Jan 23rd, 2012 @ 10:25am

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  on Dan Bull Raps About How Megaupload Takedown Screws Indie Artists Like Him
  Could Dan Bull sue for loss of sales?
  
  Megaupload removal is killing music!!!!
• Aug 23rd, 2011 @ 9:32pm

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  on Australian Government Considering Three Strikes; Consumers Not Considered Stakeholders
  And it appears that even with the R18 rating, Australia are refusing to classify games like House Of The Dead: Overkill.
  
  http://www.computerandvideogames.com/316672/house-of-the-dead-overkill-refused-classifi cation-in-australia/
• Aug 16th, 2011 @ 3:18pm

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  on Can't Stop Social Media-Driven UK Riots? Go After Social Media-Driven Water Gun Fights
  The UK seems to have taken leave of its senses at the moment.
• Aug 14th, 2011 @ 6:28am

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  on Spoiler Alert: People Enjoy Books More When They Know The Spoilers
  I don't mind spoilers, especially for TV shows. I used to be a Lost spoiler-junkie, because the show was so complicated - even when I read an episode outline, the way it was portrayed on screen was completely different.
  
  Oh, and Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense is dead.
• Aug 12th, 2011 @ 1:54pm

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  on China Gleefully Uses UK Desire For Censorship To Validate Its Own Censorship
  Also, similarly:
  
  Malaysia police use the London Riots as an excuse to use Tear Gas and Water Cannon against protesters.
  
  http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/international/malaysian-cop-uses-uk-riots-to-justify-c rackdown/458805
• Aug 11th, 2011 @ 6:18pm

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  on UK Prime Minister Wants To Ban Suspected Rioters From Facebook & Twitter
  “The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”
  
  -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Aug 1st, 2011 @ 6:33pm

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  on 20th Century Fox Claims 'Dice Age' Game Sounds Too Much Like Ice Age Movie
  A dicey situation.
• Aug 1st, 2011 @ 1:39pm

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  on Should ISPs Cut Off The Entertainment Industry For Pushing Them To Censor?
  I've always thought that whenever someone downloads a legal product, the entertainment industry should reward the ISPs by giving them a percentage of the profits.
• Jul 28th, 2011 @ 9:11pm

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  on UK Court Orders BT To Block Access To Usenet Site Hollywood Hates
  But what has this achieved?
  
  Because of this ruling, Newzbin was a trending Twitter topic today.
  
  Suddenly, far more people are aware of the website.
  The site isn't being blocked until October.
  
  They might as well put up a giant neon sign saying "GET YOUR FREE MOVIES AND MUSIC HERE!"
  
  Also, once the site is blocked, details of how to get round it will spread like Ryan Giggs' identity.
• Jul 28th, 2011 @ 11:13am

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  on UK Appeals Court Agrees That Clicking A Link And Opening A Website... Is Infringing
  Today is a very bad day for the open internet in the UK.
  Not just this, the Newzbin ruling too.
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/28/newzbin2-filesharing-verdict-industry-react ions
• Jul 27th, 2011 @ 7:27am

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  on Did The AP Claim Copyright On Public Domain NASA Pictures?
  The Daily Mail (like most of the UK establishment) is a bit behind the curve when it comes to tech issues.
  
  I mean, look at this article, published this year, where they wax lyrical about pictures that move. Yes, they've only just discovered the Animated GIF.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1380795/Cinemagraphs-Artists-develop-pictures -movement-stills-level.html
• Jul 26th, 2011 @ 5:26pm

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  on Music Industry Wants To Put 'Red Lights' In Google For Sites It Says Support Infringement
  Sigh. I heard this idea months ago - I can't believe the UK music industry still think that this is a) workable and b) a good idea.
  
  Typical backwards-looking UK music industry still hasn't realised that the web is worldwide.
  
  What's the point in spending millions implementing this ridiculous scheme on google.co.uk, if I can bypass the traffic lights entirely by acessing google in another country?
  
  Also, browser plug-ins like MAFIAAfire or Gee! No Evil would easily remove these changes.
• Jul 26th, 2011 @ 5:14pm

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  on Music Industry Wants To Put 'Red Lights' In Google For Sites It Says Support Infringement
  I wonder if they paid Google a copyright fee to use those images before they added trafic lights on them?
• Feb 16th, 2011 @ 11:47am

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  on Death Of Nokia's 'Comes With Music' Shows That 'Free' With DRM Is A Losing Proposition
  I guess this depends on your definition of free.
  
  Free music isn't truly free unless it's free from DRM as well.
• Feb 12th, 2011 @ 2:15am

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  on UK Gov't Admits That Protecting Big Record Labels More Important Than Getting Poor Online
  Some facts:
  
  The UK music industry is worth £3.9 Billion
  
  http://www.itproportal.com/2010/08/04/uk-music-industry-worth-39-billion/
  
  The UK internet industry is worth £100 billion.
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/28/net-worth-100bn-uk
  
  Crippling a £100 billion industry to save a £3.9 billion industry makes no sense whatsoever.
  
  Oh, and for those willing to argue that music is just a tiny part of the creative industries, well, even if you combined all the UK creative industries, that still only accounts for £60 billion a year.
  
  http://www.creativecoalitioncampaign.org.uk/
  
  (This fact is buried on this page in the "1. What is the DEA?" section.)
  
  Unless I'm bad at maths, that's still £40 billion less than what the Internet brings in.
• Nov 12th, 2010 @ 5:38am

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  on UK Gov't's Response To Petition Against Disconnections: We've Redefined Disconnection
  How about we start calling filesharing "temporary suspension of payment."?
• Nov 4th, 2010 @ 1:48am

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  on New Zealand's New Three Strikes Policy Avoids Being Called A Three Strikes Policy By Only Triggering It Later
  This sounds very similar to the UK's Digital Economy Act. Letters first, possibility of disconnection later if piracy isn't reduced.
  
  I've always wondered what a copyright infringing file is. For example - I download a Beatles MP3 - one file - one strike.
  
  But what if I download a RAR of a Beatles Album instead? Still only one file but decompresses into an album's worth of illegal MP3s. Would that still just be one strike?
  
  If so, you have the bizarre situation where pirates will be going after the many gig multi-album zip files instead of a single track. In other words, why waste a strike on a single track, when downloading an entire album gets the same penalty? Three strikes will ultimately encourage people to infringe more.
  
  Someone could be cut off for individually downloading three tracks from an album, whereas those that download the full album to begin with will still be on their first strike.
• Oct 21st, 2010 @ 9:51pm

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  on Creative Commons' Branding Confusion
  Wrong URL. I meant www.kopimi.com
• Oct 21st, 2010 @ 9:49pm

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  on Creative Commons' Branding Confusion
  What about the Kopimi logo as invented by The Pirate Bay? Looks like a K in a triangle. www.kopimi.se
• Oct 20th, 2010 @ 11:35am

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  on English Heritage Organization Claiming It Holds Effective Copyright On Any And All Photos Of Stonehenge
  What will this mean for Spinal Tap?

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