Joe’s Comments

• Oct 20th, 2011 @ 5:07am

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  on Actress Sues Amazon Because Her Age Appeared On Her IMDB Profile
  Or pay taxes?
• Oct 20th, 2011 @ 5:05am

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  on Actress Sues Amazon Because Her Age Appeared On Her IMDB Profile
  So the police got her credit card information?
• Sep 4th, 2011 @ 7:19am

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  on Professor Behind Two Chatbots Chatting Discusses What Happened
  No, but if you don't like Mike's coverage of something, go start your own blog. It's rather "Tardian" of you to come here and complain because you don't like what he's covering.
• Apr 14th, 2011 @ 4:39am

  (untitled comment)

  on Is It Infringement To Get Your Favorite Sports Team Logo Tattooed On Your Body?
  I wonder if they could sue a hooker with a team tat...they could argue that it was used in commerce.
• Apr 13th, 2011 @ 5:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This site is just out of touch.

  on Revisiting The Question Of Who Deserves Copyright
  You have my permission to copy my money to your heart's content. ;)
• Apr 13th, 2011 @ 5:42pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This site is just out of touch.

  on Revisiting The Question Of Who Deserves Copyright
  No, piracy is saying "I deserve to be able to rob those people on that ship." I think you meant to say "[C]opyright infringement is saying.."
• Apr 13th, 2011 @ 6:49am

  Re: Re: Drop but not dismiss

  on Righthaven Dismisses Lawsuit After Judge Slams Its Business Model
  Naw, let em stay. The do provide comic relief. ;)
• Apr 13th, 2011 @ 6:47am

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  on Righthaven Dismisses Lawsuit After Judge Slams Its Business Model
  I don't think it ever showed up in the first place.
• Apr 13th, 2011 @ 6:46am

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  on Righthaven Dismisses Lawsuit After Judge Slams Its Business Model
  We'll wait on you. Hope it goes well.
• Apr 13th, 2011 @ 6:23am

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  on Dumbest Lawsuit Ever? HuffPo Sued By Bloggers Who Agreed To Work For Free... But Now Claim They Were Slaves
  Then stop doing it for free since you're a part of AOL. You're not retroactively entitled to anything for doing what you agreed to do at the price you agreed to do it for. I'm not sure why you would even think you would be.
• Apr 7th, 2011 @ 4:43pm

  Re: Devil's advocate

  on Is Tethering Stealing Bandwidth?
  Theft is a criminal offense. The most that this is would be a violation of TOS, which is NOT a criminal offense. Finite and infinite don't matter because if I have unlimited bandwidth, then it's unlimited; there's no way for me to take more bandwidth than I paid for. Since I paid for it, there cannot be any theft.
• Apr 6th, 2011 @ 8:10pm

  Re: Maybe not so dumb

  on Which Would You Rather Have: 100,000 Unauthorized Downloads Of Your Music... Or None?
  To me, it screams of a band getting called out on their excuse for not 'making it big.' Rather than simply admit, "No, we're not selling any music because we suck," they opted to blame the boogeyman for it. Things would have been fine, except someone poked around and found out the boogeyman didn't even know who these guys were.
• Apr 6th, 2011 @ 7:59pm

  Re: Sort of a lame question

  on Which Would You Rather Have: 100,000 Unauthorized Downloads Of Your Music... Or None?
  "Now the stock answer from the TechDirt echo chamber is: gosh, I want to be pirated because I know that somehow, some way other money will finds its way into my pocket."
  
  As opposed to selling something to nobody and no money finding it's way into your pocket?
  
  If you think that point of this article was that you can't succeed without be being pirated or only those who are pirated can succeed, then you need to stop, take a break and try rereading it. (SPOILER: It's not.)
• Mar 29th, 2011 @ 5:59pm

  Re: 40 Mill!

  on The Emperor's New Paywall
  "I knew the paywall was misguided, but they spent that much on it? OMG. I'm a web developer, and I could have set up something that doesn't work for MUCH less than that!"
  
  Hell, I could set up something that is easier to get around and cost MORE. If they're willing to pay $40 million for what they got, I'm sure I could sell them a paywall (for about $50 million or so) that turns itself off.
• Mar 29th, 2011 @ 5:19pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Did Limewire Shutdown Increase Music Sales?
  Am I the only one wondering who Taylor Swift is?
• Mar 29th, 2011 @ 9:34am

  Re: Forget the phones, ban the lawyers!

  on Federal Courts Afraid Your Smartphone Might Be A Bomb
  I once pirated a rectum so bad, a lawyer had to get a real job?
  
  Maybe I'm in the wrong article...
• Mar 29th, 2011 @ 6:06am

  (untitled comment)

  on The Great Language Landgrab... A Result Of Misunderstanding Trademark Law
  Mike, once again you've missed the point. Trademarking descriptive words and phrases has everything to do with preventing consumer confusion. The fewer companies that consumers have to choose from, the less confusion consumers will have. Really, these companies are doing the consumers a great service by winnowing down the choices they have to worry about. Less choices are really what people want.
  
  ;)
• Mar 29th, 2011 @ 4:19am

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  on Broadcasters To Sue Time Warner Cable For Making It Easier For People To See Their Shows & Ads
  You should have followed the doc's advice and gotten that rabies shot.
• Mar 29th, 2011 @ 4:12am

  Re: A better question

  on Good Question: How The Hell Did The NYT Spend $40 Million On That Paywall?
  "First, it was dumb of the nytimes to make a dollar figure public. They should have recognized it would open them to ridicule."
  
  I tend to agree with you, but the execs probably thought the amount would show their "seriousness" about it or something like that.
• Mar 29th, 2011 @ 4:10am

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  on Good Question: How The Hell Did The NYT Spend $40 Million On That Paywall?
  Scope tsunami is more like it.

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