kamjam’s Comments

• Mar 23rd, 2012 @ 4:48am

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  on Fox TV Finally Realizes The Internet Is Global: Launches Show Around The Globe Simultaneously
  A real annoyance of mine and no doubt countless other users is when I follow a show or person or something on Facebook and they post a message saying so and so did an internet, check out this clip of the show, remember this scene etc etc. I click on it and boom "sorry, this video has been disabled for your geographical region". What a bunch on douches, seriously, you have users all over the world, cater for it, not difficult!
• Feb 27th, 2012 @ 8:36am

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  on Director Alex Cox ('Repo Man') Says 'Pirate My Stuff'
  "...you've got a disgruntled former employee telling people to shoplift the hell out of the store"
  
  FYI, stealing and piracy are very separate things. Piracy involves no theft of physical goods, unlike shoplifting.
  
  Looks like the MAFIAA spin doctors have got to you good and proper Tim.
• Feb 27th, 2012 @ 8:31am

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  on Indiana Court Says Anonymous Commenters Deserve High Standard Before Being Exposed, But Aren't Necessarily Protected By Shield Laws
  I reserve my Second Amendment right to bear-arms.
  
  http://technipol.tumblr.com/post/2874977984/family-guy-the-right-to-bear-arms
  
  ...as suming you weren't referencing this in the first place! :)
• Feb 22nd, 2012 @ 9:08am

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  on European Commission Suggests ACTA's Opponents Don't Have 'Democratic Intentions'
  This suggests that the European Commission is completely out of touch with the people it supposedly serves, and still doesn't understand the growing anger that its arrogant approach and condescending tone continues to generate on the streets.
  
  Of course they understand, it's just they're paid off to turn a blind eye. Otherwise no one can be that stupid... i hope...
• Feb 21st, 2012 @ 8:04am

  Re: Moronic copyright deals.

  on Canadian Universities Agree To Ridiculous Copyright Agreement That Says Emailing Hyperlinks Is Equal To Photocopying
  It's pretty simple. Don't be Canadian, and if you are, stay the fuck in Canada, and don't come to the US. Ever.
  
  Yeah, and every other country in the world is (and has been) saying the same about the US - Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Iran... to name a few.
  
  Dumbass.
• Feb 14th, 2012 @ 4:26am

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  on Sky News Tells Reporters Not To Use Twitter To Break News Without Permission
  It is their business, let them conduct it as they see fit. If you feel they aren't giving you value for your money, don't buy their product.
  
  In the UK, we have to pay a license fee, all of which goes to the BBC. Now if the BBC have also followed suit then we are not getting our monies worth and we cannot exactly not buy the product, since we are forced to pay this.
  
  Personally, I don't watch any Sky channels, and normally turn to BBC news channel for proper news.
• Jan 27th, 2012 @ 9:42am

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  on UK Court Says You Can Copyright The Basic Idea Of A Photograph
  Read the comments, much more insightful than the journalism around this article...
  
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3508615
  
  pbhjpbhj: "An analogue might be recreating Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans with the cans marginally rotated, basing the piece on the original work (trademark issues aside). Now I'd like to say that I think that piece actually would be a valid new work - and have quite a lot of substance - but nonetheless it would be derivative of the original beyond mere inspiration IMO."
• Jan 27th, 2012 @ 9:26am

  Re: (as Kam)

  on UK Court Says You Can Copyright The Basic Idea Of A Photograph
  I read this yesterday somewhere as well, may have been a link off HackerNews.
  
  Anyway... the main story is not exactly as it has been reported here. The company that got taken to court sell smoe sort of tea and they had the first picture on there box. They then decided they didn't want to pay the photographer any money so they had a similar shot taken and used that thinking they could get away with it. The judge decided that since they had expressly gone out and take a similar shot for this purpose then they were in breach... I'll see if I can dig out the article since someone else made a comment and explained it much better than me :)