John Alvarado’s Comments

• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 5:17pm

  Cycling "App Store" name

  on Apple Goes After Open Source Startup For Daring To Use The Term 'App Store'
  I just went and voted for "Applet Store", and I noticed the tab for Amahi's store is cycling through the suggested names when the page refreshes. Nice.
• Mar 6th, 2011 @ 1:09pm

  Great summary

  on ChurchHatesTucker's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
  I really enjoyed your summary of favorite posts. Well done!
• Dec 13th, 2010 @ 12:53pm

  It is what it is, and I love it!

  on Copyheart: Encouraging People To Copy
  Copyheart does not preclude a publisher from seeking an explicit license from the author before using the work. It doesn't have to be a solution to everyone's problem to be useful.
  
  Any time you copy, you accept some level of risk (even with a signed 40-page legal document). How much risk you can tolerate dictates the kind of license you need. Copyheart lowers the risk sufficiently for most people who would like to copy for personal use and sharing with friends.
  
  It is not, as some critics have declared, useless (unless you don't use it), confusing (unless you are an IP lawyer), or insulting (unless you woke up feeling intellectually snobby this morning).
  
  I♥Copyheart.
• Nov 11th, 2010 @ 2:39pm

  Cyber vs. On-line

  on Time To Stop Being So Fascinated With The Cyber- Part Of Cybercrime
  It seems "cyber" is used mainly when the activity is considered nefarious or immoral, such as cyber-crime, cyber-sex or cyber-stalking. People don't say I'm cyber-shopping, cyber-gaming or cyber-dating. They say on-line shopping, online-gaming and online-dating.
  
  Is it just the sinister/sexy sound of the sibilant first syllable that recommends that usage?
• Nov 11th, 2010 @ 2:36pm

  Cyber vs. On-line

  on Time To Stop Being So Fascinated With The Cyber- Part Of Cybercrime
  It seems "cyber" is used mainly when the activity is considered nefarious or immoral, such as cyber-crime, cyber-sex or cyber-stalking. People don't say I'm cyber-shopping, cyber-gaming or cyber-dating. They say on-line shopping, online-gaming and online-dating.
  
  Is it just the sinister/sexy sound of the sibilant first syllable that recommends that usage?
• Sep 16th, 2010 @ 3:09pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nah. Copyright!=censorship

  on The Cycle Of Copyright: Originally A Tool For Censorship, Attempted As A Tool For Incentives... Back To A Tool For Censorship
  Analogizing non-destructive copying to physical violence against women is nonsensical and trollishly inflammatory. In the rape case, property and liberty are clearly violated. Copying of non-scarce goods, making them even less scarce, is nothing like rape. Please drop this puerile argument and come up with facts and reasoning that relate to the subject.
• Aug 18th, 2010 @ 3:43pm

  Re: The mall is *not* private property; it's a place of business.

  on Court Tells Mall That It Cannot Ban Customers From Talking To Strangers
  Bad policies are self-limiting in that they reduce patronage. A rule that puts patrons off will NOT be adopted by all other businesses, as you conjecture, because avoiding such policies creates a competitive advantage. People will tend to frequent the malls/stores that DON'T have the bad policies. That's how competition in a free market works. Government need not and should not be involved.
• Aug 18th, 2010 @ 11:19am

  Lame

  on Chair Designer Sues Disney Over Chair Used In Alice In Wonderland Movie
  It's not like Disney is now manufacturing and selling these chairs. They are not competing with him! I deal with this issue in video games too--can't use names and likenesses of real world weapons in a shooter game. It's stupid.
  
  The chair doesn't even look like his chairs:
  http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/107927161/CASINO_CHAIR/showimage.html
  
  The guy is just a bottom-feeder looking to get a payoff to go away.