"We are pleased to once again have a direct relationship with Redbox, providing their consumers access to our movies,"
their consumers? One should think they're Warners consumers too. Given these words, I don't think Warner Truely supports this deal. Oh, and ultraviolet is a piece of crap not worthy of our attention.
Well, I got a night's sleep to think about it, and decided to delete my flickr account. Flickr deserves to lose users over this. I'll find me a nice swedish photowebsite, they'll know what to do with a bogus DMCA takedown
I have a Flickr account which I use to for my own photos and this story has certainly convinced me to never get a pro account. If they don't bother to defend their customers, why the hell should I pay them?
It means that the Dutch justice system doesn't award special damages to the aggrieved party. So gettings sued over copyright infringement (which rarely happens) doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
But in all fairness, my remark is a bit crude. What annoys me most is that the people and entrepeneurs in America were a driving force behind this great thing called the internet, but now it's litigated into oblivion. This, combined with the attitude against foreign nations doesn't make them very popular.
I already speak German, but that's besides the point. And the Netherlands was liberated by the Canadians. Yes the Americans played a role in fighting Nazi Germany, but that was almost 70 years ago.
In recent years the only notable achievement was pissing of the world...
I live near Amsterdam and have half a mind to take an axe to the atlantic sea cable. Let the US have their own little censored internet. We'll do just fine without you
But still, the idea of the Pham Award intrigues me. Maybe we should hold a poll amongst the techdirt readers to come up with the ten worst patents in the news or courts this year and file for re-examination. Should be interesting.
to be honest, at this point they're just jumping on the bandwagon. As for lacking patents, I think Apple won that award with the rounded curves on their ipad.
Wow, I never thought i'd see the day technocide was going to be real. This amount of ignorance and stupidity could've been funny if it weren't so depressing...
I have a couple of WB movies with the "free digital copy insde" And in my experience they do not deserve points for trying, because they're not.
It's so horribly bad and broken I gave up using this crap. The download is slow, the website used for registering is user-unfriendly, and (my personal favourite) once you download the file, the DRM system prohibits you from moving the file to another directory or disk.
I wonder: didn't someone at WB download a torrent from a movie to see what the appeal was?
Reading this makes me want to take the internet away from the US, like a little boy who can't play normally with his toy. Apparantly some people can't have nice things.
Well, there's the carte blanche (or the little tale about how they can sue anyone for everything) the entertainment industry always wanted. Let's just hope ACTA gets shot down.
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their consumers? One should think they're Warners consumers too. Given these words, I don't think Warner Truely supports this deal. Oh, and ultraviolet is a piece of crap not worthy of our attention.
Appeal
Re: Collateral damage
Re: Patented takedown procedure
Re: Re: Collateral damage
Collateral damage
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But, point taken...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: time to put a stop to this
But in all fairness, my remark is a bit crude. What annoys me most is that the people and entrepeneurs in America were a driving force behind this great thing called the internet, but now it's litigated into oblivion. This, combined with the attitude against foreign nations doesn't make them very popular.
Re: Re: Re: time to put a stop to this
In recent years the only notable achievement was pissing of the world...
Re: time to put a stop to this
Pham Award
Bandwagon
wow...
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seems fitting somehow...
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It's so horribly bad and broken I gave up using this crap. The download is slow, the website used for registering is user-unfriendly, and (my personal favourite) once you download the file, the DRM system prohibits you from moving the file to another directory or disk.
I wonder: didn't someone at WB download a torrent from a movie to see what the appeal was?
can't have nice things
Carte Blanche
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*for instance: downloading music and movies for personal and/or study use is legally allowed
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