Manok’s Comments

• Oct 2nd, 2012 @ 4:16am

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  on Why It Could Make Sense To Get Rid Of Patents Entirely, Even If They Work In A Few Cases
  The mightiest country in the world has no industries left, but has this golden opportunity to forcefully push patents into being more valuable than the production and sales of the physical products themselves. Patents cover virtually everything, so no-one could ever make something without paying handsomely to patent owners, which mainly are U.S. companies and trolls.
  
  Why the hell would they want to abolish that?
• Sep 27th, 2012 @ 10:09pm

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  on DRAM Patent Holder Rambus Called Out (Again) For Shredding Evidence
  Despite all this, SK Hynix is still on the hook for royalties.
  
  Well, it's also a case of a U.S. company against a Korean company. Like Apple vs Samsung. It seems a bit that U.S. companies are a bit favored in (U.S.) court. It'll probably would go another way in Korean or Chinese court.
• Sep 25th, 2012 @ 5:51am

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  on NZ Prime Minister Admits That The Government Illegally Wiretapped Megaupload Employees
  Doing something that is illegal in one country, but doing it from another country through a company in a third country, while being a citizen of a fourth.
  
  That's why the new MegaUpload is going to remove some of this confusion, and dis-allow 'merkans from using the service.
• Sep 22nd, 2012 @ 6:05am

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  on When Even Hilarious Web Comic Artists Are Mocking The Insanity Of The Patent System...
  But we HAVE common sense around the patent system. It's only that common sense is not important. Big business, big money, and the politicians being able to have another 4-year run is and will always be the driving force.
• Sep 14th, 2012 @ 3:34am

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  on Feeling Threatened By Online Grocery Store, Apple Challenges Polish Site A.pl
  But when Apple was small, and they did not have any music business, they were sued over the Apple name by the Beatles. The agreement made was that Apple was allowed to use the name, but could not enter the music business. They did anyway, but they were so big by that time that, well, who could stop them?
• Sep 13th, 2012 @ 10:20am

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  on Hollywood Lobbyist Hasn't Seen The TPP Text, Cannot Read The TPP Text, But Knows What's In The TPP Text?
  But... how can he be lobbying for something that he is not allowed to see? Then every argument he presents during a meeting can be countered with the question "but how do you know whether that is true?", and he can't answer that.
  
  So why even entertain such a lobbyist? For the free lunch?
• Sep 13th, 2012 @ 8:29am

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  on First HADOPI Victim Convicted, Not For His Own Infringement, But Because His Wife Downloaded Songs
  Well, with all the blabla about Hadopi, the fine is a relatively very reasonable one. Not the U.S. "standard" of $22,000 per song...
• Sep 12th, 2012 @ 9:21am

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  on Google's Autocomplete Dilemma: Every Concession Makes It Easier For The Next Person To Complain
  Why censoring on autocomplete yes, and search results (which are (were) the same) no?
  
  Then if Google were to remove this autocomplete feature altogether, will the complaints redirect to the search results themselves?
  
  And if Google removes this feature, wouldn't we get simply a bunch of FireFox plugins which will do this autocomplete stuff for us, directly from pounding the search results?
• Sep 12th, 2012 @ 5:50am

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  on Barnes & Noble Claims That Public User Names Are Private Info; Refuses To Restore Blog With Comments
  Same thing seems to have happened to a blog called TechDirt. Most of the commenters are all of a sudden called "Anonymous Coward".
• Sep 7th, 2012 @ 9:41am

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  on Far Beyond Filtering: Is The GOP Looking To Shut Down Porn Producers?
  There can be such an easier way to kill porn instantly, without all these difficult internet laws. Just raise the minimum age that the actors/models must have from 18 to 65...
• Sep 6th, 2012 @ 9:06am

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  on Ubisoft Learns Hitting Customers Over The Head And Calling Them Thieves Is Not Good Policy
  > "I don't believe that every single pirated copy is a lost sale. In some cases I'm sure it's just someone trying out a game. At some level, you can almost look at it as a demo program. So as far as many of those could've been sales? I'm not sure."
  
  That sounds horribly weak. Like "yeah, very perhaps once in a blue moon there might be a pirated copy that is not a missed sale."
  
  Zachary has to bend that statement a lot to turn it into "Specifically, that not all people pirating a game are doing so just to get free stuff and that not all pirated copies are a lost sale.".
• Sep 6th, 2012 @ 4:03am

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  on Japan Rams ACTA Through; Ratifies It While Avoiding Debate
  Well, Japan... They seem to be getting tough on copyright infringement lately, but they never infringed much in the first place. I've never ever stumbled upon any Japanese download web site, ever.
  
  Anyone here who has?
  
  Please wake me up and alert me once the Russians and Chinese start cracking down hard, because then we are in real trouble.
• Sep 5th, 2012 @ 6:35am

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  on New Research Sets The Stage For Next Round Of Cat-And-Mouse Between BitTorrent Users & Snoopers
  I think that if you could block all peers from the same country as which you are in yourself, you would be pretty safe from (the current generation of) snoopers.
• Sep 5th, 2012 @ 3:47am

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  on Copyright Killbots Strike Again: Official DNC Livestream Taken Down By Just About Every Copyright Holder
  Hohohohoho!!! Waitwaitwaitwait???
  >> "If the stream is authorized by, I don't know, the party of the current President of the United States, maybe, just fucking maybe, everything's "above board."
  
  So, the ordinary people can be smacked onto the ground, pissed on, lied to, belittled, but people higher up the ladder should not be inconvenienced???
  
  How on earth will there then ever be an acceptable solution?
  
  The solution will only come from if virtually every video and movie and walk-in-the-forest-by-myself-homevideo are being taken down. If people in charge get the feeling there's a problem. If studios themselves get DMCA notices by the hundreds... But if these people get shielded, then we, the little people, will only sink deeper into the shit.