Rob’s Comments

• Oct 4th, 2013 @ 9:55am

  The Onion

  on Red Cross Pushing For War Crimes In Video Games To Be Punished In Video Games
  The Onion already explored the possibility of "ultra-realistic modern warfare game"...
  
  http://www.theonion.com/video/ultrarealistic-modern-warfare-game-features-awaiti,14382/
• May 7th, 2013 @ 8:57am

  Re: Re: Last paragraph conflates piracy and streaming:

  on Royalty Collection Agency SABAM Sues Belgian ISPs In Pursuit Of Its Fantasy 'Piracy License'
  edit: copying not coping although coping with copying might be healthy
• May 7th, 2013 @ 8:55am

  Re: Last paragraph conflates piracy and streaming:

  on Royalty Collection Agency SABAM Sues Belgian ISPs In Pursuit Of Its Fantasy 'Piracy License'
  ^^^ Heh, heh. Clones again stealing my valuable screen name. You kids are SO feeble. No matter how often I state the obvious, that you're helping ME, not Mike, you keep at it. -- And again, the name is valuable precisely because copied!
  
  Assuming that is out_of_the_Blue, I cannot believe he/she has finally seen the logic behind something is valuable because it is copied, which goes against all the rhetoric about stopping any coping at all costs - it only leads to doom, doom, doom!
• Jan 25th, 2013 @ 11:52am

  (untitled comment)

  on Who Sets Up An 'Innovation Forum' Hosted By A Guy Who Insists That Nothing Good Has Come From The Internet?
  Weird that they would use two F's in the shape of the Chinese character for mother. I wonder if there is some symbology dealing with mother and F's...
• Aug 9th, 2012 @ 5:28pm

  Why not both?

  on Beck Needs Your Help To Hear To His Next Release, An Album Of Sheet Music
  I think a better idea would have been to record the album and include the sheet music to encourage others to both buy and record their own cover. Maybe I am missing something... Additionally, there are plenty of folks still churning out sheet music and arrangements, but maybe that is too nerdy for most music aficionados.
• Jul 11th, 2012 @ 7:51am

  Re:

  on You Can't Introduce Any Decently Cool Product These Days Without Some Sore Loser Claiming Patent Infringement
  I agree that patents have become "pantents" as companies panhandle their patents to lawyers working out of tents.
• Jul 2nd, 2012 @ 9:36am

  (untitled comment)

  on Judge Slams Universal Music For Trying To 'Bamboozle' Court & Producers Over Eminem Royalties
  What do the courts expect? They're artists not mathmeticians...
• Jun 6th, 2012 @ 8:53am

  (untitled comment)

  on Oracle Sues To Stop Lodsys Patent Trolling
  This was all part of Oracle's master plan to get smacked down in court to have precedence in order to unleash fury against all other patent trolls.
• Jun 5th, 2012 @ 2:28pm

  Re:

  on RIAA To Congress: We're Finally Innovating... Now Go Shut Down Pirate Sites
  I, for one, will be glad when the Lady Gagas and the Kardasians are not synonomous with our national culture being forced down our throats by mass media. I submit that that the music already in public domain far exceeds anything the *IAAs come up with in their risk averse world.
• Feb 8th, 2012 @ 12:49pm

  (untitled comment)

  on The Rise Of The 'Professional Amateur' And The Fall Of Gated, Exclusionary 'Clubs'
  The problem with those that feel like they are "in" and the legacy gated community is that they feel like they are the only professionals. They are part of an entertainment industry struggling to entertain. Many that are "in" are of questionable talent. The internet is the great equalizer for distributing talent from a bigger pool of artists. Quality talent is not synonomous with professional especially in Hollywood or Big Labels. Even big game studios struggle to create where smaller teams are more innovative.
  
  and to the comment: "If everyone is a writer, than how many are really consumers? They are too busy writing to consume."
  
  I do believe that everyone in creative fields are never to busy to consume. Musicians enjoy music, writers read, and game designers play games.