Simon’s Comments

• Jul 30th, 2009 @ 12:58pm

  Re: Circumvention?

  on B&N Claims It Must DRM Public Domain Books To Protect The Copyright On Them
  I see David Loschiavo beat me to this thought. :-)
  
  http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20090730/0257115712#c312
• Jul 30th, 2009 @ 12:56pm

  Circumvention?

  on B&N Claims It Must DRM Public Domain Books To Protect The Copyright On Them
  Doesn't the DMCA ban the circumvention of DRM to access work that is under copyright?
  
  Could someone legally research and publish circumvention techniques for these titles and be immune from the DMCA due to the fact that the underlaying works are in the Public Domain?
• Jul 28th, 2009 @ 6:07am

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Apple Says No To Google Voice On The iPhone
  PopeRatzo's point is entirely valid and relevant to this story. I'm sympathetic to his post because I happen to be in exactly the same position (Apple's policy is stopping me from becoming a customer). I do not see where he is whining.
  Rob R. you seem to have quite a chip on your shoulder feeling you have to justify the choices you have made. You remind me of a beaten wife, defending her husband's actions "he only does it because he loves me".
• Jul 27th, 2009 @ 10:45am

  Re: Seriously, it's the Daily Mail

  on Fact Checking? UK Paper Simply Takes The Word Of Guy Who Claims WiFi Allergy
  As soon as I saw the TechDirt headline, I knew this was going to be a Daily Fail story....
• Jun 26th, 2009 @ 3:29am

  Re:

  on Are Canadian Politicians Finally Recogizing There's More Than One Side To Copyright?
  This is Canada - there's ALWAYS an election coming up!
• Jun 24th, 2009 @ 1:05pm

  So...

  on UK Newspaper Agency Wants To Regulate, Charge For Linking Privileges
  ...you supply a link to a URL shortening service instead and let them worry about it?
• Jun 12th, 2009 @ 2:29pm

  Re:

  on Senator Orrin Hatch... And The Lies The Copyright Industry Tells
  Really? That's all you've got to refute Mike with on this one?
• Jun 10th, 2009 @ 2:34pm

  Re: The transcript

  on Sounding Human: The Difference Between Good And Bad Customer Service
  http://www.sitelead.com/blog/zappos-live-chat/2009/06/01
• Jun 3rd, 2009 @ 3:15pm

  Interview with Conference Board of Canada's CEO

  on Former Conference Board Author Explains How Lobbyists Influenced Plagiarized Reports
  TVO's Search Engine has a podcast with Anne Golden, CEO of the Conference Board of Canada. This was recorded prior to the latest revelations above.
  
  http://www.tvo.org/podcasts/searchengine/audio/SE_Full_20090601_800499_WhosCopyingWho_0x0_ 40k.mp3
• Jun 1st, 2009 @ 9:45am

  Re:

  on Now It's The UK's Turn For Some Bogus Piracy Stats
  Where does he sound gleeful?
  
  He's not saying it's a good thing, or that it's fair, simply that it's a lie to say that money is being removed from the wider economy because of it.
• May 29th, 2009 @ 9:10am

  Search Results?

  on Newspapers Gather In Secret (With An Antitrust Lawyer) To Collude Over Paywalls
  What would happen to their Google rankings? Would they not become impossible to index?