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• Dec 11th, 2012 @ 3:06pm

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  on 10 Years Later, T-Mobile Finally Kills Phone Subsidies: And It Doesn't Mean You'll Pay More
  Damn, makes me want to switch back to T-Mobile now...
• Nov 18th, 2012 @ 3:37pm

  In a world where...

  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
  every movie made is a sequel, prequel, or based on pre-existing content, any dream can be invented, including the accounting. Wait for the cheap show, folks.
• Nov 12th, 2012 @ 5:15pm

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  on If You Eat Something, Say Something: DHS Sounds The Alarm On The 'Terrorist Implications' Of Food Trucks
  Falafel or shawarma (but only if there's a "halal" sign on the truck somewhere). They're harder to handle than hot dogs.
• Nov 12th, 2012 @ 5:03pm

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  on Harry Reid Wants To Try One More Time To Force Cybersecurity Bill Through Congress
  Harry Reid: Less freedom, more junk mail for all.
• Nov 12th, 2012 @ 11:56am

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  on Draconian Downloading Law In Japan Goes Into Effect... Music Sales Drop
  Have they made renting CDs in Japan illegal yet? That used to be a good way of getting music inexpensively there.
• Nov 12th, 2012 @ 11:49am

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  on Toshiba: You Can't Have Repair Manuals Because They're Copyrighted And You're Too Dumb To Fix A Computer
  Toshiba still makes laptops?
• Oct 29th, 2012 @ 1:36pm

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  on Washington Post: Yes, We Need To Give Up Liberty For Security
  We are turning into a nation of wimps and wusses by the idiots in government who insist there's a terrorist/hacker/exploit/fill in the blank threat under the bed, around the corner, waiting for the flight/bus/train/subway you're about to get on, bugging your phone/home/workspace, tracking your car, etc.
  
  Excuse me, but those very government officials have no clue about the internets. Most of them probably believe Al Gore invented it. And their complete lack of knowledge is the best reason for them to leave their grubby little mitts and their increasingly ill-informed, poorly-intended laws as far away as possible.
• Aug 6th, 2012 @ 2:33pm

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  on Leaked Documents Detail The MPAA's Plans For Sock Puppetry To Mislead People About Richard O'Dwyer
  An IP address is not a person, in the US. How that can be conveyed to the idiots in the UK government, where justice seems to be a slippery construct (nailing jello to a tree, anyone?) is another matter entirely.
• Aug 6th, 2012 @ 2:27pm

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  on Indian Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap: 'Piracy Helps Deliver The Filmmaker's Message To The Masses'
  Let our media go! As for gatekeepers, I prefer Cerberus, not to be confused with Kerberos.
• Aug 4th, 2012 @ 8:12am

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  on Netflix To Try Crowdsourcing Subtitles; Will It Get Sued For Infringement?
  One word: Fansubs.
• Aug 4th, 2012 @ 8:09am

  Remember DVD X Copy?

  on Judge Posner: Embedding Infringing Videos Is Not Copyright Infringement, And Neither Is Watching Them
  That was a legitimate piece of software intended for making a backup copy of a DVD so the real one wouldn't get annihilated by the kids the first time out of the box. That got shot down pretty fast by MPAA, although I still have a copy...
  
  Anyway, Judge Posner's ruling applies to an ephemeral copy of a work that is held temporarily in a buffer. No copyright infringement on the part of the viewer here. Somewhat like borrowing a DVD from a public library and watching it, or like the old Borland software license (install on as many computers as you want, but you can only use it on one ccomputer at a time).
  
  This isn't that hard, people.
• Aug 4th, 2012 @ 7:40am

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  on California Bet 2% Of Its Budget On Facebook's Stock Price Remaining High
  Guess California didn't plan for that other big shareholder to renounce his US citizenship. Big risk can reap big return sometimes, probably not this time.
• Jul 25th, 2012 @ 4:05pm

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  on SOPA/PIPA Wakes Up Internet Giants To Realize They Need To Be More Engaged In DC
  It's hard to be optimistic about this.
• Jul 9th, 2012 @ 4:03pm

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  on Petition With 90,000 Signatures Of People Worried About TPP Hand Delivered To USTR Negotiators
  Apparently nobody at USTR has gotten the message that the European Parliament has driven a silver stake through ACTA. Do we need to send them heads of garlic and crucifixes?
• Jul 9th, 2012 @ 4:03pm

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  on Petition With 90,000 Signatures Of People Worried About TPP Hand Delivered To USTR Negotiators
  Apparently nobody at USTR has gotten the message that the European Parliament has driven a silver stake through ACTA. Do we need to send them heads of garlic and crucifixes?
• Jun 19th, 2012 @ 5:17pm

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  on FBI & DEA Warn That IPv6 May Be Too Damn Anonymous
  And NSA says it's an invasion of our privacy to tell us if they've been spying on us. What we have here is a failure to communicate.
• Jun 19th, 2012 @ 5:14pm

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  on David Lowery Wants A Pony
  Wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up faster.
• Jun 14th, 2012 @ 4:23pm

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  on DOJ Realizes That Comcast & Time Warner Are Trying To Prop Up Cable By Holding Back Hulu & Netflix
  More and more, DOJ = Denial of Justice, not Department of Justice.
• Jun 14th, 2012 @ 4:18pm

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  on How Sweden Handed Its Official Twitter Account Over To A Troll
  Trollhattan is a real town in Sweden. SAAB had a car factory there back when they built cars. I had the bumper sticker "Made by trolls in Trollhattan". That doesn't excuse the epic humor failures, though.
• Jun 14th, 2012 @ 4:13pm

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  on Funnyjunk's Lawyer, Charles Carreon, Continues To Lash Out: Accuses Matt Inman Of 'Instigating Security Attacks'
  The last name is misspelled. It should be Carrion, as in vulture.

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