Steve’s Comments

• Aug 15th, 2011 @ 9:22am

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  on Police Try To Bring Wiretapping Charges Against Woman Who Filmed Them Beating A Man
  Well, since he was filmed in public and while on official duty he has no reasonable expectation of privacy. I can't imagine this will go far in court.
• Jun 16th, 2010 @ 10:33am

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  on Gov't Reminds Colleges They Need To Start Taking Money From Students And Sending It To The Entertainment Industry
  But by asking schools to promote "legal alternatives" on behalf of the entertainment industry aren't schools wasting time and money? The school's technology staff is still going to be paid by the school to set up systems to push the entertainment industry's agenda. It's free advertising for music and movie studios that the school pays for. That is money taken away from eduaction to prop up an outdated and failed business model.
• Jun 16th, 2010 @ 10:20am

  laughable

  on Gov't Reminds Colleges They Need To Start Taking Money From Students And Sending It To The Entertainment Industry
  Because nothing says "good use of educational funds" like funneling money to record executives and Lars Ulrich. At this point I believe the entertainment industry is trying to act as absurdly as possible. The scary part is how the government supports such policies. I'm not sure when it happened but at some point the government stopped representing the people and started representing big business. Our country's founders would be sickened by this.
• Nov 11th, 2009 @ 10:04am

  gheesh

  on A Look At All The Sites Owned By Rupert Murdoch That 'Steal' Content
  Murdoch is too old and out of touch with how these tubes work.
• Oct 20th, 2009 @ 7:43am

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  on Weird Priorities: Europeans Want To Digitize Books As Quickly As Possible... Just As Long As It's Not Google Doing It
  Some European legal ideologies are just wacky. Not that the US has it all figured out but there have been a lot of head scratchers lately. EU lawsuits against Microsoft to remove bundled apps, the Pirate Bay trial, now Google books... it's a bit laughable.
• Oct 15th, 2009 @ 7:45pm

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  on Michael Dell Recognizes Blocking What Customers Want To Protect Your Own Biz Model Is Dumb
  Nice to see Dell realistic unlike other big tech companies. I'm glaring at YOU Apple. Bring me Google Voice or I have no use for your silly iPhone.
• Sep 21st, 2009 @ 8:56pm

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  on You Don't Get To Double (Or Triple) Dip On Damages For Both Copyright And Trademark Infringement
  umm.... what?
• Sep 8th, 2009 @ 10:39am

  Um ok

  on Recording Industry, Japanese Gov't Work To Break Your Mobile Phone If You Listen To Unauthorized Music
  I'm just curious how they can determine that a downloaded song is illegally obtained in the first place. "A central database" that tracks users and what music they are allowed to have seems awfully Orwellian to me. Common sense would say the RIAA should be embarrassed by such a thing by now. Too bad common sense has always escaped the RIAA. Their mismanagement never ceases to amaze me.
  
  Of course, average Joe consumer is probably the most to blame for the RIAA continuing in their evil ways. How in the world has a mass boycott not taken care of this problem by now?
• Aug 28th, 2009 @ 11:00am

  Re: Smart Move

  on Apple Approves Spotify App... Spotify Should Thank Google
  It's gonna take a whole lot more than Spotify to atone for all the unicorns Apple has killed in the app store.