Brandon’s Comments

• Aug 23rd, 2019 @ 11:11am

  Re:

  on Shut Up David Boies, You Hypocritical, Censorial Oaf

  Because hypocrisy is bad, that's why. Someone else can do the talking.

• Feb 9th, 2018 @ 9:35am

  (untitled comment)

  on ESPN Still Isn't Quite Getting The Message Cord Cutters Are Sending
  That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works out for them.
  
  It's not going to work out for them.
• Apr 5th, 2017 @ 11:07am

  Re: Misleading?

  on Techdirt Podcast Episode 116: The Truth About VPNs
  I know, right? They could have at least tried to answer your question in the other 37 minutes of the podcast that you didn't listen to. Misleading indeed.
• Feb 4th, 2016 @ 9:43am

  Re: Re: Re: Promoting promotions for the promo value.

  on Key And Peele To Livestream 'Sports Commentary' During An 'Upcoming Sports Game' That They Can't Name
  Coincidentally, renaming the players would be a great way to tie into one of their sketches where they poke fun at ridiculous real life player names. Imagine them covering Superb Owl starting with Tyroil Smoochie-Wallace, [Construction Noise], Javaris Jamar Javarison-Lamar and X-Wing @ Aliciousness.
• May 16th, 2013 @ 8:57am

  Re: Conspiracy Theory.

  on How GEMA Is (Still) The Worst 'Collective Rights' Organization In The World
  Sounds like the US needs to send Kevin Bacon on a mission to Germany. All he wants to do is dance!
• Jul 27th, 2012 @ 8:46am

  Re: Too bad most of it is in neighborhoods most don't want to live in

  on Google Fiber Is Official; Free Broadband Up To 5 Mbps, Or Pay For Symmetrical 1 Gbps
  On the other hand, this project may be a great first step in revitalizing those bad neighborhoods.
• Nov 17th, 2011 @ 8:22am

  (untitled comment)

  on Don't Say YUUUP! Or You Might Get Sued
  Twenty-eight comments and I don't see the requisite link to the Lana Yuup soundboard. Shame on you, Techdirt Archer fans.
• May 27th, 2011 @ 9:06am

  (untitled comment)

  on Smartphones Make People Ignore Commercials Way More Than DVRs
  My homebrew DVR setup has commercial detection now so I don't even need to skip. It's pretty neat but at the same the time it's rather pathetic that I felt the need to install it in the first place or worse, spend all this money setting it up.
• Mar 7th, 2011 @ 10:11am

  Re: Re: Competition

  on Amazing: A Long, Detailed Article On Hollywood's Struggles... That Never Mentions File Sharing
  That's just it, Lauriel; the young male demographic isn't key anymore. If you haven't already I would recommend taking a look at Johanna Blakley's talk at TED in which she demolishes the perception that demographics are a valuable metric in our online culture.
• Feb 16th, 2011 @ 9:52am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Ditch cable!!!

  on Cable And Hollywood Fight Having Their Gatekeeper Status Taken Away
  I feel your wife's pain. That happened to me one time too many so I ended up putting together my own PVR with a spare server and some Hauppauge HD encoders. It was expensive to start and I'm still paying up the nose for my Comcast subscription but it's still the only way to access all the content I want to watch the way I want to watch it. I've even got a program running that strips commercials out of my recordings. Soon, very soon, I think I'll be able to go all online and my hat is off to those that have already cut the (television) cord.
• Feb 4th, 2011 @ 10:37am

  Re: Another POV

  on Yellow Pages Companies Team Up To Offer Opt-Out
  That certainly sounds like a good justification to keep them as an opt-in system. Perhaps the number of people who are online all the time has not quite yet reached critical mass but I have no doubt that we'll get there eventually.
• Sep 17th, 2010 @ 3:19pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Time Warner Cable Boycotting Epix Movie Channel Because It Did A Deal With Netflix
  Sounds like a great business model to me, AC. If every network streamed to Netflix and got dropped by cable providers as a result I would finally be able to ditch my cable TV and go online only. Yes please.