Travis’s Comments

• Apr 12th, 2017 @ 4:44pm

  Reading the law snippet...

  on The Bull Statue Copyright Claim Is Ridiculous... But Here's Why It Just Might Work
  If he wins, all he can do is demand they remove his name from the statue and refuse to identify him as the author.
  
  > shall have the right to prevent the use of his or her name as the author of the work of visual art
• Nov 27th, 2008 @ 5:36pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  on Free Is Not Socialism
  "As for the law hindering progress, there are equally good arguments that it actually promotes progress by encouraging the dissemination of ideas to the public at large." The problem with this is that the laws prevent anyone from actually USING the ideas and/or improving on them. If someone other than the originator actually makes an attempt, they will be sued. This is why our nation's IP laws need to be changed.
• May 16th, 2008 @ 8:28am

  (untitled comment)

  on Latest Study Confirms Cox Traffic Shaping; Comcast Misleading Again
  Like some others on here, I can understand packet shaping during peak hours. This is because, unlike DSL, cable internet is a shared line. All subscribers in an area use a finite amount of bandwidth(I don't know what the actual speed is unfortunately, it depends on line quality and distance). If you have a few ppl who are using their max bandwidth at all times, that slows down the connections of everyone in the neighborhood. This is why I save my P2P traffic for at night or while I'm at work.
  
  Now having said that, I believe that they should put in a program to only perform shaping when bandwidth saturation gets above a certain threshold. This would be very easy to implement as an automated process and would cost them almost nothing. They would also be legally required to inform their customers of this, but that can just be included in the monthly bill for current users and in the contract for new ones. A program like this would prevent throttling during off-peak hours.