Comment on Sony BMG lawer says copying music you own is stealing by g. pentidis

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:24:50 +0000

Such cases are for some lucky chief litigators to show their legal expertise and for some unlucky defendants who, from time to time, fall into the grips of law. On the internet there are hundreds of sites which are real slaughter houses of the intellectual property and they cannot be sued. To my opinion the concept of copyright must be world- wide reconstructed, along with its means of protection.

Comment on Can Copyright and the DMCA be used to silence critics? by LISA

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:44:53 +0000

DIRECT BUY IS A SCAM - BUYS OUT INFOMERCIALSCAMS.COM TO COVER ITS TRACKS ! infomercialscams.com was strong-armed by direct buy and had to remove nearly 1,000 complaints about the direct buy scam. Why you ask. Cause when you google 'direct buy' the informercial scam site was ranked #2 by google. All that is left on the site is the fake reviews by direct buy. I would say to be very careful with dealing with a company that is afraid of what it customers post about it on the internet. This company is a scam. Go there, read the contract, its all in the contract. The contract basically states that direct buy is bound to nothing and you are bound to paying the $5,000 member fee. SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM fortunatly, the postings on the net never go away, just check archives http://web.archive.org/web/20080203104709/www.infomercialscams.com/scams/direct_buy_scams is this starting to sound like organized crime ?

Comment on 2008, the year D.R.M. hits your T.V. by sasquatc4

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:37:27 +0000

well if you have purchased it recently (within the past few years) you should be alright. Just check your manual and see if it mentions anything about hdcp. But just about any tv made in the past couple years supports it. The main issue is for those who purchased them more than 5 or so years ago, they usually have only dvi ports which may or may not support hdcp.

Comment on 2008, the year D.R.M. hits your T.V. by Tom from retail

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:19:09 +0000

So, wait... Does this mean that the tv my wife saved for 5 months to buy me as a 'new house new toy' (we had recently purchased a new house, it was a suprise) may not work properly, and soon?

Comment on Can Copyright and the DMCA be used to silence critics? by Ronald Riley

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:30:53 +0000

As a result of several threatening letters which Dozier Internet Law sent on behalf of their client Inventor-Link we have been busy at InventorEd over the past week. This is documented on www.CyberTrialLawyer-SUCKS.com and on www.InventorEd.org/caution/inventor-link/. Be sure to revisit the above referenced web pages as we are constantly updating and expanding the material. We are looking for a volunteer lawyer to draft ethics complaints on our behalf. We firmly feel that the attorneys at Dozier should have to explain their conduct. Frankly I wish that more of our invention promoter adversaries would hire firms like Dozier Internet Law. I think that they are real buffoons. Ronald J. Riley, President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org - RRiley at PatentPolicy.org Washington, DC Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.

Comment on Sony BMG lawer says copying music you own is stealing by James Smith

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:07:51 +0000

So, if I make a copy of my rapidly deteriorating CD of Michael Jacksons' Off The Wall album and copy it into mp3 format onto my Ipod thats steeling. I suppose when you Tivo your favorite show or sing the lyrics to your favorite song that stealing too? I tell you, its not terrorism, AIDS, or natural disaster that going to destroy this country its Corporate Greed and the power they have that will end this country. Unbelievable...

Comment on Can Copyright and the DMCA be used to silence critics? by Dan tdaxp

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:31:06 +0000

Thanks for the link! Others are outraged as well!

Comment on Support Creative Commons by Boing Boing

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:38:38 +0000

LOLBible... Eric sez, "Finally! I have been waiting all my life for this (OK, a few months). This site is translating the Bible into LOLcat and it's a wiki!" 1. In teh beginnin Invisible Man was invisible, and he maded the skiez and da earths, but he did not ea...

Comment on Cable Lobbying Group Crushes Consumer Choice, again by J. Cox

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:26:38 +0000

After the 8/17 EPB board vote, TCTA ran color ads on 9/4 and 9/5 in the Chattanoogan blasting EPB's FTTH initiative. At the public meeting at EPB on 9/5 Ms. Briggs accused Dalton, GA; Bristol, TN; and other utility FTTH businesses as reporting false subscriber counts to "whomever", whereas Comcast reports accurately to Wall Street...like Adelphia and the Rigas' did???? She kept comparing EPB to Memphis which as a Chattanoogan I truly resent. To add insult, TCTA filed a frivolous lawsuit against EPB on 9/21 claiming they're breaking the law! I'm mad as hell at TCTA and Comcast for trying to stall EPB's entrance into FTTH. Thank God EPB's board and the City Council know a good thing for our community and are supporting this initiative. More of us need to continue to speak out in favor of EPB.

Comment on Ampache adds democratic support in the latest release by Commanddotcom.com

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:21:31 +0000

Fair Use Day...... (via ars technica) Apparently, today, July 11th, has been dubbed "Fair Use Day" by this website:  http://www.fairuseday.com...

Comment on Free our Cell Phones! by Peavey

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:11:55 +0000

How is AT&T crippling applications and limiting what you can do and where you can go on the internet with the iPhone? It is Apple that has kept it closed and prevented people from writing applications for it, and the iPhone is the first mobile phone to support any and all web sites (if not all web content) rather than just mobile websites. Of course, there isn't a mobile phone that I know of that can play flash videos on a website. And I agree with RipRap. If you don't like having to use AT&T don't buy the iPhone. Personally, I have been a happy AT&T/Cingular customer for over five years, so you won't hear me complain.

Comment on ….No, but I did get sued by a Holiday Inn last night by Josh the Aspie

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:59:34 +0000

Not to mention that another company's building is shown in the background of the image. I doubt that Holiday Inn got their permission to show that building in the background. They just don't seem to have any idea about their own hypocrisy, or stupidity.

Comment on ….No, but I did get sued by a Holiday Inn last night by nomasteryoda

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:12:01 +0000

Well now, look closely at that image. What do we have here? Did they hotel ask permission of the car company, landscape designer, construction contractor, architect, sign maker, paint company, asphalt company, or tire mfg. Oh, wait, there's one most important "person" here to ask permission of... God - the ultimate copyright holder of the sky. Copyright abuse? Yes, they are abusing the right to put he word "copyright" on this image. You be the judge - look at the zoomed in image. Who would even want to know what this image is, much less "steal" it.

Comment on EMI dumps CD DRM by Beal

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:55:08 +0000

The world is changing. Slowly. But it will change because it has to.

Comment on Big Media=Greed by Beal

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:43:16 +0000

artists are not allowed to give their fans ANY THING!!!! get with the program.