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I'm here - the links at the end are just for people who want to communicate using those means too.
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"It was also entertaining to learn that due to a technicality in UK law, the simple act of visiting a website results in copyright infringement. " I learned that fact in 1996 whilst at college. It...
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Welcome to Techdirt, Dan. Honestly can't say I'm a fan, don't much listen to music these days. Still, my hearts desire says I'm all for those that tilt the windmills of the major labels. I've no love...
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The IFPI has announced that none of the money recovered from The Pirate Bay will be paid to the artists from whom it's been allegedly "stolen." Instead, it will be used to attempt to recover further...
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I don't like the big labels. However, they did hold a copyright monopoly on recorded music for almost 90 years. What I want to know is, if the labels finally die off, what will become of those...
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Okay, so Dan, do you spend your day scanning the headlines looking for parades to get in front of?
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...what will become of those recordings? Given that there is no requirement that recordings be preserved for the future after copyright expires, I suspect they will be put in some dank warehouse on a...
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Thats already happening, millions of recoding are already being lost even as I type this. All because of the greed of a few.
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And this is all for the "benefit of the public", of course, the shills will argue. There is no average human being who would consider the above a benefit but they'll insist that everyone else is a...
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I was using you as an example this past week, discussing the Music industry. I was shocked people who read boingboing had never heard of you, work on that 'kay? :D...
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The cartels lost one more battle this week. The newly elected French government said its shutting down that totalitarian wet dream called Hadopi.
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IIRC they were talking about the huge costs it took, and the "benefit" was hardly noticeable. Hopefully more countries will look at what happens when you buy into the fairy tale they tell, and that...
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Hadopi had benefits? Well, I suppose opening up another department with lucrative salaries and not much work is beneficial to a select few.
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"...and then told us we can't talk to you here." Is it depressing to realise you're the only person reading this who leapt to that stupid conclusion?
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Or, more than likely, a larger percentage of his fans connect with him on Facebook and Twitter as opposed to Techdirt, and doing such might bring the discussion to the attention of people who might not...
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Cheap shot? I am asking what his method is for being so "up to date" on things. It's amazing that he can turn out song in less than 24 hours to be on topic. I wonder how he does it. I guess you got the...
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No you are insinuating he is an attention whore bum and trying to dawn the victim mask, which is another cheap trick.
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... the copyright owner that published the site does so with full knowledge that a temporary copy of the site will be made in your cache when you visit the site, so permission is implied by the act of...
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"Some people just want to watch the world burn." FTFY
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Gruesome, isn't it? The filthy public, er, pirates, archiving what the rightsholders don't care or want to preserve for the future, all at no cost to those rightsholders... where are the crippling...
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"Don't mind the trolls, one of them really has a disturbing obsession with you. He puts words into your mouth and runs with it... he prolly wants to... nevermind I'll behave it is Sunday afterall......
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Fun fact: in trying to track down some old games I wanted to try out I found that the last known legal copies of half of them rotted and the only ones I could get were the ones preserved thanks to...
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Cheap shot 1: "Nice. Way to connect with fans." Cheap shot 2: "looking for parades to get in front of?" I guess you're just like that guy from Memento. You can't remember the thing you did one minute ago.
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"Here, have a beer. It definitely doesn't have any spit in it."
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http://boingboing.net/2012/04/17/printing-pharmaceuticals-w.html Print an aspirin!
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See, I've got this mat that has different conclusions on it you can jump to. Troll AC signed on for beta testing.
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"Cheap shot 1: "Nice. Way to connect with fans."" The way he finished his post was saying "I am talking at you, not with you, unless you go to these other places". If someone from the **AAs did that,...
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I love how you claim to know what mike's reaction would be. But if we're going to talk about what ifs I'd think he would praise them if they tried connecting instead of being asshats, even if you had...
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Don't Mind The Trolls, Here's Dan Bull. Nope, just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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I was right the first time. Still can't keep those damn teenagers from leaving TRAD marks all over my lawn.....
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Thanks. I'm learning to distinguish between trollery and genuine critical questions. I guess if the IFPI have defied a court order then they ought to be held accountable and explain why. I don't know...
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Well, I shall assume your question was asked in good faith if you say it was. I do spend a lot of time reading the news and looking at current events, but not in order to jump on the bandwagon. My main...
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Next up on the Dan Bull agenda: Animal welfare....ON THE INTERNET! (patent pending)
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Make a movie, let's say a romantic comedy, and call it "Star Wars" (a trademark violation). You'll be sued by Lucas just as sure as if you'd done an unlicensed unauthorized remake (a copyright...
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Have you ever actually seen who is at the front of parades? If it isn't some local, with a horrific tale of survival; it is always some media whore with an agent... kinda seems like what you are into....
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Okay, so do you have pre-made tracks around that you add words over quickly, everything else good to go? Or are you making the music from scratch as well? Are you a musician, playing the instruments...
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"This is of course an educated guess based on what Mike actually posts here instead of whatever weird version of MIke you've made up in your head." You honestly don't think Mike would use that as a...
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I'm not Carly Simon, and "You're So Vain" isn't about you. (I think, I lack the energy to bother seeing if your gravatar matches the other troll) I was discussing previous combat done with Trolls here...
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It depends from song to song, sometimes I work with other producers and I have a stack of instrumentals prepared for when I want to record quickly. I also do my own productions which include either...
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It depends from song to song, sometimes I work with other producers and I have a stack of instrumentals prepared for when I want to record quickly. I also do my own productions which include either...
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Hopefully they'll be able to be re-appropriated using some kind of loopholes or legal reform. I'm sure people won't just sit there for 90 years waiting all that forbidden culture to become legally...
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Cheap shot 3: "It's what he does." Cheap shot 4: "The only cheap shot is that you don't hold everyone to the same standards."
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If Dan Bull had proceeded to complain that people refused to connect him at Facebook or Twitter, or insisted that those were the only means of contacting him, then you might have a point. The RIAA and...
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