Comment Re:Classification an Interesting Issue (Score 1) 144
What do you think the Virtual Reality version of Frogger would be classified as?
What do you think the Virtual Reality version of Frogger would be classified as?
Can it tag a switch to Beta (either all at once or feature by feature over a year) as suicidal behavior?
Yeah, America's founding fathers thought they were above the law too, and look where it got them.
You mean, a troll might do something *specifically* to draw out a reaction, like suggesting laws against harassment shouldn't protect personal choices/preferences in general nor religion in particular?
Indeed, who is going to tell what constitutes "serious emotional distress"?
DMCA notices come to mind.
I know I'd like my rocket to be safe from trolls.
some Freedom Fries with that?
Please reply if you think eternity getting their guts ripped out by demons and being force-fed their own excrement and piles of flaming coals, while being skull-fucked by enraged hell-bears (or whatever it is, I never paid much attention to mythology,) is inadequate for copyright trolls, and write-in what YOU believe would be a more appropriate comeuppance. Thanks!
No -- copyright trolls are doing us a very important service. The people who need to have their guts ripped out by demons etc are the assholes who wrote the laws that have these horrible abusive provisions which the intellectual property trolls are so elegantly demonstrating.
I remember playing with some liquid metal. Call me crazy, but I prefer my things made from solid metal.
Breaking news! Mrs Clinton does a good job representing someone she was supposed to represent... in light of that, who'd want her to represent US?
Microsoft Clippy should be glad he wasn't around back then...
If this scum has a history of making false claims then why are they still allowed to make claims at all? Better yet, why haven't they been banned from Youtube altogether?
Alice posts a video using music that Bob owns the copyright to. Carol posts a video that uses music Bob falsely claims to also hold the copyright for. Unfortunately Bob's false claim against Carol doesn't change the fact that he actually does have a legitimate legal claim against Alice's video. So kicking him off the system means he's going to issue a takedown against Alice. The whole point of bringing him into the system was to give him an incentive to leave Alice alone.
The problem here isn't Bob and Alice -- that part of the scenario is working fine. The problem is Bob and Carol. There's no incentive for Bob not to make false claims against Carol. That's the bit that has to be fixed.
Other countries don't have to worry about their own citizens blowing them up.
Why is it that when I hear there's a new Firefox update, I always think "Oh no -- what did they mess up now?" Other groups' updates aren't met with instinctive dread.
That sounds suspiciously like my patent on aural telepathy. Expect to hear from my lawyers.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
