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Comment Re:Hope we have a proper treaty with the Goblins. (Score 1) 543

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. and J. K. Rowling vs. RDR Books (575 F.Supp.2d 513) is a copyright lawsuit brought on 31 October 2007 by the media company Warner Bros. and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling against RDR Books, an independent publishing company based in Muskegon, Michigan. Lawyers for Rowling and Time Warner argued that RDR's attempt to publish for profit a print facsimile of The Harry Potter Lexicon, a free online guide to the Harry Potter fictional universe, constituted an infringement of their copyright and was not protected by the affirmative defense of fair use. The trial was held from 14–17 April 2008 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In September 2008, the court ruled in Rowling's favor, and publication of the book was blocked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._and_J._K._Rowling_v._RDR_Books

Comment Re:MacBook Pro (Score 1) 522

Likewise. Having built computers and nursed them until death, having bought new and used laptops, having tech supported family computers and dealt with tons of office computers; buying this macbook pro made computing such a better experience.

The only bad news is Lion :S

Comment Re:Copyright and DRM are a bug. (Score 1) 374

In many large cities, tap water tastes like you are drinking out of a sewer. NYC is probably the most famous example, but it is also true elsewhere.

Um, what? Someone is actually selling bottle NYC tap water and people love it. Check out this article. Here's a choice quote:

Michael Saucier, a spokesman for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, notes that the city's water beat 150 other municipal water systems in New York state in a taste test last summer.

Comment liability (Score 1) 161

I worry about liability. While the GPL and other licenses can disclaim liability all they like, a litigious user could still file a lawsuit, forcing the developer to spend money defending themselves. I have a Firefox extension that I've avoided releasing for exactly that reason.

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