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Comment: Re:Much worse under Obama regime (Score 1) 812

by psm321 (#42985793) Attached to: Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat

Umm, the "fanatical" left is still complaining plenty. Just the mainstream (center-right) Democratic partisans have stopped, because they only care about what party is in power. Please don't confuse the two. (For details, just look at how much the Obama administration derides "professional leftists")

Comment: Re:BSD (Score 1) 320

by psm321 (#42751311) Attached to: Pushing Back Against Licensing and the Permission Culture

Any chance you can provide some citations on this? I am honestly curious because this goes against everything I know about public domain, I could not find any references to the concept you refer to (except that Congress can re-copyright expired copyrights), and also no reference to the empire game issue you referred to. About the closest thing I found was RMS stating that there would be an empire game for GNU is his manifesto, but with no indication that it was in response to some lawsuits (and mentioned in parallel with X, lisp, text editors, etc.)

Comment: Re:Woohoo piracy returns! (Score 3, Insightful) 203

by psm321 (#42620989) Attached to: Kim Dotcom Reveals Mega Will Offer 50GB of Free Storage

You're thinking of plagiarism. Copyright infringement is infringing someone's copyright, which is their legal right to control distribution of their works. When you distribute a work in a manner that the copyright owner does not allow, you are committing copyright infringement. You should use the proper terminology instead of trying to redefine things to what you want them to mean, and then saying that those who don't agree with your redefined terms need to "learn english".

Comment: Re:This shouldn't come as any sort of surprise. (Score 1) 56

by psm321 (#42197195) Attached to: HP Sues Over LCD Price Fixing

If anything, these companies should be forced to pay a class action settlements to anyone who bought their products at artificially high prices.

Here you go: https://lcdclass.com/

It's disturbing to me how little this has been publicized, to the point that even comments on this article don't mention it. It's an unusually decent class action settlement too, with damages around $25/screen (and not in coupons). The filing deadline is tomorrow, so get to it quick!

Comment: Re:Somebody should sue Microsoft anyway (Score 2) 179

by psm321 (#42059925) Attached to: The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed

But that fact is inconvenient for those that support this slow intrusion into control of our hardware, so they will conveniently neglect to mention it (or the fact that this concession meant to spur adoption will almost certainly disappear once secure boot is fully entrenched)

Comment: Re:WTF... (Score 1) 339

by psm321 (#41854513) Attached to: $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent

[1] This actually provides a fairly simple loophole if you're willing to wait three years: take some GPL code, modify it, and give it to a third party. They then sit on it for three years and then sell it as a binary-only product. They pass on your (now expired) offer, and no one has the right to demand the source code from you.

There's nothing I can see in the GPL (v3 is the one I looked at) that actually lets you pass along any offer, let alone an expired one.

Comment: Will they also restore their signal level? (Score 1) 152

by psm321 (#41089097) Attached to: T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans

About a year and a half ago, their signal was great around my house. Then around the time the AT&T merger was announced it became completely unreliable and has been since. They keep alternating between admitting the problem, saying it's been fixed (when it hasn't), and saying there's no problem at all. It's quite frustrating and as much as I love TMo it's going to be hard for me to stay with them when my contract is up unless they get their act together.

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