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Comment Re:Chargebacks (Score 1) 443

But this just means people's donations don't get to where they wanted them to go. Everyone should demand their donations be returned now, so they can send the donations in by another means ... AND SOON ... LIKE NEXT WEEK.

And what does PayPal do about all those false chargebacks?

Comment Re:Meh- almost just acknowledgement of status quo (Score 1) 78

They should have designed OpenID so that people can run their own identity servers. They sorta did, but it still requires going through a big provider that can track you. That was stupid.

An alternative idea still requires a big provider, but at least logins do not need to go through them so there is no point of tracking you. That idea is to use signed certificate identities. The service you login into only needs to trust the CA that signed your identity.

Or just don't worry about having a like identity, and just have web sites do a standard registration process that a browser module/plugin uses with your secure key ring that you put these identities (can be different at different sites) into. This can work better by having identities that work like those on StackExchange.

Comment Re:Shame on MoS (Score 1) 201

I think this very much depends on where the trial happens, UK or US. IANAL - but my understanding of US copyright law - you generally can't copyright lists of things like facts. For instance - from a lawsuit a very long time ago - you can't copyright the information in a phone book. So - if you can get away with the argument that a compilation is merely a list of songs - that is a winning argument for Spotify. I have no idea what the take on this is in the UK - so your mileage may vary considerably.

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