dominicmauro

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by dominicmauro 9y ago
I am a lawyer, and "circumvention of access control" means defeating DRM measures, like when you rip a CD or DVD to make a copy on your computer. Someone would have to really torture their reading of the law to come up with "
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by dominicmauro 11y ago
Author here. I agree entirely. Apple's pricing and discovery issues created this perverse incentive structure, and Marco's just responding to it. Competition under this system gets ugly.
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by dominicmauro 11y ago
The punitive damages were also roughly the amount of money McDonald's makes selling coffee in one or two days, according to a contemporaneous WSJ report: http://www.business.txstate.edu/users/ds26/Business%20L
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by dominicmauro 12y ago
Why do you think the Fair Use section is so poorly written? I'm inclined to agree with you that it doesn't provide as much protection as some people might think, but I don't know about "zero" protection.
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by dominicmauro 12y ago
> What happens if I put a blanket ban in the TOS on use of the site by anyone acting as an agent of any law enforcement agency? Certainly with a warrant, it would hold up , but without one, it may not. Actually, I'm not so sure you
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by dominicmauro 12y ago
Yeah, it seems like the judge is making an effort to let you have friends and friends-of-friends, just not customers. It's worth noting that this is an opinion from Administrative Law Judge, which is about a half-dozen appeals from the
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by dominicmauro 12y ago
Last year, this fellow named Warren tried that logic in NYC. It didn't work too well. The Verge ran a piece about it back in May 2013. > The law seems to include an exemption for hosts who rent out an extra room or couch to a "
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by dominicmauro 13y ago
I wasn't using "scared" literally, and I assume the person I was replying to wasn't, either. Web sites aren't generally actually frightening. [Insert your own punchline here]
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by dominicmauro 13y ago
The guy you're replying to just gave you a reason to limit the supply of taxis: regulating them is expensive.
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by dominicmauro 13y ago
With a ratio of nearly 20:1, I don't even know that you can say "it seems" that women are scared away anymore.
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by dominicmauro 14y ago
Valve was giving away a promotional item in Team Fortress 2 for users who logged into the game from a Linux machine. The last time they did this, for users who logged in from a Mac, the promotional item became a kind of in-game de facto cur
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by dominicmauro 14y ago
Absolutely perfect.
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by dominicmauro 14y ago
Oh, agreed entirely that it's apples and oranges. Reality Bites was a Universal movie, the soundtrack was on RCA, and they put five tracks on MTV. It was very much top-down. Now these guys, on the other hand...
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by dominicmauro 14y ago
Lisa Loeb also did it. http://www.merrimackhall.com/lisaloeb.html I winced when the guy hedged by saying "in modern history" — remembering this doesn't make me that old.
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by dominicmauro 14y ago
I don't know, but I hope they post a graph of the traffic spike.
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by dominicmauro 14y ago
Yeah. People seem to mistake "Auction House exists" with "Must cash out kids' college savings to buy new sword."
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by dominicmauro 14y ago
It's not illegal to fantasize. It is illegal to attempt to blow up a bridge. Federal law is remarkably consistent on this, whether you vote Democrat, Republican, or Ron Paul.
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by dominicmauro 15y ago
Presumably zero. Patents are only permitted for "useful" subject matter. Useful is a term of art: you can still patent silly things like Slinkies: http://www.google.com/patents/US2415012?printsec=drawing – but whatever you patent has to a