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• On the post: First Amendment Group Tells Appeals Court University Officials Shouldn’t Have Access To Qualified Immunity

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2022 @ 03:33pm

  What rights?

  If a certain right can be violated at any time, and you can't seek redress when it is, did you really have that right at all?

• On the post: Music Publishers Sue Roblox In Full Frontal Assault On The DMCA

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2021 @ 08:45am

  Re: Think of the children!

  "It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven-year-old girl,
  They'll treat you like the evil hard-bitten criminal scum you are." --Weird Al Yankovic, Don't Download This Song

• On the post: If You're Going To Defend A Satirical Song From A Copyright Lawsuit, Don't Try A Bunch Of Stupid Alternative Arguments First

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 06 May, 2021 @ 02:02pm

  Re: Re: He might have a point.

  Thank you for letting me know. I didn't know I was missing this in my life. The songs are on YouTube (including a video they did for O Come All Ye Faithful that has a lot of parallels to the We're Not Gonna Take It video). You're not wrong. This is amazing.

• On the post: If You're Going To Defend A Satirical Song From A Copyright Lawsuit, Don't Try A Bunch Of Stupid Alternative Arguments First

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 05 May, 2021 @ 01:24pm

  He might have a point.

  I hadn't noticed the similarity of "We're Not Gonna Take It" to "O Come, All Ye Faithful" before, but it actually works.

• On the post: NYT Easily Tracks Location Data From Capitol Riots, Highlighting Once Again How US Privacy Standards Are A Joke

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2021 @ 07:28am

  Re: Re: Dear New York Times,

  Parallels. It says so in the name.

• On the post: With Loon Dead And Google Fiber Frozen, Google's Broadband Disruption Plays Aren't Looking So Hot

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2021 @ 01:25pm

  Coincidentally, here's another one

  Google just announced that they're backing out of game development, before it really got going. First-party Stadia development studios have been shut down. Stadia itself remains as a supported platform for third parties to publish to (for now).

  https://blog.google/products/stadia/focusing-on-stadias-future-as-a-platform-and-winding-down-sge/

• On the post: Twitch Continues To Trip Over Itself In Response To DMCA Apocalypse

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2020 @ 07:35am

  Re: Re: As if YouTube will be much better

  That is literally the place that Microsoft told people using Mixer to go, so who knows?

  They did, but then they didn't do anything to support it. One of the big draws of Mixer is that it was super easy, barely an inconvenience to stream from the Xbox for even the most casual of streamers. They killed Mixer and said everyone should go to Facebook, but months later, the only app that streams from Xbox is Twitch. FB is completely absent. It's like they just picked a name that wasn't their biggest competitor in streaming, and wasn't owned by Google, and just gave up.

• On the post: Twitch's No Good, Very Bad Time Continues: Part 2

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2020 @ 07:47am

  A shame Microsoft gave up

  I wonder if Microsoft had held on just a few more months, would this have given people a real push to use Mixer and make it a real contender. I guess we'll never know now.

• On the post: Twitch Continues To Trip Over Itself In Response To DMCA Apocalypse

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2020 @ 08:41am

  As if YouTube will be much better

  And with YouTube once again making a strong play for these kinds of streamers, one wonders just how long it all can last.

  YouTube is certainly no stranger to heavy-handed DMCA responses. While they do have a counterclaim process, it's still heavily favored towards the complainant. I have a feeling those who flee to YouTube to escape DMCA action on Twitch are going to be sorely disappointed.

  Mixer couldn't compete. What else is there, Facebook Gaming?

• On the post: Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Says It's Really Unfair That He Should Have To Tell Clients And Courts How Frequently He's Been Caught Lying In Court

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2020 @ 02:46pm

  He got one thing right.

  There is a strong public interest in the continuation of Mr. Liebowitz and LLF’s law practice.

  I, as a member of the public, am strongly interested in the continuation of his law practice. Reading up on his antics provides much-needed amusement and levity in these days.

• On the post: Cops — Newly Wary Of Looking Like Authoritarian Assholes — Open Fire On, Arrest Journalists

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2020 @ 07:27pm

  Re: Human rights violations

  With Qualified Immunity, your lawsuit will have a snowball's chance in hell. Probably wouldn't even last long enough to make the news.

• On the post: Xbox Chief Says Its Main Competitors Are Now Google, Amazon Rather Than Sony, Nintendo

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2020 @ 06:08pm

  He's not wrong

  Considering he was talking specifically about cloud infrastructure, he's right. Google and Amazon are the other big players in cloud services. Nintendo is doing their own thing for online (sort of), and Sony has actually partnered with Microsoft on this. His statement in context really should come as no surprise.

• On the post: Too Many Streaming Exclusives Is Already Starting To Piss Users Off

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2019 @ 05:17pm

  Re: Re:

  As a counterpoint, this whole streaming mess is actually why I stick with Netflix. Netflix doesn't have it on streaming? Then I can get it shipped to me on disc. Doesn't matter who owns the streaming rights, they've already proven in court that no one can stop them getting and distributing the physical media. Of course, for me, being able to watch it immediately isn't a big deal, so I have no problem waiting for the disc to arrive in my mailbox before I get to watch it.

• On the post: Authors Take Copyright So Seriously They Hides Jokes In Their Copyright Notices

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2019 @ 05:53am

  "They hides jokes?"

  Tricksy, those authorses is!

• On the post: This Is Why We Can't Have Fun Things: The Copyright Dispute Over Lord Buckethead's UK Political Career

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 31 May, 2019 @ 04:48pm

  Re: Re:

  He's a little too extreme for me. I'm thinking of casting my vote for Kevin Phillips Bong of the Slightly Silly Party.

• On the post: Hollywood's Kinder, Gentler DRM Didn't Even Last A Decade… And Is Still Screwing Over Movie Fans

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2019 @ 05:12pm

  Re:

  I get so much crap for buying discs (be it movies, music, or video games) and not giving in to the inevitable, all-digital future. Yet this is exactly why I do. I don't trust companies to have my best interest in heart.

• On the post: How Microsoft Delayed A Wildly Popular Xbox Feature To Clean Up Its Wildly Unpopular Always Online Plans

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2017 @ 12:19am

  Re: Which executives got fired for such a blunder?

  Not quite. Then-Xbox chief Don Mattrick ended up stepping down after all the backlash to go head up Zynga.

• On the post: How Microsoft Delayed A Wildly Popular Xbox Feature To Clean Up Its Wildly Unpopular Always Online Plans

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2017 @ 12:36am

  What up find troubling is how many people were actually in favor of the original plan and were fine with turning their trading and resale rights over to Microsoft. In fact, many are using this news to make the argument that they should have not listened to the "whiners" and stayed the course, so that we could have had backwards compatibility sooner.
  
  Fortunately, they were enough of am minority that Microsoft backtracked, but I wonder how much longer that will remain true. Seems like more and more people are used to the idea of software being only a non-transferable license (just like on their cell phone that they spend so much time on).

• On the post: Lindsay Lohan's Parents Want Her To Sue A Senator Who Made Fun Of Lindsay

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2017 @ 11:31pm

  Re:

  Lindsay, is that you?

• On the post: Mormon Church Tries To Censor MormonLeaks Using Copyright, Streisand Effect Takes Over

  

  Yakko Warner ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2017 @ 10:29am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Do Mormons practice "Fair Game"?

  Re: #1
  
  This may be why they chose this particular document. Since copyright claims (valid or not) invariably lead to wider dissemination of the work, bringing a claim against this particular document acts as a test of their legal copyright status, where the fallout from the Streisand Effect is relatively benign.
  
  If they can show that their copyright claim is valid on this document, then they can enforce it on other documents that might be more damning without (or with less) Streisanding. If MormonLeaks prevails on Fair Use, then the LDS Church knows they have no legal recourse on this or other documents.

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