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  1. Re:66 ? by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Making Sense of Software EULAs

    The sky is falling.

    (Stuart Little could beat Chicken Little's [CENSORED].)

  2. Sonny Bono owns you by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Use Google Earth To Track Santa

    Why would we need to track shipments of a Tim Allen movie produced and published under the Disney label if we're boycotting DisneyCo due to abuses of copyright law? Even people who consider the DMCA's circumvention ban not worth an MPAA boycott are boycotting DisneyCo due to its role in copyright term extension.

  3. Sonny Bono owns you by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Use Google Earth To Track Santa

    Why would we need to track shipments of a Tim Allen movie produced and published under the Disney label if we're boycotting DisneyCo due to abuses of copyright law? Even people who consider the DMCA's circumvention ban not worth an MPAA boycott are boycotting DisneyCo due to its role in copyright term extension.

  4. Re:From the link... by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Xbox 360 Not Hi-Def Enough?

    What, did we just fall out of the sky?

    No. In Soviet Disneyland, sky falls on YOU!

  5. Is there such a thing as "mouse-related progress"? by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Pixar For Sale?

    What is it with Jobs and resisting mouse-related progress?

    Anything related to The Mouse is not Progress. Remember that The Walt Disney Company was probably the biggest corporate backer of a piece of legislation called the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Does keeping all works from 1923 on locked up for another 20 years promote Progress, especially given that such Progress includes works that build on other works?

  6. Nintendo is not like the Disney I know by tepples · · Score: 1 · on The Nintendo Conference In-Depth

    Nintendo is a lot like Disney.

    At least Nintendo doesn't make distorted adaptations of popular folk tales and then try to use trademark law and copyright term extensions to deter otherwise non-infringing and/or non-commercial competition. (There was the SuicideGirls incident, but that was Nintendo's law firm's mistake, not Nintendo's.)

    Nintendo is a lot like Disney. 9 times out of 10 they put out the highest quality stuff around

    May be true of Nintendo but not of Disney. Of Disney's last five canonical animated films (Atlantis, Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, and Home on the Range), only Lilo & Stitch got overwhelmingly good reviews.

  7. Disney buys Ubisoft => no Lumines for you by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative · on Ubisoft Would Consider Hollywood Buyout

    Disney has a poor track record with regard to respecting the intellectual commons, even more so than other MPAA studios. If Disney buys Ubisoft, then advocates of the intellectual commons will have to buy Verticube instead of Lumines.

  8. Re:Disney image by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge

    I for one don't mind their Disney status in videogames, as long as they are capable of pumping out Aladdin, The Lion King

    Don't forget the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.