Comments on: Chapter 25 – Page 2

By: Borg

Borg — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:24:30 +0000

Fair Use isn’t an ill-defined law. It’s not a law at all. It is a legal defense that allows one to get away with copyright infringement under certain circumstances, and as such is composed of nothing more than a bunch of precedent layered over some general guidelines.

And while we’re on the general topic, the Xerox thing is due to trademark law, which is necessarily quite unforgiving. Trademark law allows you to protect the value of the names you put on your products, which stem entirely from the associations your customers hold, from your competitors selling bootleg products. If everybody uses “Xerox machine” to mean “generic photocopier” then the name “Xerox” isn’t worth the ink you write it with, since it just means “photocopier”, and you have zero protections for your worthless trademark.

By: MidnightDStroyer

MidnightDStroyer — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:50:51 +0000

Yep. Zork. Introduced in the very first of the Zork series.

By: MidnightDStroyer

MidnightDStroyer — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:48:46 +0000

OMG! Thai this man down & Pad him for hidden weapons!

By: MidnightDStroyer

MidnightDStroyer — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:46:16 +0000

Yeah, that’s real. Juicy Juice really is a thing.

By: MidnightDStroyer

MidnightDStroyer — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:44:14 +0000

Yep. Capitalism is what gives you the ability to go out & purchase the computer (or cell phone or whatever) of your choice. Capitalism is what brings you the internet & the the rest of the world with it.

And Capitalism is what gives the Hipsters the opportunity to go to Starbucks, drink outrageously-priced coffee & use their wifi connection so they can endlessly blog about the evils of Capitalism…
;)