Comments on: Does Copyright Make Sense? http://legalgeekery.com/2008/12/19/does-copyright-make-sense/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:24:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: allocate http://legalgeekery.com/2008/12/19/does-copyright-make-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-898 allocate Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:04:57 +0000 http://legalgeekery.com/?p=645#comment-898 @Dan, Haha, I've definitely been following that thread. I'm also amused at how a direct, unedited quote somehow equals biased reporting. Epic thread, right there. @Dan, Haha, I’ve definitely been following that thread. I’m also amused at how a direct, unedited quote somehow equals biased reporting. Epic thread, right there.

]]> By: Dan http://legalgeekery.com/2008/12/19/does-copyright-make-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Dan Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:26:06 +0000 http://legalgeekery.com/?p=645#comment-674 If it makes you feel any better, in my "Law and the Internet" exam we had an essay question about privacy and subpoenas/civil procedure for ISPs in which the plaintiff's husband in a divorce case was cheating on her with prostitutes he bought on the internet through myspace. I spent the entire essay question (in addition to my substantive answers) padding it with various synonyms for hookers, insulting the philandering defendant, calling him all sorts of insults etc. I figured fuck it, why not. Nobody can tell me with a straight face that this doesn't happen in real-world complaints; nearly every complaint I've ever read while clerking has had some sort of description that the adverse party or opposing counsel is nigh upon the devil in their evil ways. In other news, <a href="http://www.gameslaw.net/2008/12/18/jack-thompson-update-2/" rel="nofollow">Jack Thompson alleges that I have no journalistic credibility.</a> If it makes you feel any better, in my “Law and the Internet” exam we had an essay question about privacy and subpoenas/civil procedure for ISPs in which the plaintiff’s husband in a divorce case was cheating on her with prostitutes he bought on the internet through myspace. I spent the entire essay question (in addition to my substantive answers) padding it with various synonyms for hookers, insulting the philandering defendant, calling him all sorts of insults etc. I figured fuck it, why not. Nobody can tell me with a straight face that this doesn’t happen in real-world complaints; nearly every complaint I’ve ever read while clerking has had some sort of description that the adverse party or opposing counsel is nigh upon the devil in their evil ways.

In other news, Jack Thompson alleges that I have no journalistic credibility.

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