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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 tortu…

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…

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.txstat…

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 a…

> 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 wit…

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 …

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 h…

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]

The guy you're replying to just gave you a reason to limit the supply of taxis: regulating them is expensive.

With a ratio of nearly 20:1, I don't even know that you can say "it seems" that women are scared away anymore.

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…

Absolutely perfect.

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 th…

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.

I don't know, but I hope they post a graph of the traffic spike.

Yeah. People seem to mistake "Auction House exists" with "Must cash out kids' college savings to buy new sword."

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.

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/US2…