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[Reudh]

Which one are you with, Blarg? I'm with iiNet, and i'm living in a fairly new region, so not all the wires have been placed yet.

[Blargityblarg]

Optus, and the wires around here are absolutely shitful; they're really old and honestly need replacing. We had spotty service for months or years before we yelled at enough various residents of India and the Phillipines to get them to send a technician and replace the connections to our house.

[darklord92]

I believe this is relevant:

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/piracy

[SalmonGod]

One more example of why intellectual property law is fucking horrible.

Not that I care about Vampire Diaries in the slightest, but this kind of thing just pisses me off.

In short, the person who originally invented the series (L.J. Smith) is being fired by her publisher and the franchise is going to be taken over by a ghost writer with "created by L.J. Smith" printed on the covers, implying without directly stating that it's still being written by her.

[Leafsnail]

Happens quite a lot in the music industry (you get artists telling fans not to buy their latest track or to pirate it if their publisher has screwed them over) although I haven't heard of an example that bad for books before.

[SalmonGod]

Happens constantly in every artistic industry.  My course on intellectual property law gave me plenty of horror stories and warnings.  You really can't sign anything in relation to your work with a large business if you want to retain any personal relationship with the thoughts in your own head.

[Luke_Prowler]

Case in point: Call of Duty and Activision

EA games does this to pretty much anything they've so much as touched

[darklord92]

I believe this is relevant on Canadian soil http://balancedcopyright.gc.ca/eic/site/crp-prda.nsf/eng/h_rp01153.html#amend   people are calling it the Canadian version of sopa. Honestly it's not that bad. it's even ALLOWING us to do copying and backups legally. It's letting us put remixes of songs on you-tube without any problems from the law, and yet people are flipping out at the digital lock law. which is already illegal to crack :/   

[Neonivek]

I thought the USA already recended their digital lock law.

[Nadaka]

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2696127&cid=39182697

This is a humorous post only tangentially related to "piracy". That is all.