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...of SCIENCE! posted:That's not so much legal as it is copyrightholders choosing not to prosecute. Just like Japan!
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Yeah, I've known a few people who got C&Ds. It's usually if you get too big. They usually don't prosecute, though, they tell you to stop. Then if you continue, they prosecute.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:That's not so much legal as it is copyrightholders choosing not to prosecute. All you have to do is draw enough attention to get slapped with a C&D letter, like the dude who drew Little League getting shut down after he got in trouble for sending dick pics to women. I know I wouldn't want to be associated with a creepy pervert if I had a company. And by the way, isn't C&D issued because if the owner doesn't protect their rights it's possible to lose them in court, at least if you can prove that they didn't give a poo poo about their property in various instances. I think I remember reading something about how they usually let free fan work slide and go after money making stuff because it's way easier to argue about intelectual property abandon if they let other parties profit from their IPs. (That or I'm confusing this with something else) Explosive Tampons has a new favorite as of 04:17 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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No, C&D is issued because they really really do want you to stop doing whatever it is you're doing. It takes a lot of time and instances for a media property to get to the point of losing protection due to genericization, it probably hasn't ever happened. A big rear end company is probably never going to lose a case where they are accused of engaging in abandonment and thus their IP is free to use by others wholesale.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:That's not so much legal as it is copyrightholders choosing not to prosecute. All you have to do is draw enough attention to get slapped with a C&D letter, like the dude who drew Little League getting shut down after he got in trouble for sending dick pics to women. He's still making his comic so I'm not sure that C&D ever properly materialized
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I wasn't sure if I should have posted this but there you go. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaibio/open-qpcr-dna-diagnostics-for-everyone?DISRUPTING-IS-THE-NEW-BUZZWORD-DIDNT-YOU-GET-THE-MEMO Excerpts which prompted me to post this here: "Open qPCR is disrupting DNA diagnostics." "However with machines costing $20,000 and up, Real-Time PCR (also known as qPCR) is simply unaffordable where it is needed most. We aim to change that with Open qPCR, a system available at a fraction of their typical cost." -a 50.000 USD kickstarter. It really raises a couple of flags but I'll let people more knowledgeable with that kind of stuff to chime in. 
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Japanese Phone Box posted:I wasn't sure if I should have posted this but there you go. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaibio/open-qpcr-dna-diagnostics-for-everyone?DISRUPTING-IS-THE-NEW-BUZZWORD-DIDNT-YOU-GET-THE-MEMO
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Waffleman_ posted:Either way, this thing's probably gonna get taken down by WB in a week. And you would be right! I just checked it again and the project was taken down.
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Diet Conan Doyle posted:And you would be right! I just checked it again and the project was taken down. This is why you never sell your fanfiction! You got cocky, kid! You reached for the stars and fell down to Earth in a blaze of legal paperwork.
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Diet Conan Doyle posted:And you would be right! I just checked it again and the project was taken down.  
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Japanese Phone Box posted:I wasn't sure if I should have posted this but there you go. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaibio/open-qpcr-dna-diagnostics-for-everyone?DISRUPTING-IS-THE-NEW-BUZZWORD-DIDNT-YOU-GET-THE-MEMO Just getting their custom enclosure machined in any kind of serious quantity would be significantly more than 50k. Their fancy rear end 800x480 capacitive touch display alone is prohibitively expensive for that money. Figure its around $10 per display at an order quantity of 1000 (which would be a pretty killer deal), that's 20% of their target for only 1000 units. And that's just the screen.
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Plus it's 16 wells, you can't do much with 16 wells.
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Dunno how much it had raised when first posted a couple of pages back, but that Cat Ear headphone thing?  Two and a half million dollars. For loving cat ear headphones. I used to think that I have ethics, but if I ever come up with some ridiculous piece of poo poo that people will nevertheless line up to buy, I'm running with it.
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mobby_6kl posted:Dunno how much it had raised when first posted a couple of pages back, but that Cat Ear headphone thing? Furries, audiophiles, and iPhone accessories are all proven goldmines, is it really surprised that putting all three together meant a huge payday? The fact that it was so successful guarantees that we'll be seeing plenty of inexpensive Chinese knockoffs made, possibly before they even finish manufacturing and shipping the original headphones.
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There's no way they won't be huge, clunky pieces of poo poo. I expect a whole lot of backpacks are just going to devour these.
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I expect weeaboos rather than furries/audiophiles are the target market for those headphones, since there are far far more of them. Also all the marketing would seem to suggest it with the vaguely anime stylings and all-Asian models. But I'm sure these will look just as kawaii on a 300lb acne ridden American child. I await all the reviews that say they are absolutely terrible pieces of poo poo with dreadful build quality and sound quality because this is so clearly a cash in.
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I can't wait to enable more assholes to blast their ponyville chiptune remixes in public areas
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Furries, audiophiles, and iPhone accessories are all proven goldmines True, but no audiophile would be caught dead shelling out for something this obviously chintzy. There's no way those speakers are gonna be anything better than the $15 battery-powered pop-up speakers that you find in mall kiosks and I don't think it'd be unfair to extend that standard of expectation to the headphone drivers too. But they light up and look like cat ears so obviously they're worth $2.5 million in preorders to nobody worth knowing.
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unpacked robinhood posted:I can't wait to enable more assholes to blast their ponyville chiptune remixes in public areas The speaker designs on the ears are just fakes, the actual speakers go over the real ears
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Nintendo Kid posted:The speaker designs on the ears are just fakes, the actual speakers go over the real ears their page states the exact opposite
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unpacked robinhood posted:their page states the exact opposite This is an indiegogo project. Always assume they're lying on specifications, and the cheapest way to get the same look is what'll actually come out.
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mobby_6kl posted:Dunno how much it had raised when first posted a couple of pages back, but that Cat Ear headphone thing? Not only that, but they've since extended their deadline by another 2 weeks (your pic says Nov 7th, Indiegogo now says Nov 22nd) so they can milk even more money out of suckers.
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mobby_6kl posted:Dunno how much it had raised when first posted a couple of pages back, but that Cat Ear headphone thing? Pretty much same here. I mean I went numb with the OUYA but poo poo like this just screams "TAKE MY MONEY I DON'T DESERVE IT" through a goddamn bullhorn.
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Hey, I've seen that before In the hit 2001 movie Josie & The Pussycats 
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HJE-Cobra posted:Hey, I've seen that before In that movie they didn't broadcast the sound through speakers in the ears. It just played the music in your ears like normal headphones. Also they brainwashed you into becoming a consumer whore. I think the headphones in this kickstarter are able to do that before you even put them on judging by the amount of donations.
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My sister took her "extra" headphones from being an extra in that film. They're foam. Therefore slightly worse/better than the crap the indiegogo crap being peddled here. Somewhat related, "Josie and the Pussycats" is actually pretty good and is a p.good commentary on 90's/00's consumerism.
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It's the most consumerist anti-consumerism film I've ever seen, and that's beautiful.
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Pomp posted:It's the most consumerist anti-consumerism film I've ever seen, and that's beautiful. It is actually amazingly anti-consumerist to the point that they accepted not a single penny for product placement, even though they had a ton what you might think is modern day product placement. Any time you see a product in that movie, it's literally just there to be a "look at this crazy loving bullshit" parody, even though watching it with a 2014 mentality it doesn't look like anything unusual. This pretty cool that they took the name of a worn out 60's cartoon, made a movie that had nothing to do with the original IP and it was still a good movie.
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Pretty sure someone posted this earlier but the Vrase, the case that turns your phone into VR is now being investigated by Scottish police for fraud http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-29915439 quote:Modifications to improve the headsets had caused a delay in delivering the product, the CEO said. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2041280918/vrase-the-smartphone-virtual-reality-case   people in the comments section getting restless 
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Turn your phone camera on and you can see in THREE DEE
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Alan Smithee posted:Pretty sure someone posted this earlier but the Vrase, the case that turns your phone into VR is now being investigated by Scottish police for fraud My vision is augmented. in a very silly and impractical fashion. OldMemes has a new favorite as of 21:53 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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Nov 9, 2014 21:42
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Cool I can experience life though an instagram filter finally
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im the corneas full of glass shards from a ruined smartphone the first time he face plants
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There are people who would unironically enjoy something like that.
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Evil Fluffy posted:There are people who would unironically enjoy something like that. 
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Alan Smithee posted:Pretty sure someone posted this earlier but the Vrase, the case that turns your phone into VR is now being investigated by Scottish police for fraud So what exactly does this do that Google Glass or Oculus Rift doesn't?
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