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Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces
derekmead writes: The most controversial parts of SOPA, an anti-piracy bill defeated in 2012 after a massive public outcry, may end up becoming de facto law after all, depending on the outcome in an obscure case that is working its way through the legal system without anyone noticing.
Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
The democrats passed the DMCA. They hate poor people being entertained. They want the poor to decide between food and happiness. I don;t know why they hate the poor.
They also want the poor and black to be exterminated. We now have more black babies being aborted than being born. This is because of liberal and democrats hate and want to kill black children while tricking them into voting for them.
Copyright has no clothes is how the saying goes.
Perpetual copyright - and make no mistake it is that by extension after extension - robs our culture of rich works that never were. If copyright was a sane term like 20 years then after those 20 years new authors could tell new stories in those universes and receive their own 20 year copyright on their flavors. But, no, better to let the tapestry rot away for a few pennies more a year.
Get a free book on the issues here: The Public Domain.
Shh.
Big Money *always* wins. Always. There's nothing that can be done.
Lawyers gonna weasel.
I hereby invoke the "he needed killkin' " laws Texas is alleged to have, and suggest it is both moral and correct in the defense of our rights to shoot every asshole associated with the copyright cartel.
You're welcome.
Now get on with it.
(No, I'm not actually advocating murder)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
"Laws and ammendments introduced by stealth are invalid."
this, the TPP, pipa, DMCA, you name it and it all shows up buried in some obscure bill about dentures or highway reflector color. In america we could pass legislation on the width of an ear of corn and by the end of the vote it would have legalized nazi bingo parlour strippers and privatized nuclear cheesecake warfare.
our biggest, and most famous shit sandwich is the agriculture/farm bill. Its around 950 billion dollars and laced with nothing short of paint-thinner dreams like creating a national christmas tree board and a reality tv show to promote cotton in india. and this all happens because american politicians are the equivalent of a pre-paid chipotle gift card. Whatever you want, so long as you've paid.
Good people go to bed earlier.
This kind of potentially critical situation (the gov't being able to filter the internet at the behest of corporate interests) shouldn't require us all rising up and complaining. We elect people that should have our fiduciary interests at heart, and dome of our Congressmen do still care (the "boy scouts"). I know my rep personally and have spoken with him at length about various issues, and he does his best. Too many of them, however, are powerless at the feet of their own political parties and the money that elected them.
I find myself hoping and praying that somehow, some way, the right decision(s) will get made - but I find myself expecting being more and more cynical about the whole thing. The fundamentals of the system are broken to the point that the Supreme Court is the only truly effective governing body... To channel Jack Nicolson's Joker, "This government needs an enema."
First strong-arming European countries and down under (this is hidden in news articles as "under enormous pressure", those in the know need no more than that) to adopt web-blocking laws (I think Portugal is the latest with a 6-week end-to-end process?), then later pointing at the "international standards" to get this in the US and Canada as well. Disgusting, how the Copyright Lobby (a/k/a MAFIAA) works.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
... "is working its way through the legal system without anyone noticing", how did You hear about it?
... hard enough yet.
So far the MPAA has been losing everywhere for years. I don't see this going anywhere.
Lets say they get ISPs to do one thing or another. So what? Worst case you run your dirty traffic through a VPN.
This gets nutty enough and large portions of the web will go from the conventional internet to the dark web.
They need to offer their content on the streaming services and they need to do it at a competitive rate.
If they can't make money like that then cut production costs. That's all they can do.
Stopping the piracy isn't going to happen because the communications network is inherently uncontrolled and uncontrollable. The Iranians and the Chinese can't control their network... why would the stupid studios think they could control the US network? Ignorance.
You can control the system if you control everything. Run the internet like the north koreans and you can lock it down.
But that won't happen so the whole thing is pointless.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
And check out what the Farm Bill allows for Sulfuryl Fluoride. Powdered eggs can have 90% of the fluoride in toothpaste, without having to mention fluoride on the label.
Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces
You could have at least explained the bit in the headline about braces (the teeth kind) in the summary:
At first glance, ClearCorrect v. ITC looks pretty banal. It’s a case about a 3D printing model file for invisible braces. ClearCorrect, an Invisalign competitor, had a subsidiary in Pakistan create 3D models of braces, which it then sent from Pakistan to the US over the internet. ClearCorrect then 3D-printed the braces in its Texas offices, a move that might infringe Invisalign patents. (The validity of the patents is being disputed in both court and at the US Patent & Trademark Office.)
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
http://i.imgur.com/DNXzNCy.jpg
...just bury them inside crap-tonnes of legalese. Hey it works with EULAs!
Apparently you can use it against the government as well.
This is an abuse of law that exploits the fact that no-one has time. It's TLDR law. Rather than make the intent of the law obvious by passing a bill with all the intents laid out we break it up into itty-bitty pieces and hope that the judge wasn't looking when we slide one into the conversation. i.e. Someone turned the temperature up a bit too much with SOPA so we'll find another way to boil the frogs.
Of course even bills contains itty-bitty pieces of irrelevant legislation. A sub-law inside the public law that's tantamount to billy club enforceable steganography from a sociopath. The world has been fucked for a long time now...
exploited that. A and piss Cockt4il. The reaper BSD's of business and was
Dead people stop taking actions that harm you or otherwise interfere with what you want to do.
The problem is that there is a multitude of ways to determine what people deserve.
someone releases open source code that scans teeth and auto-generates STL files for your personal 3D printer? Might be a fun project.
I've heard of another case were the MPAA was getting an order against "all third parties" to block a website they didn't like. This looks a lot more limited: Align Technologies says ClearCorrect is performing a patented process in Pakistan to evade Align's US Patent, and the ITC is ordering ClearCorrect (not third parties) to stop receiving the models which are supposedly the results of this process. Whether this is or is not within the ITCs jurisdiction, it doesn't look like wide-ranging SOPA-like powers.
What do you call 1000 dead lawyers? A good start!
Always leave them wanting more.
If it only was so. That's why lawyers exist, so people may even pester you after you got rid of them.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Ok I read it, Bulshitl..
What is this, Highschool. Is the ITC our principal??
instead of blocking them, why dont the patent holders take arms and go after them themselves??
This seems way to protracted,
MPAA when are you going to learn, the actions you promoted/comitted against your own in the past has now come home to haunt and take away your shady business practices..
Have you really Fu*ced so many people in the industry, that they themselves to whom you seek to protect are refusing your services and thus surfaced your real modisoperandi??
Is your group really a bunch of punks?
Look at Microsofts stragety dealing with piracy.. they have been successful.. Whats your problem?
go away
So long dental plan!
In America, an obscure agency can impose a constitution-defying law against the will of millions of Americans, upon them. Why oh why is it so difficult then for millions of Americans when faced with these draconian laws to Go All NRA All Over The MPAA? Surely they know the order of the boxes and when to use which. We have tried soap, we have tried ballot. This is jury. After this its ammo.
It is natural evolution. In time the European founded countries (including the USA, Canada, Australia) will collapse in on themselves and the Asian tigers will rise to the top. In 30 years China and India will be out sourcing work to Americans for half of what is paid in their own countries. The Philippines will be sourcing Au pair's from American and Canada (because they like their cute accents, fat asses, and pasty skin). Savor the luxuries of the present as you head down this dark path.