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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.
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.
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.
You could kill those that commit those acts and their family. Then those that replace them. Repeat until a learning effect sets in.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
... 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.
Now if someone was to film this hypothetical murder.. which would be longer, the time in prison or the length of the copyright?
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"What do you have when you have a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand."
"The problem with lawyers is that the actions of 99% of them give the other 1% a bad name."
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John
Did you expect the people who wanted this legislation to stop wanting it just because it didn't go through the first time? They're always going to keep pushing for it, regardless of how many times it gets voted down, so you're always going to have to keep opposing them.
Take a look at it from a different angle. Gay people didn't stop pushing for marriage rights just because they had been denied in the past or ballot measures were unsuccessful. Why should you finding it surprising that the people who want SOPA or similar laws would quit just because it didn't work the first time?
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.
yes. it was written by the two major 'content' industry associations, and the legislators were paid to pass it.
And both democrats and republicans were paid to have it passed.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
That's dopey. You've got to get information from places other than pro-life websites.
But even if you use the numbers cited by the pro-life websites (and cited NO WHERE ELSE), you'll see that live births outnumber abortions by at least 6-1. If you use census data for births, you'll see that it's more like 10-1. And that's if you accept the total number of black abortions the pro-life websites have pulled right outta their ass.
You are welcome on my lawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The total number of abortions (including in the black community) has been dropping every year since 1980. EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.
https://www.guttmacher.org/med...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Punish? How's that? Please explain.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
i think the religious right and and the fiscal right actually intersect on this issue.
they both believe that charity is not the purview of government.
The DMCA was a badly flawed law, passed for some pretty good reasons by technologically challenged legislators.
Where "pretty good reasons" = "briefcases full of cash"
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
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.
Then your going to be partially disappointed. The "elite" have already planned for this "revolution", that's why we're seeing all this Confederate flag crap. They know the situation is getting worse, so they've gotten the population to fight amongst themselves. What SHOULD be is "poor" black citizens and "poor" white citizens should be banding together to defeat their common enemy. Instead they are waving / destroying / fighting over a flag of a failed insurrection. The "poor" whites actually think the GOP is "on their side" since the elites are white too; but they aren't considered human by the ultra-wealthy. Newscorp is involved with both the MPAA and stirring racial tensions.
I did neither say that it should be done nor that I would do it. I only wanted to point out that there IS actually something that can be done.
I am simply fed up with people claiming there is "no alternative". There always is. It may not be pleasant and it may not be what you want, but there is ALWAYS at the very least one alternative.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Summary of Vital Statistics 2012 The City of New York, Pregnancy Outcomes, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Vital Statistics
Table 1: the total number of live births, spontaneous terminations (miscarriages), and induced terminations (abortions) for women in different age brackets between 15 and 49 years of age. The table also breaks that data down by race â" Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black â" and also by borough of residence: Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island.
The numbers show that in 2012, there were 31,328 induced terminations (abortions) among non-Hispanic black women in New York City. That same year, there were 24,758 live births for non-Hispanic black women in New York City. There were 6,570 more abortions than live births of black children.
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well you can understand the impulse, if government is taking my money to force me to provide for those less fortunate, i can't do it voluntarily even if i want to... because, you know, no money.