When we deny free-speech to one particular group of people we eradicate the justification for our own and the downward slide towards totalitarianism begins. First we block the neo-nazi's then the white supremacists and who's next?
Who is going to decide what should or should not be added to the blacklist? What if the person adding sites to the blacklist has an opposing opinion to that of your own, what if they are a Muslim and you are a Jew, what if they find violent video games offensive but you enjoy playing those games, what if you hate opera but they love it. This list is potentially limitless, the Human race is so diverse that any attempt to have a Human decide what is or is not desirable content is a complete failure of logic. The blacklist is inherently flawed due to the vast differences in interest and opinions within Human society.
According to Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation, the Australian government passes it off as "not censorship" because all they're doing is "refusing classification." Unfortunately, anything without a classification cannot be sold in Australia. So, they're not banning it, technically, they're simply making it impossible to sell in a legal manner.
However youtube does not sell access to it's video's.
Brilliant idea! You just put every would-be independent musician out of business. With them you took every startup, small, and medium business which produces anything currently protected by IP laws.
Bullshit there are plenty of independent musicians and small businesses getting along just fine without resorting to vigilante tactics.
Content produces can go to court and request that the ISP be asked to disclose information about a certain IP address. The ISP would then have to identify the user if the court feels they have proper grounds for doing so.
The problem with the court system is a thing called "evidence" which the film industry does not want to have to provide, they want everyone to take their assumptions as fact.
Here's a better idea: Force the movie/music industries to provide an attractive/convenient alternative at a realistic price. eg. You pay $2 to watch a movie on demand.
The best way to do this is for every one to just ignore them. Seriously, I have never known a failing industry to bitch, whine and act so unprofessionally as the film and music industries. We should all ignore them and let the free market take it's course, they will either adapt or die as every other business must do.
Restricting Petrol usage would crash the economy and plunge us back to the third world. No one want's to rule a shit hole.
It's quite simple, control the speech and you have absolute power. With out free-speech a ruler is 100% immune from any threat to their power. This is just another step towards controlling the exchange of ideas and information.
We already have a "piracy code of conduct" it's called The Law. ISPs should not be conducting vigilante operations at the whim of private enterprises. If copyright holders wish to stop a user from file-sharing they must take that user to court and deal with them under the judicial oversight of the courts.
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When we deny free-speech to one particular group of people we eradicate the justification for our own and the downward slide towards totalitarianism begins. First we block the neo-nazi's then the white supremacists and who's next?
Who is going to decide what should or should not be added to the blacklist? What if the person adding sites to the blacklist has an opposing opinion to that of your own, what if they are a Muslim and you are a Jew, what if they find violent video games offensive but you enjoy playing those games, what if you hate opera but they love it. This list is potentially limitless, the Human race is so diverse that any attempt to have a Human decide what is or is not desirable content is a complete failure of logic. The blacklist is inherently flawed due to the vast differences in interest and opinions within Human society.
According to Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation, the Australian government passes it off as "not censorship" because all they're doing is "refusing classification." Unfortunately, anything without a classification cannot be sold in Australia. So, they're not banning it, technically, they're simply making it impossible to sell in a legal manner.
However youtube does not sell access to it's video's.
Really, if you like I could begin to list independent bands operating in my city.
So you deny the existence of independent musicians and small business?
Sorry but your going to lose this one.
Brilliant idea! You just put every would-be independent musician out of business. With them you took every startup, small, and medium business which produces anything currently protected by IP laws.
Bullshit there are plenty of independent musicians and small businesses getting along just fine without resorting to vigilante tactics.
Content produces can go to court and request that the ISP be asked to disclose information about a certain IP address. The ISP would then have to identify the user if the court feels they have proper grounds for doing so.
The problem with the court system is a thing called "evidence" which the film industry does not want to have to provide, they want everyone to take their assumptions as fact.
Write them on computer and you just shove them to some obscure location and never read them again.
Sounds like my last Wordpress blog.
If your internet connection is being "listened in" on, then your phone calls are being listened in on too.
Use Skype.
Here's a better idea: Force the movie/music industries to provide an attractive/convenient alternative at a realistic price. eg. You pay $2 to watch a movie on demand.
The best way to do this is for every one to just ignore them. Seriously, I have never known a failing industry to bitch, whine and act so unprofessionally as the film and music industries. We should all ignore them and let the free market take it's course, they will either adapt or die as every other business must do.
Because the film industry won't take a "Fuck-off" for a No.
Restricting Petrol usage would crash the economy and plunge us back to the third world. No one want's to rule a shit hole.
It's quite simple, control the speech and you have absolute power. With out free-speech a ruler is 100% immune from any threat to their power. This is just another step towards controlling the exchange of ideas and information.
Internet not existed!!!
Oh you mean pre-civilisation?
The ISP is more the equivalent of the iron ore mine. Bit-torrent trackers are the Knife manufacturer. ect.....
More like the murder victims sitting down with the iron ore miners to discuss how to reduce knife violence.
We already have a "piracy code of conduct" it's called The Law. ISPs should not be conducting vigilante operations at the whim of private enterprises. If copyright holders wish to stop a user from file-sharing they must take that user to court and deal with them under the judicial oversight of the courts.
But their atoms live on.
As if anyone's going to share a phone number online, this isn't a credit card we're talking about.
Where the towers turned on or off at the time of the study.
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/11099.html
But free distribution leads to more sales, however no one who's business model is built on suing people will admit that.
It wasn't doing that before.
I suspect someone woke up to it.
Not in South Australia
That's gold, traffic is on its way.
An act of terrorism is anything the government doesn't like. What ever you do don't threaten to blow up an airport on twitter.
The UK public can report 'terrorism-related' Web sites to authorities for removal from the Internet
So I assume they are going to post the urls to /.
They can "instruct" the jurors all they want not to go online for the length of the trial, but that's not going to stop too many people...
I don't see how they can reasonably expect people to cease existing. Without the internet there's nothing.