You're wrong. This has infuriated a lot of people, myself included. Livejournal is heavily based around fandom. Now a lot of these fandoms are, to put it lightly, fucked up. But these are tightly knit communities, and one usually has a link to another in some way, shape or form.
(Full disclosure: I'm a permanent account holder, have been since before Six Apart took over. That means I paid $150 to have paid rights for life. So I'm a regular LJ user, though I don't use it for fandom reasons).
Richard Blumenthal doesn't screw around. He's not doing this for political grandstanding or anything of that sort. He takes his job seriously, he refuses to step up to a more "prestigious" position, and he sees EVERYTHING through. I would HATE to get on his bad side, but as a Connecticut resident, I LOVE having him as our Attorney General.
The Playstation 2 controller is truly the greatest controller of all time. It's got the analogue sticks in a natural location, the buttons feel right, there's no problems switching from digital to analogue... everytime I buy a PC controller, I look to get it closest I can to a PS2 controller. Even the 360 controller fails in some regards, due to the fact that a lot of games read the back shoulder buttons as analogue. That screws up controls in some games like Pro Evolution.
So when some redneck moron finds out he's staying with a gay guy because roommates.com had to change things to continue to be protected by Section 230 and he therefore didn't know, and inevitably kicks the everliving shit out of him, does that mean Roommates.com is also responsible for the shit-kicking?
And hate crimes are bullshit, too. If I beat the shit out of someone, it doesn't matter if they're white, black, aquamarine, it doesn't matter; I'd say some form of "hate" was involved. If a white man beats up a black person, that's a hate crime, but if a black person beats up a white man, that's a rap video. Very hypocritical.
It's one thing for murder, but for piracy? Especially since these are all ostensibly civil cases anyway, that puts the onus of restraint on the RIAA; they've shown they laugh in the face of that word.
You know how I think the RIAA should set up honeypots? We can see a honeypot because we know that the average file size of an mp3 is about 4MB, right? I think they should record a four minute song doing nothing but singing about how the downloader fucked up, and he was going to jail or something. "Hi-diddledy dee! A convict's life for thee! You thought you'd get your music quick, but you have fallen for our trick!" Just four minutes of shit like that. That would be the tits.
But how do you define "attempted" piracy? Is downloading a honeypotted torrent the only thing? Or is just logging into the Pirate Bay or ISO Hunt enough?
To be fair, both sides are very good at flip-flopping and rhetoric. When Clinton wanted to go into Bosnia, he received a lot of Republican opposition because "lol we have to take care of our own first!". These were the same ones that fell for the puppet act when we wanted to get into Iraq on nothing more than conjecture.
It's a partisan issue, and each side is as fucked as the other.
Sadly, perception is reality nowadays, and the perception is that anyone that owns a copyright is doing whatever they can to fuck their customers over any way they can with Draconian EULAs, the death of the public domain, DRM, dragnet litigation, you name it. That perception makes people overreact, and that brings in the other extreme. Now, we have two groups who want everything, no compromise, no exceptions, engaged in this massive pissing contest, and the only ones needing an umbrella are the moderates like us in the middle.
Here's my view: the one and only point of trying to find a vulnerability is to find the vulnerability. You don't care how it's done, you want that vulnerability found while you still have SOME control over it instead of after it's been out in the wild, and you have to patch around it. What's the best way to find your vulnerabilities? Have outsiders working towards a prize. Not only is it good publicity, looks great on the winner's resume, you find just about everything wrong with your product. It's truly win-win.
Anything that is the most thorough way of eventually getting the programme secure is the best way to go about it. Period.
See, my whole view is this: I don't WANT people knowing what I bought. So therefore, I should have the choice not to participate. Companies making it mandatory as a condition for viewing their site? Nope, I have a problem with that, and will not participate, either by blocking those particular cookies, or just not going to the website.
If I want to buy something? I'll Google it on my time. I don't need help from Doubleclick or Falkag.
Are you kidding? Of COURSE he's going to post it! Here on/., "pro copyright" equals "pro Microsoft", "Pro DRM" and "Anti-America". This is a perfect opportunity to have another foam-at-the-mouth fest at the expense of the RIAA, Microsoft, etc. It's probably the whole reason it's up at CNet anyway, just to get readers angry.
Where does it stop? Once you get comfortable with data mining, will you also have to get comfortable with more than just your IP attached? Will you be comfortable with someone having a full consumer database of John Doe, instead of just 10.10.10.220? Will you be comfortable with your profile being viewable to everyone that wants it? Will you be comfortable being positively unable to get away from Capitalism even for a second?
I'm not trying to put on a tin foil hat by any means; if it was just "hey, so many people like Coke over Pepsi!", I'd be cool. But anything further than that, and I view it as a slippery slope.
Welcome to America. Here, we're getting ready to attack Milt Romney - a conservative Mormon - because his wife made a donation to Planned Parenthood when she was 24, which I think was in the 70s.
And yes, it should lower the markup on the DVD's because they don't need to recoup their (real world physical) losses due to theft.
Wishful thinking. The general public has already accepted the prices they're paying for DVDs. They're not going to lower prices just because a few less people are stealing. That's going to be straight profit, and the general public won't be any wiser about it; they'll just keep consuming.
Fuck Baseball. Consumption is the new pastime of America!!
A lot of problems with the DMCA would be solved if the people receiving DMCA takedown notices would RTFA when they receive them. I could DMCA just about anyone or anything, and the ISP of the victim wouldn't even read it; all they'd see is "ew, possible litigation", and *poof*! Offending content gone.
No, this isn't about any sort of legitimate concern; this is a political move.
Warner - and the MPAA by extension - want control of Canada the way they have control of America. This is a political tool to get publicity, and get a few ignorant members or a Tory Parliament to bite and draft up a version of the DMCA for Canada.
No matter where you go to watch streaming content - be it a movie trailer or a Sportscentre clip - you already get advertising that you cannot skip past. The only thing new is that Disney is forcing Cox's hand, but in reality, this has been in effect for awhile.
Didn't he also say that Google was a house made of cards?
And yet, he knows what Apple's business is going to do, but he doesn't know what a monopoly is (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/steve _ballmer.html).
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As for me, I already stated my thoughts quite clearly in my own journal entry.
(Full disclosure: I'm a permanent account holder, have been since before Six Apart took over. That means I paid $150 to have paid rights for life. So I'm a regular LJ user, though I don't use it for fandom reasons).
Richard Blumenthal doesn't screw around. He's not doing this for political grandstanding or anything of that sort. He takes his job seriously, he refuses to step up to a more "prestigious" position, and he sees EVERYTHING through. I would HATE to get on his bad side, but as a Connecticut resident, I LOVE having him as our Attorney General.
The Playstation 2 controller is truly the greatest controller of all time. It's got the analogue sticks in a natural location, the buttons feel right, there's no problems switching from digital to analogue... everytime I buy a PC controller, I look to get it closest I can to a PS2 controller. Even the 360 controller fails in some regards, due to the fact that a lot of games read the back shoulder buttons as analogue. That screws up controls in some games like Pro Evolution.
So when some redneck moron finds out he's staying with a gay guy because roommates.com had to change things to continue to be protected by Section 230 and he therefore didn't know, and inevitably kicks the everliving shit out of him, does that mean Roommates.com is also responsible for the shit-kicking?
And hate crimes are bullshit, too. If I beat the shit out of someone, it doesn't matter if they're white, black, aquamarine, it doesn't matter; I'd say some form of "hate" was involved. If a white man beats up a black person, that's a hate crime, but if a black person beats up a white man, that's a rap video. Very hypocritical.
It's one thing for murder, but for piracy? Especially since these are all ostensibly civil cases anyway, that puts the onus of restraint on the RIAA; they've shown they laugh in the face of that word. You know how I think the RIAA should set up honeypots? We can see a honeypot because we know that the average file size of an mp3 is about 4MB, right? I think they should record a four minute song doing nothing but singing about how the downloader fucked up, and he was going to jail or something. "Hi-diddledy dee! A convict's life for thee! You thought you'd get your music quick, but you have fallen for our trick!" Just four minutes of shit like that. That would be the tits.
But how do you define "attempted" piracy? Is downloading a honeypotted torrent the only thing? Or is just logging into the Pirate Bay or ISO Hunt enough?
I don't know why Congress doesn't just stop fucking around and ban thoughtcrime.
To be fair, both sides are very good at flip-flopping and rhetoric. When Clinton wanted to go into Bosnia, he received a lot of Republican opposition because "lol we have to take care of our own first!". These were the same ones that fell for the puppet act when we wanted to get into Iraq on nothing more than conjecture.
It's a partisan issue, and each side is as fucked as the other.
Sadly, perception is reality nowadays, and the perception is that anyone that owns a copyright is doing whatever they can to fuck their customers over any way they can with Draconian EULAs, the death of the public domain, DRM, dragnet litigation, you name it. That perception makes people overreact, and that brings in the other extreme. Now, we have two groups who want everything, no compromise, no exceptions, engaged in this massive pissing contest, and the only ones needing an umbrella are the moderates like us in the middle.
Here's my view: the one and only point of trying to find a vulnerability is to find the vulnerability. You don't care how it's done, you want that vulnerability found while you still have SOME control over it instead of after it's been out in the wild, and you have to patch around it. What's the best way to find your vulnerabilities? Have outsiders working towards a prize. Not only is it good publicity, looks great on the winner's resume, you find just about everything wrong with your product. It's truly win-win.
Anything that is the most thorough way of eventually getting the programme secure is the best way to go about it. Period.
See, my whole view is this: I don't WANT people knowing what I bought. So therefore, I should have the choice not to participate. Companies making it mandatory as a condition for viewing their site? Nope, I have a problem with that, and will not participate, either by blocking those particular cookies, or just not going to the website.
If I want to buy something? I'll Google it on my time. I don't need help from Doubleclick or Falkag.
Are you kidding? Of COURSE he's going to post it! Here on /., "pro copyright" equals "pro Microsoft", "Pro DRM" and "Anti-America". This is a perfect opportunity to have another foam-at-the-mouth fest at the expense of the RIAA, Microsoft, etc. It's probably the whole reason it's up at CNet anyway, just to get readers angry.
Where does it stop? Once you get comfortable with data mining, will you also have to get comfortable with more than just your IP attached? Will you be comfortable with someone having a full consumer database of John Doe, instead of just 10.10.10.220? Will you be comfortable with your profile being viewable to everyone that wants it? Will you be comfortable being positively unable to get away from Capitalism even for a second?
I'm not trying to put on a tin foil hat by any means; if it was just "hey, so many people like Coke over Pepsi!", I'd be cool. But anything further than that, and I view it as a slippery slope.
Welcome to America. Here, we're getting ready to attack Milt Romney - a conservative Mormon - because his wife made a donation to Planned Parenthood when she was 24, which I think was in the 70s.
Wishful thinking. The general public has already accepted the prices they're paying for DVDs. They're not going to lower prices just because a few less people are stealing. That's going to be straight profit, and the general public won't be any wiser about it; they'll just keep consuming.
Fuck Baseball. Consumption is the new pastime of America!!
Let's call another election! We seem to like that sort of thing lately...
(Transplanted Canadian living in America speaking)
A lot of problems with the DMCA would be solved if the people receiving DMCA takedown notices would RTFA when they receive them. I could DMCA just about anyone or anything, and the ISP of the victim wouldn't even read it; all they'd see is "ew, possible litigation", and *poof*! Offending content gone.
Isn't the UK thinking strongly of a Real ID system?
No, this isn't about any sort of legitimate concern; this is a political move.
Warner - and the MPAA by extension - want control of Canada the way they have control of America. This is a political tool to get publicity, and get a few ignorant members or a Tory Parliament to bite and draft up a version of the DMCA for Canada.
The message is clear: assimilate or else.
No matter where you go to watch streaming content - be it a movie trailer or a Sportscentre clip - you already get advertising that you cannot skip past. The only thing new is that Disney is forcing Cox's hand, but in reality, this has been in effect for awhile.
Didn't work for Bormann.
If I'm not mistaken, the Supreme Court mandated that any and all sodomy laws were unconstitutional.
Didn't he also say that Google was a house made of cards?
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And yet, he knows what Apple's business is going to do, but he doesn't know what a monopoly is (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/stev
I think Steve just needs a hug.
And Vista's horridness was the catalyst that the Lusers needed.