"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Normally I'd agree with you but... the 4th amendment doesnt. You cant charge a property with a crime. You can only charge people with crimes. Thus such seizures could very well be illegal. The problem is that it's hard to fight back when they've taken everything and you have nothing to pay a lawyer with (unless you are a lawyer yourself).
More than likely the 'Authors' arent involved but the 'Publishers' are the ones with complaints. That said what they can do is just keep bogging you down in DMCA complaints.
It almost looks like it was an orchistrated effort on the part of the copyright lobby to mass-complain on a single site to get it shut down.
What he should do is just redirect everyone to tuebl.com:)
This isnt about drops in the bucket this is about Copyright Lobby's war chest...
73,685 Students (UofT) * $27.50 = $2,026,337.50 / per year
That is being given to hostile entities that may just come by and sue anyways. Sorry but UofT and Western Ontario did their students a great disservice by selling them out to the copyright lobby. Honestly, if I was in either of these schools I'd be transferring and encouraging everyone else to transfer to.
Cool I'll just copy the iPad and slap a second button on the face. That should be good enough to avoid a lawsuit. I shall call this button ORANGE. It will also do nothing useful. It's just there so people can compare apples to oranges.
Using an automated process to spit out DMCA notices is like driving a car with a blindfold on. It's not illegal until you run someone over:)
Also a temporary take down can have a lasting effect on a business or personal reputation. As well you could always make a claim for pain and suffering too... That's always popular in court cases.
Funny thing the whole pigs being unclean/unsuitable for consumption comes from ancient times because pork spoiled much faster than cow or goat or whatever. People who ate it got sick and thus they thought their gods did not want them eating pig.
I would argue that you cant have 'good faith' when there is no human oversight involved. Thus punching in a bunch of keywords into some automated process and having it generate automated DMCA notices in a 'spray and pray' fashion is tantamount to walking around with a loaded firearm and when it accidentally discharges and kills someone you claim it was an accident (good faith) rather than murder (FRAUDULANT CLAIM)
"This is akin to not holding the Post Office liable for what people mail, or the phone companies liable for what people say."
No this is akin to FRAUD. It'd be like me saying I'm Warner Brothers and going and cleaning out their bank accounts.
PS: Maybe if the DMCA included fines and penalties for takedown notices that are illegitimate they might not be as prone to using automated tools that work on a 'spray and pray' philosophy... Also if any of these people were unfairly targeted by DMCA notices should sue Warner Bros for damages and such.
Actually even police officers will not bother with a speeding ticket unless they are doing usually 20km/h over the limit. They wont even stop people who are doing only 10km/h over the limit because the calibration of vehicle spedometers has an error rate of potentially +/5km/h. Thus the guy who's driving through a school zone seeing 40km/h on his spedometer could actually be doing 45km/h because of the margin of error involved in the vehicle spedometer calibration.
I also suspect that radar guns and the like also have a calibration setting or margin of error that they are permitted. I would imagine this is within 5 km/h as well which would explain the reluctance of police officers to stop someone who is only marginally speeding especially when they could do much better by stopping the jackass going 40km/h over the speed limit.
If you're close enough that you can be in the margin of error it's very easy to get a ticket thrown out. Cops dont want to waste their time with tickets that wont stick. Also marginal speeders are not the danger on the roads. It's the jerks that treat the streets as their own personal highway.
Even cheques are reversable... Why do you think most companies only take cheques with 2 forms of ID. It's so they can get you in court if you screw them over.
Ofcourse they are also reversable so that if say the merchant does something like add a 1 infront of78.28 you can reverse it as the fraud it is.
Too Big to Fail... The only thing that's too big to fail is their egos. Which should have been taken down a few pegs when they went to the government begging for money.
So while Hotz didn't directly contribute to piracy or even came out against it, the opening up of the console has allowed it.
One thing that might have Sony worried is that the PS3 is technically a software Blu-Ray player, and having this key might make it possible to hack that functionality to allow more widespread copying of movies, too.
So tough shit. Better get started on a PS4 bitches the PS3 is as good as dead for media conglomerate purposes.
Slashdot Mirror
No it's a cash grab... we need a trillion dollars to encrypt the barcodes.
"Corporations are People"
I forget who said it but I'll restate it "I'll believe that when a corporation is executed in Texas" :P
Duh... if they dont recognize International Law then they really shouldnt have any right to extradite people.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Normally I'd agree with you but... the 4th amendment doesnt. You cant charge a property with a crime. You can only charge people with crimes. Thus such seizures could very well be illegal. The problem is that it's hard to fight back when they've taken everything and you have nothing to pay a lawyer with (unless you are a lawyer yourself).
This would be awesome.
Put it all for the public to see.
More than likely the 'Authors' arent involved but the 'Publishers' are the ones with complaints. That said what they can do is just keep bogging you down in DMCA complaints.
It almost looks like it was an orchistrated effort on the part of the copyright lobby to mass-complain on a single site to get it shut down.
What he should do is just redirect everyone to tuebl.com :)
This isnt about drops in the bucket this is about Copyright Lobby's war chest...
73,685 Students (UofT) * $27.50 = $2,026,337.50 / per year
That is being given to hostile entities that may just come by and sue anyways. Sorry but UofT and Western Ontario did their students a great disservice by selling them out to the copyright lobby. Honestly, if I was in either of these schools I'd be transferring and encouraging everyone else to transfer to.
Link to the torrent file for those who hit the slashdotted website. Viva La Bittorrent!
http://bit.ly/x5gtHe
If Slashdotted get it from the torrent...
http://bit.ly/x5gtHe
It might be up on www.tuebl.com soon if the site remains down much longer.
Yeah the website is temporarily down due to slashdot...
LOIC got nothing on Slashdot :D
Also I read somewhere that if oil hits $200/barrel the price of fuel will negate a big portion of the Chinese wage advantage.
We the customers also have no obligation to buy their made in china crap...
If only boycotting made in china was easy enough to pull off.
Ofcourse not there are even apps for android that discourage drunk dialing by making you solve math problems before you phone/text people :)
Cool I'll just copy the iPad and slap a second button on the face. That should be good enough to avoid a lawsuit. I shall call this button ORANGE. It will also do nothing useful. It's just there so people can compare apples to oranges.
Problem is how do you put a company in jail for up to 7 years...
Perhaps I should have used a car based analogy...
Using an automated process to spit out DMCA notices is like driving a car with a blindfold on. It's not illegal until you run someone over :)
Also a temporary take down can have a lasting effect on a business or personal reputation. As well you could always make a claim for pain and suffering too... That's always popular in court cases.
Funny thing the whole pigs being unclean/unsuitable for consumption comes from ancient times because pork spoiled much faster than cow or goat or whatever. People who ate it got sick and thus they thought their gods did not want them eating pig.
I would argue that you cant have 'good faith' when there is no human oversight involved. Thus punching in a bunch of keywords into some automated process and having it generate automated DMCA notices in a 'spray and pray' fashion is tantamount to walking around with a loaded firearm and when it accidentally discharges and kills someone you claim it was an accident (good faith) rather than murder (FRAUDULANT CLAIM)
"This is akin to not holding the Post Office liable for what people mail, or the phone companies liable for what people say."
No this is akin to FRAUD. It'd be like me saying I'm Warner Brothers and going and cleaning out their bank accounts.
PS: Maybe if the DMCA included fines and penalties for takedown notices that are illegitimate they might not be as prone to using automated tools that work on a 'spray and pray' philosophy... Also if any of these people were unfairly targeted by DMCA notices should sue Warner Bros for damages and such.
Actually even police officers will not bother with a speeding ticket unless they are doing usually 20km/h over the limit. They wont even stop people who are doing only 10km/h over the limit because the calibration of vehicle spedometers has an error rate of potentially +/5km/h. Thus the guy who's driving through a school zone seeing 40km/h on his spedometer could actually be doing 45km/h because of the margin of error involved in the vehicle spedometer calibration.
I also suspect that radar guns and the like also have a calibration setting or margin of error that they are permitted. I would imagine this is within 5 km/h as well which would explain the reluctance of police officers to stop someone who is only marginally speeding especially when they could do much better by stopping the jackass going 40km/h over the speed limit.
If you're close enough that you can be in the margin of error it's very easy to get a ticket thrown out. Cops dont want to waste their time with tickets that wont stick. Also marginal speeders are not the danger on the roads. It's the jerks that treat the streets as their own personal highway.
Unless you're planning a cross country trip the 40-80 mile range on most cars is sufficient for day to day driving.
Even cheques are reversable... Why do you think most companies only take cheques with 2 forms of ID. It's so they can get you in court if you screw them over.
Ofcourse they are also reversable so that if say the merchant does something like add a 1 infront of78.28 you can reverse it as the fraud it is.
Too Big to Fail... The only thing that's too big to fail is their egos. Which should have been taken down a few pegs when they went to the government begging for money.
So while Hotz didn't directly contribute to piracy or even came out against it, the opening up of the console has allowed it.
One thing that might have Sony worried is that the PS3 is technically a software Blu-Ray player, and having this key might make it possible to hack that functionality to allow more widespread copying of movies, too.
So tough shit. Better get started on a PS4 bitches the PS3 is as good as dead for media conglomerate purposes.