I entered in "ausername" and "apassword" to see what page it takes me to and it asks for my name, address, credit card number, etc. If someone is stupid enough to put in their address, surely they're stupid enough to put in the correct credit card?
It is lying by omission to try to remove the information on youtube or any other website (the usernames and addresses are correct while the credit card numbers appear to be incorrect) as that would be censorship and is wrong. At least according to this anonymous coward and the mods who modded me troll. Its sad to see an example of my counterclaim up so quickly, although at least only the address is correct and it shouldn't hurt people financially (although I wouldn't want my address linked with my slashdot or ebay accounts).
The only tool needed is a DMCA takedown notice. They're cheap and easy to use, and companies like Google have a policy of always responding in the affirmative to them. Thankfully there's another cheap and easy response to them which is a counter-DMCA notice and it forces companies like Google to put the work back up (or at least allow the person to put it back up). The original company and/or person can do nothing except take the infringer to court, and Google is allowed to continue on as business allows.
With the law so bent towards media companies, you would think they'd stop bitching when companies like Google comply with the draconian laws.
There's more than just music on those sites you know. That's neither here nor there as its legal to download and upload music thanks to the CD tax. It can't be the CRIA unless they're simply abusing their power with bogus claims in which case they should be brought to justice.
Actually the blog has done CNN's trick (or is it Fox's trick?) in that they assert a fact that they cannot prove, and so had a question mark at the end. They haven't said the CRIA is responsible, they've ASKED if the CRIA is responsible.
At this point the only thing we know is that demonoid was hosted in Canada, is currently down and the admins of the website haven't made any official comment.
It simply makes no sense that CRIA would be responsible for this. The Canadian MPAA would make more sense as I believe they haven't blundered into the situation the Canadian professional music industry has.
Not just once, you could start your own CD printing factory and sell million of copies. This isn't how copyright law works. You can sell a copyrighted piece of work that you bought (such as a book) but only the original copy you originally bought (i.e. You can't start your own printing press and sell the book).
No it wouldn't. Censorship suggests that something in the public interest is being suppressed. Actually it only suggests the suppression of information. That's why we have self-censorship (Engaging in the censorship of oneself).
This is the trouble with many simplistic rants on Slashdot - because $FOO is considered a good thing, then $BAR must be "otherwise your opinion is inconsistent". Whereas anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows that it's not quite as clear cut as that, and someone's personal bank details are not the same thing as whether someone's business dealings are legal or not. As you say, simplistic rants are a problem. However I do not agree with you on the reason. When you make a universal statement (otherwise known as a blanket statement) all it takes is one counterexample to show that its incorrect. The problem with such simple statements is that when repeated often enough, people start to believe in them (which is why you'll see politicians constantly repeating themselves. If you say a lie often enough, people will begin to believe it). However by challenging them, you force the person to enunciate what they mean and so it helps avoid the problem of people believing something that the OP didn't intend to convey.
Alshithead regularly engages in producing child pornography.
So you're saying that in England you would win a lawsuit against me (unless you did and I proved it of course;)) whereas in America you'd lose (after all, my comment is vague enough that its impossible to disprove)? Sounds like England might have the slightly better system in this regard.
Tell that to the millions of people who have their private information stolen from financial companies and then placed online including usernames and passwords. After all, removing that would be censorship. I doubt many would call that the same moral level as lying by omission.
They would have done that even without Monsoon's infringement. So Monsoon hasn't incurred any additional costs for SFLC. The only punishment can be punitive, how much does the law allow for that?
I knew about noScript but didn't believe I needed to protect myself. Today more and more websites use javascript to help make information on websites more accessible (slashdot is a good example of this) so to disable them or manually allow all of them would be prohibitive. However after this I decided to install it and found not only Google-analytics and doubleclick.net. I don't feel like slashdot or either of these companies need they information they'd gain from running these scripts on me, so I'm not allowing them.
So there's one advantage to this NoScript advert;)
I'm really having a hard time seeing how Bill Gates being nominated for president is a relevant story to nerd tv shows... unless its going to be the premise of a new bad comedy?
Actually I dislike the non-tree sorting. if there was an e-mail client that reliably sorted by trees (Thunderbolt gets close some of the time, but stuffs up a lot of the time) I'd switch to that in a heartbeat over gmail.
Shouldn't Ebay be shut down for promoting both prostitution and bestiality? I wonder if they have the same ad for child pornography searches? If so that could definitely get them shut down couldn't it?
In a strange world that some might call Bizarro World, there are those who do things to help their fellow man. I know, its a bizarre concept, I've heard this world also rotates a blue sun and is a cube. So it might not even exist! But if so, I'd say that's the world Google is getting their translators from. If only Earth could be more like that mythical land.
I actually know someone who is a lecturer, and when he sets papers, goes on the relevant Wikipedia entries and inserts misinformation. Wow, what a crappy person going around vandalizing websites. Shame he rationalizes it to himself by doing it for education.
Wikipedia is good enough for personal information or simply a quick look, i.e. unimportant information, however I doubt it will ever become the encyclopaedia it supposedly hopes of becoming. However having said that, it is certainly an interesting experiment and look into human nature (or at least American nature) with this trust-based scheme simply making the experiment more interesting.
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Actually you're incorrect. It has been ruled legal with all sorts of other justifications booted on as well.
A quick Google search reveals this news article. That's as much effort as I'm willing to go to for an Anonymous Coward.
I entered in "ausername" and "apassword" to see what page it takes me to and it asks for my name, address, credit card number, etc. If someone is stupid enough to put in their address, surely they're stupid enough to put in the correct credit card?
It is lying by omission to try to remove the information on youtube or any other website (the usernames and addresses are correct while the credit card numbers appear to be incorrect) as that would be censorship and is wrong. At least according to this anonymous coward and the mods who modded me troll. Its sad to see an example of my counterclaim up so quickly, although at least only the address is correct and it shouldn't hurt people financially (although I wouldn't want my address linked with my slashdot or ebay accounts).
I thought Google Video hosted the files?
The only tool needed is a DMCA takedown notice. They're cheap and easy to use, and companies like Google have a policy of always responding in the affirmative to them. Thankfully there's another cheap and easy response to them which is a counter-DMCA notice and it forces companies like Google to put the work back up (or at least allow the person to put it back up). The original company and/or person can do nothing except take the infringer to court, and Google is allowed to continue on as business allows.
With the law so bent towards media companies, you would think they'd stop bitching when companies like Google comply with the draconian laws.
Actually the blog has done CNN's trick (or is it Fox's trick?) in that they assert a fact that they cannot prove, and so had a question mark at the end. They haven't said the CRIA is responsible, they've ASKED if the CRIA is responsible.
At this point the only thing we know is that demonoid was hosted in Canada, is currently down and the admins of the website haven't made any official comment.
It simply makes no sense that CRIA would be responsible for this. The Canadian MPAA would make more sense as I believe they haven't blundered into the situation the Canadian professional music industry has.
Alshithead regularly engages in producing child pornography.
;)) whereas in America you'd lose (after all, my comment is vague enough that its impossible to disprove)? Sounds like England might have the slightly better system in this regard.
So you're saying that in England you would win a lawsuit against me (unless you did and I proved it of course
Tell that to the millions of people who have their private information stolen from financial companies and then placed online including usernames and passwords. After all, removing that would be censorship. I doubt many would call that the same moral level as lying by omission.
They would have done that even without Monsoon's infringement. So Monsoon hasn't incurred any additional costs for SFLC. The only punishment can be punitive, how much does the law allow for that?
This is why I don't click on links in e-mails and bookmark important websites (so I can't typo the URL).
Had he gotten life the job offer would be less appealing I imagine.
I dunno. Let's ask victims of lock-picking burglars?
Actually it does. See Vodafone.
I knew about noScript but didn't believe I needed to protect myself. Today more and more websites use javascript to help make information on websites more accessible (slashdot is a good example of this) so to disable them or manually allow all of them would be prohibitive. However after this I decided to install it and found not only Google-analytics and doubleclick.net. I don't feel like slashdot or either of these companies need they information they'd gain from running these scripts on me, so I'm not allowing them.
;)
So there's one advantage to this NoScript advert
I'm really having a hard time seeing how Bill Gates being nominated for president is a relevant story to nerd tv shows... unless its going to be the premise of a new bad comedy?
Actually I dislike the non-tree sorting. if there was an e-mail client that reliably sorted by trees (Thunderbolt gets close some of the time, but stuffs up a lot of the time) I'd switch to that in a heartbeat over gmail.
Shouldn't Ebay be shut down for promoting both prostitution and bestiality? I wonder if they have the same ad for child pornography searches? If so that could definitely get them shut down couldn't it?
In a strange world that some might call Bizarro World, there are those who do things to help their fellow man. I know, its a bizarre concept, I've heard this world also rotates a blue sun and is a cube. So it might not even exist! But if so, I'd say that's the world Google is getting their translators from. If only Earth could be more like that mythical land.
Someone driving under the influence of marijuana and alcohol increases the likelihood of someone being killed.
Wikipedia is good enough for personal information or simply a quick look, i.e. unimportant information, however I doubt it will ever become the encyclopaedia it supposedly hopes of becoming. However having said that, it is certainly an interesting experiment and look into human nature (or at least American nature) with this trust-based scheme simply making the experiment more interesting.