The MAFIAA doesn't give a shit if you're innocent or not.
A recent slashdot article established that at the very least their lawyers sure don't.
The only way MAFIAA is going to die is if their settlement gravy train goes away. People need to start fighting back and raising a big stink. That recent guy who got sued for giving out self help packets is a blessing and people need to give him their business.
The nice thing about laws that make everyone a criminal is that the government gets to pick and choose who gets prosecuted. And knowing the right people certainly helps.
The bully is giving the teacher a cut of the money he takes from you.
And seriously, the real world isn't much different from the playground. What starts out as bullies testing their muscles escalates to companies flexing their legal strength, and countries proving their military might.
The entire world is about power and who has the most of it. When people are "looking out for number one", power is the only thing that actually works.
Throwing sand in someone's face could quickly get you detention/trade sanctions, but if that's all you have, may as well use it if you're going to be raped anyway.
And by the way, don't give me any crap about independents. Corporate owned media would make sure that they'd never see the light of day. Furthermore, anyone so much as advocating changing the status quo would have a massive smear campaign dumped on him by that same media.
The only hope a good leader would have of being elected is for an informed public to vote for this guy from an unknown party, who doesn't have financial backing, and who probably has been smeared to hell and back so you'd have to take a huge leap of faith to even consider him.
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I think it's still sad that SCOTUS has to let obvious errors go unchallenged because they can't afford to fry the smaller fish.
What should really be done is to deal with the obscene level of load before it bubbles to the top.
Maybe switching to a loser pays system would make the load go away enough that judges could focus and relax on their cases.
Sounds like something ISPs actually wouldn't mind obstructing.
Simple, you pay big bucks for a static IP.
v4 isn't going away until the internet industry has milked it for all it's worth.
v4 as a hoarded asset will prove to be quite lucrative.
The MAFIAA doesn't give a shit if you're innocent or not.
A recent slashdot article established that at the very least their lawyers sure don't.
The only way MAFIAA is going to die is if their settlement gravy train goes away. People need to start fighting back and raising a big stink. That recent guy who got sued for giving out self help packets is a blessing and people need to give him their business.
It's a shame that the legal system is so backlogged in the first place that SCOTUS has to make such decisions to begin with.
The nice thing about laws that make everyone a criminal is that the government gets to pick and choose who gets prosecuted. And knowing the right people certainly helps.
And the fact that SCOTUS has to shed load just to avoid drowning in paperwork is a testament to the abuse of the legal system.
Anything that allows *anyone* to inspect my encrypted traffic without a warrant automatically gets my stamp of disapproval.
Quite a point.
Barring such a trademark, it would be Steve Jobs, and not Apple, that has standing to sue.
Also, if we give ISPs the authority to quarantine infected computers, what's to stop that power from being subverted by the MAFIAA?
Or lulled into a sense of helplessness.
It's still ICANN's fault for letting them get away with it.
Unfortunately the evil bit *won't* get set in the event of mere incompetence.
Here's an idea:
Start suing the crap out of them if you can prove they're deliberately mishandling your packages.
Fragile stickers inducing deliberate mishandling is tortious conduct at best, and criminal mischief at worst.
So they oversell electric capacity just like they oversell bandwidth?
Sounds like we could use the same solution right?
Sounds like the same sort of crisis here with our own auto industry bailouts, yes?
Maybe you mean fatwa.
Grammar is like ECC.
In theory no.
In practice, all the law does is serve as a tiebreaker in a fight that isn't settled before trial.
Finally, someone nails exactly why the status quo isn't going to change.
Not to mention that the big corporate machines get that cash in the first place by exploiting legal loopholes that already do exist.
Let me guess.
The bully is giving the teacher a cut of the money he takes from you.
And seriously, the real world isn't much different from the playground. What starts out as bullies testing their muscles escalates to companies flexing their legal strength, and countries proving their military might.
The entire world is about power and who has the most of it. When people are "looking out for number one", power is the only thing that actually works.
Throwing sand in someone's face could quickly get you detention/trade sanctions, but if that's all you have, may as well use it if you're going to be raped anyway.
But if they did that they wouldn't be able to exploit the baseless settlement gravy train.
It's a two party system.
We had to vote for one of them.
And by the way, don't give me any crap about independents. Corporate owned media would make sure that they'd never see the light of day. Furthermore, anyone so much as advocating changing the status quo would have a massive smear campaign dumped on him by that same media.
The only hope a good leader would have of being elected is for an informed public to vote for this guy from an unknown party, who doesn't have financial backing, and who probably has been smeared to hell and back so you'd have to take a huge leap of faith to even consider him.
Postal employees are government agents and therefore subject to 4th amendment restrictions.
They are not "private"
I was riding the anti-mafiaa rage train at the time.
Getting stung with a DMCA notice brought me to my senses.