If this allows reimbursement of attorney's fees for patent troll attacks, will it induce charities like the EFF to bankroll a defense attorney if it can recover its legal fees from the plaintiff?
Because big corporations have more rights than individuals.
Even completely ignoring the blatant corruption and bribery involved in politics, the corporation having a superior legal budget gives them a very strong de-facto immunity to many things you'd get hanged for as a person.
Apparently even if you successfully challenge the "back breaking straw" copyright alert that triggers a mitigation notice, you have to defeat at least half of ALL notices to get the mitigation removed.
Kinda like getting your license suspended after getting your 6th ticket, but then having to overturn not only your 6th ticket but also 2 other tickets to get your license reinstated.
Jesus carrying his own cross is nothing more than a symbolic gesture when the authorities were prepared to drag him to his doom by force kicking and screaming.
Similiarly, if Aaron hadn't offed himself the feds would still be after him like a pack of rabid wolves.
The only reason the feds didn't get a piece of him is because the grim reaper got it first.
They're politicians, all of them competing in a gated community where only the elite's chosen few are even allowed on the playing field in the first place.
You cannot be a politician without selling your soul to the corporate sector.
You're guilty because they're your provider and they said so.
Even if you're innocent all they have to do is cite your status as an "at will" consumer and they can exercise the right to have you piss off whenever they want, guilty or not.
No matter how hard you fight or how much you pay to defend yourself, all they have to do is say "get lost" and they can pull your plug whenever they want to anyway.
"Yeah you're innocent but you're kind of a pain in the ass so we're shutting you down anyway."
There is no true sacrifice of blood and souls when robots take the place of soldiers in battle. In my opinion, that brings them up to WMD in terms of being able to inflict loads of casualties with little risk to the aggressor.
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Quite, and somehow I think that this latest SLAPP is an attempt to derail it.
I think GP was referring to getting whacked by someone with something to lose.
That sounds like a tying arrangement.
I think GP meant that you get a bundle discount if you get something with the internet.
In my case you just get charged a premium if you go without phone or cable.
Don't shove the "you made your own bed now sleep in it" argument down our throats when all the carriers colluded to not give us any other choice.
I think the exemption measure is designed entirely to placate public fury over the DMCA.
The root problem is that the DMCA is law in the first place. It shouldn't have to be an exception to begin with.
Sounds like the same bullshit excuse the Apple v. Samsung jury used to disregard prior art.
Monsanto probably has a patent on it.
If this allows reimbursement of attorney's fees for patent troll attacks, will it induce charities like the EFF to bankroll a defense attorney if it can recover its legal fees from the plaintiff?
They had a somewhat vigilant network administration department.
Pulling something like that would likely have gotten me expelled for circumvention.
Because big corporations have more rights than individuals.
Even completely ignoring the blatant corruption and bribery involved in politics, the corporation having a superior legal budget gives them a very strong de-facto immunity to many things you'd get hanged for as a person.
If they start blocking outbound DNS afterwards I'm going to be pissed.
My college wifi did that and it made their dns filtering software damn near bulletproof.
Apparently even if you successfully challenge the "back breaking straw" copyright alert that triggers a mitigation notice, you have to defeat at least half of ALL notices to get the mitigation removed.
Kinda like getting your license suspended after getting your 6th ticket, but then having to overturn not only your 6th ticket but also 2 other tickets to get your license reinstated.
Indeed.
Jesus carrying his own cross is nothing more than a symbolic gesture when the authorities were prepared to drag him to his doom by force kicking and screaming.
Similiarly, if Aaron hadn't offed himself the feds would still be after him like a pack of rabid wolves.
The only reason the feds didn't get a piece of him is because the grim reaper got it first.
In the criminal realm, this balance is achieved by something called a search warrant.
They're politicians, all of them competing in a gated community where only the elite's chosen few are even allowed on the playing field in the first place.
You cannot be a politician without selling your soul to the corporate sector.
You're guilty because they're your provider and they said so.
Even if you're innocent all they have to do is cite your status as an "at will" consumer and they can exercise the right to have you piss off whenever they want, guilty or not.
No matter how hard you fight or how much you pay to defend yourself, all they have to do is say "get lost" and they can pull your plug whenever they want to anyway.
"Yeah you're innocent but you're kind of a pain in the ass so we're shutting you down anyway."
I would much rather have The Linux Foundation get itself on par with Microsoft in getting keys implemented by OEMs.
Giving MS a kill switch is just asking for trouble.
Contrary to your implication, an unarmed person faced with a knife wielder is not completely defenseless.
If you don't believe me I invite you to try to stab Chuck Norris.
It has nothing to do with SI.
They're only using SI as an excuse to puff up their numbers.
What the hell are you smoking?
Robots are not alive.
There is no true sacrifice of blood and souls when robots take the place of soldiers in battle. In my opinion, that brings them up to WMD in terms of being able to inflict loads of casualties with little risk to the aggressor.
Trespassing online is whatever a big corporation with an army of lawyers says it is.
Civil forfeiture is wonderful isn't it?
She's still the boss, and what the boss says goes.
Merits of the orders aside, whether employees choose to obey or not will say more about their competence than it will that of the CEO who issued them.