What I'd like to know is how automatically deleting stuff that isn't downloaded for a fixed period of time gets used as evidence of support for piracy.
Any geek even remotely familiar with basic optimization will consider this a blatantly obvious storage saving technique and it's hardly a pirate move. In other areas we call it age based caching. Even DNS and HTTP do it.
I say it's high time we stop turning voir dire into moron parties where lawyers are afraid to have geniuses on the jury.
Sadly, if bottled water companies had enough lobbying power this would probably be a viable reality.
Time and time again big business has proven that it will do whatever it can get away with to make money, and ethical and sometimes even legal impediments prove to be no real obstacle.
My heart bleeds for you, but you are exactly the sort of person that people much WORSE than pirates would exploit to push sopa through.
Look at the big picture.
Look also at UMG's blatant attempt to stifle competition with a frivolous takedown against mega upload, and use it as a shadow of what would be to come if the MAFIAA got its way.
Oh, I should probably mention that someone looking to take your share of the market may well plant evidence on your site and then use SOPA to get rid of you.
Just because a property owner isn't allowed to shoot burglars doesn't mean it's magically ok for the burglar to steal.
What's right and what you can get away with are two entirely different things.
And personally, if the fear of being shot to pieces is the only thing that will make a burglar stand back and think twice about robbing me blind, bring on the guns.
Arrogant thieves who feel safe stealing because they know their victims can't legally fight back just makes my blood boil.
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Showing the dirty little peasants their place.
They already were.
UMG's attack was just a subtle warning to the defiant peasants.
According to the swedish courts, neither are torrent sites.
And no clause will EVER stop you from getting SUED. All it can do is prevent you from losing in court.
Of course since you still have to pay an arm and a leg to defend yourself the balance of justice still tilts in favor of the rich.
What I'd like to know is how automatically deleting stuff that isn't downloaded for a fixed period of time gets used as evidence of support for piracy.
Any geek even remotely familiar with basic optimization will consider this a blatantly obvious storage saving technique and it's hardly a pirate move. In other areas we call it age based caching. Even DNS and HTTP do it.
I say it's high time we stop turning voir dire into moron parties where lawyers are afraid to have geniuses on the jury.
Why should asia bother to trade for them when their government can just steal it through espionage anyway?
"We don't give a shit" would be them passing it anyway.
This is far closer to "how DARE you stand up to us!"
This is not apathy, this is retaliation for contempt of our corporate overlords.
Indeed.
Your own ass is more valuable than the garbage they try to sell me.
Sadly, if bottled water companies had enough lobbying power this would probably be a viable reality.
Time and time again big business has proven that it will do whatever it can get away with to make money, and ethical and sometimes even legal impediments prove to be no real obstacle.
Interesting that megaupload got nailed so soon after they tried to fight back against UMG's frivolous youtube takedown.
I smell a rat and suspect someone's trying to avoid giving megaupload an edge in their lawsuit.
So either
1. Prosecute everyone bleeding into it without an FCC license
2. Demand a refund for the slice of spectrum
Sucks to be the victim of a thief who returned garbage and got you stuck with it.
It's like the thief gets away with it and the store doesn't get burned for accepting it.
Bullying vendors into coughing up patent royalties might count.
*tags you as a shill by using an army of shills*
This won't filter out shills.
It'll just reward those who are quicker with the shotgun.
Give the guy a break.
He already sold his soul, that silver is all he has left to live on.
Voluntarily releasing it into the public domain would probably at the very least constitute an implicit copyright license.
Actually, you'll get into a legal fight and whoever has the most money to throw at congress will wind up owning both versions.
Of course it doesn't.
We don't get to be bought and sold.
We can just be taken by force.
The only remedy against pirates is for them to burn in hell later.
There is nothing to be done by mere mortals.
My heart bleeds for you, but you are exactly the sort of person that people much WORSE than pirates would exploit to push sopa through.
Look at the big picture.
Look also at UMG's blatant attempt to stifle competition with a frivolous takedown against mega upload, and use it as a shadow of what would be to come if the MAFIAA got its way.
Oh, I should probably mention that someone looking to take your share of the market may well plant evidence on your site and then use SOPA to get rid of you.
Just because a property owner isn't allowed to shoot burglars doesn't mean it's magically ok for the burglar to steal.
What's right and what you can get away with are two entirely different things.
And personally, if the fear of being shot to pieces is the only thing that will make a burglar stand back and think twice about robbing me blind, bring on the guns.
Arrogant thieves who feel safe stealing because they know their victims can't legally fight back just makes my blood boil.
Seriously, WTF?
Don't we have something in the constitution about, I dunno, ex post facto laws?
What about all those people who copied or derived from formerly public domain works that are now under copyright again?
The purpose of SOPA was to placate the elite.
You are not part of the elite.
You will therefore fail.
Don't you know that selective prosecution and political corruption go hand in hand?
What would help is allowing us to use negative votes as well as positive ones.
You're a pedophile because you won't support capital punishment for it.
And with a 22000 percent ROI in the form of tax breaks, that gravy train is pretty much hauling its own coal.
A convenient side effect is that their control of the media makes sure their lobbying efforts dodge any competition.