It's really lovely when you consider that given the 22,000 percent ROI on lobbying, this is basically a feedback loop that keeps everyone else too poor to compete with their own "campaign contributions"
I bet most of the reps taking point on cramming this down our throats already have their campaign contributions safely tucked away in their bank accounts, along with cushy jobs waiting for them in the private sector.
Explain to me how your analogy applies to the fact that there was a hobson's choice.
A better analogy might be buying a 4kt diamond and a 22kt bracelet, but suddenly the gold in the bracelet winds up on the ICE's contraband list and you can't go on vacation unless you give up the 22kt bracelet.
What's more, the jeweller won't give a refund on it.
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It's really lovely when you consider that given the 22,000 percent ROI on lobbying, this is basically a feedback loop that keeps everyone else too poor to compete with their own "campaign contributions"
I bet most of the reps taking point on cramming this down our throats already have their campaign contributions safely tucked away in their bank accounts, along with cushy jobs waiting for them in the private sector.
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Way to go guys.
You didn't actually block access. From the looks of it you just used javascript to load a blackout page post load.
To be honest I think the lawyers got paid off to throw that case in the toilet.
Makes you wonder why that mass email never made it into court during the class action lawsuit.
I wish someone who bought an extended warranty sued over OtherOS's removal.
Explain to me how your analogy applies to the fact that there was a hobson's choice.
A better analogy might be buying a 4kt diamond and a 22kt bracelet, but suddenly the gold in the bracelet winds up on the ICE's contraband list and you can't go on vacation unless you give up the 22kt bracelet.
What's more, the jeweller won't give a refund on it.
They don't fail because consumers hate them.
They fail because producers hate them.
The game manufacturers are the one that have the real power, and getting snubbed by them for not locking down the users.
In turn, open consoles look shitty because game vendors won't contribute to the game library, which obviously hurts selection.
I'd say that there's a problem with a database vulnerable to this sort of cascading failure to begin with.
Sounds like they got paid off from corn growers and engine makers alike.
It's not a boondoggle.
It just wasn't designed to do what you thought it was.
Namely provide back-door subsidies to Big Corn.
Maybe make it so they don't have to steal to survive.
Do that, and you can shitcan the thieves that keep stealing.
Unfortunately a lot of it is just plain unadulterated greed of people who only care about themselves.
Considering that many thieves use the illegality of deadly force as justification to
When thieves can brazenly say "nya nya nya u can't touch me unless you catch me and I'll only go to jail for awhile so nyaaa" things need to change.
Moral suasion doesn't work against someone who doesn't give a flying rat's behind about anyone but themselves.
The fact that they're causing a few orders of magnitude more damage than the copper they're stealing is worth proves how much they care.
The piracy problem is like a castle.
DRM is the stink bomb.
It doesn't cause any damage to the castle at all, all it does is piss off the poor peasant consumers who have to put up with it.
Hardly quiet.
He proclaimed the disbarment a legal nullity based on some fictitious technicality.
I very much want to see him tossed in the clink for contempt of court.
It's quite relevant because the MAFIAA is also the one that sponsored SOPA and PIPA in the first place.
For awhile I thought it was their cheeky attitude towards the uber patriotic SOPA and PIPA acts.
Remember that ex MAFIAA lawyers are now packing the DOJ.
Remember, Obama is in the MAFIAA's pockets.
How do you think so many of their attorneys got jobs in the DOJ?
This isn't just law and order.
It's a war against piracy.
Let's call a spade a spade here and see it for what it really is.
And after doing that, we can see DRM for what it is, as an ugly weapon that causes craploads of collateral damage.
On number 3, what about simply charging them with perjury if they submit a false complaint?
You know, the same kind of perjury you swear under when you make a counter-notice under the dmca?
Funny fact: Testify got its name from the original penalty for perjury. If you got caught you got castrated.
Youtube should only be liable if they obstruct copyright holders.
Damages are on whoever uploads the damn thing.
A happy middle ground might be to require Youtube to fork over any ad revenue they collect on the video.
You mean like how UMG took down the megaupload video?
I think expecting collateral damage to be minimized is reasonable.
I hate DRM because of the inconvenience it causes people who aren't actually pirates.
If you want to nuke a castle you don't lob a stink bomb at it.