No one is asking me to accept Julius Caesar into my life.
Whether or not a kind-hearted carpenter / illusionist existed 2000 years ago is not up for debate. Whether he is in any way related to a "god" is quite another matter.
Anyway, this is news for nerds, not a forum for bible bashers to push their beliefs down my throat.
The bain of my life for these past 12 years... dumbass websites who assume that because you hold a credit card in one country, you must BE in that country.
So people with credit cards don't travel abroad ?
People with credit cards automatically cancel them if they move overseas, destroying a great credit history and limit, just to make e-commerce easier ?
Yes, I have a UK credit card, but live in the Philippines... good to see your GeoIP lookup is working, look forward to you programming some common sense into that system soon !
By "found", I take it you mean in the rhetorical sense, because there has not been 1 scrap of physical proof in 2000 years that Jesus / Any Other God, actually exists.
10 results shown, 6 removed due to DMCA notices... by my reckoning, that means that 62.5% of the links to illegal copyrighted material ARE STILL ON GOOGLE !!!
Now are you telling me Google is so naive, that they don't know what "x men wolverine origin torrent" implies ?
Are do they just pay lip service to the DMCA requests they DO receive, and meanwhile leave over half the illegal links in plain view, reaping in adwords, sponsored links and other revenues.
Google are far worse than the Pirate Bay, you're just too blinkered to see it.
Yes, but therein lies the crux of the matter... the Swedish admins weren't obliged to takedown ANYTHING, as what they were doing was (and as far as I know, still IS), legal under Swedish law.
Now obviously sticking two fingers up at requests was possibly not the best way to handle things, a more gentile "please refer to Swedish law 123.456" might have been better suited to handle takedown notices.
But at the end of the day, they haven't actually broken any Swedish laws about copyrighted material, simply because they didn't copy any. This "aiding and abetting copyright infringement", whether you like the name of the website or what it stands for, is as I see no more insidious than Google's "spider everything and wait till we get a takedown notice", because for every 1 item that gets taken down, another 20 are left behind.
Google converts PDF, Powerpoint and Word Docs into HTML, and creates thumbnails of images scraped etc, (all format shifting without even the consent of the original owner). It does not simply host copies of HTML by a long shot.
And has been pointed out by the Pirate Bay admins themselves, American DMCA laws do NOT apply in Sweden.
YouTube, Google et al, have very heavy investment in the US, and hence have to keep the peace and respect US laws for those services hosted in US.
But as has been pointed out many times, Google and YouTube are opt-out... if dodgy content is found, you have to issue a DMCA takedown to get it removed... by then it's possibly TOO late, the content has already been disseminated. And for every takedown done, 10 more copies of the exact same thing will spring up and get indexed within the next 24 hours anyway, so the whole exercise is futile.
PirateBay was in essence opt-in, i.e. someonw had to upload the torrent file at some point, but as it's kind of difficult to sue everyone in the world (especially when you have no real concept of what a torrent file even IS), they went after the easy target.
I wonder how long it'll be before they go after Mininova, Isohunt and all the others... probably never, just like Napster, the PirateBay is a flagship "victory" for the ??IA, while at the same time not making a damn of difference in the long run.
"I spent the time reverse engineering where Apple puts the icons and how the caches work"
So you reverse engineered Apple's copyrighted software to use in your product (a clear BREACH of THEIR copyright), and you have the BALLS to whine about people "stealing 9 dollars" from you ?
Only if "using their service directly" includes loading doubleclick* and google* cookies, and the gs.js javascript tracking system, which you have no control over unless you actually install some kind of blocking mechanism on your browser. And bearing in mind that these two tracking devices are included on just about every major website in the world ?
They have records of probably everywhere you visit, not just when you make a search on google.com.
Oh please... lotteries mean lottery equipment, printing presses for scrathcards, digital terminals for outlets etc etc, with the winning operator awarded a contract by the government... are you tryng to tell me they haven't received kickbacks for that choice ?
Stop being so naive please, the vast majority of government departments now utilize private contractors, one for the deniability aspect when they fuck up badly, and two for the whole bribing^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbidding aspects which are wide open to abuse.
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I still owe that bastard who scammed my 4-banged Wrath !
I think the Buddhists might disagree with you there ...
No one is asking me to accept Julius Caesar into my life.
Whether or not a kind-hearted carpenter / illusionist existed 2000 years ago is not up for debate. Whether he is in any way related to a "god" is quite another matter.
Anyway, this is news for nerds, not a forum for bible bashers to push their beliefs down my throat.
It's a quote from Lethal Weapon 4, spoken by a Chinese no less. Damn mod needs a frontal labotomy ... or perhaps he's already had one !
"Flied lice ? It is fried rice, you plick !"
The bain of my life for these past 12 years ... dumbass websites who assume that because you hold a credit card in one country, you must BE in that country.
So people with credit cards don't travel abroad ?
People with credit cards automatically cancel them if they move overseas, destroying a great credit history and limit, just to make e-commerce easier ?
Yes, I have a UK credit card, but live in the Philippines ... good to see your GeoIP lookup is working, look forward to you programming some common sense into that system soon !
GRRR ... okay, rant over.
By "found", I take it you mean in the rhetorical sense, because there has not been 1 scrap of physical proof in 2000 years that Jesus / Any Other God, actually exists.
Ever heard of Compulsory Purchase Orders ?
You *never* really own the land, there's always the possibiity the Government can buy it out from under you at a paltry minimal valuation.
And then of course there's the Vogons ...
Yes, I did ...
10 results shown, 6 removed due to DMCA notices ... by my reckoning, that means that 62.5% of the links to illegal copyrighted material ARE STILL ON GOOGLE !!!
Now are you telling me Google is so naive, that they don't know what "x men wolverine origin torrent" implies ?
Are do they just pay lip service to the DMCA requests they DO receive, and meanwhile leave over half the illegal links in plain view, reaping in adwords, sponsored links and other revenues.
Google are far worse than the Pirate Bay, you're just too blinkered to see it.
Yes, but therein lies the crux of the matter ... the Swedish admins weren't obliged to takedown ANYTHING, as what they were doing was (and as far as I know, still IS), legal under Swedish law.
Now obviously sticking two fingers up at requests was possibly not the best way to handle things, a more gentile "please refer to Swedish law 123.456" might have been better suited to handle takedown notices.
But at the end of the day, they haven't actually broken any Swedish laws about copyrighted material, simply because they didn't copy any. This "aiding and abetting copyright infringement", whether you like the name of the website or what it stands for, is as I see no more insidious than Google's "spider everything and wait till we get a takedown notice", because for every 1 item that gets taken down, another 20 are left behind.
Nope sorry.
Google converts PDF, Powerpoint and Word Docs into HTML, and creates thumbnails of images scraped etc, (all format shifting without even the consent of the original owner). It does not simply host copies of HTML by a long shot.
but the cops can't do 'em all
So many hookers, so little time. Wish I was a cop in Lag Vegas.
And has been pointed out by the Pirate Bay admins themselves, American DMCA laws do NOT apply in Sweden.
YouTube, Google et al, have very heavy investment in the US, and hence have to keep the peace and respect US laws for those services hosted in US.
But as has been pointed out many times, Google and YouTube are opt-out ... if dodgy content is found, you have to issue a DMCA takedown to get it removed ... by then it's possibly TOO late, the content has already been disseminated. And for every takedown done, 10 more copies of the exact same thing will spring up and get indexed within the next 24 hours anyway, so the whole exercise is futile.
PirateBay was in essence opt-in, i.e. someonw had to upload the torrent file at some point, but as it's kind of difficult to sue everyone in the world (especially when you have no real concept of what a torrent file even IS), they went after the easy target.
I wonder how long it'll be before they go after Mininova, Isohunt and all the others ... probably never, just like Napster, the PirateBay is a flagship "victory" for the ??IA, while at the same time not making a damn of difference in the long run.
Pile sharing problem ? You can get some cream for that, and a nice soft cushion with a hole in the middle.
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"I spent the time reverse engineering where Apple puts the icons and how the caches work"
So you reverse engineered Apple's copyrighted software to use in your product (a clear BREACH of THEIR copyright), and you have the BALLS to whine about people "stealing 9 dollars" from you ?
In the politest possible terms, fuck off !
Only if "using their service directly" includes loading doubleclick* and google* cookies, and the gs.js javascript tracking system, which you have no control over unless you actually install some kind of blocking mechanism on your browser. And bearing in mind that these two tracking devices are included on just about every major website in the world ?
They have records of probably everywhere you visit, not just when you make a search on google.com.
Nah, MSIE would say "It looks like the internet is down ... would you like to search for help online".
Connection Paradox 101 ala Microsoft ;-)
Well they would function, only the red "knight rider" light on their faces would move back and forward really, really, slowwwwwllllllyyyyyy.
Anyone waiting for Norton to finish a full scan of the C: drive knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Oh please ... lotteries mean lottery equipment, printing presses for scrathcards, digital terminals for outlets etc etc, with the winning operator awarded a contract by the government ... are you tryng to tell me they haven't received kickbacks for that choice ?
Stop being so naive please, the vast majority of government departments now utilize private contractors, one for the deniability aspect when they fuck up badly, and two for the whole bribing^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbidding aspects which are wide open to abuse.
You have to cycle the power on the modem too !
So next we'll eliminate all forms of "national lottery", because government NEVER made a cent of that right ?
Perhaps because 25% of the world's population speaks it ?
Aww, did some foreigner undercut your 3 pound 50 bid for that javascript fix on Freelancers.com ?
Professional Translator, AND the use of the non-word "ain't" in the same paragraph. Thank you for enabling me to stop reading at that point.
WTF is with all those extra letters?
Better Scrabble scores !