It seems to be happening all over the internet and in courtrooms. I think something big is brewing. There is more attention than ever on piracy, with publishers blaming everything on pirates, and pirates blaming everything on publishers.
There may be something amiss with our current laws, seeing as how everyone is upset about them on both sides of the argument. I have a feeling the anti-piracy crowd isn't going to get what they want just because of the sheer numbers of people who are either apathetic about the issue or just like getting free stuff without going to prison for it.
It's like Prohibition. When you have a couple hundred million people engaged in an activity that they have no moral problem with, they're going to obtain what they want regardless of the law. You can't imprison everyone (at least, not without a police state), and you can't change legislate someone's morality.
They anti-piracy groups do have money though, and it's not secret that money buys you laws in the United States, so they may be able swing the lawmakers in their favor. They are the benefactors of piracy prohibition. Much like the mafia families who derived a good chunk of their fortunes from selling a product at a high price, they too have their prices protected by government intervention, just from a different angle.
However, I can't bring myself to commit to a two-year contract (with a maximum of 4 GB of data costs me an extra $50 per month) when my phone does what I need it to do now.
Besides, in the next 8-10 months, phones with 28nm transistors and quad cores will be around. Not that I'm waiting on the technology, but when I do buy into it, it's going to be for something worth it to me.
The summary says prosecutors obtained the suspect's records. But the title has it right; DoJ pulled bank and credit records on someone not suspected of a crime. If I were the news man, I'd demand to see the warrant.
They're not solving a problem; they're simply transferring money from one industry to another.
I say that if an ISP has to lose a customer over copyright infringement, then the organization requesting the disconnect needs to pay at least half of the "lost revenue" (the term so loved by the copyright organizations) for the entire duration of the disconnected customer. That way they can split financial responsibilities between them.
I was in high school back in '85, doing odd jobs for this wealthy freelance scientist, Emmett Brown.. Anyway, long story short, he used some creative methods into tricking Libyans into giving him what he wanted. They gave him plutonium to make a bomb, but he used it in a wild science experiment instead...you wouldn't believe me if I told you.
I'm sure Doc Brown is still around somewhere, haven't talked to him in a while since he got married and had a couple kids.
Those comparisons are a big stretch. All of those people killed other people. Manning killed nobody; in fact, he probably saved a lot of lives now that off-the-chain chopper gunners know that they might not get away with wanton slaughter again.
Yea, that would be a refreshing change. But journalism is dead. Even if a news outlet still had the resources to invest in actual fact gathering vs reprinting press releases or just letting a press flack have a few minutes of airime or a few inches of column space, they are philosophically opposed to truthseeking. Truth is a social construct now.
Your mindset is right and you are a seeker of truth, as evidenced here.
But in the rest of your post, you are attacking a person holding a candle in the darkness, revealing what was hidden (no matter what the reason he did it). Your judgment is clouded by your belief that law is infallible, that the government keeping secrets from us is in our best interests.
If you really seek the truth, support those who reveal it, and not those who hide it.
On topic, this situation seems to be a chicken and the egg. Until a lot of people are using Linux, switching from Windows on a mass scale isn't feasible.
Walden and other critics of the FCC's net-neutrality order argue it will stifle innovation and investment in broadband.
So in today's vernacular, "innovation" equates to "open season on consumers", and "investment in broadband" equates to "open season on consumers". Got it.
And I don't mean people deserve free net access, just that their access can not be impeded.
Hmm...I hope that happens, but I fear the wording get the same shellacking that the second amendment got. Maybe if they made it infinitely clear; perhaps we should write all future amendments in three sentences that say the same thing in different ways, so it can't be twisted very easily.
Quote:
"As with previous seizures, ICE convinced a District Court judge to sign a seizure warrant, and then contacted the domain registries to point the domains in question to a server that hosts the warning message. However, somewhere in this process a mistake was made and as a result the domain of a large DNS service provider was seized."
You may not like this, but a warrant signed by a judge *is* due process.
I didn't see 84,000 warrants issued for those other domains taken down. Are we as citizens also allowed to go "whoops" when we don't pay attention to our vehicle speed? Or when we aren't paying attention to where we're going and drive through a crowd of third graders at a crosswalk? Why should we afford the government impunity, especially when their grounds for obtaining the warrant are questionable to begin with?
I think we could (or at least should) have 84,000 libel lawsuits and 84,000 counts of seizure without a warrant.
What? Are you going to listen to a rapist? If you support wikileaks, you're not supporting openness. You're supporting rape. Do you want to side with rape? Thought not.
I still feel terrible about recommending a Samsung Fascinate to a friend last year, thinking a Froyo update was just around the corner. So far they've fixed none of its bugs, and that Froyo update that I thought she's get in September might be coming out this month.
I don't know if I will support a company who takes a fire-and-forget approach with their devices. I mean, other phone makers do it too, but they're the masters of device apathy.
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It seems to be happening all over the internet and in courtrooms. I think something big is brewing. There is more attention than ever on piracy, with publishers blaming everything on pirates, and pirates blaming everything on publishers.
There may be something amiss with our current laws, seeing as how everyone is upset about them on both sides of the argument. I have a feeling the anti-piracy crowd isn't going to get what they want just because of the sheer numbers of people who are either apathetic about the issue or just like getting free stuff without going to prison for it.
It's like Prohibition. When you have a couple hundred million people engaged in an activity that they have no moral problem with, they're going to obtain what they want regardless of the law. You can't imprison everyone (at least, not without a police state), and you can't change legislate someone's morality.
They anti-piracy groups do have money though, and it's not secret that money buys you laws in the United States, so they may be able swing the lawmakers in their favor. They are the benefactors of piracy prohibition. Much like the mafia families who derived a good chunk of their fortunes from selling a product at a high price, they too have their prices protected by government intervention, just from a different angle.
I've settled on a $360 16GB Viewsonic G Tablet that suits my needs. It has 512MB of RAM, a 1GHZ tegra 2, and has been rooted.
It will arrive on Monday. I couldn't bring myself to spend 38% more on a similarly-spec'd ipad.
I would stop buying apple products if the ones I bought from them had the track record of yours.
If not, I'll choose a more capable device instead.
For a long time, I was really excited about this.
However, I can't bring myself to commit to a two-year contract (with a maximum of 4 GB of data costs me an extra $50 per month) when my phone does what I need it to do now.
Besides, in the next 8-10 months, phones with 28nm transistors and quad cores will be around. Not that I'm waiting on the technology, but when I do buy into it, it's going to be for something worth it to me.
The summary says prosecutors obtained the suspect's records. But the title has it right; DoJ pulled bank and credit records on someone not suspected of a crime. If I were the news man, I'd demand to see the warrant.
Processors like Sandy Bridge (and probably AMD's own upcoming Llano) are also wonders of integration, on a larger scale.
This made me rage. Do they even know what the point of ULV is?
I agree with this statement haha
I say that if an ISP has to lose a customer over copyright infringement, then the organization requesting the disconnect needs to pay at least half of the "lost revenue" (the term so loved by the copyright organizations) for the entire duration of the disconnected customer. That way they can split financial responsibilities between them.
I'm sure Doc Brown is still around somewhere, haven't talked to him in a while since he got married and had a couple kids.
Those comparisons are a big stretch. All of those people killed other people. Manning killed nobody; in fact, he probably saved a lot of lives now that off-the-chain chopper gunners know that they might not get away with wanton slaughter again.
Yea, that would be a refreshing change. But journalism is dead. Even if a news outlet still had the resources to invest in actual fact gathering vs reprinting press releases or just letting a press flack have a few minutes of airime or a few inches of column space, they are philosophically opposed to truthseeking. Truth is a social construct now.
Your mindset is right and you are a seeker of truth, as evidenced here.
But in the rest of your post, you are attacking a person holding a candle in the darkness, revealing what was hidden (no matter what the reason he did it). Your judgment is clouded by your belief that law is infallible, that the government keeping secrets from us is in our best interests.
If you really seek the truth, support those who reveal it, and not those who hide it.
Raise my children.
Don't offend me.
Whatever happened to my kids, I had absolutely nothing to do with.
I can't see how anything could possibly go wrong.
On topic, this situation seems to be a chicken and the egg. Until a lot of people are using Linux, switching from Windows on a mass scale isn't feasible.
Walden and other critics of the FCC's net-neutrality order argue it will stifle innovation and investment in broadband.
So in today's vernacular, "innovation" equates to "open season on consumers", and "investment in broadband" equates to "open season on consumers". Got it.
...I feel less secure. It's probably just me.
And I don't mean people deserve free net access, just that their access can not be impeded.
Hmm...I hope that happens, but I fear the wording get the same shellacking that the second amendment got. Maybe if they made it infinitely clear; perhaps we should write all future amendments in three sentences that say the same thing in different ways, so it can't be twisted very easily.
Quote: "As with previous seizures, ICE convinced a District Court judge to sign a seizure warrant, and then contacted the domain registries to point the domains in question to a server that hosts the warning message. However, somewhere in this process a mistake was made and as a result the domain of a large DNS service provider was seized."
You may not like this, but a warrant signed by a judge *is* due process.
I didn't see 84,000 warrants issued for those other domains taken down. Are we as citizens also allowed to go "whoops" when we don't pay attention to our vehicle speed? Or when we aren't paying attention to where we're going and drive through a crowd of third graders at a crosswalk? Why should we afford the government impunity, especially when their grounds for obtaining the warrant are questionable to begin with?
I think we could (or at least should) have 84,000 libel lawsuits and 84,000 counts of seizure without a warrant.
What? Are you going to listen to a rapist? If you support wikileaks, you're not supporting openness. You're supporting rape. Do you want to side with rape? Thought not.
Slated for the next four years are "Wayne", "Logan", "Powdered Toast Man", and "The Tick".
I still feel terrible about recommending a Samsung Fascinate to a friend last year, thinking a Froyo update was just around the corner. So far they've fixed none of its bugs, and that Froyo update that I thought she's get in September might be coming out this month.
I don't know if I will support a company who takes a fire-and-forget approach with their devices. I mean, other phone makers do it too, but they're the masters of device apathy.
I don't see any possible way for this to go wrong.
No law is adequate, no business is more important, no constitutional right can supersede the wishes of the commercial content industry.
Good luck using it with gloves on
Pirates will pirate.
Buyers will buy.
But DRM makes buyers look into piracy.