Why should it be a problem for the content provider? The copyright holder needs it — let him implement a crawler that will scan the web and send a DMCA takedown notice when it finds a copyrighted video. Any way you put it — it's a problem of the copyright holder, so let him deal with it. What you are proposing is letting the ISP cover all the costs (guess who's really gonna end up paying for it) so that copyright holders can keep raking in all the money.
It's not about removing parking restrictions, it's about removing multi-million fines for parking in the wrong spot. Especially if you think that here we are dealing with infinite ammount of parking spots available. Back on topic: the industry that is well known for extortion and terrorist tactics (what else can you call multi-million fines for downloading an mp3 but an attempt to scare people into submission?) is trying to push it's expenses on the taxpayers. That will be nice — seeing you taxpayers dollars at work, used to sue you.
Editors add value, marketing specialists add value, cover designers add value. Not the middlemen who get to keep the copyright and most of the cash. The problem is Amazon is gunning for the popular authors, not trying to actually dig through tons of crap to find good authors in the beginning of their career. But otherwise, if they are giving authors a convenient way to get the books to the reader while giving most of the cash to the author — I'm all for it.
Ah, come on, you missed the point completely. He calls the cops about the crime in progress and then steps in to prevent it. That is just what a modern citizen and a good person should do. Since a number of people doing that is very low, the ones that do care — start patroling. And it was just a matter of time before they got sued for assault. Thugs nowadays know that they can play the victim all too well. Heck, even if the victims defends successfully, then the thug automatically becomes the victim.
>> Most parents can't manage to monitor their child's behavior. FTFY.
Why not do some parenting for a change? If a kid wants to see porn — he'll find a way. Even without the darn internets. If he doesn't want to see — he won't. It's not like seeing a vagina or a penis will leave you kid paralized and drive him into a coma.
Wonder how fast will IPv6 non-blacklisted IPs run out with all the spammers out there.
Also, on an unrelated note — some day governments will realize, that "child pron" distraction no longer works and will switch to spammers and and botnet operators, that is sure to distract the public's attention while slowly imposing measures to control the internet.
When those 550 000 get their internet connection cut off it won't matter if they received the first letter warning or not. And, actually, for a person who got cut off the internet lifting this bas is actually quite a good reason to go vote for the first guy who promises to lift it and remove this law. Hitting 2.5% of the households is not bad. When people get hit where it hurts — it's more probable that they will start acting. Heck, if the RIAA sued every student that ever downloaded MP3 for millions of dollars, not just several of them — we would see the RIAA smashed in several month. The only reason why we have copyright lobby stomping all over people's rights is because noone cares untill it knocks on the door and so far it still hadn't knocked.
To draw the attention to the problem. Trust me, noone cares about the rights untill it comes back to them and bites them in the back soft spot. When most of italians are unable to browse wikipedia and see a disclaimer that due to their laws it is impossible to operate in that country — then it's more likely that this law will be scrapped.
It is abnormal. Heck, in most European countries you can buy prepaid cards and don't have to show anything. Not like requiring a passport will protect you from a dedicated bomber.
Hey. Those 5% of the users are trying to use what they bought. They paid fair and square for what was advertised as "unlimited plan". If provider is unable to hold his end of the bargain then there should be consequences for false advertising. The only one you are subsidizing is your wireless provider, not those 5% of the users that actually tried to use the service. Imagine someone rented you a room and said that you can use it anytime you want. And then you suddenly find out that it is rented to several other people are renting that same room and the witty landlord just decided to use the fact that all of you are at home at different times to sell rent it to all of you simultaneously. Who should you sue/roughen up, the other clients, that are "spending too much time in the room" or the landlord?
Except the analogy is wrong. If it's war — then it's war and you send bombing missions, drones, tanks and whatnot to win it. There is a reason why extreme measures are allowed during the time of war. And there are reasons why they are not allowed during the peace time and there is a due process to declare a war. Besides, with all this fuss about terrorism we are yet to see any results. Well, besides eroded personal rights and security theaters.
If your X.org is crashing on you then you're holding it wrong. And school application can and should be written as web, not desktop applications that work withing the browser. That's what other european countries do and it works out quite well for them.
So, you mean like 14 bucks is too much for unlimited calls, 3G internet (uncapped) and SMSs? Yes, poor european folk, having to overpay for their phone service
Luxury? Really? I got my phone for around 200$, new SE X8 and for getting 15$ a month to my phone "account" I've got unlimited texts, internet and free phonecalls inside the network and at the rate of 5/min, and this 15$ are still avialable to me to pay for the phonecalls or pay for parking/public transport, whatever supports modbile payments. . You guys seriously need to do something about your carriers in the US.
Really? Enthusiastic? President said that it is a very good and promising thing (considering a hight school student told him they were developing a free OS that could replace windows and keep old windows programs working) and made a joke that he does not have a million dollars in his pocket, but "he will think about it". You all know what this means/
Because Russia is already developing a "National OS" whis is yet another linux distro, but who cares as long as the government funds can be stolen that way.
If we are talking about firearms then their sole purpose is delivering a projectile to the point they were aimed at. Unless, of course you believe that target sheets can be injured or killed. But, more to the point — if you misuse a firearm, you lose the license to use (and probably go to jail, depending on the severity of the misuse). Why not apply the same logic to the file removal tools. If you are abusing the power given to you — you lose it and have to go to the court each time you want to remove a file. Preferably — at your own expense.
But then again, if it's equal to killing, then you've got choise — pirate a book and get sued by an copyright watchdog. Or kill the copyright watchdog and pirate the book. If the consequences are the same, then what would bring more pleasure to the reader and make this place a better world?
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Why should it be a problem for the content provider? The copyright holder needs it — let him implement a crawler that will scan the web and send a DMCA takedown notice when it finds a copyrighted video. Any way you put it — it's a problem of the copyright holder, so let him deal with it. What you are proposing is letting the ISP cover all the costs (guess who's really gonna end up paying for it) so that copyright holders can keep raking in all the money.
It's not about removing parking restrictions, it's about removing multi-million fines for parking in the wrong spot. Especially if you think that here we are dealing with infinite ammount of parking spots available.
Back on topic: the industry that is well known for extortion and terrorist tactics (what else can you call multi-million fines for downloading an mp3 but an attempt to scare people into submission?) is trying to push it's expenses on the taxpayers. That will be nice — seeing you taxpayers dollars at work, used to sue you.
Editors add value, marketing specialists add value, cover designers add value. Not the middlemen who get to keep the copyright and most of the cash. The problem is Amazon is gunning for the popular authors, not trying to actually dig through tons of crap to find good authors in the beginning of their career. But otherwise, if they are giving authors a convenient way to get the books to the reader while giving most of the cash to the author — I'm all for it.
Yeah, because DRM was so successful in stopping piracy, unlike those convenient distribution methods and one-click purchases with sane prices.
Ah, come on, you missed the point completely. He calls the cops about the crime in progress and then steps in to prevent it. That is just what a modern citizen and a good person should do. Since a number of people doing that is very low, the ones that do care — start patroling. And it was just a matter of time before they got sued for assault. Thugs nowadays know that they can play the victim all too well. Heck, even if the victims defends successfully, then the thug automatically becomes the victim.
>> Most parents can't manage to monitor their child's behavior.
FTFY.
Why not do some parenting for a change? If a kid wants to see porn — he'll find a way. Even without the darn internets. If he doesn't want to see — he won't. It's not like seeing a vagina or a penis will leave you kid paralized and drive him into a coma.
Wonder how fast will IPv6 non-blacklisted IPs run out with all the spammers out there.
Also, on an unrelated note — some day governments will realize, that "child pron" distraction no longer works and will switch to spammers and and botnet operators, that is sure to distract the public's attention while slowly imposing measures to control the internet.
When those 550 000 get their internet connection cut off it won't matter if they received the first letter warning or not. And, actually, for a person who got cut off the internet lifting this bas is actually quite a good reason to go vote for the first guy who promises to lift it and remove this law. Hitting 2.5% of the households is not bad. When people get hit where it hurts — it's more probable that they will start acting. Heck, if the RIAA sued every student that ever downloaded MP3 for millions of dollars, not just several of them — we would see the RIAA smashed in several month. The only reason why we have copyright lobby stomping all over people's rights is because noone cares untill it knocks on the door and so far it still hadn't knocked.
Actually they are. Otherwise we are risking to end up with narrowing "free speech" to government approved list of statements.
To draw the attention to the problem. Trust me, noone cares about the rights untill it comes back to them and bites them in the back soft spot. When most of italians are unable to browse wikipedia and see a disclaimer that due to their laws it is impossible to operate in that country — then it's more likely that this law will be scrapped.
It is abnormal. Heck, in most European countries you can buy prepaid cards and don't have to show anything. Not like requiring a passport will protect you from a dedicated bomber.
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Hey. Those 5% of the users are trying to use what they bought. They paid fair and square for what was advertised as "unlimited plan". If provider is unable to hold his end of the bargain then there should be consequences for false advertising. The only one you are subsidizing is your wireless provider, not those 5% of the users that actually tried to use the service.
Imagine someone rented you a room and said that you can use it anytime you want. And then you suddenly find out that it is rented to several other people are renting that same room and the witty landlord just decided to use the fact that all of you are at home at different times to sell rent it to all of you simultaneously. Who should you sue/roughen up, the other clients, that are "spending too much time in the room" or the landlord?
Except the analogy is wrong. If it's war — then it's war and you send bombing missions, drones, tanks and whatnot to win it. There is a reason why extreme measures are allowed during the time of war. And there are reasons why they are not allowed during the peace time and there is a due process to declare a war.
Besides, with all this fuss about terrorism we are yet to see any results. Well, besides eroded personal rights and security theaters.
Let me guess, you have no idea what communism is, since you're calling democrat a commie?
If your X.org is crashing on you then you're holding it wrong.
And school application can and should be written as web, not desktop applications that work withing the browser. That's what other european countries do and it works out quite well for them.
So, you mean like 14 bucks is too much for unlimited calls, 3G internet (uncapped) and SMSs? Yes, poor european folk, having to overpay for their phone service
Luxury? Really? I got my phone for around 200$, new SE X8 and for getting 15$ a month to my phone "account" I've got unlimited texts, internet and free phonecalls inside the network and at the rate of 5/min, and this 15$ are still avialable to me to pay for the phonecalls or pay for parking/public transport, whatever supports modbile payments. . You guys seriously need to do something about your carriers in the US.
Really? Enthusiastic? President said that it is a very good and promising thing (considering a hight school student told him they were developing a free OS that could replace windows and keep old windows programs working) and made a joke that he does not have a million dollars in his pocket, but "he will think about it". You all know what this means/
Because Russia is already developing a "National OS" whis is yet another linux distro, but who cares as long as the government funds can be stolen that way.
Good thing Microsoft does not have nuclear weapons
I guess you are one of those people, who still use wrong analogies and cannon differentiate between physical and intellectual property.
If we are talking about firearms then their sole purpose is delivering a projectile to the point they were aimed at. Unless, of course you believe that target sheets can be injured or killed.
But, more to the point — if you misuse a firearm, you lose the license to use (and probably go to jail, depending on the severity of the misuse). Why not apply the same logic to the file removal tools. If you are abusing the power given to you — you lose it and have to go to the court each time you want to remove a file. Preferably — at your own expense.
Because they don't want to change a damn thing. They are quite OK as it is. Digitizing books is hard work, why bother when you can sue?
But then again, if it's equal to killing, then you've got choise — pirate a book and get sued by an copyright watchdog. Or kill the copyright watchdog and pirate the book. If the consequences are the same, then what would bring more pleasure to the reader and make this place a better world?