If you find a bag of drugs on the side of the road and get stopped on your way to the police station to turn it in, you're also guilty of possession... illegal stuff is illegal. I agree that mere possession should not be illegal, only production and sales. However, the treatment of unlawful images should be and is treated just like the possession of any type of contraband.
Explain to me again how allowing people to download something for free creates a larger black market for the sale of it and encourages the production of more of it... the RIAA and MPAA have been making the exact opposite argument for years now. One of you must be wrong!
I don't believe a warrant is required. If the website puts a clause in the ToS prohibiting unlawful images, then they have the right to inform the Feds of posters who don't comply with the ToS. I agree, police shouldn't be given access to everything, only the data that some responsible party has good reason to believe is unlawful. And yes, I've never seen a site that doesn't have a disclaimer that says "Don't use this to do anything illegal, or there will be consequences."
By the way, the "wiretapping" laws were put in place to prevent one business for gaining unfair advantage by spying on competitors or even by modifying their communications (some unscrupulous individuals had bribed telegraph operators to do exactly that). They had nothing to do with protecting the privacy rights of individuals. As usual, laws are created by those with money and power for the sole purpose of protecting the status quo, not for the purpose of protecting the disenfranchised.
The reason that child pornography is illegal to own is that it does encourage the production of child pornography.
Uh, no. Allowing the SALE of kitty porn does encourage the production of more. How does giving it away for free provide incentive to exploit more children? The way to remove the profit motive for the production of porn is to make it easily available everywhere for free. Prohibition only drives up profits for (unlawful) producers, just as it does for alcohol and drugs.
Yes, it can spur innovation, but not USEFUL innovation. The Suburu Brat was created due to government regulation -- the 2 plastic chairs in the truck bed allowed it to be classified as a passenger car instead of a pickup truck, and thus subject to lower tariffs, despite the fact that most people simply took the seats out and threw them away. "Innovation" to work around government regulation provides no value to the consumer that couldn't be achieved by simply deregulating!
The car era will never be over because it's really hard to make out in the back of a bicycle. Likewise, the PC era will never be over because it's really hard to fap to a video on a 4 inch screen.
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If you find a bag of drugs on the side of the road and get stopped on your way to the police station to turn it in, you're also guilty of possession... illegal stuff is illegal. I agree that mere possession should not be illegal, only production and sales. However, the treatment of unlawful images should be and is treated just like the possession of any type of contraband.
Explain to me again how allowing people to download something for free creates a larger black market for the sale of it and encourages the production of more of it... the RIAA and MPAA have been making the exact opposite argument for years now. One of you must be wrong!
I don't believe a warrant is required. If the website puts a clause in the ToS prohibiting unlawful images, then they have the right to inform the Feds of posters who don't comply with the ToS. I agree, police shouldn't be given access to everything, only the data that some responsible party has good reason to believe is unlawful. And yes, I've never seen a site that doesn't have a disclaimer that says "Don't use this to do anything illegal, or there will be consequences."
By the way, the "wiretapping" laws were put in place to prevent one business for gaining unfair advantage by spying on competitors or even by modifying their communications (some unscrupulous individuals had bribed telegraph operators to do exactly that). They had nothing to do with protecting the privacy rights of individuals. As usual, laws are created by those with money and power for the sole purpose of protecting the status quo, not for the purpose of protecting the disenfranchised.
The reason that child pornography is illegal to own is that it does encourage the production of child pornography.
Uh, no. Allowing the SALE of kitty porn does encourage the production of more. How does giving it away for free provide incentive to exploit more children? The way to remove the profit motive for the production of porn is to make it easily available everywhere for free. Prohibition only drives up profits for (unlawful) producers, just as it does for alcohol and drugs.
Yes, it can spur innovation, but not USEFUL innovation. The Suburu Brat was created due to government regulation -- the 2 plastic chairs in the truck bed allowed it to be classified as a passenger car instead of a pickup truck, and thus subject to lower tariffs, despite the fact that most people simply took the seats out and threw them away. "Innovation" to work around government regulation provides no value to the consumer that couldn't be achieved by simply deregulating!
In Japan they do something like this already.
The main difference being that in Japan the vending machines sell used panties, not wine.
Maybe you could use the proceeds to have your arms reattached!
The cheat is simple: use the 3 green pieces of paper with pictures of Ben Franklin on them, duh!
I've seen your house... having it redecorated by mice could only be an improvement!
These mice are no more gay than using a surrogate mother is adultery.
That sorta depends on how you go about fertilizing the egg in the surrogate. Personally, I prefer the old-fashioned method.
The goat... cannot consent...
But that cute little brown-eyed ewe, she was just askin' for it, I tell ya!
It's taken you 32 years to figure out that 3rd grade teachers lie??? Guess what else they lied to you about!
It's not what he did, it's what he didn't do. Obama got a Nobel for _not_ being G.W. Bush.
Garnished with a really bright red reindeer nose, I presume.
Wow, just wow... is your day job working as a GOP speech writer, a Fox News journalist, or both?
Better yet, if you asked Alanis Morrisette whether or not that was ironic, would she come up with a completely stupid and wrong answer?
This multitool, perhaps?
So they expect it to have the same product lifetime as the Nexus One, then?
Snooki gets a darker tan...
Oh! Oh! I wanna see hoo-has on the TV!!! What channel are they on?
Anyone who would really understand the WoW reference isn't reading slashdot today...
Although, toilet paper is probably more ubiquitous than PCs.
That's because it is usually much higher quality.
The car era will never be over because it's really hard to make out in the back of a bicycle. Likewise, the PC era will never be over because it's really hard to fap to a video on a 4 inch screen.
As soon as they come out with 3D porn that requires much faster processors and graphics cards to display, sales of PCs will skyrocket again!
By that argument, the iPad is killing the television, not the PC.