you think that, if they havent done that, no crap like sopa pipa schmogga would be out ?
there werent any such hacktivism back in 2005. and yet, they popped out the attack on network neutrality at that year. apparently they have been cooking it since 2-3 years. and also the rumors of acta starting came out that year. so, it was probably underway from a while ago, but noone knew.
wake up. this is a war, and they treat you as their enemy. they were BENT to do these, to implement censorship, REGARDLESS of what you did.
you havent engaged in any acts of terrorism. neither your neighbors. in fact, there hasnt been any case of domestic terrorism in the u.s. since 2001.
and yet, habeas corpus was just invalidated with the infinite detention act..............
see ? it doesnt matter whether you behaved. they will do it regardless.
hacktivism only reminds people that all is not lost. and governments and corporations are not all that powerful. in that, its something good. its like the gestapo prison air raid british did in early ww ii. it was strategically unimportant, but the deed was so courageous and so irritating to germans that it broke the air of invincibility around them and gave morale to both allies and the french resistance.
its time for you to say 'viva la resistance !'. for you are already under occupation in america.
The CITIZENS of the country who elect and send representatives to make laws for them, cannot do ANYthing against the repression those representatives rain down on them - from nullification of habeas corpus to censorship. if they do, they are pushed into 'free speech zones', or batoned down in public............. but, those who are dubbed as 'criminals', react on their behalf with unmatched efficiency that would put the biggest picketing protest to shame....
when things come to this point in a society, it means that that society, with everything in it, is broken beyond repair and needs a total reset.
google links your software in its indexes, and shows your links. your software, everyone else's content IS the content/knowledge google uses to show people, and sell advertising over it.
why not sue google ? for, they are definitely using the presence and name of your software, to increase their hits and sell advertising without giving you a dime.
They were extremely slow in responding to DMCA request
china is not able to censor a national internet despite pouring billions of dollars worth of equipment to it and employing 240,000 people as censors and embedded snitches in internet cafes.
it is utterly utterly stupid, OR, totally ignorant of the realities of user generated content databases, to expect an outfit of THAT size to respond fast.
Megaupload was not violating any copyright laws - they had a pretty solid dmca takedown procedure that was quite fast. Most of the 'pirated' stuff you would see that were uploaded were users, you wouldnt be able to see a few days later. They were good at taking down stuff.
But they were also the biggest. this meant that for every dmca takedown, a few went unnoticed or slowly processed. aaaaaaand fast forward to this - they shut it down and charged for piracy.
This should tell you EXACTLY what will happen when sopa passes - imagine the sheer violations of sopa law, when entire user generated content, including comments and links have to be reviewed. NO outfit on the internet will be able to do that. NO outfit. if google, microsoft, apple, rackspace, softlayer, verizon, at&t came together to do it, set up facilities covering half of texas for it and in addition and threw the echelon listening array (belongs to nato) and all its worldwide facilities at it, still they wouldnt be able to manage an effective removal of such 'infringing' stuff in acceptable time.
even china is not able to do it with a huge budget spent on surveillance farms and - mark that - 240,000 employees employed for censoring - quite a lot of them embedded as 'users' in internet cafes and whatnot, to snitch on the users even.
so it is certain that there is no way in hell any outfit on this planet will be able to NOT violate sopa. every outfit will live in a constant state of varying level if infringement as per sopa.
what does that mean ? it is a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of EVERY internet outfit and website out there. if you go out of line in ANY way against the interests of any established private party, - whoa - a sopa complaint. MUCH more effective than suing for endless durations.
now you see why this sopa thing is useful for censorship, and why it was intended in the first place ?
these people do not seek to profit over anything. they are making sufficient profits. they know they can make even more profits if they adapted to the internet.
the problem of these people is CONTROL. internet is uncontrolled. it bothers them. they need the same kind of control they exercise over cable news channels, radios and whatnot. and all these shit are intended precisely for that duration.
these people want to control you for their own minority's profit. it is no different than dictatorship or enslavement - just the facade in front is different. they are NO longer your compatriots, they are no longer your countrymen, they are no longer your country's citizens. they are your enemies. even if you dont see them as your enemy, they DO see you as their enemy and act accordingly.
and you are playing in their home ground - as long as you keep all the game rules that allow them to control, ranging from copyright to patents, they will keep being in the advantage - for you will be playing in THEIR home.
I highly doubt one had to do with the other. The Feds don't casually put together a criminal case; they take their time and line up all the ducks before they pull the trigger.
so feds have taken time to line up ALL the ducks before they pull the trigger, and it JUST had CHANCED the day after the SOPA protests............
yes, the chances of that happening is, zero. zero. not one day before, not one day after. right the day after....
if you think that this is just a coincidence, i have two bridges to sell you.
so you are saying that by viewing someone else's copyrighted film, the viewer had had transferred the ownership of that film, its copyright over to himself/herself........
And who defines what is the level of that 'nice'.......... a lot of the videos i checked around up till this point, were removed due to dmca claims. so, they were removing a lot of videos.
They just shut down it due to its size. period. ah, and he sponsored a few songs in usa about how piracy is not so bad compared to what the content industry was doing - probably that causes the attack on him and his assets - its ok when content industry brainwashes everyone, but if someone opposing them does the SAME thing, its a crime !
It's only good - criminals are taken to court and jail so companies can again produce goods and software and they don't have to see the widespread piracy that is going on
excuse me guy, but that stupid thinking is why we are having all of this shit in the first place - the REAL pirates have persecuted someone challenging their rule and you are clapping for it:
ANY cent you pay to buy music so not to 'steal' from a big label, goes NOT to the artist - but to the pocket of an intermediary called the label and pocketed to an extent of 95%. you pay 15 bucks to an album, your artist gets a few cents, and the label gets almost entirety of 15 bucks. then they force the artist to go on concerts worldwide, to make money. it is taxing, and most artists and bands break down, and resort to drugs or excess to relieve stress. radiohead released one of their albums for FREE without a label, told people to pay however much they want, even take it for free. 80% of people who got it, did not pay. however, the rest 20% caused radiohead to make MORE money in just 4 hours than they would make in a whole year of touring if they gave the album to a record label. and that album, is still selling over the internet since a year or so now. so go figure................ in short, ANYone who supports this scheme that sucks artists dry, and screws customers up, is either a very very dumb, ignorant person, or a hapless idiot. there is no way to explain someone supporting a scheme that screws him/her over, otherwise.
All that eavesdropping, corporate and government spying, data sharing, and people are expected to keep their data away from their loved ones, friends et cetera ? The VERY people who actually have a right and a need to know those information ? And by keeping data away from our CLOSE circle, we are going to make up for the privacy all that eavesdropping, data mining has smoked ?
If you have the balls, as a security advisor/company/activist, take on the government and corporations. not joe joey and susan sue. leave them to share their password.
because the assholes at google have not yet waken up to the fact that the 'magic' aura of the untouchable has faded long ago from the world of i.t., internet, and silicon valley. and they need to fight to defend themselves from the dinosaurs, who have just woken up to what internet was doing in the last 5 years and got into offensive.
The reaction and the level of taking action you americans have exhibited in this occasion, both individually and on tech-corporation level, has been much encouraging. For a long time now, i see -at least the more aware - americans sparing effort for something good. i actually was surprised when ows thing had happened recently. but this is icing on the cake.
maybe hope is not lost for your society yet and you can take it back....
a top nasdaq-company full of bright minds, brilliant college graduates, pioneers and frontiers, BELIEVE that shiny rectangular corners can belong to someone.
their pocket books are deep enough to last them over a century and buy themselves an entire constitution-full of bills.
the whole 'hit them in their wallets' farce in a capitalist market economy only works during initial, frontier stages of a market when the profitmaking interests are actually many and in small sizes. once a hierarchy of megacorporations and interconnected shareholderships come to being in later stages, it doesnt matter zit - if you hit them in one field, they will just keep making money in another field they have shareholdership.
only option as of now is to buy congressmen. i would say whores, but the respectability of whoring profession is much higher than where congressmen stand at as of this moment.
did you think they care about losing an election ? when they lose it, they will be awarded with an exec position in the content industry, and will get sign up bonuses.
if you stopped reading at 'wikileaks', just fuck off. we dont need people whose thought process and horizon are triggered on/off with keywords. there are a lot of those in congress and senate.
The answer is removing corporate money from politics
good luck with that.
all they will need to do to have the same thing will be to guarantee an employment for the representative in backroom dealings.
they already use it for bureaucrats - they couldnt donate, gift or do anything to fcc chairwoman. but, she screwed everything up for the sake of content industry, and what happened ? she resigned, and immediately got a juicy job at that industry.
you can be sure that she wouldnt screw up things, if she was not guaranteed employment beforehand.
you cant remove the power of wealth on politics. you need to remove wealth from life, OR, you need to make everyone equally wealthy so that noone can undo the other. this is what we do in politics by the way - by mandating that everyone has one, equal vote. but that doesnt prevent from who can be elected with that vote from getting bought. now, if everyone was equally wealthy however, or equally poor depending on how you put it, then noone would be able to wrest the representative to their side, and the participation would have to be democratic.
We also probably can't do anything about SOPA/PIPA. They're going to pass them, by hook or by crook. We can protest all we want, black out web pages, complain to representatives, what have you. Doesn't matter. The other side has more power (being the mainstream media); that's all there is to it.
I meant first and foremost to cast an informed vote; to write to one's representatives, perhaps to join advocacy groups like, for this issue, the EFF or EPIC; maybe march in protests, that sort of thing.
and none of them will matter. they will still get their payment from the media corporations, and then just do what they ask them to do. even if they do not get elected next term, it doesnt matter - they will be sitting on a well placed position in those companies. on top of cash in their banks.
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habeas corpus is practically invalidated. introducing exceptions to condition, which can be overridden easily, does not change practicality.
what are you expecting ? someone from govt. to come to cnn and announce that habeas corpus is no longer valid ?
you are comparing NZ government, with russia, or * gasp * china ?
the odds of that happening statistically, is as high as there not being sentient life elsewhere in the galaxy. it is approximating zero.
and the ips will come out in russia, or china. thats why the fed and government and corporations are barking like mad dogs since a while.
you think that, if they havent done that, no crap like sopa pipa schmogga would be out ?
there werent any such hacktivism back in 2005. and yet, they popped out the attack on network neutrality at that year. apparently they have been cooking it since 2-3 years. and also the rumors of acta starting came out that year. so, it was probably underway from a while ago, but noone knew.
wake up. this is a war, and they treat you as their enemy. they were BENT to do these, to implement censorship, REGARDLESS of what you did.
you havent engaged in any acts of terrorism. neither your neighbors. in fact, there hasnt been any case of domestic terrorism in the u.s. since 2001.
and yet, habeas corpus was just invalidated with the infinite detention act ..............
see ? it doesnt matter whether you behaved. they will do it regardless.
hacktivism only reminds people that all is not lost. and governments and corporations are not all that powerful. in that, its something good. its like the gestapo prison air raid british did in early ww ii. it was strategically unimportant, but the deed was so courageous and so irritating to germans that it broke the air of invincibility around them and gave morale to both allies and the french resistance.
its time for you to say 'viva la resistance !'. for you are already under occupation in america.
taking the immense botnets' masters and very, very elite hackers that reside in russia and china out, without world war iii.
The CITIZENS of the country who elect and send representatives to make laws for them, cannot do ANYthing against the repression those representatives rain down on them - from nullification of habeas corpus to censorship. if they do, they are pushed into 'free speech zones', or batoned down in public ............. but, those who are dubbed as 'criminals', react on their behalf with unmatched efficiency that would put the biggest picketing protest to shame....
when things come to this point in a society, it means that that society, with everything in it, is broken beyond repair and needs a total reset.
google links your software in its indexes, and shows your links. your software, everyone else's content IS the content/knowledge google uses to show people, and sell advertising over it.
why not sue google ? for, they are definitely using the presence and name of your software, to increase their hits and sell advertising without giving you a dime.
They were extremely slow in responding to DMCA request
china is not able to censor a national internet despite pouring billions of dollars worth of equipment to it and employing 240,000 people as censors and embedded snitches in internet cafes.
it is utterly utterly stupid, OR, totally ignorant of the realities of user generated content databases, to expect an outfit of THAT size to respond fast.
Megaupload was not violating any copyright laws - they had a pretty solid dmca takedown procedure that was quite fast. Most of the 'pirated' stuff you would see that were uploaded were users, you wouldnt be able to see a few days later. They were good at taking down stuff.
But they were also the biggest. this meant that for every dmca takedown, a few went unnoticed or slowly processed. aaaaaaand fast forward to this - they shut it down and charged for piracy.
This should tell you EXACTLY what will happen when sopa passes - imagine the sheer violations of sopa law, when entire user generated content, including comments and links have to be reviewed. NO outfit on the internet will be able to do that. NO outfit. if google, microsoft, apple, rackspace, softlayer, verizon, at&t came together to do it, set up facilities covering half of texas for it and in addition and threw the echelon listening array (belongs to nato) and all its worldwide facilities at it, still they wouldnt be able to manage an effective removal of such 'infringing' stuff in acceptable time.
even china is not able to do it with a huge budget spent on surveillance farms and - mark that - 240,000 employees employed for censoring - quite a lot of them embedded as 'users' in internet cafes and whatnot, to snitch on the users even.
so it is certain that there is no way in hell any outfit on this planet will be able to NOT violate sopa. every outfit will live in a constant state of varying level if infringement as per sopa.
what does that mean ? it is a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of EVERY internet outfit and website out there. if you go out of line in ANY way against the interests of any established private party, - whoa - a sopa complaint. MUCH more effective than suing for endless durations.
now you see why this sopa thing is useful for censorship, and why it was intended in the first place ?
these people do not seek to profit over anything. they are making sufficient profits. they know they can make even more profits if they adapted to the internet.
the problem of these people is CONTROL. internet is uncontrolled. it bothers them. they need the same kind of control they exercise over cable news channels, radios and whatnot. and all these shit are intended precisely for that duration.
these people want to control you for their own minority's profit. it is no different than dictatorship or enslavement - just the facade in front is different. they are NO longer your compatriots, they are no longer your countrymen, they are no longer your country's citizens. they are your enemies. even if you dont see them as your enemy, they DO see you as their enemy and act accordingly.
and you are playing in their home ground - as long as you keep all the game rules that allow them to control, ranging from copyright to patents, they will keep being in the advantage - for you will be playing in THEIR home.
I highly doubt one had to do with the other. The Feds don't casually put together a criminal case; they take their time and line up all the ducks before they pull the trigger.
so feds have taken time to line up ALL the ducks before they pull the trigger, and it JUST had CHANCED the day after the SOPA protests ............
yes, the chances of that happening is, zero. zero. not one day before, not one day after. right the day after....
if you think that this is just a coincidence, i have two bridges to sell you.
so you are saying that by viewing someone else's copyrighted film, the viewer had had transferred the ownership of that film, its copyright over to himself/herself ........
And who defines what is the level of that 'nice' .......... a lot of the videos i checked around up till this point, were removed due to dmca claims. so, they were removing a lot of videos.
They just shut down it due to its size. period. ah, and he sponsored a few songs in usa about how piracy is not so bad compared to what the content industry was doing - probably that causes the attack on him and his assets - its ok when content industry brainwashes everyone, but if someone opposing them does the SAME thing, its a crime !
It's only good - criminals are taken to court and jail so companies can again produce goods and software and they don't have to see the widespread piracy that is going on
excuse me guy, but that stupid thinking is why we are having all of this shit in the first place - the REAL pirates have persecuted someone challenging their rule and you are clapping for it :
how music labels avoid paying artists : http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/13/1737224/riaa-accounting-how-labels-avoid-paying-musicians how music labels screw aspiring artists and bands to neverending debt : http://www.negativland.com/albini.html how labels avoid paying royalties to artists even if they earned the right to it : http://gizmodo.com/5417318/my-6247-royalty-statement-how-major-labels-cook-the-books-with-digital-downloads
ANY cent you pay to buy music so not to 'steal' from a big label, goes NOT to the artist - but to the pocket of an intermediary called the label and pocketed to an extent of 95%. you pay 15 bucks to an album, your artist gets a few cents, and the label gets almost entirety of 15 bucks. then they force the artist to go on concerts worldwide, to make money. it is taxing, and most artists and bands break down, and resort to drugs or excess to relieve stress. radiohead released one of their albums for FREE without a label, told people to pay however much they want, even take it for free. 80% of people who got it, did not pay. however, the rest 20% caused radiohead to make MORE money in just 4 hours than they would make in a whole year of touring if they gave the album to a record label. and that album, is still selling over the internet since a year or so now. so go figure................ in short, ANYone who supports this scheme that sucks artists dry, and screws customers up, is either a very very dumb, ignorant person, or a hapless idiot. there is no way to explain someone supporting a scheme that screws him/her over, otherwise.
All that eavesdropping, corporate and government spying, data sharing, and people are expected to keep their data away from their loved ones, friends et cetera ? The VERY people who actually have a right and a need to know those information ? And by keeping data away from our CLOSE circle, we are going to make up for the privacy all that eavesdropping, data mining has smoked ?
If you have the balls, as a security advisor/company/activist, take on the government and corporations. not joe joey and susan sue. leave them to share their password.
because the assholes at google have not yet waken up to the fact that the 'magic' aura of the untouchable has faded long ago from the world of i.t., internet, and silicon valley. and they need to fight to defend themselves from the dinosaurs, who have just woken up to what internet was doing in the last 5 years and got into offensive.
The reaction and the level of taking action you americans have exhibited in this occasion, both individually and on tech-corporation level, has been much encouraging. For a long time now, i see -at least the more aware - americans sparing effort for something good. i actually was surprised when ows thing had happened recently. but this is icing on the cake.
maybe hope is not lost for your society yet and you can take it back ....
They are suing because they believe
a top nasdaq-company full of bright minds, brilliant college graduates, pioneers and frontiers, BELIEVE that shiny rectangular corners can belong to someone.
get real. its pr speak.
their pocket books are deep enough to last them over a century and buy themselves an entire constitution-full of bills.
the whole 'hit them in their wallets' farce in a capitalist market economy only works during initial, frontier stages of a market when the profitmaking interests are actually many and in small sizes. once a hierarchy of megacorporations and interconnected shareholderships come to being in later stages, it doesnt matter zit - if you hit them in one field, they will just keep making money in another field they have shareholdership.
only option as of now is to buy congressmen. i would say whores, but the respectability of whoring profession is much higher than where congressmen stand at as of this moment.
did you think they care about losing an election ? when they lose it, they will be awarded with an exec position in the content industry, and will get sign up bonuses.
if you stopped reading at 'wikileaks', just fuck off. we dont need people whose thought process and horizon are triggered on/off with keywords. there are a lot of those in congress and senate.
stupefying to see someone on slashdot who understands the source of all the problems that are afflicting the society in all that clarity.
The answer is removing corporate money from politics
good luck with that.
all they will need to do to have the same thing will be to guarantee an employment for the representative in backroom dealings.
they already use it for bureaucrats - they couldnt donate, gift or do anything to fcc chairwoman. but, she screwed everything up for the sake of content industry, and what happened ? she resigned, and immediately got a juicy job at that industry.
you can be sure that she wouldnt screw up things, if she was not guaranteed employment beforehand.
you cant remove the power of wealth on politics. you need to remove wealth from life, OR, you need to make everyone equally wealthy so that noone can undo the other. this is what we do in politics by the way - by mandating that everyone has one, equal vote. but that doesnt prevent from who can be elected with that vote from getting bought. now, if everyone was equally wealthy however, or equally poor depending on how you put it, then noone would be able to wrest the representative to their side, and the participation would have to be democratic.
we are not living in democracies.
We also probably can't do anything about SOPA/PIPA. They're going to pass them, by hook or by crook. We can protest all we want, black out web pages, complain to representatives, what have you. Doesn't matter. The other side has more power (being the mainstream media); that's all there is to it.
not if you start buying your own congressmen.
I meant first and foremost to cast an informed vote; to write to one's representatives, perhaps to join advocacy groups like, for this issue, the EFF or EPIC; maybe march in protests, that sort of thing.
and none of them will matter. they will still get their payment from the media corporations, and then just do what they ask them to do. even if they do not get elected next term, it doesnt matter - they will be sitting on a well placed position in those companies. on top of cash in their banks.
http://www2.ucar.edu/climate/faq/how-much-has-global-temperature-risen-last-100-years
we really need to treat climate change as the new evolution it seems.