ou really don't have the slightest fucking idea what is being discussed here do you?
Hint: It has exactly fuck all to do with the crap you're discussing.
At first i thought you were just poorly informed, now I realize, you just don't understand what "anonymity" is and how it relates to the current discussion.
And as an aside, Mark Felt outed himself, he was never discovered by anyone. Seems to prove that your point is totally false, apart from NOT HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS DISCUSSION.
God, it's like you don't know you're demonstrating your stupidity with every post.
"We (in the US) have a right to free speech. We do not have a right to anonymous free speech."
HEY GENIUS WHO DIDN'T RTF SUMMARY, I'LL POST THE RELEVANT PART AGAIN
FTF SUMMARY
the judge quoted a Virginia court that ruled in a similar case that nameless online taunters should be held accountable when their derision crosses a line. 'The protection of the right to communicate anonymously must be balanced against the need to assure that those persons who choose to abuse the opportunities presented by this medium can be made to answer for such transgressions
Do you see that part where a judge quoted the Virginia court as recognizing the right to COMMUNICATE ANONYMOUSLY?
Yeah, that part where the right is established as clearly legally recognized?
It proves you irrefutably wrong.
Of course, you can try to argue that a legally recognized right is not a right, it's the kind of ridiculous crap people who have been totally proven wrong try every day, but I suspect you're feeling dumb enough about being wrong already.
"An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the man" or "argument against the man") consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim."
Now you know why your way of thinking is worthless, as was your post which showed it off.
Hopefully the moderator who wasted a point modding up a 3rd grade "argument" realizes it too now.
It is the systematic promotion of one group of people and oppression of a different group of people.
FT racism FY, please try to avoid lying about definitions in order to forward your racist agenda.
"racism [rey-siz-uhm] Show IPA noun 1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. 2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination. 3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races."
All three of those definitions prove you're a lying racist.
And to rephrase *my* point, I am aware of this lack of a death penalty in the UK already and posted with that in mind and mentioned that situation specifically, which is why that point being made & re-made as if I had left it out is redundant.
I know I suffered a bit of Typonese, but am I writing with invisible ink too?:|
No, what you actually did was prove you know fuck all about UK law, and make an ass of yourself trying to backpedal once you realized it.
How about you just shut the fuck up and we'll pretend you didn't just prove you're ignorant on the subject?
Dickhead (YOU): "I'm going to present my opinion as fact and deride you for your ignorance!"
Smarter poster:"You are mistaken"
Dickhead (YOU): "I will now pretend that I was aware of my mistake, and that my previous attempt to pretend I knew what the fuck I was running my dicksucker about didn't demonstrate I'm an idiot!"
You're not special or insightful, and thinking you are because you red 1984 (a novel, that again, we HAVE ALL READ) is a particularly poignant type of pathetic.
I'm getting real tired of this attitude. My generation isn't stupid. They know what they're doing -- they're creating a transparent society where we can all be a bit more polite to one another because everyone has dirt on everyone else, and because we want to put ourselves out there and make friends, rather than dying alone in some castle with all our toys like the boomers are right now, because they wanted their precious privacy.
No, they don't.
But I like your rationalizations, they sound like the kind of stupidity that would go over well in a smoke filled dorm room.
"No doubt there will now have to be a third trial"
When you prove to be as wrong about this as you are about the vast majority of what you post, will you come back and admit you hav eno idea what the fuck you're talking about?
We don't need the admission, it's obvious, but it would be nice.
"That's being more than a bit presuming and putting words into my mouth, wouldn't you say? "
No.
"Ah, so you have designated yourself a judge of who is and who isn't an enemy of freedom? "
No, he just voiced what we all saw.
"I apologize for having an extreme urge to shape new ideas into something tangible and workable. "
Shut the fuck up, thanks. You have no desire for that AT ALL, and lying about it is very pathetic.
You make worthless observations about form over substance, in a clear attempt to whore karma, while making NO ONE SINGLE VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION, then get pissy when yo uget called on it.
Fuck you buddy, you're everything he said you are.
"You seem to already have the negative caged-animal attitude that suing the shit out of everyone is your only option."
OP said
"Any thoughts from the Slashdot crowd?The free copies aren't boosting sales for my books. Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell?"
So, the question is, are you just a REALLY bad reader, or are you that guy who has to lie because intelligent discourse is beyond his intellectual capability?
Slashdot, where outright lies are modded up because stupid fuckers don't bother to read.
You came HERE, to Slashdot, where there is consistent and irrefutable support for what have to be some of the dumbest ideas about copyright ever uttered, and you expect something useful?
Good luck, there's a very small population of people here with ideas you can use, but they'll be drowned out by the idiots who routinely denounce copyright as though it raped their baby and murdered their granny.
No, actually, it doesn't, you're lying to support your "point"
It's no wonder though, that thieves have to resort to lies to support their thievery.
"You simply cannot make a freedom argument for copyright."
Funny he just did, you're lying again. And he didn't have to resort to "Hint: it involves changing the meaning of a word to support my stupidity, because logic fails to do so" like you did.
I'm going to let you in on a secret. The world isn't the echo chamber you live in on Slashdot, and outside of your stocked pond, your argument is routinely dissected and crushed, with the purveyors of that argument roundly ridiculed for their lack of intelligence.
Slashdot Mirror
ou really don't have the slightest fucking idea what is being discussed here do you?
Hint: It has exactly fuck all to do with the crap you're discussing.
At first i thought you were just poorly informed, now I realize, you just don't understand what "anonymity" is and how it relates to the current discussion.
And as an aside, Mark Felt outed himself, he was never discovered by anyone. Seems to prove that your point is totally false, apart from NOT HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS DISCUSSION.
God, it's like you don't know you're demonstrating your stupidity with every post.
http://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity
Read that so you realize why you're still wrong.
"Imagine a graffiti artist" breaking the law and thus forfeiting his right to anonymity?
WTF does that have to do with anything?
Oh right, it's yet ANOTHER stupid fucking straw man because you don't have the intellectual ability to debate intelligently.
You're WRONG. You keep posting the same stupid shit, and you're STILL WRONG.
All the stupid logical fallacies in the world won't change that.
"No, but asserting that a lady is a "skanky ho" (also, "psychotic") is illegal, if untrue."
No, actually, it isn't.
"We (in the US) have a right to free speech. We do not have a right to anonymous free speech."
HEY GENIUS WHO DIDN'T RTF SUMMARY, I'LL POST THE RELEVANT PART AGAIN
FTF SUMMARY
Do you see that part where a judge quoted the Virginia court as recognizing the right to COMMUNICATE ANONYMOUSLY?
Yeah, that part where the right is established as clearly legally recognized?
It proves you irrefutably wrong.
Of course, you can try to argue that a legally recognized right is not a right, it's the kind of ridiculous crap people who have been totally proven wrong try every day, but I suspect you're feeling dumb enough about being wrong already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
"An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the man" or "argument against the man") consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim."
Now you know why your way of thinking is worthless, as was your post which showed it off.
Hopefully the moderator who wasted a point modding up a 3rd grade "argument" realizes it too now.
FT racism FY, please try to avoid lying about definitions in order to forward your racist agenda.
"racism [rey-siz-uhm] Show IPA
noun 1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races."
All three of those definitions prove you're a lying racist.
No, what you actually did was prove you know fuck all about UK law, and make an ass of yourself trying to backpedal once you realized it.
STFU now, you've embarrassed yourself enough already.
"Allow me to correct myself."
How about you just shut the fuck up and we'll pretend you didn't just prove you're ignorant on the subject?
Dickhead (YOU): "I'm going to present my opinion as fact and deride you for your ignorance!"
Smarter poster :"You are mistaken"
Dickhead (YOU): "I will now pretend that I was aware of my mistake, and that my previous attempt to pretend I knew what the fuck I was running my dicksucker about didn't demonstrate I'm an idiot!"
Do us all a favor, kill yourself.
"Read 1984 sometime"
Everyone has read it.
You're not special or insightful, and thinking you are because you red 1984 (a novel, that again, we HAVE ALL READ) is a particularly poignant type of pathetic.
No, they don't.
But I like your rationalizations, they sound like the kind of stupidity that would go over well in a smoke filled dorm room.
"Actually, given that an FOIA request is the standard procedure "
ACTUALLY you're completely wrong about that statement.
"Perspective. It's what keeps the rest of us from turning into paranoid ass-hats like yourself."
Research. It's what keeps the rest of us from being totally wrong about shit like you are.
"Neither are most peoples IP addresses, unless they're on dialup."
[citation needed]
Don't bother, it won't make you missing the entire point any less painful.
In short, while what you say there may be true, it is irrelevant to the point.
"Evidence is presented in courtrooms, not to journalists."
It wasn't earlier in the htread when he asked for some and you mistakenly thought you were providing it.
You fucked up. Be a man and admit it, and stop with this bullshit you're trying now.
Really, you post good stuff so behavior like this really makes you look like a punk.
I've been saying this for years, and you can see the result in my karma.
Funny, the trolls seem to have let you off fairly easily...
It's funny, people would hire you because they think you're nice, while overlooking your patently awful legal opinions.
"No doubt there will now have to be a third trial"
When you prove to be as wrong about this as you are about the vast majority of what you post, will you come back and admit you hav eno idea what the fuck you're talking about?
We don't need the admission, it's obvious, but it would be nice.
No actually, I'm laughing that your loser ass logged out to post that crap AC.
It means I won and you're my bitch.
"That's being more than a bit presuming and putting words into my mouth, wouldn't you say? "
No.
"Ah, so you have designated yourself a judge of who is and who isn't an enemy of freedom? "
No, he just voiced what we all saw.
"I apologize for having an extreme urge to shape new ideas into something tangible and workable. "
Shut the fuck up, thanks. You have no desire for that AT ALL, and lying about it is very pathetic.
You make worthless observations about form over substance, in a clear attempt to whore karma, while making NO ONE SINGLE VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION, then get pissy when yo uget called on it.
Fuck you buddy, you're everything he said you are.
You really have time to not only care about something so trivial, but actually write a post about it?
AFTER you write a post asking why people aren't being censored to your satisfaction?
Why haven't you killed your loser self yet?
"No, he's not. RTFA."
I did, you're wong and an idiot.
Shut up or kill yourself.
You said
"You seem to already have the negative caged-animal attitude that suing the shit out of everyone is your only option."
OP said
"Any thoughts from the Slashdot crowd?The free copies aren't boosting sales for my books. Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell?"
So, the question is, are you just a REALLY bad reader, or are you that guy who has to lie because intelligent discourse is beyond his intellectual capability?
Slashdot, where outright lies are modded up because stupid fuckers don't bother to read.
You came HERE, to Slashdot, where there is consistent and irrefutable support for what have to be some of the dumbest ideas about copyright ever uttered, and you expect something useful?
Good luck, there's a very small population of people here with ideas you can use, but they'll be drowned out by the idiots who routinely denounce copyright as though it raped their baby and murdered their granny.
Tell me what you're looking for and I'll find it. Guaranteed.
Don't presume your own ignorance and lack of ability is indicative of the reality of the situation.
"Hint: it involves guns and courts and jails. "
No, actually, it doesn't, you're lying to support your "point"
It's no wonder though, that thieves have to resort to lies to support their thievery.
"You simply cannot make a freedom argument for copyright."
Funny he just did, you're lying again. And he didn't have to resort to "Hint: it involves changing the meaning of a word to support my stupidity, because logic fails to do so" like you did.
I'm going to let you in on a secret. The world isn't the echo chamber you live in on Slashdot, and outside of your stocked pond, your argument is routinely dissected and crushed, with the purveyors of that argument roundly ridiculed for their lack of intelligence.
"Nope. There are genre giants that end up making less than the waiter at the local Dennys."
Name some, then post facts to support your assertions.
I'll wait. A long fucking time though, since you're full of shit.