News Corp. is an individual person, albeit one created by operation of law ...
Yet, isn't it odd that slavery has been outlawed, so it's illegal for one person to own another person? Neither News Corp nor Fox can rightly be considered persons.
Perhaps it's nonsensical to consider corporations persons in light of the emancipation act. Citizens United should just melt away like the morning's mist. We can send the boards of directors and major shareholders to prison for attempted slavery.
Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Aug 7th, 2015 @ 6:03am
... "copyright protection service" whose owners MUST be cackling like mad over the fact that their clients (the copyright holders) really, truly don't care when they fuck up.
I believe you're exactly correct on this, and have thought the same for quite a while. If we could prove to the owners of the MafiAA and blow the whistle on these guys, they'd disappear overnight.
Why those deep pocketed owners don't have people watching out for this sort of thing for them, I don't know. Where's an Eddie Willers when you need one? Email the Koch's executive assistant and ask them.
Re: Re: Re: I'm not sure your characterization is correct
The tax is distributed over all device users since it would be an intolerable invasion of privacy to check or require proof who is using his media for what in the privacy of his home ...
... a la Viseo TVs? A la Windows 10 clobbering users' security settings upon upgrade to *open/enable/phoning home to multiple motherships including crypto passwords/ ...
Stuff phones home immediately these days. We're supposed to either not notice it or accept it's a feature.
Re: I blame pirates while Techdirt blames creators. But then I'm reasonably moral, not a pirate who gains the unearned and whose thefts create the very problems that they then use to justify more piracy.
It's always decent people who pay the price for thefts by moral lepers. Just watch this space for how, by stating my own beliefs on this non-moderated but public site, the pirate-fanboy-trolls heap abuse.
Well, when you put it that way, ... Are you kidding? You're the only one I've seen spitting abuse and epithets like that! Anyone else appear to be writing about facts and details.
Is it some sort of anciant transcription device used by our ancesters?
They're not died out yet. El Reg reports a case recently that a guy printed up thousands of dead tree copies of a security exploit and delivered them to the door of the offender.
Deep pocketed "buggy whip manufacturers" (legacy gateholder industry players) bribing credulous, greedy politicians to pass undemocratic, protectionist laws that serve only the special interests' bottom line at the expense of everyone else is destroying whole countries' democracies.
Don't infringe. Boycott that !@#$! It's not worth the price of everyones' freedoms.
I thought it educational. Everything I'd heard about it before just said Vincent was nuts, with many saying that's why his paintings look the way they do.
There's a very real chance that the party in power after the election will be one that finds many of the TPP term unacceptable.
A story I read in the TO Star last night says all three of Conservative, Liberal, and NDP parties support TPP (it didn't mention Greens). Consequently, I doubt this will be an election issue.
Whichever way the election goes won't matter in this context.
The one pushing for 'filters' and everyone but them acting as unpaid copyright cops like to claim that it's an easy problem ...
This is the classic problem technical people have with bad managers. They've got this great idea, and all they need you to do is "blah", where "blah" is the equivalent of changing lead into gold. Sure, it can be made to sound simple, if you ignore little details like reality, chemistry, physics, & etc.
It also sounds incredibly stupid for us to hear them propose !@#$ like this, because it proves their utter ignorance of reality, chemistry, physics, & etc. How the hell do morons like that get into management?
Why are services that simply retransmit the OTA broadcasts of others so "new and innovative" that they should be excused from violating the rights of creators?
I take it you missed this:
That's important, because it means that the company can just pay Section 111 compulsory fees to the Copyright Office, and then it's free to stream broadcast (network) TV over the internet.
I guess when you perceive "theft from precious rights holders" (otherwise known as copyright infringement), you can't help yourself from going into attack mode even if it's blatantly clear to others there's no intent whatsoever to infringe on said rights.
Please grow up. Either that or die screaming in a fire.
Now, I've provided a button nearby for pirates to click so they can make clear their intent to continue stealing.
No, I think I'll continue boycotting your garbage which I don't ever want, but thanks anyway. Your repetitively done-over movies, your childishly repetitive noise that you call music (made with a drum machine on steroids), and all the other crap you flog isn't worth a second of my time. Please die screaming in a fire.
That would suck being told by your employer that you can be criminally charged for reading something in a newspaper.
It gets worse. Keeping your job depends on your having to convince a scientology e-meter (lie detector) that you're a good guy, once per year. What kind of forward thinking tech employer believes lie detectors have any scientific validity? Only those who disallow reading newspapers it seems. "Brillant! [sic]"
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Yet, isn't it odd that slavery has been outlawed, so it's illegal for one person to own another person? Neither News Corp nor Fox can rightly be considered persons.
Perhaps it's nonsensical to consider corporations persons in light of the emancipation act. Citizens United should just melt away like the morning's mist. We can send the boards of directors and major shareholders to prison for attempted slavery.
On the post: No Immunity For Cops Who Sent A SWAT Team To A 68-Year-Old Woman's House For Threats Delivered Over Open WiFi Connection
Comments held?
Someone hates you, the world isn't fair, and it isn't all about you? How'd I do?
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Manning did. Look where "she" is now.
I gave you a funny anyway. It is.
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Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Aug 7th, 2015 @ 6:03am
I believe you're exactly correct on this, and have thought the same for quite a while. If we could prove to the owners of the MafiAA and blow the whistle on these guys, they'd disappear overnight.
Why those deep pocketed owners don't have people watching out for this sort of thing for them, I don't know. Where's an Eddie Willers when you need one? Email the Koch's executive assistant and ask them.
On the post: Belgian Collection Society Wants To Extend Its 'You Must Be A Pirate' Tax To Cover All-In-One Printers
Re: Re: Re: I'm not sure your characterization is correct
... a la Viseo TVs? A la Windows 10 clobbering users' security settings upon upgrade to *open/enable/phoning home to multiple motherships including crypto passwords/ ...
Stuff phones home immediately these days. We're supposed to either not notice it or accept it's a feature.
On the post: Belgian Collection Society Wants To Extend Its 'You Must Be A Pirate' Tax To Cover All-In-One Printers
Re: I blame pirates while Techdirt blames creators. But then I'm reasonably moral, not a pirate who gains the unearned and whose thefts create the very problems that they then use to justify more piracy.
Well, when you put it that way, ... Are you kidding? You're the only one I've seen spitting abuse and epithets like that! Anyone else appear to be writing about facts and details.
On the post: Belgian Collection Society Wants To Extend Its 'You Must Be A Pirate' Tax To Cover All-In-One Printers
Re: Printers?
They're not died out yet. El Reg reports a case recently that a guy printed up thousands of dead tree copies of a security exploit and delivered them to the door of the offender.
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On the post: Universal Music's Anti-Piracy Ads Even Crazier Than You Can Imagine
Re:
Deep pocketed "buggy whip manufacturers" (legacy gateholder industry players) bribing credulous, greedy politicians to pass undemocratic, protectionist laws that serve only the special interests' bottom line at the expense of everyone else is destroying whole countries' democracies.
Don't infringe. Boycott that !@#$! It's not worth the price of everyones' freedoms.
On the post: Universal Music's Anti-Piracy Ads Even Crazier Than You Can Imagine
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You lighten up.
On the post: After The 'Maui Meltdown', TPP Has Missed A Key Deadline That Probably Means It's Doomed Whatever Is Now Agreed
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A story I read in the TO Star last night says all three of Conservative, Liberal, and NDP parties support TPP (it didn't mention Greens). Consequently, I doubt this will be an election issue.
Whichever way the election goes won't matter in this context.
On the post: Hundreds Of Journalists, Researchers, Concerned Citizens Sign Letter Protesting Netzpolitik 'Treason' Investigation
Re: Confirmation Email never arrived
What are you talking about? When you trip over something that's in your way, do you just lie there crying in the mud?
On the post: RIAA Asks BitTorrent Inc. To Block Infringing Content With A Hash Filter
Re: Re: Re: Re: Not Bittorrent's job
This is the classic problem technical people have with bad managers. They've got this great idea, and all they need you to do is "blah", where "blah" is the equivalent of changing lead into gold. Sure, it can be made to sound simple, if you ignore little details like reality, chemistry, physics, & etc.
It also sounds incredibly stupid for us to hear them propose !@#$ like this, because it proves their utter ignorance of reality, chemistry, physics, & etc. How the hell do morons like that get into management?
On the post: US Pushing To Kill Any Future Aereo With TPP
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I take it you missed this:
I guess when you perceive "theft from precious rights holders" (otherwise known as copyright infringement), you can't help yourself from going into attack mode even if it's blatantly clear to others there's no intent whatsoever to infringe on said rights.
Please grow up. Either that or die screaming in a fire.
On the post: RIAA Asks BitTorrent Inc. To Block Infringing Content With A Hash Filter
Zzzz ...
No, I think I'll continue boycotting your garbage which I don't ever want, but thanks anyway. Your repetitively done-over movies, your childishly repetitive noise that you call music (made with a drum machine on steroids), and all the other crap you flog isn't worth a second of my time. Please die screaming in a fire.
On the post: What Does USTR Have Against The Public Domain? Opposing TPP Provision In Support Of Public Domain
When you see "USTR", read "MafiAA & big Pharma."
I don't think it's even that complicated. The USTR is merely the D.C. branch office of the MPAA and big Pharma.
On the post: TPP Leaks Shows US Stands Firm That Companies Should Be Free To Abuse Patents & Copyrights
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Invading is expensive and messy. If they can get the same result by throwing a few lawyers at them instead, it would be prudent to do so.
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Re: Other constraints
It gets worse. Keeping your job depends on your having to convince a scientology e-meter (lie detector) that you're a good guy, once per year. What kind of forward thinking tech employer believes lie detectors have any scientific validity? Only those who disallow reading newspapers it seems. "Brillant! [sic]"
On the post: German Justice Minister Fires Top Prosecutor Over 'Treason' Probe Into Journalists After War Of Words
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That's when Leon Jaworski steps in and calls Nixon's lawyers liars, and he's not going to tolerate it from them any more.
IFF we're lucky enough to actually have a Leon Jaworski (or Kozinski?) in the house.
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