Thing is that we have all this wrong. We need to learn that the RIAA and MPAA can do no wrong. Ever. Eternally. Ever.
OK, so what Vevo did would get others busted for piracy and maybe tossed into jail. But they're owned by RIAA members so it can't be piracy. The RIAA has the right to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants.
After all, between the MPAA and RIAA they control the world don't they? They've told Congress they do. They've told various parliaments they do, If you as they'll tell you they do.
Eolas aren't rookies in East Texas. They've been in those courts many times before.
THIS time a jury there came to the right conclusion. THIS time they tossed the patent troll out on its ear and watched them bounce.
THIS time justice was served. Now for a massive Bronx cheer aimed at the University of California for being part of this. And a big smack up side their head too. ;-)
Despite the remarks of one troll who doesn't seem to know what to do with this the project has now raised $1,085,494 and still going up.
Keeping in mind that this game is being developed by people who are well known for quality work and quality product if someone says Kickstarter doesn't work then, I guess, we get to say they're wrong.
And, in response to the troll, it's not all that unusual for artists say "pay me first or you get nothing" which is largely how they made their living throughout most of time.
The Reality is that enough people like the possibilities of this game that they're willing to invest over a million sight unseen due to who is working on the project.
They're not. but the real world variety are held up to ridicule which often sails a yard or two over their heads. The same thing happens here as trolls often don't get the ridicule aimed at them. It flies a few yards over their skulls.
I don't see a precedent here. The Beeb tracked this guy down from information supplied by a third party and a thumb drive they may have gotten from that third party.
The reality is the someone, somewhere knew who this guy was before they went to the Beeb and the Beeb outed him. Someone in the REAL world.
Those few trolls I've met in the real world are quite proud of what they do and will spill it out to anyone who will listen about how "tough" they are and how they're putting people in their place who need to be put there. I wouldn't say they're all that hard to find by the media or, if necessary, the police.
They lose their anonymity the moment they open their mouth in a bar, pub or coffee shop. I suspect that's what's happened here.
Sadly the best thing to do in this era of IP maximalists, particularly in the patent arena is to load up on them yourself. IBM is sitting on several supertankers worth of patents, other tech companies including Microsoft are sitting on their won supertanker loads and even the FOSS movement is sitting on a few large shiploads of its own patents.
Most of this waste of space, time, money and desks for lawyers is, I regret to say, defensive. And a way for these companies and movements to protect themselves from patent trolls and a quick trip to the home and native land of such trolls otherwise known as West Texas.
Personally, I'd be shocked if the vast majority of tech patents would stand up to an honest challenge, honestly judged. Particularly the software variety.
OK, so Google wants it's cut of Motorla patents by not raising the licensing price should it be successful in grabbing Motorola. I'm not going to concern myself at all about that.
If and when it starts to act like a patent troll, then, I'll get worried. But not just because they're Google.
Curiously the same accusations were made about Yahoo "back in the day" before Google took over the search market. And the same fears were expressed.
Often by people who use loyalty cards to get deals, Credit Cards with Air Miles stamped all over them, and similar ways of corporate tracking of our likes, dislikes and preferences.
I don't really care what Google thinks it knows about me because if it uses cookies to track my likes and dislikes it's gonna be led a long way away from who I really am, what I really like and what my inner thoughts and opinions really are from day to day.
So they want to serve better ads? Hasn't really happened for me yet but who knows, maybe one day in the future it will.
There are 7 billion people on this planet more than half of whom use the Internet at least once a day. The data overload is terrific.
Oh, and I have looked at my page in Google. One of the funniest things I've ever seen. Couldn't be more wrong about me.
It's not that much of what you say is true, perhaps and under some circumstances, but that you've entirely missed the point of the cartoon.
So to point it out to you it's that there is one set of laws in "the real world" and another for "the virtual world". The latter ones trample over people's rights while the former, largely, protect them.
I wouldn't be so sure about that either. Domains ending in .com, .org, .net, .xxx and so on are generic TLD's not belonging to, as in signifying the United States. There is one of those and that's ".us".
Nor are all those domains running on servers in the United States or even registered by an American registrar.
Personally I don't see the link between the busting of Megaupload and DCMA safe harbour provisions. Megaupload wasn't the least bit interested in DCMA safe harbours.
I do agree with those who smell a "we gotta do something" motivation after the outcry over SOPA/PIPA and with those who suspect that there's a link between musicians and other artists directly uploading their works to that site and bypassing RIAA member companies thereby changing the supply chain and how it operates.
I do agree that there's a net downside to the seizure to the United States, though I'd make the score piracy 2 US Economy -2.
OK, so if I can't use 1-2-3-4-5 can I use 5-4-3-2-1????
You know that someone out there will be thinking that. Perhaps not readers of this blog but someone will.
I've had customers tell me their password is their address number, their dog's name, the same numbers they use on their debit and credit card accounts, their birthdays and their favourite of luckiest number. (No joke of a lie here one Chinese fella, new arrival, told me his password was 88888.)
No matter how many times we tell people to use secure passwords they don't.
Now then if a significant portion of those goods were made in the United States, and they are, and the money spend in the United States that would drive the loss back down to zero. Wouldn't it?
For all of that the article reads as well researched and well backed in saying that Smith is either exaggerating or lying about the impacts of what he calls "piracy" on the Web.
It doesn't matter which, in the end. The problem isn't anywhere near as bad as how he and SOPA supporters presented it to be.
Crows and ravens do love to play and find ways to amuse themselves. Just about anything will do but I've not seen one sledding before!
Cute as that looks, though, beware -- don't get anywhere near a crow or raven's nest when there are chicks in it or you'll be subject to co-ordinated attacks by mom and dad as well as other members of their murder (a flock of crows) until they drive you off or inside. Worse. They'll remember you and continue the attack until the chicks are grown and gone.
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(No offense intended towards Ebolas victims. )
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OK, so what Vevo did would get others busted for piracy and maybe tossed into jail. But they're owned by RIAA members so it can't be piracy. The RIAA has the right to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants.
After all, between the MPAA and RIAA they control the world don't they? They've told Congress they do. They've told various parliaments they do, If you as they'll tell you they do.
Surely they wouldn't fib, would they?
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What utter and complete stupidity.
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THIS time a jury there came to the right conclusion. THIS time they tossed the patent troll out on its ear and watched them bounce.
THIS time justice was served. Now for a massive Bronx cheer aimed at the University of California for being part of this. And a big smack up side their head too. ;-)
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Keeping in mind that this game is being developed by people who are well known for quality work and quality product if someone says Kickstarter doesn't work then, I guess, we get to say they're wrong.
And, in response to the troll, it's not all that unusual for artists say "pay me first or you get nothing" which is largely how they made their living throughout most of time.
The Reality is that enough people like the possibilities of this game that they're willing to invest over a million sight unseen due to who is working on the project.
Not bad, I'd say.
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The reality is the someone, somewhere knew who this guy was before they went to the Beeb and the Beeb outed him. Someone in the REAL world.
Those few trolls I've met in the real world are quite proud of what they do and will spill it out to anyone who will listen about how "tough" they are and how they're putting people in their place who need to be put there. I wouldn't say they're all that hard to find by the media or, if necessary, the police.
They lose their anonymity the moment they open their mouth in a bar, pub or coffee shop. I suspect that's what's happened here.
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Re: Google is on a lot of radars
Most of this waste of space, time, money and desks for lawyers is, I regret to say, defensive. And a way for these companies and movements to protect themselves from patent trolls and a quick trip to the home and native land of such trolls otherwise known as West Texas.
Personally, I'd be shocked if the vast majority of tech patents would stand up to an honest challenge, honestly judged. Particularly the software variety.
OK, so Google wants it's cut of Motorla patents by not raising the licensing price should it be successful in grabbing Motorola. I'm not going to concern myself at all about that.
If and when it starts to act like a patent troll, then, I'll get worried. But not just because they're Google.
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Often by people who use loyalty cards to get deals, Credit Cards with Air Miles stamped all over them, and similar ways of corporate tracking of our likes, dislikes and preferences.
I don't really care what Google thinks it knows about me because if it uses cookies to track my likes and dislikes it's gonna be led a long way away from who I really am, what I really like and what my inner thoughts and opinions really are from day to day.
So they want to serve better ads? Hasn't really happened for me yet but who knows, maybe one day in the future it will.
There are 7 billion people on this planet more than half of whom use the Internet at least once a day. The data overload is terrific.
Oh, and I have looked at my page in Google. One of the funniest things I've ever seen. Couldn't be more wrong about me.
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Hmmmmm...nasty response to Techdirt posting macro 1 or macros 2 through 6. Which one do I use?
/s (maybe)
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So to point it out to you it's that there is one set of laws in "the real world" and another for "the virtual world". The latter ones trample over people's rights while the former, largely, protect them.
Clear?
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Nor are all those domains running on servers in the United States or even registered by an American registrar.
Personally I don't see the link between the busting of Megaupload and DCMA safe harbour provisions. Megaupload wasn't the least bit interested in DCMA safe harbours.
I do agree with those who smell a "we gotta do something" motivation after the outcry over SOPA/PIPA and with those who suspect that there's a link between musicians and other artists directly uploading their works to that site and bypassing RIAA member companies thereby changing the supply chain and how it operates.
I do agree that there's a net downside to the seizure to the United States, though I'd make the score piracy 2 US Economy -2.
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You know that someone out there will be thinking that. Perhaps not readers of this blog but someone will.
I've had customers tell me their password is their address number, their dog's name, the same numbers they use on their debit and credit card accounts, their birthdays and their favourite of luckiest number. (No joke of a lie here one Chinese fella, new arrival, told me his password was 88888.)
No matter how many times we tell people to use secure passwords they don't.
I daresay most of us are guilty of it too.
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It doesn't matter which, in the end. The problem isn't anywhere near as bad as how he and SOPA supporters presented it to be.
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They'll love it!
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Dem smarty pants crows
Cute as that looks, though, beware -- don't get anywhere near a crow or raven's nest when there are chicks in it or you'll be subject to co-ordinated attacks by mom and dad as well as other members of their murder (a flock of crows) until they drive you off or inside. Worse. They'll remember you and continue the attack until the chicks are grown and gone.
Don't mess with crows! :-)
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