And by asking permission he makes everyone think that you must ask permission to make fair use of someone's work for parody, when the whole point of fair use is that you don't need to ask permission.
I don't care what Kim Dotcom has done. I care that our government follows the law and goes after him in a manner that's fair and legal. Otherwise what the government is doing is far, far worse than anything Kim Dotcom ever did.
I think when he said he could watch everything he wanted to, what he meant was he had no desire to see the latest and greatest thing the second it becomes available to the world.
Some cord cutters, like me, are perfectly content watching the 100+ years of media content that has already been created and is freely available legally and without cable.
Attorney Generals get elected because nobody pays attention to them. They just need to find enough buddies to vote them into office. So that doesn't explain Bush.
They exist, they just don't get elected because they can't raise enough campaign money.
And the irony is that most of that campaign money goes to TV ads, so the money the entertainment industry gives to politicians comes right back to them.
Google has learned what Sony is about to learn - the moment you give into their demands, they'll just keep demanding more until they control everything you do.
You have to understand that the primary purpose of the MPAA is to sit around all day looking for legal loopholes that will give their members more power and money.
Where loopholes don't exist, they simply write legislation with loopholes built in, and hand that legislation to the government along with a campaign donation, and the legislator tries to get it passed without knowing the loophole (if they're even aware that the loopholes exist.)
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No, morality is a construct of civilization. A place where "no law enforcement or investigative process exists" is the opposite of civilization. Modern notions of morality don't apply, and it's a scenario exceedingly few people are likely to encounter, which makes it a pretty weak way to argue a point.
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Asking for permission is the problem.
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Some cord cutters, like me, are perfectly content watching the 100+ years of media content that has already been created and is freely available legally and without cable.
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And then those same people come here complaining that TechDirt is too biased.
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And the irony is that most of that campaign money goes to TV ads, so the money the entertainment industry gives to politicians comes right back to them.
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Where loopholes don't exist, they simply write legislation with loopholes built in, and hand that legislation to the government along with a campaign donation, and the legislator tries to get it passed without knowing the loophole (if they're even aware that the loopholes exist.)
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