Sadly, in our dumb, moralist society sex workers and sex traffic victims won't foster too much sympathy because "she should just close her legs" or "she is a sex worker so she must be a despicable person". The grand jury of moral police couldn't care less about the collateral damage that people who know what they are talking about are alerting. They just care about the warm and fuzzy feeling of doing something. For the children!
Have you read the article and the sources you moron? There's plenty of references to people actually engaged into protecting sex workers and sex trafficking victims from our society toxic moralism. Mike has debated for great lengths about the glaring problems this bill will cause to the internet companies as a whole as well as the censorious tone it has and now he went after sources of another bad side of the bills he isn't an expert at but did a great journalistic job going for the experts.
It seems to me that even if they are being hit from all sides by those in power, American democratic protections are pretty strong. They have been under fire for decades now and haven't broken down yet. Trump is the ultimate trial. If the US survives this then it's going to be a much better place.
So in a few years we'll be reading about a settlement that forces Verizon to do what they should have done in the previous settlement which in turn was expected in earlier tax breaks.
Instead of pointing the legislative gun at platforms collective heads maybe we should be collaborating among us to help tackle such problems? There are plenty of ways it could be done. For instance, new accounts could be restricted for some time frame (random I should add) and the restrictions lifted slowly as the person participates and establishes activities. You could use the verified thing to give more protection to the account and even exempt it from the initial restrictions. You could monitor accounts that go silent for a while and wake up to post stuff about major events only. You could quarantine accounts and give them resources to go back before delivering the hammer ban employing methods that would confuse bots but humans could navigate through somewhat easily. There are plenty of possibilities.
What shouldn't be on the table is legal pressure and making them liable for activity they can't prevent without unicorn magic.
I don't think there are less eyeballs watching. I think the metrics are wrong. But that's another discussion.
We have more eyeballs than ever but we also have more content being produced than ever. I do believe we are in a golden age but I also think it's about survival of the fittest. If you can produce good content for millions and earn millions and millions then good for you but if you can't make it good no amount of bitching and screaming will save you. This is what scares the legacy players. It's not easy on them anymore.
So after going through one of the greatest traumas a mother can ever experience the police decides it's a good idea to torture her with legal bullying. At least they didn't kill the parents point blank while their kids watched like Philando Castile. Monsters would be offended if I used the term to refer to that PD.
Picture Middle Ages crusaders or something wearing shiny plate armors. Coincidentally dark, stone dungeons devoid of technology seems to be on par with reality in many governmental bodies.
Re: Spotify is NO "innovator", it just uses the work of artists.
Just like the tape, the CDs weren't innovators either even though they allowed people to take music with them helping it spread like fire in the barn, right?
"Spotify has NOTHING without artists."
True. But artists would be in a much worse position without streaming to take their work as far as possible, enabling audiences they wouldn't be able to dream of if they weren't there, right? Fair trade I say.
"Since now pirates are able to steal the tunes and have local copies directly, WHY any of the giant outlets?"
Because people pay for good services, convenience. Because a whole lot of people will support the artists when they feel it's worth their money. The average pirate downloads over ten thousand tracks and doesn't have the money to buy them all but they will spend money with stuff they like and, guess what, they know a lot of them because they downloaded stuff. I have paid for stuff from Finland and Japan that I'd have never spent money on if it wasn't for piracy. Currently streaming as I decided to go with the convenience once I got the money to pay for it.
"THE KEY AND TRANSCDENTAL MAKING OF PRODUCT."
Good luck selling something that doesn't reach your potential customers.
"That's not "granted" but stated in the US Constitution because an individual Right."
It's not. It's a privilege that the Congress can give or take at their discretion. You are those entitled dipshits I see.
Remember those ads about piracy killing music? Yeah, fun times. Music can't be killed. But its evolution can be slowed, sabotaged. That's precisely what copyright and the music labels do today, slow down and sabotage it.
It's like copyright morons, they won't be satisfied until everything is theirs. And when people start pushing back they will pout and whine like petulant kids. Monopolies.
He seems to have the sympathy of the courts and while this shouldn't matter at the very least it will make them look more closely at his arguments instead of bowing towards the Great Capital and simply giving M$ the blood they want. I don't know the details but I would guess from his history that he was planning to sell them to cover his costs and not for profit which would make his case much easier. And if M$ doesn't sell physical recovery disks then it's going to be even easier.
I tend to recognize M$ strong points even if I joke around (using the $ for instance) but this time they are in the wrong, badly. And I do hope MS Streisand pays them an outrageous visit.
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Re: knows all about sex trafficking too?
Grow up.
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Re: Desire to be Dictator
Time will tell.
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Shall we start betting?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: INTENDED: "lots of collateral damage in dumbest possible way"
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What shouldn't be on the table is legal pressure and making them liable for activity they can't prevent without unicorn magic.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: INTENDED: "lots of collateral damage in dumbest possible way"
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Re:
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Re: Trump's usefulness
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Re: Re: It's all about trade-offs
We have more eyeballs than ever but we also have more content being produced than ever. I do believe we are in a golden age but I also think it's about survival of the fittest. If you can produce good content for millions and earn millions and millions then good for you but if you can't make it good no amount of bitching and screaming will save you. This is what scares the legacy players. It's not easy on them anymore.
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It's all about how you ask.
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Picture Middle Ages crusaders or something wearing shiny plate armors. Coincidentally dark, stone dungeons devoid of technology seems to be on par with reality in many governmental bodies.
Ahem.
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Re: Spotify is NO "innovator", it just uses the work of artists.
"Spotify has NOTHING without artists."
True. But artists would be in a much worse position without streaming to take their work as far as possible, enabling audiences they wouldn't be able to dream of if they weren't there, right? Fair trade I say.
"Since now pirates are able to steal the tunes and have local copies directly, WHY any of the giant outlets?"
Because people pay for good services, convenience. Because a whole lot of people will support the artists when they feel it's worth their money. The average pirate downloads over ten thousand tracks and doesn't have the money to buy them all but they will spend money with stuff they like and, guess what, they know a lot of them because they downloaded stuff. I have paid for stuff from Finland and Japan that I'd have never spent money on if it wasn't for piracy. Currently streaming as I decided to go with the convenience once I got the money to pay for it.
"THE KEY AND TRANSCDENTAL MAKING OF PRODUCT."
Good luck selling something that doesn't reach your potential customers.
"That's not "granted" but stated in the US Constitution because an individual Right."
It's not. It's a privilege that the Congress can give or take at their discretion. You are those entitled dipshits I see.
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He seems to have the sympathy of the courts and while this shouldn't matter at the very least it will make them look more closely at his arguments instead of bowing towards the Great Capital and simply giving M$ the blood they want. I don't know the details but I would guess from his history that he was planning to sell them to cover his costs and not for profit which would make his case much easier. And if M$ doesn't sell physical recovery disks then it's going to be even easier.
I tend to recognize M$ strong points even if I joke around (using the $ for instance) but this time they are in the wrong, badly. And I do hope MS Streisand pays them an outrageous visit.
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