What you want is to tip the Smart in the gene pool more on the side of the police. Wait, the police might be bigger criminals than the criminals. Never mind.
"With TPP, China doesn't set the rules in that region, we do." No Obama, American corporations do. I know politicians like to think they're the same thing, but...
Clearly Hollywood only had a record year because of all they've done to crush piracy. How dare you suggest curtailing them or not expanding them? If we expand them, we'll set even BIGGER records!
The Copyright Office has historically come down on the side of copyright maximalists, so it wouldn't surprise me to see that the end result of this process is them suggesting more liability and responsibilities for internet platforms -- in part because they have absolutely no clue what a disaster that would be for content creators themselves. People who want to put more burdens on platforms think that this somehow helps content creators, but the opposite is true. It will mean fewer online platforms serving content creators, because the burdens will be too high. It will further entrench the large players and limit new upstarts, innovators and competitors.
Of course. Because it's not really content creators that are creating the first pile. It's the big middlemen that are threatened by obsolescence by the Internet; putting burdens on platforms and restricting competition is great for them. They get the content creators that are working for them, whose only understanding of the issue is what the middlemen tell them, to speak up for them in order to give the impression that they're fighting for content creators when what they really want is to keep their options as restricted as possible.
If you decide to submit your own comments -- and I suggest you do -- I would hope that you focus on these "unintended" consequences of mucking with the system in the direction of further burdening these services that seem to be doing a pretty good job serving most content creators and internet users.
And it would be great if content creators that are already taking advantage of alternative platforms, or otherwise actually do understand how these issues actually affect them, would speak up. Preferably ones that don't rely too much on fair use (which is a depressingly large percentage of Internet creators that aren't part of the legacy system), since the legacy players could easily portray them as moochers that should be killed off.
This is why lawyers and lawmakers hate laws that use weasel words like "reasonable". In theory, it provides judges leeway to interpret the law according to the circumstances of each case. In reality, it gives judges leeway to interpret the law according to the idiosyncrasies of each judge.
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I can't tell if you're clueless but earnest or making fun of climate activists, but it looks like you plugged "4 degrees Celsius" into Google and copy-pasted whatever you got. What you really want is to convert two different Celsius temperatures 4 degrees apart and take the difference between the Fahrenheit equivalents. Then you'd get a Fahrenheit temperature rise of 7.2.
Google account =/= Gmail account. Last I checked you can use all of Google's services without opening a Gmail account, although you do have to link it to another e-mail account (and I don't know if it works with all e-mail providers or only some).
Really, this applies to pretty much anything the right wants. Corporations bring down the economy? Clearly it was because of too much regulation keeping them from creating jobs! Huge gaps between rich and poor? Clearly the poor are relying too much on government handouts, cut their benefits and they'll lift themselves up by their bootstraps in no time! Government on the verge of shutdown, or actually being shut down repeatedly? More tax cuts for the wealthy! Making abortion harder only increases the risks to women's health? Clearly they're still having too many abortions, make it even harder!
"Sorry, but I don't troll. I do often (a) provide an alternate conclusion based on the story, and (b) point out that the author often has their own issues in how they relate to the story."
"Piracy doesn't necessarily make films successful, but it sure doesn't keep the massive releases from being successful, either." "So FACT is ramping up the war on piracy because it knows that the film is going to be successful? How does that make even the tiniest bit of sense?"
Simple. You are a human being, so you view financial success as a yes/no question. They are capitalists, and in capitalism, there is no such thing as making too much money, anything else be damned.
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Of course. Because it's not really content creators that are creating the first pile. It's the big middlemen that are threatened by obsolescence by the Internet; putting burdens on platforms and restricting competition is great for them. They get the content creators that are working for them, whose only understanding of the issue is what the middlemen tell them, to speak up for them in order to give the impression that they're fighting for content creators when what they really want is to keep their options as restricted as possible.
And it would be great if content creators that are already taking advantage of alternative platforms, or otherwise actually do understand how these issues actually affect them, would speak up. Preferably ones that don't rely too much on fair use (which is a depressingly large percentage of Internet creators that aren't part of the legacy system), since the legacy players could easily portray them as moochers that should be killed off.
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"Gentlemen, we must not have a panopticon gap!"
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Re: Too Bad
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Re: No, see the NRA for another example of this
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It's not trolling, it's a "social experiment"!
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Simple. You are a human being, so you view financial success as a yes/no question. They are capitalists, and in capitalism, there is no such thing as making too much money, anything else be damned.
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Re: Dear U.S. courts:
To: The American People
Words mean what the powers that be want them to mean.
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