I am going to try and meet with my Congresswoman and explain why this is bad. Her office is down the street from me. The passing of this bill breaks the internet as explained by Paul Vixy. The DNS system works. Break it, and now you will have many decentralized DNS systems. This will not stop piracy. Take the time to study this. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110321/03124813572/paul-vixie-explains-why-coica-is-really-dumb-i dea.shtml 100 law professors are against it because it is unconstitutional. The people supporting the most innovative companies in the US (VCs in Silicon Valley) are against it. Harming innovation will put the US enven further behind. The New Your Times is against it.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT SUPPORTING FREE ENTERTAINMENT OR BOGUS MEDICATION! This is about the integrity of the internet and about the the ability from descending voices to be heard. See a post from earlier today here on TD about how legislation like this would be abused. Nice try, AC. Maybe if YOU had some conviction you would put your real name behind your comments.
In fact, while Edison was shooting his films in New Jersey, some bright folks had the idea to get out of New Jersey and New York and head to California to make their movies. It wasn’t because they loved the beach; it was because they wanted to be farther away from Edison so he would have a harder time enforcing his patents.
Two of those "bright folks" were bothers. The Warner Brothers. I thought that was an important point that was missed.
It is my opinion that the apps would drive general awareness of checkpoints, not their individual locations. Do you really think drunks are going to take the time to figure out where checkpoints are? Don't you think it might scare them into thinking there might be more police in the general area and just designate a driver?
You've got to be a complete fucking moron to think posting the same comment three times by Anonymous Cowards strengthens their argument. Those Cowards making such claims seem to think that people will be deterred upon looking at the number of duplicate comments. This is astoundingly naïve thinking. The fact is that there are few duplicate comments and they are rebutted by pointing them out.
It does not say it in this post, but some states/jurisdictions do require it. Please see some of the past Techdirt posts that are linked to in this post.
People pushing this need to ask themselves this: is the purpose of checkpoints to catch an lock up as many people as they can or to discourage drunk driving? If people know there was going to be a checkpoint at every intersection, don't you think this would minimize drunk driving overall?
So, grandstanders are for locking people up, while checkpoint awareness advocates (app makers and users) are for reducing drunk driving.
I would say it is a cultural difference too. China is a communists country. Communists = commune = sharing. Sharing resources is the way one survives in China.
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THIS IS NOT ABOUT SUPPORTING FREE ENTERTAINMENT OR BOGUS MEDICATION! This is about the integrity of the internet and about the the ability from descending voices to be heard. See a post from earlier today here on TD about how legislation like this would be abused. Nice try, AC. Maybe if YOU had some conviction you would put your real name behind your comments.
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Two of those "bright folks" were bothers. The Warner Brothers. I thought that was an important point that was missed.
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So, grandstanders are for locking people up, while checkpoint awareness advocates (app makers and users) are for reducing drunk driving.
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