No, they wouldn't put it on a laptop (are you stupid?)
How do you know? I've been around long enough to know that the stupidest way to do something is likely the way the government will do something. And my personal information has been lost on a couple of government and contractor laptops, as well as a few missing external hard-drives and tapes carried back and forth in people's personal vehicles. And I only know this because California law which requires them to tell me.
Unfortunately, you are likely right about this. However I still hope that the maximum punishment will be stripping all legitimate "IP" from the company in question as well as a fine for being a douche.
I notice that the DoJ is still up to its tricks here. A prosecutor once denied Kevin Mitnick a bail hearing by telling the judge that all Mitnick needed to do to launch WWIII was to whistle into a phone. Luckily, in this case, the Judge was smarter and nicer than the prosecution.
For a brief period this afternoon I was concerned someone had figured out a way to silent Mike
Heh, mine too. DNS was flaky (I could ping the server by IP fine, but DNS queries came back denied.) For a second I was wondering if MAFIAA got their wish and somehow Techdirt was SOPA'd. However, it was probably someone messing around with their DNS server as queries were resolving properly along some of the paths and were failing along some of the others. Maybe DNSSEC implementation?
Another reason not to buy. Note I did not say another reason to pirate, but not to buy at all.
I agree with you, but sadly, whether you don't buy or you acquire their product through illegal methods or even through methods they don't approve of, such as Netflix, you are still a pirate in their eyes.
Four hours and 6 minutes of creamy goodness. (Movie is actually 2 hours and 3 minutes -- but you'll find yourself watching it twice just to catch what you missed the first time.)
A remix of concepts (say space aliens, space ship, ruler of the universe) is different from taking a copy of the star wars film and putting different voices on it.
Tell me again that this is not creative? Sure, it is highly derivative, but there was an awful lot of creativity into making it (for free, I might add) and I for one found it to be an awesome addition to the universe.
I really wish they would shut down a really large site.
Give it time. If there is one thing I've learned in government is that there is no shortage of stupidity, especially the higher you go.
Given that Google Docs uses docs.google.com, I wonder if they would just block that URL or if they would go for google.com instead? And if they did, much to the chagrin of the ACs here with tinfoil hats, I believe that would be a black day on the internet.
You are now able to buy DVDs and Blurays much faster without society going through the PPV phaze, renting phaze, movie station phaze and more first. This is them aiming to beat piracy by getting out into the market early.
Absolutely agree, and wish they would get to work on it. I would like to rent a Blu-Ray copy of the movie the moment it comes out in movie theaters. And here is why ---
Then 3D had been rushed into cinemas much faster to give people a viewing experience that piracy could not.
I went to see my first 3D (RealD, whatever that is) movie last week. I didn't pay for the ticket -- my mother gave me a $15 dollar gift certificate for Christmas, so she bought the ticket, otherwise I would not have gone. And yes, what brought me out, but the worst Star Wars movie ever! I went and saw Jar Jar Binks in his 3D glory.
Now, I actually liked the 3D pod racing -- and unlike what others have said, the 3D in this movie was well done. But even then, the experience sucked! I was in a movie theater of 130-140 people, most of us actually wanted to see the movie, but I still hated every minute of the experience. 5 kids sat behind me throwing popcorn and making stupid jokes during the movie, while their parents sat and did nothing. A good two-thirds of the audience checked their phones every 20 minutes, and I heard a dozen or two phone calls come in and answered during the movie. Had the sound been turned up to a decent decibel, it would have drowned most of this out, but the theater's 6.1 speaker system was soft enough that through many of the parts I was trying to use my memory to fill in the dialog I couldn't hear. And the screen was so dark and flickered quite often.
I want to be able to rent or buy a movie, for a reasonable price, the moment it comes out in the theaters, so I can play it at home on my 7.1 sound system, at the sound level I can hear the movie, on the 10 ft projector screen (which supports 1080p/3D) with my friends -- not with 90-100 people who decided that it was a good deal to waste 2 hours watching a movie they really didn't want to see in the first place.
Opinion is fact. Piracy is slavery. Copying is cheating.
RIAA Expert #1: The internet is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Congress: What do you mean, "biblical"?
MPAA Expert: What he means is Old Testament, Congress, real wrath of God type stuff.
RIAA Expert #1: Exactly.
RIAA Expert #2: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
MPAA Expert: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
IFPI Expert: The pirates rising from MegaUpload and Pirate Bay!
RIAA Expert #1: Data sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Congress: All right, all right! I get the point!
You are right this isn't about copyright, its about prior restraint. There are half a million users at JotForm.com. There are now over 300,000 web sites that have partial functionality because of this take down by the Secret service. Blog comments forms, contact forms, order forms, etc all taken down due to a lack of due process.
If they can do it to JotForm.com, they can easily do the same with Google Docs. I have a ton of shared forms on Google Docs, and have seen others use them for the same purpose. If Google Docs goes down, I believe the web itself would disappear for a while.
No way -- Rickey may talk of himself in the third person, but Rickey is a really smart, observant individual whereas TAM is about as dumb as you can get before you start categorizing him in the silicon scale. And, Rickey gets on.
They were started only to make rules for themselves (though MPAA was a little more shady, since they were started mainly as a monopoly enforcement arm of Famous Players-Lasky, Metro-Goldwyn and First National.
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Tats ok. I ave a cold so I am dropping all those letters anyway. I'm safe.
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How do you know? I've been around long enough to know that the stupidest way to do something is likely the way the government will do something. And my personal information has been lost on a couple of government and contractor laptops, as well as a few missing external hard-drives and tapes carried back and forth in people's personal vehicles. And I only know this because California law which requires them to tell me.
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The "h" kinda looks like a chair.
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Unfortunately, you are likely right about this. However I still hope that the maximum punishment will be stripping all legitimate "IP" from the company in question as well as a fine for being a douche.
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Non-authoritative answer:
Name: techdirt.com
Address: 208.53.48.153
Name: techdirt.com
Address: 208.53.48.129
Name: techdirt.com
Address: 208.53.48.36
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Stay classy, DoJ, Stay Classy.
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Heh, mine too. DNS was flaky (I could ping the server by IP fine, but DNS queries came back denied.) For a second I was wondering if MAFIAA got their wish and somehow Techdirt was SOPA'd. However, it was probably someone messing around with their DNS server as queries were resolving properly along some of the paths and were failing along some of the others. Maybe DNSSEC implementation?
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They would if they stopped spending it on hookers and blow.
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I agree with you, but sadly, whether you don't buy or you acquire their product through illegal methods or even through methods they don't approve of, such as Netflix, you are still a pirate in their eyes.
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Four hours and 6 minutes of creamy goodness. (Movie is actually 2 hours and 3 minutes -- but you'll find yourself watching it twice just to catch what you missed the first time.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ezeYJUz-84
Tell me again that this is not creative? Sure, it is highly derivative, but there was an awful lot of creativity into making it (for free, I might add) and I for one found it to be an awesome addition to the universe.
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Give it time. If there is one thing I've learned in government is that there is no shortage of stupidity, especially the higher you go.
Given that Google Docs uses docs.google.com, I wonder if they would just block that URL or if they would go for google.com instead? And if they did, much to the chagrin of the ACs here with tinfoil hats, I believe that would be a black day on the internet.
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Exactly -- Which is why the RIAA/MPAA never invites said Rational Person to the meetings.
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Absolutely agree, and wish they would get to work on it. I would like to rent a Blu-Ray copy of the movie the moment it comes out in movie theaters. And here is why ---
Then 3D had been rushed into cinemas much faster to give people a viewing experience that piracy could not.
I went to see my first 3D (RealD, whatever that is) movie last week. I didn't pay for the ticket -- my mother gave me a $15 dollar gift certificate for Christmas, so she bought the ticket, otherwise I would not have gone. And yes, what brought me out, but the worst Star Wars movie ever! I went and saw Jar Jar Binks in his 3D glory.
Now, I actually liked the 3D pod racing -- and unlike what others have said, the 3D in this movie was well done. But even then, the experience sucked! I was in a movie theater of 130-140 people, most of us actually wanted to see the movie, but I still hated every minute of the experience. 5 kids sat behind me throwing popcorn and making stupid jokes during the movie, while their parents sat and did nothing. A good two-thirds of the audience checked their phones every 20 minutes, and I heard a dozen or two phone calls come in and answered during the movie. Had the sound been turned up to a decent decibel, it would have drowned most of this out, but the theater's 6.1 speaker system was soft enough that through many of the parts I was trying to use my memory to fill in the dialog I couldn't hear. And the screen was so dark and flickered quite often.
I want to be able to rent or buy a movie, for a reasonable price, the moment it comes out in the theaters, so I can play it at home on my 7.1 sound system, at the sound level I can hear the movie, on the 10 ft projector screen (which supports 1080p/3D) with my friends -- not with 90-100 people who decided that it was a good deal to waste 2 hours watching a movie they really didn't want to see in the first place.
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RIAA Expert #1: The internet is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Congress: What do you mean, "biblical"?
MPAA Expert: What he means is Old Testament, Congress, real wrath of God type stuff.
RIAA Expert #1: Exactly.
RIAA Expert #2: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
MPAA Expert: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
IFPI Expert: The pirates rising from MegaUpload and Pirate Bay!
RIAA Expert #1: Data sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Congress: All right, all right! I get the point!
(Sheepishly stolen from Ghostbusters...)
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Removing the DNS entry in no way prevents this from happening -- in a way it makes it far easier since nobody can mirror the site when it is gone.
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If they can do it to JotForm.com, they can easily do the same with Google Docs. I have a ton of shared forms on Google Docs, and have seen others use them for the same purpose. If Google Docs goes down, I believe the web itself would disappear for a while.
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No way -- Rickey may talk of himself in the third person, but Rickey is a really smart, observant individual whereas TAM is about as dumb as you can get before you start categorizing him in the silicon scale. And, Rickey gets on.
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True, but the content industry started it by asking for the impossible a bunch of times already.
Copyright then is set in International agreements meaning we need many countries to agree to then reduce the copyright term further.
Its not like our government has had any particular heartburn about reneging on international agreements in the past.
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Which is sad, because both organizations were formed not to push legislation, but to push their members to adopt standards. RIAA was formed to push standards on their members recording of phonographs, and MPAA was formed to push standards (related to unacceptable content) on their members recording movies.
They were started only to make rules for themselves (though MPAA was a little more shady, since they were started mainly as a monopoly enforcement arm of Famous Players-Lasky, Metro-Goldwyn and First National.
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