Had the data been transmitted in an encrypted format the data stream would be of no evidentiary value as it could not be analyzed.
This is an example of encryption causing data to 'go dark'.
If data is encrypted, nobody can read it. Unless they are the holder of a magical Golden Key™ made from genuine Unicorn Horn and sprinkled with magic Pixle Dust.
Ordinary decryption keys won't work on encrypted data. Thus a magical golden key is needed. And the FBI needs it now! Because terrorists. Oh, wait. Wrong TLA. Because pedophiles!
This seems perfectly consistent with the FBI's talking points.
The FBI is leading by example, showing you how to send (someone else's) personal and private information over the internet without the need to use encryption.
Note to all Banking and Commerce sites: please follow the FBI's lead!
"the entertainment industry freaks out and scares registrars into taking back whatever domain and TPB just moves on. It's unclear what good this does for anyone . . ."
Here's what good it does. it's good for the economy: * it avoids the judical costs associated with the sillyness of 'due process' * the dinosaur entertainment industry has an excuse keep artist's money by saying "we're doing something about piracy!" and therefore you should not expect us to have money left to pay you more than a pittance. * domain registrars make money with each new registration of ThePirateBay.{...} * every DNS lookup is a lost sale! and should have to pay statutory copyright damages! * perhaps even printing the domain name in an article, such as this one, should be a copyright infringement that makes the legacy dinosaurs richer
"Good faith" is synonymous with "big brother knows what is best for you".
I'll say it again: Orwell's 1984 was a road map. Typical government inefficiency has taking until now to get the plan far enough along to begin to be recognizable.
The DOJ was recently ordered to send its lawyers to ethics classes.
Maybe the FBI needs to attend the same classes? After all, they received copies, without raising any protest.
I wonder if they realize that they are supposed to prosecute actual crimes, and not go looking for people to 'slot' or pigenhole into manufactured cases or crimes?
If the AI recreation of the film is in held to be a derivative work of the original film, then similarly, your own personal memory of the film is similarly a derivative work of the film.
If Warner Bros. has rights to the AI's memory of the film, then it should also have similar rights to your own memories of the film and every instance of each recollection you ever have of the film.
To avoid protracted negotiations, congress should establish a fixed and standard license cost associated with every recollection of copyrighted materials.
To promote the useful arts and sciences.
Hey, I'll DMCA that memory of yours! I'll censor it before it even becomes audible or type keyboarded speech!
Just like how congress can never repeal the 4th and 5th amendments.
I'm sure the 1st amendment will continue to protect speech just as we are protected today by the 4th and 5th amendment.
/s
1st amendment -- have you heard of the DMCA (digital millennium censorship act?) 4th amendment -- all your iPhones and hard drives are belong to us 5th amendment -- if you don't give us the password you can rot in prison
The way to understand the world is that 1984 was a guide book. A roadmap. And in typical government fashion, it took them a long time to come close to getting it implemented properly.
Anyone with money and power will try to 'fix' the world in the way they see fit.
I can imagine how I would, just as you can imagine how you would try to 'fix' the world if given enough money, power, or some other means to meddle in things.
This is not Justice. I might not mind the result. But you seem to miss the underlying problem. If this can be done to Gawker, it can be done to anyone.
Real justice is that (or at least closer to this)... if Gawker did one single thing that should bring them completely down, then that one thing alone should be enough to do so through the courts.
Is it radical to have an extreme polarized view? For example: the sun rises in the east. Not in the west. Not somewhere in between the two. There is exactly one correct viewpoint. A radical idea, I know. Yes, I suppose I am 'radicalized' about whether the sun rises in the east or in the west.
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Web Sherrif is like a breath of fresh air
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Re: How about any computer system?
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If data is encrypted, nobody can read it. Unless they are the holder of a magical Golden Key™ made from genuine Unicorn Horn and sprinkled with magic Pixle Dust.
Ordinary decryption keys won't work on encrypted data. Thus a magical golden key is needed. And the FBI needs it now! Because terrorists. Oh, wait. Wrong TLA. Because pedophiles!
This seems perfectly consistent with the FBI's talking points.
On the post: FBI Sends Computer Information Collected By Its Hacking Tools In Unencrypted Form Over The Open Internet
The FBI is Leading By Example
Encryption is causing everything to "go dark".
The FBI is leading by example, showing you how to send (someone else's) personal and private information over the internet without the need to use encryption.
Note to all Banking and Commerce sites: please follow the FBI's lead!
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On the post: RIAA Demands Takedown Of ThePirateBay.org, But EasyDNS Refuses Over Lack Of Due Process
What good it does?
* it avoids the judical costs associated with the sillyness of 'due process'
* the dinosaur entertainment industry has an excuse keep artist's money by saying "we're doing something about piracy!" and therefore you should not expect us to have money left to pay you more than a pittance.
* domain registrars make money with each new registration of ThePirateBay.{...}
* every DNS lookup is a lost sale! and should have to pay statutory copyright damages!
* perhaps even printing the domain name in an article, such as this one, should be a copyright infringement that makes the legacy dinosaurs richer
/s
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The Pixie Dust of Good Faith
I'll say it again: Orwell's 1984 was a road map. Typical government inefficiency has taking until now to get the plan far enough along to begin to be recognizable.
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Would Ethics classes fix this?
Maybe the FBI needs to attend the same classes? After all, they received copies, without raising any protest.
I wonder if they realize that they are supposed to prosecute actual crimes, and not go looking for people to 'slot' or pigenhole into manufactured cases or crimes?
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Some thoughts
If Warner Bros. has rights to the AI's memory of the film, then it should also have similar rights to your own memories of the film and every instance of each recollection you ever have of the film.
To avoid protracted negotiations, congress should establish a fixed and standard license cost associated with every recollection of copyrighted materials.
To promote the useful arts and sciences.
Hey, I'll DMCA that memory of yours! I'll censor it before it even becomes audible or type keyboarded speech!
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Re: Reject TPP
On the post: It's Official: US International Trade Commission Predicts Negligible Economic Benefits From TPP
What do you mean Negligable Economic Benefits?
... for the people* who wrote the text of the TPP
* corporations are people too
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Translation
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Re:
I'm sure the 1st amendment will continue to protect speech just as we are protected today by the 4th and 5th amendment.
/s
1st amendment -- have you heard of the DMCA (digital millennium censorship act?)
4th amendment -- all your iPhones and hard drives are belong to us
5th amendment -- if you don't give us the password you can rot in prison
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Re: Re:
The way to understand the world is that 1984 was a guide book. A roadmap. And in typical government fashion, it took them a long time to come close to getting it implemented properly.
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I can imagine how I would, just as you can imagine how you would try to 'fix' the world if given enough money, power, or some other means to meddle in things.
On the post: Yes, A Billionaire Looking To Destroy A Media Organization Through Lawsuits Is A Big Deal Even If You Don't Like The Media Organization
Re: Oh please...
Real justice is that (or at least closer to this)... if Gawker did one single thing that should bring them completely down, then that one thing alone should be enough to do so through the courts.
On the post: Yes, A Billionaire Looking To Destroy A Media Organization Through Lawsuits Is A Big Deal Even If You Don't Like The Media Organization
Dangerous precedent
Then they came for the Yahoos, and I did not speak out -- because I could not stand Yahoo.
Then they came for the Reddits, Slashdots, TechDirts, PopeHats, etc etc The CNNs, the FoxNews, etc etc
and there was nothing left but a particular viewpoint.
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Re: Mispelling
Okay, I searched for both 'diong', and for 'correct'.
I can find 'diong'. But I cannot find 'correct'.
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Re: Radicalized
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