"If you were sharing a home-video with family, why would you want to put DRM on it?"
In case you live with someone who thinks site like TechDirt, and people like Aaron Swartz are heroic or have anything but a complete lack of morals and ethical views.
because you can't risk your relative stealing the content you paid for and anyone with THAT kind of attitude is going to do so if you don't DRM that shit!
this is why big players have no business being involved in the HTML working group. It harkens back to when Microsoft first got into the web business and decided to push proprietary functionality within ie. Yeah, that flew so well, didn't it?
And wasn't one of the great features of HTML5 the ability to dump Flash as a required plug-in for viewing video? DRM is a giant step backward in web technology, in epic proportions.
And just think of how many malware, virus, adware and who-knows-what other kinds of crap will be buried in DRM plug-ins.
Oh yeah - how about MPAA and RIAA spyware - the ideal payload for that crowd of trustworthy advocates of turning back time...
Wouldn't surprise me if the U.S. takes several actions.
1. Cyber-terror against Antigua
2. Slips in anti-Antigua language into secret trade agreements with other countries
3. Sends the CIA into Antigua to take out select targets (human, infrastructure...)
4. Manipulates ICANN to shut down the DNS of Antigua originating IP blocks somehow
5. Use Antigua as new material written by Chris Dodd as to further proof that piracy is illegal, harms American artists and deserves U.N. sanctions...
Maybe I should copyright it, then hire Steele to sue anyone who ever wrote any story involving DB Cooper. I'll suggest he only focus on small companies and individuals, so we can force them to settle.
To be sure we're successful, I'll hire Carmen Ortiz as a prosecutorial consultant.
Maybe there's a perfect explanation. Maybe John Steele is really DB Cooper's son Alan Cooper. And maybe, since his dad disappeared all those years ago after jumping out of an airplane, and got away with lots of cash, DB drilled it into young Alan that he could never, ever, ever, let anyone know his real identity.
Except at one point, young Alan, having gotten his start in law as a result of investments from his father's cash, and spent so many years under the false identity of John Steele, began to crack under pressure. But rather than let the world know his real birth name, decided to pay a tribute to it, and his infamous dad, by listing Alan Cooper on paper.
At this point, it's at least a possibility in this already movie-worthy case...
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"to keep the U.S. from being manipulated by foreign interests."
Made it illegal for private citizens to own gold. Translation? Consolidated power through monetary means. And yes, European powers are complicit in the global manipulation of society through monetary methods. And equally responsible for the financial upheaval as well...
"on beliefs which are incompatible with out established social contract:.
See, that's the thing. This "social contract you refer to, yeah, that's the 20th century contract that modern humans rejected as the 21st century was ushered in on the shoulders of giants like Aaron, Tim Berners Lee, and many others who helped take the interwebs and grow it into the vehicle critical to human evolution that was needed at this exact time in history.
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Aaron's passing is a critically tragic symptom of a massively broken systemic bullying mentality within the government, and I'm not sure that "a tat too tame" is accurate. My perspective is that in any significant sea-change movement, it starts with a ground-swell, and increases until it becomes a wave.
From there, the wave either continues on until it's a tsunami and unstoppable, or dispersed through opposing pressure.
Actually I think this fool is a stooge for Chris Dodd, using his free time to try and bait Mike into saying something in digital print that Chris can then twist that into his newest talking point reference...
And to further add to my comment, overreaction by government is a natural out-growth of the initial overreaction by the people. The pendulum swinging phenomena...
Over-reaction is a natural out-growth of societal oppression, regardless of where on the globe that oppression has occurred. In many countries, the masses of the population are overwhelmingly poor and controlled, so in those cases, the overreaction comes in the form of "militant uprising".
Inevitably, it leads to civil war. Or, in a "lighter, gentler, more peaceful" situation, just a military coup, or lately, the uprising buzz-word is "Arab spring".
it's not just stupid Americans. It's systemic where power exists. Not necessarily in the exact same form or manifestation, yet just look at the world and how completely insane things are. Much of Europe has been on the edge of financial collapse just as long as America.
SOPA, human rights, the list of power/corruption/greed/control based problems plaguing most countries around the world is endless.
Of course, I do admit that this country I live in is most often at the top of the list (along with Russia) for imperialistic manipulation of other countries. Yet there are plenty of self-induced cases around the globe.
"You just gave them too much power and you got unexpected and unwanted consequences as a result."
Very good point. I think this is a symptom of the societal pendulum that swings back and forth in direct proportion to the vocal push. It's beyond challenging to get the pendulum to settle in on the middle ground balancing opposing views.
As much as I would generally agree, for many reasons, it would be a lot more fun to have a buffer from the rants and diatribes of stupidity once in a while,so I'm almost tempted to disagree on that. Almost, however, is not enough to sway me in favor of the invasive Facebooking of the world...
It never fails to amaze me as to how overly sensitive others are when someone makes a comment on their own life situation, if that status isn't something they cared to know or where they might have their own desired "privacy".
Sharing life situations is exactly what Facebook's own marketing machine emphasizes the service is for. While others have the free will to criticize, their opinion shouldn't force people who choose to share with friends and family in that venue to curtail such sharing.
Instead, the critic might be wise to instead grow up and let people say what they want about their own lives on their own social timelines, lest one day they themselves say something innocently only to be blasted and ridiculed ceaselessly without having all the facts, let alone knowing the state of mind of the poster.
what a pathetic troll. Your sole mission in life appears to be to come here to lambast Mike. It's like you are a worthless maggot if not for your blabbering. Because seriously, you find this valuable use of your time? You have no capacity to contribute intelligent dialogue to a topic?
I read this article earlier today, and left in disgust. Came back this evening hoping there would be an update to help clarify Wikileaks' action.
Until and unless they provide depth of reasoning, all we're left to do is guess, and it makes me ill. For all they do to help this world, on the surface, without context, I can't help but think this was a publicity ploy. And if that turns out to be the case, they've lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned.
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Re: Use case: sharing with your family
In case you live with someone who thinks site like TechDirt, and people like Aaron Swartz are heroic or have anything but a complete lack of morals and ethical views.
because you can't risk your relative stealing the content you paid for and anyone with THAT kind of attitude is going to do so if you don't DRM that shit!
obviously. #duh
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And wasn't one of the great features of HTML5 the ability to dump Flash as a required plug-in for viewing video? DRM is a giant step backward in web technology, in epic proportions.
And just think of how many malware, virus, adware and who-knows-what other kinds of crap will be buried in DRM plug-ins.
Oh yeah - how about MPAA and RIAA spyware - the ideal payload for that crowd of trustworthy advocates of turning back time...
On the post: US Still 'Warning' Antigua That It Better Not Set Up Piracy Hub, Even As WTO Gives Approval
Prep the cyber-terror attacks on Antigua
1. Cyber-terror against Antigua
2. Slips in anti-Antigua language into secret trade agreements with other countries
3. Sends the CIA into Antigua to take out select targets (human, infrastructure...)
4. Manipulates ICANN to shut down the DNS of Antigua originating IP blocks somehow
5. Use Antigua as new material written by Chris Dodd as to further proof that piracy is illegal, harms American artists and deserves U.N. sanctions...
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To be sure we're successful, I'll hire Carmen Ortiz as a prosecutorial consultant.
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DB Coopers Son
Except at one point, young Alan, having gotten his start in law as a result of investments from his father's cash, and spent so many years under the false identity of John Steele, began to crack under pressure. But rather than let the world know his real birth name, decided to pay a tribute to it, and his infamous dad, by listing Alan Cooper on paper.
At this point, it's at least a possibility in this already movie-worthy case...
:-)
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Made it illegal for private citizens to own gold. Translation? Consolidated power through monetary means. And yes, European powers are complicit in the global manipulation of society through monetary methods. And equally responsible for the financial upheaval as well...
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Re: I'm not sure why this is relevant.
See, that's the thing. This "social contract you refer to, yeah, that's the 20th century contract that modern humans rejected as the 21st century was ushered in on the shoulders of giants like Aaron, Tim Berners Lee, and many others who helped take the interwebs and grow it into the vehicle critical to human evolution that was needed at this exact time in history.
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From there, the wave either continues on until it's a tsunami and unstoppable, or dispersed through opposing pressure.
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Inevitably, it leads to civil war. Or, in a "lighter, gentler, more peaceful" situation, just a military coup, or lately, the uprising buzz-word is "Arab spring".
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Re: Stupid Americans
SOPA, human rights, the list of power/corruption/greed/control based problems plaguing most countries around the world is endless.
Of course, I do admit that this country I live in is most often at the top of the list (along with Russia) for imperialistic manipulation of other countries. Yet there are plenty of self-induced cases around the globe.
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Very good point. I think this is a symptom of the societal pendulum that swings back and forth in direct proportion to the vocal push. It's beyond challenging to get the pendulum to settle in on the middle ground balancing opposing views.
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Sharing life situations is exactly what Facebook's own marketing machine emphasizes the service is for. While others have the free will to criticize, their opinion shouldn't force people who choose to share with friends and family in that venue to curtail such sharing.
Instead, the critic might be wise to instead grow up and let people say what they want about their own lives on their own social timelines, lest one day they themselves say something innocently only to be blasted and ridiculed ceaselessly without having all the facts, let alone knowing the state of mind of the poster.
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Sad little mind you've got there...
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Until and unless they provide depth of reasoning, all we're left to do is guess, and it makes me ill. For all they do to help this world, on the surface, without context, I can't help but think this was a publicity ploy. And if that turns out to be the case, they've lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned.
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