To be fair, 'downloading' from the The Pirate Bay is almost certainly legal. The problem is using bittorrent also means you re UPLOADING it as well, which is illegal for copyrighted work unless you have express permission.
I've heard you can tweak the older open source bittorrent code to not upload, but the vast vast majority of people are also uploading.
uh, no. It's pointing out how this was a 'valid' copyright claim...something you'd want TD to do I'm guessing. It's also showing that the 'hammer' approach isn't the optimal solution to these issues.
As for not being abusive, I'd disagree with Tim...it is abusive, which is how the DMCA was written. It's just 'legally' abusive.
"I would like to not have to pay for cable boxes". Great! neither do we. Since you're the one who added them to the system, you can take them out...
What this moronic CEO just asked for was a GOVERNMENT internet equivalent of the USPS so that Netflix will pay for delivery and users only pay for data they send out, not for data they receive.
I'm going to assume that the 'drug' charges were a 'parallel construction' from the NSA. You'd have to assume it was made up out of thin air, but we know now that they are using NSA surveillance stuff to start other investigations.
So the fact that something that isn't there now (i.e. the original picture) somehow relates when it isn't mentioned in the blog post here? Hard to let facts that aren't known get in ones way isn't it?
And the collateral image damage may be a reasonable issue, it clearly isn't what's mentioned or intended.
I'm as appalled by the PD plans as anyone, but lets not jump off in directions that aren't readily available to the reader of the post.
the portions of the story you quoted expressly say they are going after the John's, not the sex workers. Yet in your rant you claim they will be posting pictures of BOTH groups.
That's akin to you're whipping up your own moral panic by glossing over very important details.
They aren't the bulk of the mail...but the trend is in that direction. Something like 2/3's of USPS revenue is still first class mail, not junk mailers. But the amount of first class mail has dropped by half in the last decade.
they didn't ask for a show of hands in the frigging courtroom. I would bet Scalia's speaking fee to political groups that multiple people in the court room had multiple cell phones with them that very day.
Well, it's like child porn. There is no legal instance of it. Ditto with torture. Of course for first hand information we could go look at the tapes of the torture...oh wait.
Innocent until proven guilty, but that doesn't mean we don't get to connect the dots in coverage that make it seem damned likely crimes were committed.
Indeed. You don't force the, ahem, 'perp' to delete the evidence of his crime. (that said evidence was also evidence of ANOTHER actual crime we'll just leave out for the moment)
That is quite clearly destruction of evidence. Worse, if you make him delete it and THEN charge him, you've violated due process AND made it likely the 'perp' doesn't get charged since there's no evidence...
Considering the loudest proponents of 'he should be charged' are the ones who implicitly and explicitly condoned torture..i.e. the Gov't I won't put too much stock in what the public thinks about the issue.
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I've heard you can tweak the older open source bittorrent code to not upload, but the vast vast majority of people are also uploading.
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As for not being abusive, I'd disagree with Tim...it is abusive, which is how the DMCA was written. It's just 'legally' abusive.
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What this moronic CEO just asked for was a GOVERNMENT internet equivalent of the USPS so that Netflix will pay for delivery and users only pay for data they send out, not for data they receive.
I'm good with that, though I'm not sure he is...
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Re: How is this different
"Because."
Any questions? (Cisco customers excluded)
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And the collateral image damage may be a reasonable issue, it clearly isn't what's mentioned or intended.
I'm as appalled by the PD plans as anyone, but lets not jump off in directions that aren't readily available to the reader of the post.
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context matters
That's akin to you're whipping up your own moral panic by glossing over very important details.
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Shame
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Even the NSA can't be that stupid. Please? Seriously please?
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The 'no' box redaction
boggles the mind.
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Innocent until proven guilty, but that doesn't mean we don't get to connect the dots in coverage that make it seem damned likely crimes were committed.
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That is quite clearly destruction of evidence. Worse, if you make him delete it and THEN charge him, you've violated due process AND made it likely the 'perp' doesn't get charged since there's no evidence...
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VPN
Still use email and other media, but the VPN was directly because I want to make it harder to sniff my day to day traffic.
Does it 'protect' me? Nope, and I'm not expecting secrecy from it...just 'privacy' which is reasonable.
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