Isn't this like taking a test and you just copy someone's answer?
No, because this isn't an exam designed by an instructor to test your personal knowledge in an environment where you specifically agreed that copying someone else's answer during a test would result in a zero for that assignment.
But aside from that, your analogy is right on . . .
Rather than whine about "cheating", Google should use this as an opportunity to say "We're so great, Bing waits around to copy our results. Why wait? Use Google!"
"Rather than choosing lawyers who will roll-over and encourage the defendants to plead guilty to my blackmail, the court appointed someone who actually has knowledge, experience, and who will stand up for their clients."
You've mentioned this before, and I have the feeling you're trying to make an Equal Protection argument.
Or, you could take his question at face value and ask yourself "does this make any sense?"
Pointing out that the law doesn't provide for things making sense is great and all, but really the answer to his question is "No, it doesn't make any sense at all."
There is nothing centralized here. I understand that you are trying to frame this in a way to use against the "internet stop button" concept in the US, but can you please at least try to be somewhat honest about it?
The Internet: Where it isn't possible to just be mistaken about something; you also have to be a liar with an agenda.
Hacking an Iphone doesn't have the same implications as hacking a game playing system has.
You can't play games on an iPhone? Jailbreaking your iPhone doesn't allow someone to install pirated and third-party apps? You haven't explained how the two are different.
Sony purposely sells the consoles at a low price, and sells the software / games at a higher rate.
That's a business model, not a legal argument. It isn't the government's job to make someone's business model profitable.
The hack isn't just to change a feature or whatnot, but purposely to be able to make the machine violate copyright and allow widespread piracy of PS3 games.
Geohot's hack specifically did not allow duplication of games.
If nothing else, this shows the costs of piracy, one of those things you try hard to deny.
What shows it? You haven't said anything about the cost of anything. Do you know nothing but unfounded assertions?
Too bad that too many people around here won't understand why it is an important win.
Oh, I understand that it's "important", just probably not in the direction you think . . .
First, let me congratulate you on taking your first step towards understanding anything discussed on the site.
Second, the next time you hear "Sure, giving away content for free is profitable for established artists, but what about the small, unknown artists?", I hope one of the voices in your head will speak up and read the above quote of yours back to you.
I'd certainly say that publishing instructions on how to get legal revenge on men should be taken into account, but feminism... is really the opposite of that.
You and I would agree, but not every self-identifying feminist would, I think (luckily, they would be a minority view). It's easy to say "Well then, they aren't really feminists", but that seems to run into No True Scotsman territory.
So would I, but I'm reasonably sure that you're not going to apologize to myself or any other feminist for acting as though our views had something to do with a false rape allegation.
Feminism encompasses a wide range of beliefs (like any belief system does). I wasn't intending to lump any and every feminist in with the woman in this case, least of all you. If you took it that way, I apologize. I was only intending to discuss her particular "brand" of feminism.
Given your newfound knowledge, unless you didn't actually mean to imply with your post that I think that every woman that comes forward with rape allegations is an automatic example of feminism-run-amok, I would appreciate an apology.
Unless you regularly mention describe people with adjectives that have nothing to do with the topic
You can't imagine how an ultra-feminist viewpoint might possibly play into an alleged case of rape-by-being-condom-less?
Really? Completely unrelated? Not even remotely in the realm of possibility?
Gotta stop getting my hopes up. Seems like every time someones start to make a bit of sense, and give you that wonderful feeling that maybe, just maybe, someone somewhere gets it, they then come around full circle to crazytown.
"Government meddling had created an entirely unworkable system."
"Yes!"
"And the obvious answer is to institute even MORE government meddling!"
"Ye-Wait, what?"
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You just don't understand, Mike:
The bands he helps are both making money hand over fist due to his help and on the verge of complete bankruptcy due to piracy, depending on which version of his story most supports his current argument.
Erm, I thought one of them was literally a feminist blogger in Sweden.
Or does the fact that she is now an alleged victim mean that her previous activism is null and void and describing her as such is evidence of male chauvinism?
Actively connecting to a freenet node would be a good indication of someone trading files (or receiving them).
No. That's part of the beauty of Freenet: not only can you not prove that I received a particular file, you can't even prove that I requested it. And not only can you not prove that I requested it, you can't even prove that I requested anything. Traffic flowing in an out of a node it not an indication that the node is itself trading files.
And even if you had a vague inkling that a certain node was trading files . . . so what? Trading files isn't in itself illegal. It would be much like knowing that sealed envelopes were being routed around the country, but you couldn't open the envelopes up to see what's inside, and you didn't know where the envelopes were coming from or where they were going to.
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Re: Psst, what you get for #12?
No, because this isn't an exam designed by an instructor to test your personal knowledge in an environment where you specifically agreed that copying someone else's answer during a test would result in a zero for that assignment.
But aside from that, your analogy is right on . . .
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I'll Just Repost My Own Thoughts On This
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"Rather than choosing lawyers who will roll-over and encourage the defendants to plead guilty to my blackmail, the court appointed someone who actually has knowledge, experience, and who will stand up for their clients."
The horror!
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You're misquoting the judge.
Let's parse the quote you posted:
"shall retrieve [..] any information [..] which Hotz has previously delivered or communicated to [...] any third parties."
Nope, the paraphrase seems pretty accurate.
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Or, you could take his question at face value and ask yourself "does this make any sense?"
Pointing out that the law doesn't provide for things making sense is great and all, but really the answer to his question is "No, it doesn't make any sense at all."
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The Internet: Where it isn't possible to just be mistaken about something; you also have to be a liar with an agenda.
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You can't play games on an iPhone? Jailbreaking your iPhone doesn't allow someone to install pirated and third-party apps? You haven't explained how the two are different.
Sony purposely sells the consoles at a low price, and sells the software / games at a higher rate.
That's a business model, not a legal argument. It isn't the government's job to make someone's business model profitable.
The hack isn't just to change a feature or whatnot, but purposely to be able to make the machine violate copyright and allow widespread piracy of PS3 games.
Geohot's hack specifically did not allow duplication of games.
If nothing else, this shows the costs of piracy, one of those things you try hard to deny.
What shows it? You haven't said anything about the cost of anything. Do you know nothing but unfounded assertions?
Too bad that too many people around here won't understand why it is an important win.
Oh, I understand that it's "important", just probably not in the direction you think . . .
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First, let me congratulate you on taking your first step towards understanding anything discussed on the site.
Second, the next time you hear "Sure, giving away content for free is profitable for established artists, but what about the small, unknown artists?", I hope one of the voices in your head will speak up and read the above quote of yours back to you.
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They Should Talk to US Politicians
If their politicians had just talked to our politicians first, those correspondents would already be accused of rape in Sweden.
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You and I would agree, but not every self-identifying feminist would, I think (luckily, they would be a minority view). It's easy to say "Well then, they aren't really feminists", but that seems to run into No True Scotsman territory.
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Feminism encompasses a wide range of beliefs (like any belief system does). I wasn't intending to lump any and every feminist in with the woman in this case, least of all you. If you took it that way, I apologize. I was only intending to discuss her particular "brand" of feminism.
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Given your newfound knowledge, unless you didn't actually mean to imply with your post that I think that every woman that comes forward with rape allegations is an automatic example of feminism-run-amok, I would appreciate an apology.
Unless you regularly mention describe people with adjectives that have nothing to do with the topic
You can't imagine how an ultra-feminist viewpoint might possibly play into an alleged case of rape-by-being-condom-less?
Really? Completely unrelated? Not even remotely in the realm of possibility?
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No it doesn't.
It "implies" exactly what it says; patent trolling is not the same as innovation. Do you disagree?
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I Have a Feeling . . .
It remains to be seen whether or not the party can game the political process enough to keep him in office over the will of the people, though.
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Always a Let Down
"Government meddling had created an entirely unworkable system."
"Yes!"
"And the obvious answer is to institute even MORE government meddling!"
"Ye-Wait, what?"
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The bands he helps are both making money hand over fist due to his help and on the verge of complete bankruptcy due to piracy, depending on which version of his story most supports his current argument.
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Or does the fact that she is now an alleged victim mean that her previous activism is null and void and describing her as such is evidence of male chauvinism?
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Only an enraged feminist in Sweden knows for sure . . .
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No. That's part of the beauty of Freenet: not only can you not prove that I received a particular file, you can't even prove that I requested it. And not only can you not prove that I requested it, you can't even prove that I requested anything. Traffic flowing in an out of a node it not an indication that the node is itself trading files.
And even if you had a vague inkling that a certain node was trading files . . . so what? Trading files isn't in itself illegal. It would be much like knowing that sealed envelopes were being routed around the country, but you couldn't open the envelopes up to see what's inside, and you didn't know where the envelopes were coming from or where they were going to.
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