Yeah. :-) It doesn't always work and a lot of requests to just dl something complain about something then fail. That's fair. I wonder how it's possible/allowed these days but nobody's sending me angry demands, so far. I believe something in Canada's laws may allow it, though I've vaguely heard that's no longer quite true due to recent updates to the law. Dunno.
How can the fact that they are investing now and indeed, announcing new planned investments not come up in lawsuit court proceedings?
If I was a shareholder, I'd be pretty annoyed that they're wasting big bucks on frivolous lawsuits instead of investing it or handing out dividends. Are they trying to buy another smackdown from Wheeler, and how does that help the bottom line?
Just like the color gray, there are many shades of hate. I like YouTube, but unlike that Fenderton guy, I don't use it for kitten videos.
I've never created an account there so don't even login. I've only once bothered to read the comments there, and that was just to see if it really is the worst example of a comment forum (no, it's not). I also don't go there to learn about new music. I long ago gave up on the idea that anyone was going to create new music today that I'd appreciate. The stuff I look for is decades old.
Sometimes, I click on links and play them from there. For stuff I really like, I use it as a search engine to find links I can hand to "youtube-dl".
Almost everything I use it to get, I've owned paid for copies of it in the past which I've either lost or the media they were on wore out or were damaged.
No, I couldn't care less what the Kardashians are up to, ever, and I'm very particular in the things I hate and at what level I hate them. YouTube, I hate very little of, and that's very easy to avoid.
I anxiously wait for the trolls focusing on minor points totally out of context, pulling pseudo-facts out of their arses and so on. Because you can't argue with the article otherwise.
I can. You know that old saying, "Consider the source." Well, in politics, there's another lesser known one, "Consider the audience." He's talking to "rightsholders", and essentially begging the MPAA for bri^Mdonations for the Democrats. Of course, he's going to be talking their language, telling their lies, and spinning their spin, regardless how ugly it might sound to anyone outside the big studios.
I'll just put this down as a single data point and hope he can be less of a paid shill when talking to real people, when not begging Hollywood for campaign cash for his boss. It doesn't look good, but I can hope for better.
Yes, it was an awful read, though well written and researched. Marley would be spinning in his grave. Still, he was really only trying to tell potential contributors what they wanted to hear. I imagine Chris Dodd was on his feet cheering and whistling (and whispering "Whew!" sotto voce).
Poor guy must have desperately needed the job. I wonder if the Mafia have him on outstanding gambling debts or something.
The US is still at war and it is because terrorists strike us in our homeland.
The US is always at war. Its actions have created and enabled its future adversaries. Iran continues to suffer for the US installing the shah. Iraq continues to suffer from your support of Saddam Hussein. The mess of Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, al Quaida, and ISIS are of US making.
How about simply making whoever sends the errant C&D being financially liable for it?
Not enough. This is dangerously stupid negligence, from which society deserves to be protected. It's an insult that the village has to even bother defending itself.
"Scorched Earth" is what's needed here. Revoke their business licence, and throw the lot of them out of the legal profession. Think of the children. The hotel chain should fire and sue the idiot who hired them.
I have a feeling the catholic church could prove prior art in that case.
It would be trivial to prove prior art for Sleeping Beauty too, but that doesn't stop Disney from locking up folk tales collected by the brothers Grimm.
A common word used for millennia, then some shithead with a lawyer steps in and claims ownership, stealing our cultural heritage. This is a shameful abuse.
I hope this offends a lot of potential customers and costs Branson a lot of sales he'd have otherwise expected.
People who use illegal narcotics, whether addicted or not, are bankrolling violent crime.
Only because those narcotics were made illegal. You'd have said the same thing about alcohol during Prohibition. Remove the illegality, and the Mafia moves on to gambling and prostitution. And Hollywood.
The illegality is what's making the Zetas rich. You should be blaming politicians for bankrolling violent crime, not drug users.
Do legit providers drop back to 2G? I don't know but if so, why if it isn't secure? I'd expect a minimum level of service, or none if that can't be done at the time.
I was going to suggest North Korea, but I doubt the Norks even know what freedom of speech is, so they're both likely at the bottom of the barrel. Try Kazachstan, maybe.
We know that Stingrays force every device that connects to it into 2G mode. We know that 2G isn't secure.
We know that the NSA is unapologetically hoovering up anything it can get its hands on, storing it for whenever. Does Baltimore PD have datestamped GPS records on every device in the area? I suspect so. Would the NSA also use the opportunity to quietly slurp *whatever* from each of the devices affected? Until they say otherwise, I wouldn't doubt it. They've given me no reason to.
We also know all these LEOs have data sharing agreements between each other, and we know they use this data all the time in very "creative" ways.
They're loath to discuss any of this blaming it all on that very convenient NDA the Harris Corp. has "forced" on them. They also hate the very idea of having to get warrants to justify any of this. If they were truthful, they'd need a warrant for every device the Stingray connects to, which wouldn't happen. Not everyone they connect to is of interest in a law enforcement investigation.
If I were the fourth amendment, I'd say this situation stinks to high heaven. I wouldn't fault anyone for thinking that way. I'm very surprised they feel so little obligation to explain any of these apparent contradictions.
What does all that add up to? Keeping us safe in the War On Terror and the War On Drugs, or is it just Police State Light, and once they work out all the bugs inconveniencing Blacks and Chicanos, they'll turn it onto you too?
The property is the artificial monopoly itself, granted by the government, in the form of the copyright, the patent or the trademark.
FWIW, I like it.
"Steal" somebody's IP and run off to (eg.) China with it, and you'll arrive with exactly nothing. That regime doesn't have to care about the temporary monopoly the US regime granted. IP rights end at the border.
If you run off with a copy of the work, you'll have a copy of the work. If you then start making copies of that work, you'll be infringing on the IP, but unless you've a trade agreement in place to recognize other countries' IP rights, the infringement will be unrecognized and unenforcible.
I think this is a very useful distinction to make.
I'm surprised and disappointed that TechDirt permits calls for violence in the comments section.
That's outsourced to the NSA. Don't worry, they're watching. In my case, Canada is about to pass C-51, and we'll all soon be in jail for even suggesting Harper's gov't is toadying to the USA. There goes the neighbourhood; Fortress North America.
Re: Re: Re: Re: "two diametrically-opposed political parties"? Wha?
Libertarians produced the best replacement, an X vs. Y diagram labeled with Economic (X) and Political/Social (Y) freedoms. It makes it easy to see how Nazism and Bolshevism got along so well together (both totalitarian), and why they ended up in competition with each other, while the US Founding Fathers were so admired by Ayn Rand (economic freedom and mostly individual freedom, for caucasians at least).
You're right. Okay, how about once there was an FEC, why were politicians still involved in the process? Why are sitting politicians the FEC commissioners? Why's Congress allowed any say in redistricting (gerrymandering) or voters' rights?
The FEC is just a sop to the populists and wasn't ever intended to hand these powers off to a neutral party? That's the way it appears.
Re: Technology is not a productive path towards the future.
Masnick yet again throws in a list of gadgets as if those are responsible for the value of creations, and not the recognition and maintaining of rights over the creation.
Pretty good parody of the property rights side. Kudos!
Or, were you serious? Remember about a century ago when a pianist would go up on a stage in front of an audience and it was grand for everybody? Then some techie a-hole invented player pianos and anyone who bought one could buy a roll of paper from the artist and recreate their performance at will, any time and anywhere, over and over, only having to pay for it once. Artists screamed it would be the end of performers, despite the fact they were making a killing off all those copies of their performances they were selling to people who never had a chance to get anywhere near a live performance.
Here we are a century and a half later and you're still grumbling about the same thing. I see Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd) is accusing his fans of being filthy pirates now too, despite the fact I've been buying his LPs, cassette tapes, and CDs of their works all along.
I love his music, despite the fact he appears to be an idiot savant.
I too think it's pretty silly for anyone to shell out a hundred bucks for a boxing match (once you've seen one, you've seen 'em all), but that's hardly relevant to the article we're discussing here, except for the fact that those who shelled out for the authorized performance were the ones who got ripped off when the distributor failed to come through on their side of the bargain. Charming. Way to support your committed fans.
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Super Lawyer - Registered Trademark. Huh.
Well, rape, kiddie fiddling, genocide, and RICO didn't come up, so there's that.
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If I was a shareholder, I'd be pretty annoyed that they're wasting big bucks on frivolous lawsuits instead of investing it or handing out dividends. Are they trying to buy another smackdown from Wheeler, and how does that help the bottom line?
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Just like the color gray, there are many shades of hate. I like YouTube, but unlike that Fenderton guy, I don't use it for kitten videos.
I've never created an account there so don't even login. I've only once bothered to read the comments there, and that was just to see if it really is the worst example of a comment forum (no, it's not). I also don't go there to learn about new music. I long ago gave up on the idea that anyone was going to create new music today that I'd appreciate. The stuff I look for is decades old.
Sometimes, I click on links and play them from there. For stuff I really like, I use it as a search engine to find links I can hand to "youtube-dl".
Almost everything I use it to get, I've owned paid for copies of it in the past which I've either lost or the media they were on wore out or were damaged.
No, I couldn't care less what the Kardashians are up to, ever, and I'm very particular in the things I hate and at what level I hate them. YouTube, I hate very little of, and that's very easy to avoid.
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Re: Ouch.
I can. You know that old saying, "Consider the source." Well, in politics, there's another lesser known one, "Consider the audience." He's talking to "rightsholders", and essentially begging the MPAA for bri^Mdonations for the Democrats. Of course, he's going to be talking their language, telling their lies, and spinning their spin, regardless how ugly it might sound to anyone outside the big studios.
I'll just put this down as a single data point and hope he can be less of a paid shill when talking to real people, when not begging Hollywood for campaign cash for his boss. It doesn't look good, but I can hope for better.
Yes, it was an awful read, though well written and researched. Marley would be spinning in his grave. Still, he was really only trying to tell potential contributors what they wanted to hear. I imagine Chris Dodd was on his feet cheering and whistling (and whispering "Whew!" sotto voce).
Poor guy must have desperately needed the job. I wonder if the Mafia have him on outstanding gambling debts or something.
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The US is always at war. Its actions have created and enabled its future adversaries. Iran continues to suffer for the US installing the shah. Iraq continues to suffer from your support of Saddam Hussein. The mess of Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, al Quaida, and ISIS are of US making.
Your wounds are self-inflicted. Stop digging.
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Not enough. This is dangerously stupid negligence, from which society deserves to be protected. It's an insult that the village has to even bother defending itself.
"Scorched Earth" is what's needed here. Revoke their business licence, and throw the lot of them out of the legal profession. Think of the children. The hotel chain should fire and sue the idiot who hired them.
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It would be trivial to prove prior art for Sleeping Beauty too, but that doesn't stop Disney from locking up folk tales collected by the brothers Grimm.
A common word used for millennia, then some shithead with a lawyer steps in and claims ownership, stealing our cultural heritage. This is a shameful abuse.
I hope this offends a lot of potential customers and costs Branson a lot of sales he'd have otherwise expected.
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Only because those narcotics were made illegal. You'd have said the same thing about alcohol during Prohibition. Remove the illegality, and the Mafia moves on to gambling and prostitution. And Hollywood.
The illegality is what's making the Zetas rich. You should be blaming politicians for bankrolling violent crime, not drug users.
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The silence is deafening.
We know that the NSA is unapologetically hoovering up anything it can get its hands on, storing it for whenever. Does Baltimore PD have datestamped GPS records on every device in the area? I suspect so. Would the NSA also use the opportunity to quietly slurp *whatever* from each of the devices affected? Until they say otherwise, I wouldn't doubt it. They've given me no reason to.
We also know all these LEOs have data sharing agreements between each other, and we know they use this data all the time in very "creative" ways.
They're loath to discuss any of this blaming it all on that very convenient NDA the Harris Corp. has "forced" on them. They also hate the very idea of having to get warrants to justify any of this. If they were truthful, they'd need a warrant for every device the Stingray connects to, which wouldn't happen. Not everyone they connect to is of interest in a law enforcement investigation.
If I were the fourth amendment, I'd say this situation stinks to high heaven. I wouldn't fault anyone for thinking that way. I'm very surprised they feel so little obligation to explain any of these apparent contradictions.
What does all that add up to? Keeping us safe in the War On Terror and the War On Drugs, or is it just Police State Light, and once they work out all the bugs inconveniencing Blacks and Chicanos, they'll turn it onto you too?
Have a nice day.
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"IP" vs. Property.
FWIW, I like it.
"Steal" somebody's IP and run off to (eg.) China with it, and you'll arrive with exactly nothing. That regime doesn't have to care about the temporary monopoly the US regime granted. IP rights end at the border.
If you run off with a copy of the work, you'll have a copy of the work. If you then start making copies of that work, you'll be infringing on the IP, but unless you've a trade agreement in place to recognize other countries' IP rights, the infringement will be unrecognized and unenforcible.
I think this is a very useful distinction to make.
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That's outsourced to the NSA. Don't worry, they're watching. In my case, Canada is about to pass C-51, and we'll all soon be in jail for even suggesting Harper's gov't is toadying to the USA. There goes the neighbourhood; Fortress North America.
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The FEC is just a sop to the populists and wasn't ever intended to hand these powers off to a neutral party? That's the way it appears.
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Re: Technology is not a productive path towards the future.
Pretty good parody of the property rights side. Kudos!
Or, were you serious? Remember about a century ago when a pianist would go up on a stage in front of an audience and it was grand for everybody? Then some techie a-hole invented player pianos and anyone who bought one could buy a roll of paper from the artist and recreate their performance at will, any time and anywhere, over and over, only having to pay for it once. Artists screamed it would be the end of performers, despite the fact they were making a killing off all those copies of their performances they were selling to people who never had a chance to get anywhere near a live performance.
Here we are a century and a half later and you're still grumbling about the same thing. I see Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd) is accusing his fans of being filthy pirates now too, despite the fact I've been buying his LPs, cassette tapes, and CDs of their works all along.
I love his music, despite the fact he appears to be an idiot savant.
I too think it's pretty silly for anyone to shell out a hundred bucks for a boxing match (once you've seen one, you've seen 'em all), but that's hardly relevant to the article we're discussing here, except for the fact that those who shelled out for the authorized performance were the ones who got ripped off when the distributor failed to come through on their side of the bargain. Charming. Way to support your committed fans.
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You are *so* right. I haven't seen any criticism of the Democrats in the past seven years. Chyaa, right.
Red Team vs. Blue Team is a childish game, and you should be ashamed you're still playing it.
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