'The FISA Court, however, finds the appeals court's analysis "flawed" and reliant on "mischaracterizations."'
And this is really insulting. The entire bulk collection program is based on deliberate rewriting of the dictionary to mean totally different tings (those "cute" interpretations). While I'm am pretty sure the Second Circuit decision militates against FISA courts legal characterisations, I'm pretty sure they are interpreted correctly against any English dictionary and the intent of congress.
So, those "cute" interpretations are set to continue... what a surprise.
Reminds me of the Iraqi information minister claiming with a straight face that the Americans had been repelled with American tanks pushing in behind him with little resistance. NSA has about the same level of credibility on this issue.
There are two things that would fix the vast majority of actual problems we see in copyright today: - put terms to something that isn't nuts. 10, 20 years, tops - require registration (which gets rid of most of the silly cases people will only register what has real commercial value)
Neither of these are in. I understand that these are political impossibilities at the moment - which is, as you say, not Reda's fault but a systemic problem.
As an individual, I can ignore copyright as the travesty it is, but there should be companies building businesses off the public domain that can't because stuff is locked up for forever -1 day, or should never have been locked up in the first place.
You would think there was a lesson here for the US gov: 1. You can hardly blame the Chinese [if it was them] when NSA is doing same 2. There is no excuse for not securing deeply personal info in your possession. Businesses are required by law to do that. Encrypt the data, air gap the really sensitive stuff 3. Breaking that encryption for your own purposes pretty much invalidates 2. Encryption is useless if it has a back door. Unfortunately the response to this will be nothing but red faced silence. What should really happen now is that the US get rid of all the intelligence staff compromised (this is a way bigger risk than Snowden) and start again. This lot are so corrupt, that is probably a good idea anyway.
Surely the comeback will be that they are using their own , internally written secret dictionary where the definitions differ wildly from what anyone, including congress, would expect?
Only two observations on this - which is so old that: 1- the heirs cannot have had anything to do with creating it 2- sane copyright terms would have made the claim a complete non starter
NZ prosecutors found no case to answer. That is why there is no NZ case for this. You might also remember that they have been caught using 5-eyes (this is about terrorism?) and there is plainly some parallel construction going on (perjury, in fact). Then, they have shipped Andrus Nõmm half way around the world and jailed him for a year: for watching 2 movies. You know, if they had a case we might have seen something a little more solid on the accusation front by now...
Let me just get this straight: section 215 of the patriot act was being used to justify programs that it did not authorize, programs that have been declared unconstitutional and illegal, and now 215 has lapsed? Can anyone tell me that the NSA has actually stopped collecting data under that program?
The funny thing is, with all these data stacks, processing power and analysts, they still would NOT catch a Unabomber today. Nor do they seem interested in solving that problem, which is a shame as it is the direction they need to go to improve.
I think you are underestimating the scale of the computing power needed here. Even if the math is could, current processing power would not sift through an all permutations on the haystacks before the universe ended. Basically, to catch a terrorist this way, they have get very, very lucky.
I don't believe that the abuses of the intelligence community will be truly limited and stopped until those responsible for them are thrown in jail. Unfortunately, as Clapper has shown, this is very unlikely at the moment.
The point about democracy and rule of law is that right now is always the best time to discuss these matters. If it's not, we need a better system Having people like Brennan dictate to us is not it
Doesn't this simply show just how much too far copyright has already gone? The requirement to register works for copyright, as it use to be, would have headed off silliness like this.
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And this is really insulting. The entire bulk collection program is based on deliberate rewriting of the dictionary to mean totally different tings (those "cute" interpretations). While I'm am pretty sure the Second Circuit decision militates against FISA courts legal characterisations, I'm pretty sure they are interpreted correctly against any English dictionary and the intent of congress.
So, those "cute" interpretations are set to continue... what a surprise.
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- put terms to something that isn't nuts. 10, 20 years, tops
- require registration (which gets rid of most of the silly cases people will only register what has real commercial value)
Neither of these are in. I understand that these are political impossibilities at the moment - which is, as you say, not Reda's fault but a systemic problem.
As an individual, I can ignore copyright as the travesty it is, but there should be companies building businesses off the public domain that can't because stuff is locked up for forever -1 day, or should never have been locked up in the first place.
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1. You can hardly blame the Chinese [if it was them] when NSA is doing same
2. There is no excuse for not securing deeply personal info in your possession. Businesses are required by law to do that. Encrypt the data, air gap the really sensitive stuff
3. Breaking that encryption for your own purposes pretty much invalidates 2. Encryption is useless if it has a back door.
Unfortunately the response to this will be nothing but red faced silence. What should really happen now is that the US get rid of all the intelligence staff compromised (this is a way bigger risk than Snowden) and start again. This lot are so corrupt, that is probably a good idea anyway.
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Surely the comeback will be that they are using their own , internally written secret dictionary where the definitions differ wildly from what anyone, including congress, would expect?
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1- the heirs cannot have had anything to do with creating it
2- sane copyright terms would have made the claim a complete non starter
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Re: Now if only they would protect the artists' work with the same fervor
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Re: You can't rob a bank and defend yourself with stolen money.
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Re: Hay scales.
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Re: Security Researchers
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