Nothing will ever solve everything but if you don't try, if you don't adopt different approaches then it will have a 100% chance of remaining as it is.
Now isn't that just funny? The pirated stream i was watching never had a problem lol."
Pretty much sums the experience outside of Netflixes of the world (which happen to be companies that have nothing to do with legacy players except for making their product available and giving them money they refuse to get because piracy).
Well, he is the one charging in the FCC's front. If you want to talk about bad bills in the Congress we can but that's not the focus of the article. And hopefully it will be fixed on the mid term elections. I foresee Republicans getting a hard beat.
That's why I said government pays. You choose. Of course we'd need limits to the value and lawyers would have to agree with their client on getting percentages of an eventual settlement or verdict favorable to them. The implementation surely needs proper discussion but the idea is govt pays. They can even make public defenders available but we also need to codify into law mechanisms that ensure said defenders will be properly paid and won't be overloaded.
I've said before, Government pays the costs of the defending part so even if it freezes assets by mistake the person will still have plenty of access to proper defense.
This would greatly decrease frivolous lawsuits and settlements because the defendant can't pay for lawyers (I'm looking at you Thiel, Shiva). We would have, you know, justice.
A while back they started getting lip-reading experts to find out what soccer players, coaches and judges/arbiters were saying during the match. Nowadays they don't bother because everybody covers their mouths with their hands when they are going to speak with somebody in the field. Except of course when they are shouting profanities.
"One possible defence involves deliberately filling a network with small amounts of traffic."
Data caps be damned.
Don't these people think "would I like to be surveilled like that for extra pennies in my service?"???? I mean, it's past the point of being creepy to being downright obnoxious. I wonder how far online companies (including ISPs) will push this and how useful this sea of data really is. I mean, I got to the point I actively avoid any advertisement on my connected devices either steering away or fully blocking it.
It's part of his bigotry. He's probably frustrated he couldn't attend Charlottesville. And having a black president enacting stuff is a no-no, we must erase it from existence.
But, but... PIRACY!!! *incoherent blabbing* Freetards! *lunatic look while drooling* Theft, theft!!!! - We know who
"The actual answer is more likely that most people don't simply want everything for free and are happy to pay for something they want when its available."
Emphasizing it. And with special attention to that "available" in the end. If it costs a ton then it's not really "available". If it's only available via one specific, crappy, costly platform or riddled with conditions then it's not "available".
Also, these mini consoles are finite physical goods that SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! Ahem.
Obviously a Clinton apologist. Oh wait. - Trump supporters
Ahem.
"That should have terrified everyone, but didn't, and so the program went on. "
Like the seizure of domains without due process? Like having Pay-pal freeze accounts and funds without due process? Like.. Well, you got my point. At least some good in a sea of bad these days eh?
Yes, it's way more complex than anybody can grasp and Cloudflare got points with me because kicking them out sparked questioning and discomfort with this power the CEO has.
Anyway, I like the idea of decentralized services (possibly based on the block chain idea) where the users would be the ones doing the moderation and the content would be generally hidden unless a big portion (say, 90%+) of the network agreed it should be deleted. This would allow deplorable stuff to stay around hidden (like our trolls here) and universally hated stuff would be effectively removed (I'd guess child porn would get a very high rejection and would pass very high thresholds pretty easily). Of course things that society hasn't evolved to accept (think black people in the 50's) would still be hidden but not removed.
Of course this is not perfect either. Maybe some mixed solution using this and the due-process thing. But I like this kind of system even if it will eventually allow some assholes through.
You clearly don't know what you are talking about. Wikileaks has been instrumental in exposing wrongdoing and even leading to change in many countries from Africa to South America (cases I have read about or closely followed because it happened in my own country).
There have been times where I disagreed on how they (Wikileaks) dealt with something and Assange's personality isn't what I'd call nice but I feel the same about quite a few news outlets all around. And if Congress can say who is and who isn't considered to be practicing journalism then you are already screwed and the 1st has been violated.
I found out about TD in 2010 but I can't remember what brought me to the site. I started seriously commenting and otherwise following the site in 2011 though.
Congratulations for the anniversary and a special thanks for providing good content for almost 7 years to me. I hope we have many, many years of Techdirt ahead!
"Ultimately, the role of the TSA in securing public safety is so significant that we ought not create a damages remedy in this context."
It's so significant that you can regularly take objects they deem too dangerous (like weapons) and they won't notice. So significant they regularly beat disabled people, do invasive cavity searches for no reason, confiscate toys resembling dangerous objects, vital medicine, breast milk.
So it will be promptly ignored and the spectacle will move on regardless of the fact that what's being done to stop terrorism is very ineffective at best. Because it's not about terrorism anymore.
"Baumol also includes destructive entrepreneurs, who are actively making the world worse -- and getting rich off of people's misery (think drug dealers, and such). "
Think organized crime, patent trolls and the MAFIAA.
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Now isn't that just funny?
The pirated stream i was watching never had a problem lol."
Pretty much sums the experience outside of Netflixes of the world (which happen to be companies that have nothing to do with legacy players except for making their product available and giving them money they refuse to get because piracy).
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Can't have that. There's still a lot of cash to be inserted in Pai's non-trivial cavities.
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This would greatly decrease frivolous lawsuits and settlements because the defendant can't pay for lawyers (I'm looking at you Thiel, Shiva). We would have, you know, justice.
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We should take the cue.
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Data caps be damned.
Don't these people think "would I like to be surveilled like that for extra pennies in my service?"???? I mean, it's past the point of being creepy to being downright obnoxious. I wonder how far online companies (including ISPs) will push this and how useful this sea of data really is. I mean, I got to the point I actively avoid any advertisement on my connected devices either steering away or fully blocking it.
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The day he was elected was a sad day.
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"The actual answer is more likely that most people don't simply want everything for free and are happy to pay for something they want when its available."
Emphasizing it. And with special attention to that "available" in the end. If it costs a ton then it's not really "available". If it's only available via one specific, crappy, costly platform or riddled with conditions then it's not "available".
Also, these mini consoles are finite physical goods that SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! Ahem.
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Ahem.
"That should have terrified everyone, but didn't, and so the program went on. "
Like the seizure of domains without due process? Like having Pay-pal freeze accounts and funds without due process? Like.. Well, you got my point. At least some good in a sea of bad these days eh?
On the post: Nazis, The Internet, Policing Content And Free Speech
Anyway, I like the idea of decentralized services (possibly based on the block chain idea) where the users would be the ones doing the moderation and the content would be generally hidden unless a big portion (say, 90%+) of the network agreed it should be deleted. This would allow deplorable stuff to stay around hidden (like our trolls here) and universally hated stuff would be effectively removed (I'd guess child porn would get a very high rejection and would pass very high thresholds pretty easily). Of course things that society hasn't evolved to accept (think black people in the 50's) would still be hidden but not removed.
Of course this is not perfect either. Maybe some mixed solution using this and the due-process thing. But I like this kind of system even if it will eventually allow some assholes through.
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Re: No shock
There have been times where I disagreed on how they (Wikileaks) dealt with something and Assange's personality isn't what I'd call nice but I feel the same about quite a few news outlets all around. And if Congress can say who is and who isn't considered to be practicing journalism then you are already screwed and the 1st has been violated.
Wyden is the one that should be praised.
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Congratulations for the anniversary and a special thanks for providing good content for almost 7 years to me. I hope we have many, many years of Techdirt ahead!
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It's so significant that you can regularly take objects they deem too dangerous (like weapons) and they won't notice. So significant they regularly beat disabled people, do invasive cavity searches for no reason, confiscate toys resembling dangerous objects, vital medicine, breast milk.
Indeed significant.
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Think organized crime, patent trolls and the MAFIAA.
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