So what they are saying is that treating all packets equally and ensuring they reach their destination undisturbed by filters and throttling (the very definition of NN) would somehow hurt the ones sending part of these packets while throttling the heck out of the network and prioritizing only packets originating from their own services while screwing the rest (what the lack of NN would allow) would not.
So either you are incompetent and oversold your capacity meaning you have to do traffic shaping, you are ignorant of what NN means or you are lying to make extra bucks without making any effort. Which is it AT&T?
Re: Re: "some companies seem to feel they should be able to handle it however they want" -- Wait a sec! They're PRIVATE and CAN according to Poophat Ken White!
Won't help, he has some sort of mental handicap. Poor thing.
Seriously, companies that do such thing probably have other flaws so I think I'd go gray hat if I was a security researcher and cause real financial/reputation damage by releasing the kraken.. Er, the security flaws anonymously in the wild. Nothing like some serious damage to make companies take things more seriously.
And for fucks sake, they blocked Troy Hunt. Any 2 seconds Google search would show them the guy is both a professional and a very respected one. If you can't bother to listen to goddamn reputable professionals then just shut down your operations.
Re: No, it's administrator action: "It even exists here at TD where the community itself likes to flag comments that it "disapproves" of."
I understand some people have serious learning issues but you must be some special case. It's been pointed out for years now that posts are not censored but rather hidden because they are devoid of substance which means you can read them. It actually calls attention that a comment has been hidden by displaying a gray text (This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it) with a link to reveal the hidden comment. It's actually how I get the context when people much wiser than you delivers your ass in a plate back to yourself with excellent replies. Or it's how I sometimes do the ass handling myself with my own replies. Even when they are hidden. I know you and other morons are going to keep saying it's censored but I have some news for you: repeating lies won't make them truths.
As for the rest, I'll leave to Paul, he did a nice job. I just wanted to emphasize this specific part. Because this lie is already tired.
I disagree with the article when it says that a US law isn't going to help. I'd argue that outlawing importing of flawed devices would go a long way towards making them straight up. Of course the US alone wouldn't solve the problem but they could pioneer such initiatives making other countries adope them. It would hurt these lazy companies pockets and force them to improve their game.
I can save $6 plus the entire subscription by pirating their shit. Or even better, I can go without. It's incredibly easy to go without once you start doing it.
That would be funny if the guy was in the US and had guns. Oh it would. And I wouldn't be sorry for them. I'm not sorry for a group acting like the mafia and sending thugs to destroy lives getting their collective arses handed back with a good kick.
And they want people to respect copyright... Yeah.
Let's not forget after all this discussion that a seemingly infringing torrent can be both infringing and not depending on who downloads it. I've downloaded all of the old DVDs I have at home to make them easily sortable and playable via a central library (that happens to mix pirated content with those copies :D). So I OWN the thing. It isn't like I"m going to buy it again.
Besides, here in my country I can download anything and I can maintain a database of hashes since it's only illegal to host the thing. I wonder how the us would play their cards here. I also wonder how the Polish system works. It's probably not as good as it is here.
So, when is the US starting extraditing Americans to Iran because they disrespected something from the Quran? Not happening? So why are they trying to extradite people for disrespecting their laws? Has he been tried and convicted in his own country for similar crimes?
Of course there are details we need to sort out in this case but it smells like Kim Dotcom 2.0. Except that the poor guy probably doesn't stand a chance against US Govt overreach since he doesn't have as much money as Dotcom.
I don't think they can beat Prenda. I mean, you can up your acrobatics by adding a fiery ring in the middle or several more bottles to keep throwing but Prenda set the whole circus on fire and went on to perform in the middle of it. You can't get a "fierier" crash than this.
He started the lawsuit happy environment and PETA was happy to jump in and throw a lot of shit in the fan.
That said, PETA is poisonous to the very cause they claim to fight for. I'm hoping they can't settle and have to pay every single cent and the lawyers get sanctioned for the frivolous lawsuit. Let's hope it gets too risky to defend PETA in courts so they'll be neutralized on that front.
"This week in 2007, as had been the case for many years and still is to this day, e-voting machines were found to have terrible security."
Things haven't changed 10 years after they hadn't changed in 2007. One starts to wander into conspiracy theory grounds. Why it hasn't been fixed after more than a decade makes one wonder if it isn't a feature rather than a problem.
Cue the usual critics and "but, exception" comments.
In any case, I wouldn't have thrown tons of money towards many artists/movies/content if it wasn't for piracy. And it's the same for a good portion of the people I know, specially the younger ones. This isn't about evidence that file sharing also generates revenue even if not via digital sales, it's an established fact.
Re: Re: Re: Re: You've been told that those comments are in no degree or way binding on the FCC: you are NOT voting, the numbers aren't three lullabies in an ancient tongue for the Court of the Crimson King.
True, and that's why I don't read daily like an obsessive maniac like this troll.
Re: How can removing exceptions for "teh internets" and restoring to as decades prior be "counterproductive to the stated goal of stopping human trafficking"?
"How can removing exceptions for "teh internets" and restoring to as decades prior be "counterproductive to the stated goal of stopping human trafficking"?"
So you go after car rental companies if the person that rented their cars use to drug trafficking or prostitution as well, right? Oh no, you don't. So there's no exception for the Internet. Got it.
"Just more of Manic Masnick's ultra-libertarian one-percenter anarchism."
Thank god lunatics like you don't dictate how things work.
I've seen a prostitution forum using Google platform already. The girls would offer their services in one section and the 'patrons' would discuss the quality of the service and rate it in another. Replace google for any social platform. This bill will most certainly be selectively abused to go beyond Backpage if it passes. And we'll see the internet imploding. In the US at least.
Considering he works with security and more specifically with vulnerability exploits through malware one can go conspiracy and argue he found out stuff he shouldn't have or probed the wrong botnet. From the little I read about Hutchines he does everything quite in the open. You know, if you are doing everything right you have nothing to fear? Yeah about that...
Wouldn't the costs fall back to the owners of said "shell company"? And they could just set up one company and keep publishing on that company, I don't think it would be feasible to open one company to each article. Movies, yes but articles it would be economic suicide.
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So either you are incompetent and oversold your capacity meaning you have to do traffic shaping, you are ignorant of what NN means or you are lying to make extra bucks without making any effort. Which is it AT&T?
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Re: Re: "some companies seem to feel they should be able to handle it however they want" -- Wait a sec! They're PRIVATE and CAN according to Poophat Ken White!
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And for fucks sake, they blocked Troy Hunt. Any 2 seconds Google search would show them the guy is both a professional and a very respected one. If you can't bother to listen to goddamn reputable professionals then just shut down your operations.
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Re: No, it's administrator action: "It even exists here at TD where the community itself likes to flag comments that it "disapproves" of."
As for the rest, I'll leave to Paul, he did a nice job. I just wanted to emphasize this specific part. Because this lie is already tired.
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And they want people to respect copyright... Yeah.
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Besides, here in my country I can download anything and I can maintain a database of hashes since it's only illegal to host the thing. I wonder how the us would play their cards here. I also wonder how the Polish system works. It's probably not as good as it is here.
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Of course there are details we need to sort out in this case but it smells like Kim Dotcom 2.0. Except that the poor guy probably doesn't stand a chance against US Govt overreach since he doesn't have as much money as Dotcom.
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140806/07044228126/photographe r-still-insisting-he-holds-copyright-photo-monkey-threatens-to-sue-wikimedia.shtml
He started the lawsuit happy environment and PETA was happy to jump in and throw a lot of shit in the fan.
That said, PETA is poisonous to the very cause they claim to fight for. I'm hoping they can't settle and have to pay every single cent and the lawyers get sanctioned for the frivolous lawsuit. Let's hope it gets too risky to defend PETA in courts so they'll be neutralized on that front.
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Things haven't changed 10 years after they hadn't changed in 2007. One starts to wander into conspiracy theory grounds. Why it hasn't been fixed after more than a decade makes one wonder if it isn't a feature rather than a problem.
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In any case, I wouldn't have thrown tons of money towards many artists/movies/content if it wasn't for piracy. And it's the same for a good portion of the people I know, specially the younger ones. This isn't about evidence that file sharing also generates revenue even if not via digital sales, it's an established fact.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: You've been told that those comments are in no degree or way binding on the FCC: you are NOT voting, the numbers aren't three lullabies in an ancient tongue for the Court of the Crimson King.
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Re: How can removing exceptions for "teh internets" and restoring to as decades prior be "counterproductive to the stated goal of stopping human trafficking"?
So you go after car rental companies if the person that rented their cars use to drug trafficking or prostitution as well, right? Oh no, you don't. So there's no exception for the Internet. Got it.
"Just more of Manic Masnick's ultra-libertarian one-percenter anarchism."
Thank god lunatics like you don't dictate how things work.
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