Re: Industry doesn't hate "new technologies" but their ILLEGAL USAGE.
"Industry doesn't hate "new technologies" but their ILLEGAL USAGE.
Your wrong premise invalidates the rest."
Actually it's your comment that's invalidated because it's your premise that's quite wrong.
The content industries have a long history that proves without doubt how much they hate new technology, because those technologies so often reduce their own power to control the content we get. They have fought against perfectly legal activities, and sometimes even managed to have them made illegal to suit their purposes, i.e. anti-circumvention.
Re: Even given ALL your claims, Mike, Aaron Swartz let himself in for it.
"BUT the precipating action seems due to an ingrained attitude rich young kids have that they can escape consequences...
But of course 1% Ivy League Mike doesn't concern himself with ordinary people, only with privileged snots who think they should "liberate" data."
Your descriptions of Aaron and Mike are hilariously inaccurate, but they also reveal your deep-seated jealously of anyone who you perceive as more financially successful than you. I suspect that's quite a lot of people.
"I bet Aaron Swartz wished he'd fought the battle on moral grounds instead of tossing himself into the sausage grinder that is "Justice" by taking actions that can easily be construed as criminal..."
Basically you think Aaron should have been a coward like you and just toed the line instead of standing up for what he firmly believed in.
Are rightsholders complete to blame for piracy? Of course not. But are they totally blameless? Not by a long shot, and HBO's attitude to GoT is a classic example.
So you have no idea who Mike's clients are, and whether or not they're successful, but you just know they're flushing money down the toilet. Coz you so smart. Why would anyone doubt such a strong argument...
"And I know you continue to be dishonest and write things that are going to get you in trouble. Just remember that they were your own boneheaded choices."
First Mike's "his own worst enemy" and now he's "going to get in trouble". What exactly is it you think's going to happen? We really want to know!
Easy to say anonymously, coward. Any artist who stood on stage and said to the crowd "If you pirated my music you can go get fucked" would have a mass walk-out followed by a massive drop in ticket and recordings sales.
"No 'whistleblower' rights are being trampled on here - just the military doing what it needs to do to protect classified information."
The fact that this involves the military doesn't reduce the importance of whistle-blowing one iota. Do you really want a military that believes it can act in any way it wants without the chance of bad behaviour being made public? Do you genuinely believe that's a good result?
"This man admits he intentionally procured classified information and transmitted it to people not cleared for that information, risking the lives of every serviceman in the theater at the time."
Except even the military brass have admitted they can't point to any documented harm or genuine serious risk caused by the released docs. Just embarrassment. Oops.
"He deserves his punishment."
I don't think anyone, including Manning, expects him to avoid any punishment. The point is that the punishment he's received so far, and the potential punishment he faces if found guilty of all charges, are out of proportion with the crime and will create chilling effects that will allow the US military to carry on performing actions is doesn't want made public for fear of embarrassment or public backlash.
"You'd like to paint all studios and labels the same way..."
Hypocrisy much? I'd I bet you're one of the regular AC's who continually "paint" all Techdirt readers as being pirates who never pay for content. I'd check your earlier comments to confirm this but you apparently don't want people to be able to hold you to what you've said before...
A little self-important paranoia there? I guess the obviously sarcastic dig at your regular shtick about IP address spying just went straight over your head.
The Heinlein quote is extraordinary for how completely relevant it still is. It sounds like it was actually written to describe the actions of the the MPAA, RIAA, et al in the last decade or so, not 74 years ago.
Sorry, you'll find the average intelligence of TechDirt commenters is a bit high for the 'appeal to authority' line to work. You'll need to come up with something quite a bit better. Like a real argument for example.
It's telling that the usual trolls that had so much to say further up don't appear to have much to say in response to this excellent comment. Which is telling...
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Nobody has used the word "vanquish" but you. Learn to read properly before commenting.
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Re: Industry doesn't hate "new technologies" but their ILLEGAL USAGE.
Your wrong premise invalidates the rest."
Actually it's your comment that's invalidated because it's your premise that's quite wrong.
The content industries have a long history that proves without doubt how much they hate new technology, because those technologies so often reduce their own power to control the content we get. They have fought against perfectly legal activities, and sometimes even managed to have them made illegal to suit their purposes, i.e. anti-circumvention.
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Re: Even given ALL your claims, Mike, Aaron Swartz let himself in for it.
But of course 1% Ivy League Mike doesn't concern himself with ordinary people, only with privileged snots who think they should "liberate" data."
Your descriptions of Aaron and Mike are hilariously inaccurate, but they also reveal your deep-seated jealously of anyone who you perceive as more financially successful than you. I suspect that's quite a lot of people.
"I bet Aaron Swartz wished he'd fought the battle on moral grounds instead of tossing himself into the sausage grinder that is "Justice" by taking actions that can easily be construed as criminal..."
Basically you think Aaron should have been a coward like you and just toed the line instead of standing up for what he firmly believed in.
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Care to explain how you "observed" this?
For someone calling us all kids, you're comments are incredibly childish. It shows how weak you think your own argument is.
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First Mike's "his own worst enemy" and now he's "going to get in trouble". What exactly is it you think's going to happen? We really want to know!
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Technology is what has enabled the proliferation of piracy. It doesn't make people decide to pirate.
And when you weigh up technology versus copyright, guess which one is far more beneficial to society? Hint, it's not copyright.
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Re: Oh, yeah, except it's not.
The fact that this involves the military doesn't reduce the importance of whistle-blowing one iota. Do you really want a military that believes it can act in any way it wants without the chance of bad behaviour being made public? Do you genuinely believe that's a good result?
"This man admits he intentionally procured classified information and transmitted it to people not cleared for that information, risking the lives of every serviceman in the theater at the time."
Except even the military brass have admitted they can't point to any documented harm or genuine serious risk caused by the released docs. Just embarrassment. Oops.
"He deserves his punishment."
I don't think anyone, including Manning, expects him to avoid any punishment. The point is that the punishment he's received so far, and the potential punishment he faces if found guilty of all charges, are out of proportion with the crime and will create chilling effects that will allow the US military to carry on performing actions is doesn't want made public for fear of embarrassment or public backlash.
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Re: Moron Mike mixing up materials and methods.
Does this look like a plastic toy to you?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/download-this-gun-3d-printed-semi-automatic-fires -over-600-rounds/
Clown...
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Hypocrisy much? I'd I bet you're one of the regular AC's who continually "paint" all Techdirt readers as being pirates who never pay for content. I'd check your earlier comments to confirm this but you apparently don't want people to be able to hold you to what you've said before...
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A little self-important paranoia there? I guess the obviously sarcastic dig at your regular shtick about IP address spying just went straight over your head.
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