Well music execs hate it when you say "Sharing" instead. Because copying and sharing are good things that people are encouraged to do in a righteous society.
Hoarding and censoring are things that are discouraged. Unless you are an overpaid exec spouting the company line.
Because sharing is something People do. Censoring is what Corporations do...
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Not to stifle competition and discourage creative and geeky projects. Not for Life + 70 years. And "authorship" meant books, not music movies and games.
Wait - what? Blue Balls is seriously calling for TD to censor the forum of the content critical of him in the SAME post decrying the existing user-based downvotes.
Yes - he was a photographer that was hired to take pictures. So this is "Work for hire."
And yes - he is a really shitty lawyer, that hires himself out for photos instead of legal work.
And that is what is means to have your case tossed on it's ass by a judge before it can go to jury.
Even if everything the contestant claims is correct - you have no case. Because you aren't following the rules. Which most copyright cases don't, really...
Now of course Big Dumb Pipes is also something we want from our ISPs.
Not wanting them to monitor, re-direct, meter or censor our pipes at the ISP level - that is an important thing. And we aren't going to get it without a little government regulation.
Take a look at Proud Boy leader Jason Van Dyke. The human dumpster fire only got a three month suspension for threatening people. If he hasn't screwed it up, he may be practicing his own brand of frad again right now...
They do not however have freedom from consequences.
Getting sued when you haven't said anything defamatory is not a normal consequence of speech ya racist bastard.
Suing people who point out that you don't really have a family farm is not how one upholds free speech in this country. Maybe in Trump Country it is acceptable?
And yet everyone that is opposed to Net Neutrality (really a free and open internet) because it is "Government Control" wants MORE government control via copyright. Hilarious.
Maybe we wouldn't need net neutrality laws if we had real broadband competition. But we don't have any competition, and our ISP's have a free hand to screw with our browsing, services and data.
The USA is one of the few places in the world where companies can advertise pre-tax prices.
By law they can't advertise the price to include sales tax - for good reasons. Not everyone pays sales tax, and the tax varies from county to county. And it isn't part of the "Price." It's a separate item levied by the state and county.
But it's not something that is going to catch anyone by surprise. At least anyone who has been paying sales taxes for their entire life!
Unlike the mystery line items charged by hotels and cable companies. They try to imply this is some sort of regulatory fee, not just a price hike that goes straight into their pockets.
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Re: Back door vs. front door
Kinda like how some people claim that "I'm just really concerned about the possible side effects" isn't "Anti-Vax"?
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Re: Can we stop using the term "piracy"?
Well music execs hate it when you say "Sharing" instead. Because copying and sharing are good things that people are encouraged to do in a righteous society.
Hoarding and censoring are things that are discouraged. Unless you are an overpaid exec spouting the company line.
Because sharing is something People do. Censoring is what Corporations do...
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Article I, Section 8, Clause 8
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Not to stifle competition and discourage creative and geeky projects. Not for Life + 70 years. And "authorship" meant books, not music movies and games.
On the post: NY Times Opinion Section Gets CDA 230 Wrong AGAIN!
Re: Re: Hey, you're Troll
letting fanboys be toxic is STUPID
Wait - what? Blue Balls is seriously calling for TD to censor the forum of the content critical of him in the SAME post decrying the existing user-based downvotes.
How does that work actually?
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Re:
Stone, Blue Balls has his own Vibrant Forum! He just doesn't want us to come by and ruin it with our citations and facts.
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Re: Hey, you're hilarious!
B) You make a form contract thereby. Read CRFA.
C) My comments are always well within common law.
Proving that you don't know what a contract is, OR common law...
Why do you keep repeating this false narrative?
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Re: work for hire?!
Yes - he was a photographer that was hired to take pictures. So this is "Work for hire."
And yes - he is a really shitty lawyer, that hires himself out for photos instead of legal work.
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Tossed
And that is what is means to have your case tossed on it's ass by a judge before it can go to jury.
Even if everything the contestant claims is correct - you have no case. Because you aren't following the rules. Which most copyright cases don't, really...
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Re: Re: Re: Punish them
Well, they don't want someone getting a job to work for them and the real intention is to film what they are doing wrong like Animal abuse.
So the intent of the law is to criminalize whistleblowers filming animal abuse?
And for doing anything that generates bad press for farmers?
But it isn't about trampling crops, or other sabotage - which is already illegal?
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The Pipes
Now of course Big Dumb Pipes is also something we want from our ISPs.
Not wanting them to monitor, re-direct, meter or censor our pipes at the ISP level - that is an important thing. And we aren't going to get it without a little government regulation.
On the post: Copyright Troll Attorney Again Hit With Sanctions For Being A Shitty Lawyer
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Take a look at Proud Boy leader Jason Van Dyke. The human dumpster fire only got a three month suspension for threatening people. If he hasn't screwed it up, he may be practicing his own brand of frad again right now...
https://www.popehat.com/2017/07/09/texas-attorney-jason-l-van-dyke-fraudulent-buffoon-violenc e-threatening-online-tough-guy-vexatious-litigant-proud-bigot-and-all-around-human-dumpster-fire/
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Re:
No, Mike, unless Nunes employs illegals on his own farm, what other people in the county are doing does not make him a hypocrite at all.
Wow way to misread and misconstrue that.
If the population of Idaho hires undocumented workers while supporting El Cheetos, that makes them all hypocrites.
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Re: Oh, those folks...
They do not however have freedom from consequences.
Getting sued when you haven't said anything defamatory is not a normal consequence of speech ya racist bastard.
Suing people who point out that you don't really have a family farm is not how one upholds free speech in this country. Maybe in Trump Country it is acceptable?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Have you tried digging up yet?
In what way was Google better at that before than they are now?
They used to index torrents and the pirate bay much better, but those results have been censored now. :)
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Re: Re: Re:
that controls the narrative
So are you saying that the government needs to step in and filter the most popular websites?
Because I don't see any other outcome.
On the post: Elizabeth Warren Wants Congress To Be Smarter About Tech... While Grossly Overstating Google & Facebook's Market Power
Re: We get it
She wants to take away your unchecked power.
So now Zof claims that TD has unchecked power! He heard it at InfoWars - must be true.
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Re: Re:
No, Chip makes more sense the the SodCivs. They have taken the paint-drinking to levels even Chip wouldn't endorse.
On the post: Court Says FCC Can't Stop States From Protecting Net Neutrality
Tears of shame
And yet everyone that is opposed to Net Neutrality (really a free and open internet) because it is "Government Control" wants MORE government control via copyright. Hilarious.
Maybe we wouldn't need net neutrality laws if we had real broadband competition. But we don't have any competition, and our ISP's have a free hand to screw with our browsing, services and data.
On the post: Court Says FCC Can't Stop States From Protecting Net Neutrality
Ultimately there is no Constitutional authority for FCC to even exist
LOL.
On the post: Hidden Fees Mean US Cable & Broadband Bills Can Be 45% Higher Than Advertised
Re: Sales taxes
The USA is one of the few places in the world where companies can advertise pre-tax prices.
By law they can't advertise the price to include sales tax - for good reasons. Not everyone pays sales tax, and the tax varies from county to county. And it isn't part of the "Price." It's a separate item levied by the state and county.
But it's not something that is going to catch anyone by surprise. At least anyone who has been paying sales taxes for their entire life!
Unlike the mystery line items charged by hotels and cable companies. They try to imply this is some sort of regulatory fee, not just a price hike that goes straight into their pockets.
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