To be entrapment, they would have to persuade or convince you to do something you otherwise wouldn't have done without their interference. If an FBI agent had called you up out the blue, told you about the site, and then asked you to sign up, that would be entrapment.
This isn't even close to entrapment, however, since they didn't invite anyone to sign up. It's even less entrapment than it would be if the site were on the clearnet, since dark net sites have to be searched out specifically.
all of which, except for the last item of course, are things any server receives as a matter of course while transacting ordinary business.
Not over Tor, however, which suggests an exploit in the browser to tell it to send data outside of Tor. Probably a JavaScript hack, since there's already precedent for using malicious scripts to de-mask Tor users, IIRC.
Mike points out that this is not a one off: They decline to fill orders where the goal is overtly and publicly political, independent of content. Your examples don't really make sense, in that context.
"Allowing corporations to keep control over what end users who purchase their products do"
They aren't "controlling" what he does with his blocks, and they haven't tried to. They simply refused to sell to him.
If they had sent him a ridiculous legal threat telling him how he could or couldn't use blocks he had purchased, you'd have a point, but they didn't.
Whatever hope LEGO had of minimizing the political impact of Weiwei's art has been dashed by its own actions.
I don't think they wanted to "minimize the political impact" of his work; I think the point was to keep the public image of the company politically neutral. If he gets them from a third party, he gets the make his art, and they have it on record that it wasn't officially sanctioned by the company. Win-win.
Not only are you factually wrong regarding automatic copyright, but also off-topic. The issue before the court was not whether or not the photo was covered by copyright (it was), but what terms it was licensed under.
I like how the Anonymous Troll on this thread doesn't seem to realize that we can tell that all of his/her posts defending the school are from the same IP address.
I recall that it's already become one of the most infamous and obviously evil Supreme Court cases of all time, on par with the Dred Scott
Yes, a ruling stating that the government cannot stop groups of people from expressing their political opinions close to an election is "evil" and "on par" with a ruling stating that black people can't be citizens.
Well, that depends on where and when you say it. If it was on Facebook (as in the original story), you'd be in the clear. Say it when a cop pulls you over, and there's a good chance they might just "fear for their life" and have to put 12 rounds into you.
kim dotcom can send his lawyers to fight in in court
I know it's asking way too much of the mouthbreathing bootlickers who infest this comment section, but if you had exercised any reading comprehension whatsoever, you'd have processed that the government is trying to prevent him from even challenging the civil forfeiture in court.
While the idea of what a self-driving car should do is no doubt an important question to philosophers, in practical terms, the market is going to pick one, and I guarantee you it isn't going to be the one the promises to sacrifice the lives of you and your family to algorithmic utilitarianism.
I noticed the other day that a mis-typed domain name popped up my ISP's obnoxious "Couldn't find that site, so here are some ads instead" page whereas my traffic should have been flowing entirely through my VPN. A quick trip to my VPN software settings fixed the issue.
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This isn't even close to entrapment, however, since they didn't invite anyone to sign up. It's even less entrapment than it would be if the site were on the clearnet, since dark net sites have to be searched out specifically.
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Flashbacks to Ron Paul's Campaign
Now get in line and pull the lever for one of our carefully pre-selected candidates. Which lever doesn't matter, just as long as you pull a lever.
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They aren't "controlling" what he does with his blocks, and they haven't tried to. They simply refused to sell to him.
If they had sent him a ridiculous legal threat telling him how he could or couldn't use blocks he had purchased, you'd have a point, but they didn't.
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Word Choice
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Someone Doesn't Know How Gravatars Work
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Get a grip.
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Even a small company in a niche (though certainly expanding) culture like boardgaming can raise millions if the product is something people want.
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I noticed the other day that a mis-typed domain name popped up my ISP's obnoxious "Couldn't find that site, so here are some ads instead" page whereas my traffic should have been flowing entirely through my VPN. A quick trip to my VPN software settings fixed the issue.
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