You're the second lobbyist I've seen today who went out of their way to "agree" that the bill is bad, but still (incorrectly) chastise the source for not being anti-Google enough. Is there some kind of coordinated effort going on? Did your owners pay you to make this attack specifically?
When you're traveling with a large sum of money, and you have every valid reason to be more afraid of government workers seizing it than any actual thieves, something has gone very wrong.
Copyright law says that every image has a copyright owner and that no person has any right to disseminate that image without permission from that copyright owner.
Gonna have to stop you right there. Copyright law says neither of those things. And even if it did, you're talking civil issues, not criminal.
And that is exactly why these revenge porn laws are so fundamentally bad. There were plenty of ways to bring him down that could have potentially been better. But the state chose to prosecute under this one shaky law, and now he's free. There is nothing the state can do about it other than appeal or desperately try to file new charges (unlikely).
Thanks, state. This awful person gets to walk free because of your idiotic law.
It can take weeks or months for them to respond to questions from the authorities, if they respond at all. Sometimes they respond only to say they have no records, even for reports they initiated.
Did anybody else read this part and immediately think about how "expedient" these very same agencies are in regards to FOIA requests? You know, the ones where the law actually mandates action?
ACK-SHULLY, there is a new method for treating rabies: shut off the brain. Seriously, that is an actual real thing that has actually really had some success. It's stupendously dangerous, obviously, but has managed to punch a small hole in the near-100% death rate of infected victims who start showing symptoms.
That being said, it's only effective if the brain is shut off DURING treatment, not before hand. So this particular thread's OP is getting a bit too far ahead of himself.
Re: Since don't know is "fan" far more likely prior programmer.
1) Looking Glass Studios are most widely known as the developers of the Thief series.
2) According to Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation, Looking Glass Studios was ultimately another developer that got swept into the great Eidos whirlpool, caused by--among other things--the sinking of the SS. John Romero. In other words, it was management and business acquisitions. Nothing more.
3) System Shock 2 is notorious for being unavailable due to the way the rights were acquired via liquidation, and the insurance company who obtained them refusing to license them or anything.
4) It's Le Corbeau's patch though, so isn't (at least by your definition) "piracy" for Nightdive Studios to redistribute it with their game? Who is the bad guy? What is this "key point" you're referring to?
5) Even if it were a prior programmer, they still didn't have the rights to contribute that code anymore. You paint them as a heart-broken creator, but your own explanation says they're also the worst thing since sliced Hitler.
Who are we supposed to sympathize with here? You are openly stating that the giant heartless corporations are the only ones in the right, and you even directly threw a hypothetical creator under the bus to do it.
(BONUS POINT: if it was that simple to patch the game to be playable, why didn't the creators do that from the start? I'm starting to suspect you might not understand how programming works.)
Even if all of that were true, what does it have to do with this particular rant? The guy is mad at Wikileaks and blaming Google and Facebook for it. Why?
Of course I'm not endorsing anyone ever doing this to someone, as it's a horrible experience, but the potential for abuse should not be ignored simply because someone has never been on its receiving end.
This is literally exactly what you are doing to Masnick right now. And a various assortment of people here.
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Re: Misses the point
You're the second lobbyist I've seen today who went out of their way to "agree" that the bill is bad, but still (incorrectly) chastise the source for not being anti-Google enough. Is there some kind of coordinated effort going on? Did your owners pay you to make this attack specifically?
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You do realize it's possible to have opinions about a subject without needing to needlessly inject politics into it, right?
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When you're traveling with a large sum of money, and you have every valid reason to be more afraid of government workers seizing it than any actual thieves, something has gone very wrong.
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It's a good thing the first amendment does protect false statements, or you'd be in real legal trouble.
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You are literally the reincarnation of Satan. I present this as a statement of fact.
Can I be sued for defamation over this? (no. The answer is no)
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Re: Start with negligence and work up
Gonna have to stop you right there. Copyright law says neither of those things. And even if it did, you're talking civil issues, not criminal.
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Re: Put Him in Prison Anyway
And that is exactly why these revenge porn laws are so fundamentally bad. There were plenty of ways to bring him down that could have potentially been better. But the state chose to prosecute under this one shaky law, and now he's free. There is nothing the state can do about it other than appeal or desperately try to file new charges (unlikely).
Thanks, state. This awful person gets to walk free because of your idiotic law.
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It's overrun by Zombies®!
Claaaaaims!!!
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Re: Re: You can only jeer, kid. Can't even make this web-site pa
Oh like you're capable of feeling "shame" about anything.
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It would be quite appropriate if the CEO ran his own face through their software and got identified as Barbara Streisand.
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Did anybody else read this part and immediately think about how "expedient" these very same agencies are in regards to FOIA requests? You know, the ones where the law actually mandates action?
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Re: As we've learned, they just need to prove a lost of money.
You are aware that Texas has one of the strongest anti-SLAPP laws in the country, right?
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Re: Re: Exactly what Timothy Geigner would say.
In other words, YOU are in direct competition with roaches as well? Ya know, that explains a lot...
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Re: Re: Thanks so much for your intolerance!
ACK-SHULLY, there is a new method for treating rabies: shut off the brain. Seriously, that is an actual real thing that has actually really had some success. It's stupendously dangerous, obviously, but has managed to punch a small hole in the near-100% death rate of infected victims who start showing symptoms.
That being said, it's only effective if the brain is shut off DURING treatment, not before hand. So this particular thread's OP is getting a bit too far ahead of himself.
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Do these studies account for the people who are dead because they caught the disease the vaccine prevents? Surely that's relevant.
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Re: Since don't know is "fan" far more likely prior programmer.
1) Looking Glass Studios are most widely known as the developers of the Thief series.
2) According to Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation, Looking Glass Studios was ultimately another developer that got swept into the great Eidos whirlpool, caused by--among other things--the sinking of the SS. John Romero. In other words, it was management and business acquisitions. Nothing more.
3) System Shock 2 is notorious for being unavailable due to the way the rights were acquired via liquidation, and the insurance company who obtained them refusing to license them or anything.
4) It's Le Corbeau's patch though, so isn't (at least by your definition) "piracy" for Nightdive Studios to redistribute it with their game? Who is the bad guy? What is this "key point" you're referring to?
5) Even if it were a prior programmer, they still didn't have the rights to contribute that code anymore. You paint them as a heart-broken creator, but your own explanation says they're also the worst thing since sliced Hitler.
Who are we supposed to sympathize with here? You are openly stating that the giant heartless corporations are the only ones in the right, and you even directly threw a hypothetical creator under the bus to do it.
(BONUS POINT: if it was that simple to patch the game to be playable, why didn't the creators do that from the start? I'm starting to suspect you might not understand how programming works.)
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Re: Big Tech Got Caught Lying
Even if all of that were true, what does it have to do with this particular rant? The guy is mad at Wikileaks and blaming Google and Facebook for it. Why?
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Re: Is there a limit?
As Stephen T. Stone once said, "The answer to your question is infinity billion." At least, that's what Mike Masnick told me.
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This is literally exactly what you are doing to Masnick right now. And a various assortment of people here.
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You don't get invited to a lot of parties, do you?
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