They were AAA rated because everybody 'knew' they were guaranteed by the US government (which turned out to be true) even though all parties would publicly deny that. This was because of the government run institutions (fanny/freddy) that issued them wouldn't be allowed to fail.
Without that government guarantee they wouldn't have a AAA rating.
Actually it was an example of lots of really bad regulations, and people who knew that the government would bail out the quasi government/private entities if things got bad.
So it was a result of massive government involvement. I don't know how you could possibly argue it was from a lack of regulation.
You can put all the restrictions around getting money to congress that you want, but like water flowing through a sponge it will find it's way there. The government simply has too much power such that it is still worth pushing millions (billions?) of dollars there.
These contribution laws are like the contraband screening of a prison, except these are designed by the prisoners.
As you all are members of "the public" and we now have precedent indicating performances to "the public" are considered public performances, we will now begin charging all members of "the public" (aka 'you all') a license fee for the oral performance of copyrighted works during mundane hygiene tasks (aka 'singing in the shower', you know you all do it).
We don't need to actually show that you do, we can just assume that you make these public performances. It is up to you to provide evidence (ie proper recordings of every time you have showered) in order to avoid these fees.
This is simply how all police officers should react. He took reasonable precautions to ensure his safety, checked the guy out, did not escalate the situation, and determined there was no threat.
I always thought the original argument was dead wrong anyway given that most (all?) "professional" music these days is made by recording each small piece several times and putting the best pieces together for the final product.
Doing a remix live just finishes cremating the body of that old and tired myth.
This is even worse than being confused or misinformed. That is a problem that could easily be remedied in a couple hours. This is our elected representatives not caring at all about the voice of their constituents, Leaving it up to staffers to send out the most fitting form letter as a response to the 'little people'.
Of course the real problem is the people. Us. These pompous windbags will keep on going just like they have for decades because we keep putting them back in office. The real solution would be to elect a new representative each voting term until things start to change. Clear them all out and start fresh. It would take about six year to get a whole new set, but that would probably be the best thing this country has had happen to it in decades.
Of course the chances of that happening are about a low as the chance of these politicians personally reading all the bills they vote on.
I'm not Mike, but here's my problem with these data cap policies.
ISP X sells me a data plan that (lets say) promises 6Mb/s down max (we'll ignore the up). They then put a cap of 250MB a month on it. The justification for the cap is to manage network traffic.
The cap does not manage network traffic. I can still saturate my connection and put a heavy load on the network. I may not be able to do it constantly for the whole month, but I could probably do it during all peak times.
If they really wanted to manage their network they wouldn't oversell their network speeds (because that is what they are doing). They want to advertise big numbers for download speed, but they don't want to actually build a network that can support that speed for all their users.
Additionally most of these ISP's also offer TV packages. They see the threat of online video to their TV packages and want to get in front of that demand by setting caps that are "reasonable" now, but will quickly become very limiting.
Finally the only reason these companies are capable of this behavior is because they have essentially been granted government backed monopolies. The lack of competition in this area allows them to pull in the bucks without fighting for the customers.
My personal solution would be for some situation in which the 'tubes' were available to any company (similar to landline phones). I might even be for a state owned infrastructure similar to the roads over which various ISP's could supply service. But really anything that drops the barriers to entry and allows competition.
He completely deserved it, the damn dirty pirate. He even admitted to being a filthy little pirate. Thief trying to get things that he's not allowed to watch. If he wanted that UK show he should have bought himself a plane ticket (and maybe some lube to go with it).
See! It's only pirates (and maybe terrorists, but they're really the same) that run into these problems.
They're not undetectable. It's actually not that hard for an expert to be able to tell there is another encrypted volume (although I think they must get into the first encrypted volume to do so). But the existence of a volume isn't immediately visible.
If this were to go through a competent computer forensic guy (what the hell are they called?) could get into the first encrypted volume, discover the existence of the other encrypted volume and go back to force the user to proved access to it as well.
The reason for this is that encrypted volumes have very high entropy that is not generally found under other circumstances.
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Without that government guarantee they wouldn't have a AAA rating.
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So it was a result of massive government involvement. I don't know how you could possibly argue it was from a lack of regulation.
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FTFY
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These contribution laws are like the contraband screening of a prison, except these are designed by the prisoners.
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Netflix:
Has physical DVD, shipped via mail, put into users DVD player, streamed via cable to users TV.
Zediva:
Has physical DVD, shipped locally via loader, put into Zediva owned player, streamed via longer cable to users TV.
Where in there is the part that makes it illegal? the word longer? apparently so. :(
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We don't need to actually show that you do, we can just assume that you make these public performances. It is up to you to provide evidence (ie proper recordings of every time you have showered) in order to avoid these fees.
-- ASCAP
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Well Done!
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Doing a remix live just finishes cremating the body of that old and tired myth.
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Of course the real problem is the people. Us. These pompous windbags will keep on going just like they have for decades because we keep putting them back in office. The real solution would be to elect a new representative each voting term until things start to change. Clear them all out and start fresh. It would take about six year to get a whole new set, but that would probably be the best thing this country has had happen to it in decades.
Of course the chances of that happening are about a low as the chance of these politicians personally reading all the bills they vote on.
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Re: Mike, how DO you reconcile your demands that
ISP X sells me a data plan that (lets say) promises 6Mb/s down max (we'll ignore the up). They then put a cap of 250MB a month on it. The justification for the cap is to manage network traffic.
The cap does not manage network traffic. I can still saturate my connection and put a heavy load on the network. I may not be able to do it constantly for the whole month, but I could probably do it during all peak times.
If they really wanted to manage their network they wouldn't oversell their network speeds (because that is what they are doing). They want to advertise big numbers for download speed, but they don't want to actually build a network that can support that speed for all their users.
Additionally most of these ISP's also offer TV packages. They see the threat of online video to their TV packages and want to get in front of that demand by setting caps that are "reasonable" now, but will quickly become very limiting.
Finally the only reason these companies are capable of this behavior is because they have essentially been granted government backed monopolies. The lack of competition in this area allows them to pull in the bucks without fighting for the customers.
My personal solution would be for some situation in which the 'tubes' were available to any company (similar to landline phones). I might even be for a state owned infrastructure similar to the roads over which various ISP's could supply service. But really anything that drops the barriers to entry and allows competition.
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Bah
See! It's only pirates (and maybe terrorists, but they're really the same) that run into these problems.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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If this were to go through a competent computer forensic guy (what the hell are they called?) could get into the first encrypted volume, discover the existence of the other encrypted volume and go back to force the user to proved access to it as well.
The reason for this is that encrypted volumes have very high entropy that is not generally found under other circumstances.
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I do hope to see the short and polite response from Mike telling them to F off. Come on Mike let's keep this train rolling!
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