Piracy often arises when consumer demand goes unmet from legitimate supply. As services ranging from Netflix to Spotify to iTunes have demonstrated, the best way to combat piracy is with better and more convenient legitimate services. The right combination of price, convenience, and inventory will do far more to reduce piracy than enforcement can.
I think I'm going to go play Steel Battalion. A game with a dedicated switch for windshield wipers, and that erases your save if you don't push the dedicated -- and shielded -- Eject button in time.
It's a shame the author of this article only discussed the court's opinion starting on Page 45, which explains the one little problem with the FCC's technique, and completely ignores everything else Judge Silberman mentioned before that, as well as Judge Tatel's entire concurrence/dissent. I know the message Mr. Ammori wants to push is "reclassification is the only way," but why should all the positive affirmations in these opinions be set aside and memory-holed? Isn't "the Open Internet Order is justified and good despite Verizon's objections" worth preserving?
"The FISA applications in this case also revealed [the Constitution of the United States is being used as toilet paper by the applying agencies,] the secrecy of which is unquestionably important to maintain."
The Imgur link in a certain news story released today, about the lack of foresight of some high school pranksters, is also not HTTPS, triggering a mixed content warning there as well. Everything has to be HTTPS, including frivolities like that, before the mixed content warning goes away.
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