Another result is that the Feds have lots of sites to now hold up and evidence that they need massively more powerful tools to stop them.
"There was 1 site before, now there are 20!!!!" Obviously the solution proposed will be more and deeper monitoring and tracking since the 'problem' has now gotten 'worse' by their definition, no?
I find it rather ironic since above he's clearly saying that simply calling yourselves something results in consequences.
"Huh, Call yourselves pirates, decent people shun you"
Now, his clear and continued behavior here, results in his comments getting 'shunned'.
Re: Sometimes industry likes long copyrights without intending to make money off them
What the industry doesn't yet understand is that selling a 1, 2 or 3 billion 'streaming' (i.e. netflix) subscriptions will make them more money, more consistently than trying to lock stuff up behind DRM ever will.
Re: HA, HA, HA! You right, "S. T. Stone": it's HILARIOUS!
Yep you are lazy. Mike has consistently said the 'music' industry is doing great but the 'recorded music/sales' industry isn't doing so well. This backs that up pretty directly.
Selling physical copies of digital files is quite literally last century, and the market is showing that.
Yelp is a site dedicated to providing consumer reviews of companies and services.
This law firm is clearly diluting the quality of Yelp's offerings. If this firm is putting up fake reviews, you know there are 100s more people doing the same thing.
Perhaps it's negligible in microcosm, but there is harm being done to Yelp here no?
They don't generally, they just issue you a fine that your car was being operated in a reckless manner. No points since that's an individual's license and hard to prove.
Now, if the speed cameras show his car going through a particular section of street at X mph and his video shows him at that place and time, now they have a way to put HIM at the place and time of the violation.
Still I don't like them keeping video and data like this (as has been discussed numerous times here) to be able to go back in time and see if you committed a crime that they didn't catch you doing at the time.
a fair point, but another point is that any computer to which someone else has physical access is always insecure. You simply can't trust it to be reliably [whatever] since they could have done something to it.
Until we have a true private mesh network that doesn't rely on any public infrastructure, can anything traveling over wires the gov't/corp's control or monitor be considered secure?
Who else are they going to buy elite military planes from who doesn't have their fingers dirty in this? I suppose Russia is possible, but the pool of potential suppliers is pretty limited.
I remember when DirecTV was going after people virtualizing their their smartcards to be able to decrypt the content.
Over a period of months, they had minor updates to the smart card software...and it was evident that they were loading the cards with destruction code. The 'owners' could only wait and watch since they needed the updates to keep running.
I feel like we're watching the tools for our societies destruction being loaded right in front of us...and we're just watching and waiting...
eh, that people don't search for 'free xxxxx' just means that currently the sites offering free xxxxx show up when I search for just xxxxx so they don't need to qualify it yet. It's not that people aren't looking for free :)
If they succeed in getting free sites demoted down the rankings, then people will start explicitly search for free.
of course, this also means that if the music/movie industry provided a good, efficient, user-friendly and economically sane service of their own, they'd push the free sites down themselves.
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makes sense
"The FAA was not used in these cases"
Of course reading the missing step between the lines is the 'parallel construction' angle they've apparently been using for decades...
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"There was 1 site before, now there are 20!!!!" Obviously the solution proposed will be more and deeper monitoring and tracking since the 'problem' has now gotten 'worse' by their definition, no?
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Re: Re: From the will-also-be-ignored dept.
"Huh, Call yourselves pirates, decent people shun you"
Now, his clear and continued behavior here, results in his comments getting 'shunned'.
funny that.
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Re: Sometimes industry likes long copyrights without intending to make money off them
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Re: HA, HA, HA! You right, "S. T. Stone": it's HILARIOUS!
Selling physical copies of digital files is quite literally last century, and the market is showing that.
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Re: Cease and Desist
This law firm is clearly diluting the quality of Yelp's offerings. If this firm is putting up fake reviews, you know there are 100s more people doing the same thing.
Perhaps it's negligible in microcosm, but there is harm being done to Yelp here no?
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Now, if the speed cameras show his car going through a particular section of street at X mph and his video shows him at that place and time, now they have a way to put HIM at the place and time of the violation.
Still I don't like them keeping video and data like this (as has been discussed numerous times here) to be able to go back in time and see if you committed a crime that they didn't catch you doing at the time.
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Until we have a true private mesh network that doesn't rely on any public infrastructure, can anything traveling over wires the gov't/corp's control or monitor be considered secure?
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planes
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Re: Just two items back, you said the opposite!
And that's what we're complaining about...
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Re: What. The. Fuck...
I remember when DirecTV was going after people virtualizing their their smartcards to be able to decrypt the content.
Over a period of months, they had minor updates to the smart card software...and it was evident that they were loading the cards with destruction code. The 'owners' could only wait and watch since they needed the updates to keep running.
I feel like we're watching the tools for our societies destruction being loaded right in front of us...and we're just watching and waiting...
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Re: Question!
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Re: Appeal
Scalia isn't exactly going to be my choice for writing the overturning opinion...Or Thomas, Or Alito.
That pretty well stacks the deck against the SCOTUS doing the correct thing here.
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If they succeed in getting free sites demoted down the rankings, then people will start explicitly search for free.
of course, this also means that if the music/movie industry provided a good, efficient, user-friendly and economically sane service of their own, they'd push the free sites down themselves.
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If..err when, they go over budget, then what? Free for all Decembers?
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Re: Re: Re: Alternatively...
You don't bring a gun, start a fight and then claim self defense.
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