It is things like this that makes me sad these days.
During the earlier days of the Internet many just saw it as a weird network filled with tech-heads and buttholes. Now not only do they realise how important the Internet is in the commercial and social sense when they can also strip out data like never before.
So you now have a vast array of Government agencies and more now rushing to carve out their own slice of the Internet to enhance their own power and control.
The DoJ now wants to be able to arrest almost anyone it seems but of course they would say it is only for the really bad people so don't worry about the little guys.
No DoJ we do not trust you and no you cannot have this abusive power.
I don't think NBC could have gone far to obtain these photos when I saw the originals on Reddit/Imgur almost a couple of weeks ago.
Social media does move quickly with the news but naturally you can't always trust the source when PhotoShop use is rampant.
Yes this is just the progress of technology and it is hardly like we are all going to throw our phones away. Just imagine what we will be using as the next Pope is elected. Google glass?
I see two possibilities here. The first is that MP George Galloway was serious which must have meant he had just ate, smoked and injected every mind altering drug known to science to be able to stand up in the House of Commons and to declare that cutting the whole of the UK off from Twitter was actually a good idea!
The second and more likely possibility is that good old George was just joking. He after all knows that many of his fellow MPs are huge Twitter users, to keep their followers updated, and to suggest "communications masochism" would give them all a good laugh.
So here are all the UK public looking on and thinking "Is this really what we elected you for?" along with "You have had your 5 minutes of fun so now back to work"
War was declared long ago when Napster started giving away all that music that did not belong to them. So this is simply the latest battle after a long line of battles.
The Copyight side is getting quite fearful these days when they are aware that public opposition can strike down their proposed laws. Indeed they are now very worried when those in Politics are now starting to hear what the public are saying.
I cannot be more happy. Now lets go rewrite copyright into what it should be.
It is true that during the SOPA, PIPA and ACTA protests some hype was used simply because the larger public can get behind basic ideas better. I played rather a large hand in that myself and spread some beautiful concepts but I would not state that any of these claims were untrue.
I believe "shatter the Internet" was the correct term and we already see evidence of that happening.
Justin Bieber going to prison was a valid example based on the proposed law. He of course started his career by singing copyright protected songs and then uploading them to YouTube which then triggers that streaming felony concept law. They had some experts examine that one in detail. No Bieber would not have gone to prison but it could well have stopped others following his example.
If you want to see what SOPA could have done then go ask the owners of DaJaz1 and RojaDirecta. SOPA would have made it much worse though by closing their advertising revenue and financial accounts. In others words they want to completely destroy a business even before there is any justice to prove their innocence or guilt.
YouTube-like service are already being killed even without SOPA but to add SOPA would turn business rivalry into a bloodbath.
"Piracy" and "Theft" are two invalid words they much use simply to stir emotional responses in the uninformed.
I doubt you can ever run short of examples of their false scenarios simply aimed to get an emotional response. They have been doing it for far too long.
I am sure the Copyright Alliance do fear public involvement when we are like mortal enemies where it would he hard to find common ground that we could agree on. They just want to ramp up copyright law to increase their control (regardless of profit) and we of course want to ramp down copyright to provide public gain and to open up the market to improve creation and distribution.
They do indeed fear us when the public are now well aware of the failures of copyright. They do not like what they see and big changes are obviously needed. What I am sure they most fear is a sane and reasonable voice.
Had I been an American I would have been happy to meet them face to face when after all I have been very aware of copyright matters for 16 years now. My business in fact is to assist the public to achieve their fair use goals under copyright. Still despite my wider view of the issues at hand I am sure that there are plenty of others who can well handle policy debate. It could make an historic turning point in how new copyright law is created namely always with public interest involvement.
I do think out best next step should be to assemble a team who are skilled in their knowledge and can handle policy debate when called upon to do so. They would be no end of people and groups to choose from but a good understanding of politics would be a bonus.
Unfortunately even if they had seeded these torrents then VPN use could well mean there is no actual proof. Logs are long gone and I doubt they did some seeding using a home IP address.
Still it is sure worth checking into this as deep as you can when humans do make mistakes and they have never been that bright. Should proof of a honey-pot ever be discovered then they would sure be going to prison.
No sovereign immunity to be able to do so meaning copyright holders could sue them.
I also don't think it would help for a national library to become a pit of corruption. So leave that for the real parasites in Congress and the Administration.
I would hope the Library of Congress is successful when preserving our media history is important.
Yes the US system on audio copyright is a total mess where the EU running a fixed 50 year limit is blissful by comparison.
US copyright always depresses me when at a young age you can see something new out, along with obtaining ideas how to make it much better, but you would be long dead before it ever hits the public domain to be able to do so.
Veoh keep this case going when beyond UMG being total bastards then once Veoh's legality is fully proved, ending all appeals, then Veoh can then sue for damages that could well run into millions.
It is just a shame this process takes years and yes the law cares none if the original Veoh site was destroy in the process.
I can't see the SWAT team did anything wrong in this beyond a little confusion in the suspect apprehension. The Police are charged with investigating possible crimes and sure that may lead to the occasional false arrest or detainment.
Better a case like this then some intruder shooting up his family with the Police doing nothing when he said previously they should just ignore such things.
So now they only need to find who did the prank call and to charge them with wasting Police time.
You may be better off going the Creative Commons route.
If you want true Public Domain though then remember that anyone can use your media, chop it into bits to mix and match into their own creation, or just to take the whole thing and sell their own "special edition" hardcopy.
I think this is productive when any debate on copyright in Congress will receive a whole load of public input along with technology experts.
Yes rolling back the term of copyright by 20 years would be truly historic and not even an event that I expected to see in my lifetime.
There would be some bad along with the good in any large change to copyright law but it is clear to see that currently both sides are deeply unhappy with how the law works where any large change may well turn a broken system into a working one.
I also hope they see that relaxing copyright laws can lead to a bloom of new creation like can be seen on Imgur daily with their community mixing, matching, improvement and reuse.
Most Judges do not allow cameras in their Courtrooms but under Rule 980 a Judge can use their discretion to approve cameras being used.
Due to the high public interest in this case Judge Wright may approve a video camera recording. Anyone interested needs submit form MC-500/MC-510 at least 5 days prior the event where the Court Clerk will then inform the Judge that a request has been filed.
I would have loved to have seen Judge Wright in the recent Court hearing when the description alone sounds epic.
I will wait and see if these very dishonourable acts are fairly punished which is the true nature of Justice.
Maybe they should follow the UK example when since being a lawyer is already a shady profession then the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal exists to provide some self-regulation to avoid bad lawyers being a bad name to the profession.
Back on January 16, 2012 the SDT upheld 10 out of 12 charges of gross misconduct against former speculative invoicing troll Andrew Crossley of ACS:Law. He was banned working as a lawyer for 2 years and was ordered to pay £77,000 ($116,100) costs. He lost his home, his business, his wife, his car and more ending in his bankruptcy.
Maybe the United States has a few things to learn when indeed bad lawyers will be bad until you force them to be good through harsh punishments.
This is no simple not following the rules but deceiving the Count in many ways simply to shake down subscribers for cash if they were guilty or innocent.
Yes you do need to string them up with a sign around their necks reading "bad lawyers".
So Judge Wright gives them one last chance to defend themselves where it seems likely they will skip this hearing as well when their own answers will land them further in the do-do.
This seems done to avoid them mounting a later appeal when any later Judge can see their unreasonable conduct now ruining their changes.
Well it would have been nice had they been virtually swinging from trees by now, with their companies forever destroyed, but Justice is never that fast or brutal.
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Abuse
During the earlier days of the Internet many just saw it as a weird network filled with tech-heads and buttholes. Now not only do they realise how important the Internet is in the commercial and social sense when they can also strip out data like never before.
So you now have a vast array of Government agencies and more now rushing to carve out their own slice of the Internet to enhance their own power and control.
The DoJ now wants to be able to arrest almost anyone it seems but of course they would say it is only for the really bad people so don't worry about the little guys.
No DoJ we do not trust you and no you cannot have this abusive power.
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The Internet was first
Social media does move quickly with the news but naturally you can't always trust the source when PhotoShop use is rampant.
Yes this is just the progress of technology and it is hardly like we are all going to throw our phones away. Just imagine what we will be using as the next Pope is elected. Google glass?
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Galloway
The second and more likely possibility is that good old George was just joking. He after all knows that many of his fellow MPs are huge Twitter users, to keep their followers updated, and to suggest "communications masochism" would give them all a good laugh.
So here are all the UK public looking on and thinking "Is this really what we elected you for?" along with "You have had your 5 minutes of fun so now back to work"
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The Copyight side is getting quite fearful these days when they are aware that public opposition can strike down their proposed laws. Indeed they are now very worried when those in Politics are now starting to hear what the public are saying.
I cannot be more happy. Now lets go rewrite copyright into what it should be.
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I believe "shatter the Internet" was the correct term and we already see evidence of that happening.
Justin Bieber going to prison was a valid example based on the proposed law. He of course started his career by singing copyright protected songs and then uploading them to YouTube which then triggers that streaming felony concept law. They had some experts examine that one in detail. No Bieber would not have gone to prison but it could well have stopped others following his example.
If you want to see what SOPA could have done then go ask the owners of DaJaz1 and RojaDirecta. SOPA would have made it much worse though by closing their advertising revenue and financial accounts. In others words they want to completely destroy a business even before there is any justice to prove their innocence or guilt.
YouTube-like service are already being killed even without SOPA but to add SOPA would turn business rivalry into a bloodbath.
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I doubt you can ever run short of examples of their false scenarios simply aimed to get an emotional response. They have been doing it for far too long.
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The Team
They do indeed fear us when the public are now well aware of the failures of copyright. They do not like what they see and big changes are obviously needed. What I am sure they most fear is a sane and reasonable voice.
Had I been an American I would have been happy to meet them face to face when after all I have been very aware of copyright matters for 16 years now. My business in fact is to assist the public to achieve their fair use goals under copyright. Still despite my wider view of the issues at hand I am sure that there are plenty of others who can well handle policy debate. It could make an historic turning point in how new copyright law is created namely always with public interest involvement.
I do think out best next step should be to assemble a team who are skilled in their knowledge and can handle policy debate when called upon to do so. They would be no end of people and groups to choose from but a good understanding of politics would be a bonus.
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We can wish
Still it is sure worth checking into this as deep as you can when humans do make mistakes and they have never been that bright. Should proof of a honey-pot ever be discovered then they would sure be going to prison.
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I also don't think it would help for a national library to become a pit of corruption. So leave that for the real parasites in Congress and the Administration.
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Agreed
Yes the US system on audio copyright is a total mess where the EU running a fixed 50 year limit is blissful by comparison.
US copyright always depresses me when at a young age you can see something new out, along with obtaining ideas how to make it much better, but you would be long dead before it ever hits the public domain to be able to do so.
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Veoh
It is just a shame this process takes years and yes the law cares none if the original Veoh site was destroy in the process.
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So what
Better a case like this then some intruder shooting up his family with the Police doing nothing when he said previously they should just ignore such things.
So now they only need to find who did the prank call and to charge them with wasting Police time.
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Re: Orphan Works
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Re: Public Domain project
If you want true Public Domain though then remember that anyone can use your media, chop it into bits to mix and match into their own creation, or just to take the whole thing and sell their own "special edition" hardcopy.
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A positive step
Yes rolling back the term of copyright by 20 years would be truly historic and not even an event that I expected to see in my lifetime.
There would be some bad along with the good in any large change to copyright law but it is clear to see that currently both sides are deeply unhappy with how the law works where any large change may well turn a broken system into a working one.
I also hope they see that relaxing copyright laws can lead to a bloom of new creation like can be seen on Imgur daily with their community mixing, matching, improvement and reuse.
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Due to the high public interest in this case Judge Wright may approve a video camera recording. Anyone interested needs submit form MC-500/MC-510 at least 5 days prior the event where the Court Clerk will then inform the Judge that a request has been filed.
I would have loved to have seen Judge Wright in the recent Court hearing when the description alone sounds epic.
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Re: Re: Hmmmm
Maybe they should follow the UK example when since being a lawyer is already a shady profession then the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal exists to provide some self-regulation to avoid bad lawyers being a bad name to the profession.
Back on January 16, 2012 the SDT upheld 10 out of 12 charges of gross misconduct against former speculative invoicing troll Andrew Crossley of ACS:Law. He was banned working as a lawyer for 2 years and was ordered to pay £77,000 ($116,100) costs. He lost his home, his business, his wife, his car and more ending in his bankruptcy.
Maybe the United States has a few things to learn when indeed bad lawyers will be bad until you force them to be good through harsh punishments.
This is no simple not following the rules but deceiving the Count in many ways simply to shake down subscribers for cash if they were guilty or innocent.
Yes you do need to string them up with a sign around their necks reading "bad lawyers".
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Hmmmm
This seems done to avoid them mounting a later appeal when any later Judge can see their unreasonable conduct now ruining their changes.
Well it would have been nice had they been virtually swinging from trees by now, with their companies forever destroyed, but Justice is never that fast or brutal.
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