Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Aug 2018 @ 9:54am
Half-hearted controls
What's the difference between threatening to sue, and actually suing?
It would seem that if the former is illegal, then the second would be really really illegal, but it isn't. Louisiana lawmakers really didn't think this through. If they had they would have made any action against government, word, thought, or deed illegal. Of course they would have wound up in the same place, that is that their law would be unconstitutional.
But hey, if their gonna go for it, they should have gone for broke.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 9 Aug 2018 @ 11:54am
Re: Re: Re: List of good VPNs over at Torrentfreak
Well yes, but since then they have been hauled into court and had nothing to disclose. They provably (apparently) had nothing to disclose. Try these search terms: "Private Internet Access court", there are too many links to list here.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 9 Aug 2018 @ 8:53am
Re: List of good VPNs over at Torrentfreak
That is how I found out PIA doesn't keep logs, and why I use them. I have it installed on my router so that all my outgoing and incoming are via the VPN. This Techdirt offer wasn't available then.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Aug 2018 @ 5:13pm
Re: OPR meaning
Seemingly a place where irresponsible, non-professionals work. That, or their standards are skewed so in favor of finding no fault with those they are charged with checking up on that those standards might as well not exist.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Aug 2018 @ 4:17pm
Re: Maybe there's something to be said...
That might give the police more reasons to be fearful.
We don't need them fearful, we need them respectful. Respectful of the laws they were hired to enforce, and the citizens they were hired to enforce those laws for. Since the Supreme Court says they don't HAVE to protect us, then they should be serving us, and not acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Aug 2018 @ 4:14pm
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Well, they could start charging prosecutors with civil rights violations, or maybe gross negligence.
If the law says they are supposed to disclose, and within a certain time frame (before the trial starts, but earlier would be more appropriate) and not put up false witnesses, then they should be arrested and prosecuted for those violations. Which would also mean the loss of their jobs.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Aug 2018 @ 5:18pm
Re: Just an "isolated incident" involving a "few bad apples"
"And no one had better mention feeling less safe at the sight of a cop, either."
Why not? If people have had bad experiences with cops, or follow the various websites that depict the many bad acts by cops feel less safe around cops, why is that wrong?
Right, you believe that cops are good, and our country right or wrong. Well, not all of us feel that way, and it is perfectly normal to love ones country, but dislike when they do wrong.
"And no one had better mention feeling less safe at the sight of a cop, either.">
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Aug 2018 @ 11:10am
Re: Re: What's missing?
That was a quote in the story Tim wrote, he did not write the quote. It seems like the quote is attributed to The Business Software Alliance but that isn't entirely clear. It still appears to be a function of FUD.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Aug 2018 @ 11:01am
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Not so sure. He referred to his own refusal to involuntarily lower his price. In addition, his comments elsewhere seem to point to books he has written, which would have nothing to do with the RIAA. None of which means he isn't really really confused and conflating more than one thing.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Aug 2018 @ 9:42am
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"...justifies stealing my work."
How sure are you that someone is 'stealing' (aka taking copies, original still in place) your work? How do you know? If you have some viable ability to know, then is it 1 or 2, or even 10 or 100, then so what? If it is thousands, then you might reasonably conclude that there is value to your work.
If the purveyors of the most expensive thingamajig (margin) in the world find that they are not moving enough product (traffic) guess what they do? They lower their price, and work to let people know (if it is true, or even if not true they make the effort) that their quality is better than other thingamajigs and therefore worth more. They might keep their price at above all the others, but still lowered, or they might set their price at 90% when compared to others, or something else, but they don't just let the status quo remain and scream at the thingamajig marketplace about how unfair is it that their product isn't moving.
"...how my refusal to involuntarily lower my price..."
Are you sure your not just being stubborn? Would it not be better to try some market testing to find out if your sense of the quality of your work is not just in your mind? The market speaks, can you listen?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Aug 2018 @ 7:54am
What's missing?
The legislation also creates a database, searchable by other government agencies, of which software was examined by foreign states that the Pentagon considers a cyber security risk.
It makes the database available to public records requests, an unusual step for a system likely to include proprietary company secrets.
This sounds to me like a list of titles that have been examined. What company 'secrets' would be included? That they have been examined? So what, they got examined.
Now, that examination might give the examiners a leg up on creating something they will inject later, but again, so what?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Aug 2018 @ 6:54pm
Re: Re: Houdini Effect
While the term 'political science' did not appear in my comment anywhere, it might apply, at least in terms of how certain administrations think about science. Not in terms of what we might learn from scientific study, but in terms of what results they want, and how current scientific thinking either applies, or does not apply to achieving the end result they want.
The results they want are more important than provable scientific assertions. To them, the results are either proven by science, or the science is worthless. That they have no proof that the science is worthless when they can order department heads to speak the speak or get lost has a tendency to taint the discussion.
Science will still rule, but only to those who aren't constrained by their political appointments, or government funding. Which has a tendency to change governmental rules not at all, unless the rules cause the rich to get richer regardless how those actions effect the rest of us.
Now the question of 'political science' seems to be a bit of a joke, as trying to get scientific about, say legislatures, and their behavior given the current campaign funding schema certainly requires a certain amount of guesswork. Something science accepts, but only if it is in the process of getting to some provable answer not as a result, but as a stepping stone to a possible result. When the legislature is elected to represent their constituents, but then represent their major contributors, the sciency part become a bit obscure.
(I should say that my father was a political science major in college and worked in journalism for many years, including the political beat, but back then, it actually had some meaning, and some veracity.)
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 6 Aug 2018 @ 6:25pm
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The question remains, what is is going to take to get the entertainment industry (while this study is about music, I think it is reasonable to infer that it applies across all the genre, ie. all the MAFFIA's) to not only comprehend, but to stop their efforts, useless as they are, at enforcement.
We do understand that it is not just anti 'piracy' but about control. Control they do not deserve, nor should get.
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Half-hearted controls
It would seem that if the former is illegal, then the second would be really really illegal, but it isn't. Louisiana lawmakers really didn't think this through. If they had they would have made any action against government, word, thought, or deed illegal. Of course they would have wound up in the same place, that is that their law would be unconstitutional.
But hey, if their gonna go for it, they should have gone for broke.
/s
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Re: Re: Re: List of good VPNs over at Torrentfreak
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Re: List of good VPNs over at Torrentfreak
That is how I found out PIA doesn't keep logs, and why I use them. I have it installed on my router so that all my outgoing and incoming are via the VPN. This Techdirt offer wasn't available then.
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Re: OPR meaning
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Re: Maybe there's something to be said...
We don't need them fearful, we need them respectful. Respectful of the laws they were hired to enforce, and the citizens they were hired to enforce those laws for. Since the Supreme Court says they don't HAVE to protect us, then they should be serving us, and not acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
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Re: Re:
If the law says they are supposed to disclose, and within a certain time frame (before the trial starts, but earlier would be more appropriate) and not put up false witnesses, then they should be arrested and prosecuted for those violations. Which would also mean the loss of their jobs.
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Ask him, that is a copy and paste quote.
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Re: Re: tl;dr
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Re: Just an "isolated incident" involving a "few bad apples"
Why not? If people have had bad experiences with cops, or follow the various websites that depict the many bad acts by cops feel less safe around cops, why is that wrong?
Right, you believe that cops are good, and our country right or wrong. Well, not all of us feel that way, and it is perfectly normal to love ones country, but dislike when they do wrong.
Or what?
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Re: Re: What's missing?
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Wow, you must be really famous and your posting here under a pseudonym, but are really famous under a different name.
Or your lying.
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Re: Re:
How sure are you that someone is 'stealing' (aka taking copies, original still in place) your work? How do you know? If you have some viable ability to know, then is it 1 or 2, or even 10 or 100, then so what? If it is thousands, then you might reasonably conclude that there is value to your work.
If the purveyors of the most expensive thingamajig (margin) in the world find that they are not moving enough product (traffic) guess what they do? They lower their price, and work to let people know (if it is true, or even if not true they make the effort) that their quality is better than other thingamajigs and therefore worth more. They might keep their price at above all the others, but still lowered, or they might set their price at 90% when compared to others, or something else, but they don't just let the status quo remain and scream at the thingamajig marketplace about how unfair is it that their product isn't moving.
Are you sure your not just being stubborn? Would it not be better to try some market testing to find out if your sense of the quality of your work is not just in your mind? The market speaks, can you listen?
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What's missing?
This sounds to me like a list of titles that have been examined. What company 'secrets' would be included? That they have been examined? So what, they got examined.
Now, that examination might give the examiners a leg up on creating something they will inject later, but again, so what?
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Re: Re: Houdini Effect
The results they want are more important than provable scientific assertions. To them, the results are either proven by science, or the science is worthless. That they have no proof that the science is worthless when they can order department heads to speak the speak or get lost has a tendency to taint the discussion.
Science will still rule, but only to those who aren't constrained by their political appointments, or government funding. Which has a tendency to change governmental rules not at all, unless the rules cause the rich to get richer regardless how those actions effect the rest of us.
Now the question of 'political science' seems to be a bit of a joke, as trying to get scientific about, say legislatures, and their behavior given the current campaign funding schema certainly requires a certain amount of guesswork. Something science accepts, but only if it is in the process of getting to some provable answer not as a result, but as a stepping stone to a possible result. When the legislature is elected to represent their constituents, but then represent their major contributors, the sciency part become a bit obscure.
(I should say that my father was a political science major in college and worked in journalism for many years, including the political beat, but back then, it actually had some meaning, and some veracity.)
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Getting appropriate responses
We do understand that it is not just anti 'piracy' but about control. Control they do not deserve, nor should get.
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