Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 3 Mar 2011 @ 1:17pm
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I met a guy living on the streets the other day that said space ships are coming. Because he said it, it must be true.
Space ships are coming?
Dude, we've had space ships for so long that we're already retiring the designs! Discovery has spent a year actually in space since its first launch in 1984!
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 3 Mar 2011 @ 9:09am
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Why do you have trackers instead of a central Napster style server if the information you are sharing is legal? Why go through the process of hiding servers off shore, of playing games with file titles, and signing up for VPNs if everything you are doing is legal?
Since everyone else has refuted the other nonsense you wrote, let me hit some other points.
A central server (or even server farm) is inefficient. A distributed network is more efficient for distribution, as well as not being a single point of failure in the event of hardware or network problems. This also addresses your bizarre comment about "hiding servers offshore" - it is not hiding, it is having more efficient and convenient locations.
VPNs have become necessary because ISPs have decided that they want to control what their customers have access to and what speed they can get it at (aka DPI gear and traffic shaping). VPNs are also valuable when dealing with repressive governments who also want to decide what their citizen have access to, and supposedly freedom loving governments who wish to protect their own embarrassing secrets from being released.
If you really want freedom of information, stop acting like criminals.
When corporations and governments stop being criminals instead of simply acting like them, maybe you'll have a point.
Your move.
(disclaimer, some of the above post is sarcastic, some is deadly serious)
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 2:21pm
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Fixed.
Are you sure you want to take the position that all laws are moral an ethical, and therefore?
The protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya were illegal. Helping an escaped slave was illegal. Leaking classified documents (even if they show gross negligence and mismanagement of a war) is illegal.
So, you'll say those are different situations. Ok.
The Boston Tea party was illegal.
Not paying the stamp tax was illegal - and that's what the Boston Tea party was about.
Why didn't people want to pay the stamp tax?
No representation in their government.
Can you really say that the government of this country represents the people, when all our elected seem to listen to are corporations and special interest groups? Both of the major political parties are saying 'more copyright good' where the evidence suggests the opposite.
So why should I pay the copyright tax if I'm not being represented in my government?
Find me even a single Senator or Congressman attempting to scale back or abolish copyright and I'll concede the point that there's someone with my interests trying to make a difference even if they get out voted.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 1:03pm
Re: Re: Re: Got a clue, Mike, you're a Democrat
It's gov money going to an organization at least partly has a political agenda.
Say whatever conspiracy theory you want about liberal or conservative bias in media, but NPR and PBS are the least politically slanted organizations I can imagine.
Only small amounts of government money actually go to NPR (not sure on how much PBS gets). 92% of NPR's budget comes from individual donations, grants, and business underwriting.
It's subsidy, into an otherwise Robust Market.
Broadcast TV and radio is anything but robust. The vast majority of stations are owned by 5 or 6 huge conglomerates.
And call me selfish, but NPR is the only tolerable station (to me) in Charlotte (which is the 20th largest city in the country). Without NPR, I'd be stuck with the tons of country music stations, conservative talk radio stations, religious stations, and a few R&B and rap stations. My ears would rebel and try to kill my brain without NPR on the drive to/from work.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 11:08am
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You shouldn't have to change business models because of unchecked illegal activity.
Unchecked illegal activity means there is something wrong with the law. Most people are moral and ethical. If there is widespread disobedience to a particular law, then that law is immoral and unethical.
It would be a huge loss to the economy.
I think you missed a story today, where using the content industry's own methodology, ~12 jobs are created for every 1 lost to infringement. So, which is true, the methodology for both studies is correct (and therefore copyright is the loss to the economy), or both are incorrect (and therefore the content industry is lying again)?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 10:55am
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Also independents cannot vote except in Presidential elections.
That's not accurate. And if that's happening in Kentucky, then whatever law is involved is unconstitutional.
All registered voters (regardless of party), can vote in any general election for all federal, state, and local offices. Also, should any special elections be held (such as if a Congressman leaves office before his/her term is up), all registered voters can vote in that.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 8:52am
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Sadly, we will never know if they actually have jurisdiction or not, because the ISPs themselves are dragging their heels and being very slow to answer to legal summons for information.
So you think that civil copyright infringement IP lookups are more important than emergency law enforcement requests where lives may be in danger?
What else is the ISP to do when they are bombarded with thousands of those requests? Hire dozens of people, whose sole job it is to process those requests, and pass the costs along to its customers? Do you want your internet service to become more expensive because of companies that can't adapt to the market and what customers want?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 8:33am
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Depending on the state you live in, registering yourself with a party allows you to vote in primary elections for that party. Primaries are where members of the same parties run against each other to see who gets to appear on the ballot in the general election.
You're under no obligation to vote your party affiliation.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 7:06am
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Never said they were perfect. However, in most cases, they give reasonable results. It takes a few seconds per IP and the lawyer filing the cases did not take the time for that, but was ready immediately for a improper joinder argument from one of the Does - that's what the judge is saying.
I would also be interested to see this lawyer re-file a single case with a single defendant and get it in front of the same judge, just to see what excuse the judge would come up with next for not allowing discovery.
Assuming the lawyer picks one case that is most likely within the judge's jurisdiction, I see no reason the judge would not allow it to continue.
But there's only a slim chance the lawyer would bother. The entire point of the mass lawsuits are to extort money from many people extremely quickly without going through a lawsuit where individuals would have a chance to defend themselves.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 6:47am
Theft
Theft is small potatoes. The IP supporters are arguing that more police resources be devoted to IP "crimes" at the expense of violent crimes such as murder, assault and rape.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Mar 2011 @ 6:38am
The Judge's decision to quash is premature, because he doesn't have the information to say if the Does are in their jurisdiction or not.
Incorrect. There are dozens of IP lookup services that will give a reasonable geographic location of an IP address. Ever wonder how banner ads are able to localize to your city or at least one close to you?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 28 Feb 2011 @ 6:56pm
"Debate"
Too bad that "debate" on the Senate floor is just senators reading speeches to the CSPAN cameras.
It doesn't matter how long they debate for, it won't change any senator's vote. 80+ will vote to re-extend because if they don't, their opponent in the next election will tag them with "soft on terrorism."
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 25 Feb 2011 @ 10:52am
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If you want to take your PS3 and turn it into a speak and spell, Sony won't care - until you put the methods and software hacks required online or otherwise distribute those hacks.
Do you really expect every single individual to have to replicate doing the same hardware tinkering, software programming/testing/debugging themselves with no help from the others who are doing the exact same things? I
Collaboration is an absolutely necessary part to working on complex systems and code that is millions of lines long. Building off what others have done is the core principle of all innovation.
Nobody is stopping innovation, you are free to make your own game console tomorrow. Knock yourself out.
A complete and transparent lie.
You seem to be under the impression that Sony designed, built, programmed the code for, and manufactured their game consoles without standing on the shoulders of all the thousands of innovations in the electronics industry of the past 100 years.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 23 Feb 2011 @ 9:47am
And with a marginal cost of zero...
I'm sure we'll get comments on the millions of dollars it cost to make these games. While I won't dispute that many games do cost a lot to make, that doesn't matter in the slightest - that is a fixed cost. Marginal cost is zero with online distribution. Once the game is made, every additional sale is profit.
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Space ships are coming?
Dude, we've had space ships for so long that we're already retiring the designs! Discovery has spent a year actually in space since its first launch in 1984!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery
I shouldn't be surprised. You support the recording industry, so being only 26 years behind the times is an improvement.
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Since everyone else has refuted the other nonsense you wrote, let me hit some other points.
A central server (or even server farm) is inefficient. A distributed network is more efficient for distribution, as well as not being a single point of failure in the event of hardware or network problems. This also addresses your bizarre comment about "hiding servers offshore" - it is not hiding, it is having more efficient and convenient locations.
VPNs have become necessary because ISPs have decided that they want to control what their customers have access to and what speed they can get it at (aka DPI gear and traffic shaping). VPNs are also valuable when dealing with repressive governments who also want to decide what their citizen have access to, and supposedly freedom loving governments who wish to protect their own embarrassing secrets from being released.
If you really want freedom of information, stop acting like criminals.
When corporations and governments stop being criminals instead of simply acting like them, maybe you'll have a point.
Your move.
(disclaimer, some of the above post is sarcastic, some is deadly serious)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Got a clue, Mike, you're a Democrat
First, its much less than 20%.
Second, I guarantee that a hell of a lot more money from my taxes goes to things I don't support than what goes from yours into NPR.
That's cool, if you don't like Foxnews, you're free not to watch them, denying them ratings and thus ad revenue.
Interestingly enough, if I want any kind of cable TV service, some of my money ends up going to Fox News.
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Physical scarce good does not equal free to replicate data.
I would not have shoplifted a CD or DVD because I would be depriving the store of the physical object. If I stole it, they would no longer have it.
Would I have borrowed a CD or DVD from someone, ripped the track, and then given it back?
Yep, I would have. I did. I still would.
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Are you sure you want to take the position that all laws are moral an ethical, and therefore?
The protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya were illegal. Helping an escaped slave was illegal. Leaking classified documents (even if they show gross negligence and mismanagement of a war) is illegal.
So, you'll say those are different situations. Ok.
The Boston Tea party was illegal.
Not paying the stamp tax was illegal - and that's what the Boston Tea party was about.
Why didn't people want to pay the stamp tax?
No representation in their government.
Can you really say that the government of this country represents the people, when all our elected seem to listen to are corporations and special interest groups? Both of the major political parties are saying 'more copyright good' where the evidence suggests the opposite.
So why should I pay the copyright tax if I'm not being represented in my government?
Find me even a single Senator or Congressman attempting to scale back or abolish copyright and I'll concede the point that there's someone with my interests trying to make a difference even if they get out voted.
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Re: Re: Re: Got a clue, Mike, you're a Democrat
Say whatever conspiracy theory you want about liberal or conservative bias in media, but NPR and PBS are the least politically slanted organizations I can imagine.
Only small amounts of government money actually go to NPR (not sure on how much PBS gets). 92% of NPR's budget comes from individual donations, grants, and business underwriting.
It's subsidy, into an otherwise Robust Market.
Broadcast TV and radio is anything but robust. The vast majority of stations are owned by 5 or 6 huge conglomerates.
And call me selfish, but NPR is the only tolerable station (to me) in Charlotte (which is the 20th largest city in the country). Without NPR, I'd be stuck with the tons of country music stations, conservative talk radio stations, religious stations, and a few R&B and rap stations. My ears would rebel and try to kill my brain without NPR on the drive to/from work.
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Unchecked illegal activity means there is something wrong with the law. Most people are moral and ethical. If there is widespread disobedience to a particular law, then that law is immoral and unethical.
It would be a huge loss to the economy.
I think you missed a story today, where using the content industry's own methodology, ~12 jobs are created for every 1 lost to infringement. So, which is true, the methodology for both studies is correct (and therefore copyright is the loss to the economy), or both are incorrect (and therefore the content industry is lying again)?
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That's not accurate. And if that's happening in Kentucky, then whatever law is involved is unconstitutional.
All registered voters (regardless of party), can vote in any general election for all federal, state, and local offices. Also, should any special elections be held (such as if a Congressman leaves office before his/her term is up), all registered voters can vote in that.
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So you think that civil copyright infringement IP lookups are more important than emergency law enforcement requests where lives may be in danger?
What else is the ISP to do when they are bombarded with thousands of those requests? Hire dozens of people, whose sole job it is to process those requests, and pass the costs along to its customers? Do you want your internet service to become more expensive because of companies that can't adapt to the market and what customers want?
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You're under no obligation to vote your party affiliation.
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I would also be interested to see this lawyer re-file a single case with a single defendant and get it in front of the same judge, just to see what excuse the judge would come up with next for not allowing discovery.
Assuming the lawyer picks one case that is most likely within the judge's jurisdiction, I see no reason the judge would not allow it to continue.
But there's only a slim chance the lawyer would bother. The entire point of the mass lawsuits are to extort money from many people extremely quickly without going through a lawsuit where individuals would have a chance to defend themselves.
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Theft
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Incorrect. There are dozens of IP lookup services that will give a reasonable geographic location of an IP address. Ever wonder how banner ads are able to localize to your city or at least one close to you?
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"Debate"
It doesn't matter how long they debate for, it won't change any senator's vote. 80+ will vote to re-extend because if they don't, their opponent in the next election will tag them with "soft on terrorism."
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Do you really expect every single individual to have to replicate doing the same hardware tinkering, software programming/testing/debugging themselves with no help from the others who are doing the exact same things? I
Collaboration is an absolutely necessary part to working on complex systems and code that is millions of lines long. Building off what others have done is the core principle of all innovation.
Nobody is stopping innovation, you are free to make your own game console tomorrow. Knock yourself out.
A complete and transparent lie.
You seem to be under the impression that Sony designed, built, programmed the code for, and manufactured their game consoles without standing on the shoulders of all the thousands of innovations in the electronics industry of the past 100 years.
On the post: Stop Thinking That Tech & Content Are Fighting Each Other
Prisoner's Dilemma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
If tech and content would cooperate with each other, they both would make wads and wads of money (and consumer would win, too).
If they don't cooperate, each make much less, and consumers lose out, too.
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medical devices
Those 87 year old grannies with pacemakers robbing liquor stores are in for it now.
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Re: Madness!
Madness? This! is! ECON!
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And with a marginal cost of zero...
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