If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Seems he had it right
Easy answer: Who's boot? Who's face?
There's enough anger extant out here that they should be worried, perhaps even afraid, for their lives. "The peasants are revolting!" Yeah, and they're sharpening the guillotines.
By the way, you may not be aware that the little snowflakes next to your name indicate the IP address you post from Ian/John Kaslik/David Slater.
As hilarious as that sounds, I should remind you that an IP address does not identify an individual. For all we know, two of them are next door or in their cars outside leeching wifi off the third. It doesn't preclude them all being a single corpus dilecti, but it doesn't prove the alternative either.
You earlier admitted to me that you willfully infringed this monkey photograph for your own uses and now you attempt to remove the rights to copyright from all wildlife photographers who use "traps".
I think it's more accurate to say said copyrights were fraudulently obtained. How can copyright be obtained if the person claiming it doesn't even need to be there when "the work" is created? I can't blame them for trying. There's money on the table, after all.
This whole episode reminds me of the discussion held about a century ago when portrait and landscape painters were protesting that this new-fangled photography thing was attempting to place itself on par with real artists.
Threatening Cortwright for stating his opinion is a despicably low blow. You have the makings to become a lawyer, I'm sad to say.
Add to this encryption by default by Android and Apple. The haystack they have to sort through gets bigger every second. Every move they make accelerates this further out of their reach.
So instead, Spanish citizens can simply ask someone in a different country to call for demonstrations and circulate images.
Yup.
i) Coordinate with others across borders to help in each others' demonstrations.
ii) Use throwaway phones so you can't be found to be the sender of anything. They'll likely outlaw that too, so they'll need to coordinate the supply and distribution of them.
iii) Just before arriving at the demonstration, send an email to the appropriate authority's reporting address announcing your intent to participate in a peaceful demonstration.
Have fun, try not to get shot, and see you when (if) you get out of jail.
Man, the education system truly is failing, I see. Can you at least read? Go back up to the top and start over. The story's all there, though you may need to click on a few links to get more than the top view of it.
TL;DR: Hollywood is bribing politicians (Attorneys General) to attack people (specifically Google) who Hollywood believes is helping other people (you?) "steal" (infringe copyright) from them. Have fun.
I thought the Alphabet soup of Gov. agencies were already doing this ...
Next up, G. & Y! will be asked to patriotically search for tax cheats hiding money in Luxemburg, because certainly there isn't any gov't run (*cough* Inland Revenue *cough*) operation tasked with this responsibility.
Who needs Monty Python or Yes Minister with nutbars like this running around?
Should we be expecting the editors of the NY Times to be holing up in the Equadorian embassy soon?
Bradley/Chelsea Manning stole classified secrets, was convicted and sent to prison. Assange released said stolen info which the supremes say is okay? Why's he holed up in the Equadorian embassy again? Other than "concocted rape" charges, I know, but does he need to fear the US gov't wrath for releasing Manning's trove of state secrets? The supremes say no, yes?
Frankly, if a hypothetical 3rd party wanted to mess with Sony this way, it's not a stretch to think they could.
I like this game. In the vein of "Let's spin a movie plot", try this. Some hypothetical movie studio gets hacked. Much hand-wringing ensues, leading one of the staff alpha male "Master of The Universe" types to say to him/herself, "Hmm, 4chan! I wonder if I can get some Anonymous Hackers to attack our attackers." I can just see 4chan snickering in the background while stringing this doofus along, meanwhile ripping off Russian black market types in his/her name, whereupon much hilarity ensues.
I wonder if I can sell this idea to Sony. They could even use that old saw, "Based on a true story."
If I still watched TV, I suppose I'd know that. We all choose our personal blinkers, or points of view. Where's that omniscience upgrade I've been waiting for? :-P
A discussion on FB is among "friends", and as such will not be carried over to this site.
As I will not be carried over to FB, that tends to engender an impasse. We appear able to communicate here, even anonymously on your part, yet that's insufficient for your purposes?
The author here would do well by his readership to note that there are others who are skilled in the law and who do not share his opinion.
The author here would do well by his readership to note that there are others who are skilled in technology and who do not share his opinion. I tend to concern myself more with ethics and morality, and since law appears to have little if anything to do with those, it tends not to concern me much.
... it knows jack shit about technology or IT protection, even the most basic stuff.
They also appear to outright resent the idea of having to pay for such things (competent and sufficient IT staffing), considering it an unnecessary drain on the bottom line, which is bloody amazing in itself.
Price Waterhouse Coppers delivered their damning IT security audit report at least a month before the hack happened. That's extraordinary. Any cluefull org would have gone into crisis mode at that point, and with Sony's past history, they should have felt like deer in the headlights.
I agree with your "bull." Sony wouldn't know where to begin.
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Easy answer: Who's boot? Who's face?
There's enough anger extant out here that they should be worried, perhaps even afraid, for their lives. "The peasants are revolting!" Yeah, and they're sharpening the guillotines.
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As hilarious as that sounds, I should remind you that an IP address does not identify an individual. For all we know, two of them are next door or in their cars outside leeching wifi off the third. It doesn't preclude them all being a single corpus dilecti, but it doesn't prove the alternative either.
Still pretty funny, though.
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I think it's more accurate to say said copyrights were fraudulently obtained. How can copyright be obtained if the person claiming it doesn't even need to be there when "the work" is created? I can't blame them for trying. There's money on the table, after all.
This whole episode reminds me of the discussion held about a century ago when portrait and landscape painters were protesting that this new-fangled photography thing was attempting to place itself on par with real artists.
Threatening Cortwright for stating his opinion is a despicably low blow. You have the makings to become a lawyer, I'm sad to say.
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FTFY.
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Yup.
i) Coordinate with others across borders to help in each others' demonstrations.
ii) Use throwaway phones so you can't be found to be the sender of anything. They'll likely outlaw that too, so they'll need to coordinate the supply and distribution of them.
iii) Just before arriving at the demonstration, send an email to the appropriate authority's reporting address announcing your intent to participate in a peaceful demonstration.
Have fun, try not to get shot, and see you when (if) you get out of jail.
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Re: About all of this
Man, the education system truly is failing, I see. Can you at least read? Go back up to the top and start over. The story's all there, though you may need to click on a few links to get more than the top view of it.
TL;DR: Hollywood is bribing politicians (Attorneys General) to attack people (specifically Google) who Hollywood believes is helping other people (you?) "steal" (infringe copyright) from them. Have fun.
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Now you're catching on. So much for innocent until proven guilty. I'll miss that anachronism.
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Next up, G. & Y! will be asked to patriotically search for tax cheats hiding money in Luxemburg, because certainly there isn't any gov't run (*cough* Inland Revenue *cough*) operation tasked with this responsibility.
Who needs Monty Python or Yes Minister with nutbars like this running around?
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So, Assange is cleared?
Bradley/Chelsea Manning stole classified secrets, was convicted and sent to prison. Assange released said stolen info which the supremes say is okay? Why's he holed up in the Equadorian embassy again? Other than "concocted rape" charges, I know, but does he need to fear the US gov't wrath for releasing Manning's trove of state secrets? The supremes say no, yes?
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I like this game. In the vein of "Let's spin a movie plot", try this. Some hypothetical movie studio gets hacked. Much hand-wringing ensues, leading one of the staff alpha male "Master of The Universe" types to say to him/herself, "Hmm, 4chan! I wonder if I can get some Anonymous Hackers to attack our attackers." I can just see 4chan snickering in the background while stringing this doofus along, meanwhile ripping off Russian black market types in his/her name, whereupon much hilarity ensues.
I wonder if I can sell this idea to Sony. They could even use that old saw, "Based on a true story."
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If I still watched TV, I suppose I'd know that. We all choose our personal blinkers, or points of view. Where's that omniscience upgrade I've been waiting for? :-P
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As I will not be carried over to FB, that tends to engender an impasse. We appear able to communicate here, even anonymously on your part, yet that's insufficient for your purposes?
The author here would do well by his readership to note that there are others who are skilled in technology and who do not share his opinion. I tend to concern myself more with ethics and morality, and since law appears to have little if anything to do with those, it tends not to concern me much.
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They also appear to outright resent the idea of having to pay for such things (competent and sufficient IT staffing), considering it an unnecessary drain on the bottom line, which is bloody amazing in itself.
Price Waterhouse Coppers delivered their damning IT security audit report at least a month before the hack happened. That's extraordinary. Any cluefull org would have gone into crisis mode at that point, and with Sony's past history, they should have felt like deer in the headlights.
I agree with your "bull." Sony wouldn't know where to begin.
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Lisa, on The Simpsons, has been using it for about a decade now. It's common usage on the net these days.
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