That Anonymous Coward (profile), 25 Apr 2019 @ 11:35am
What can we do so we don't have to spend any money teaching children right from wrong??
We'll pass a law
lets name it after that dead kid!!
Perfect, everyone will vote for it to avoid any bad publicity!
then we can waste more tax dollars on defending the stupid law!
PERFECT!
Much like the laws of Australia can't change the law of Math, the laws of Maryland can't stop kids from being shitty to each other.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 25 Apr 2019 @ 11:31am
Re:
Did it hurt...when you crawled up from hell?
Everything isn't about persecuting Christians & you should be careful.. after all we have the power to summon god's rage to punish everyone for not casting us out and I dunno if your trailer can survive a tornado.
You go to the corner & think about what you have done!
Then reread the article until you come up with a comment thats actually on topic.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 25 Apr 2019 @ 11:27am
1-800-Lawfirm got a new name?
"party becomes a quasi-state actor"
How the fsck did this asshole pass the bar?
Member, The Federalist Society - Oh.
THE BDS MOVEMENT IS ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!! Wargle wargle wargle...
His SSRN pages are... the stuff of WHAT THE FSCK.
'The Inapplicability of First Amendment Protections to BDS Movement Boycotts.2016 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 112.'
I wonder where he stands on the laws demanding you can't do business with a state unless you sign a pledge no not boycott Israel, I have a feeling that is perfectly fine as long as it doesn't apply to him.
Aww he couldn't pass muster to get his own Wikipedia page.
"Marc Greendorfer, founder of the Zachor Legal Institute, said the ties between BDS and terror organizations are “extensive.”"
Because its all Hamas and other pro-Palestine terrorist groups took over all the SJW control nodes & are directing people to push the evil of BDS!!!!!
He is very excited some of his language was used in the Hobby Lobby case, those moral people who were so deeply offended by birth control they sued while investing in & profiting all their workers from a company making birth control...
The best lawyers always misrepresent the foundational laws of the country to suit their personal crusade to protect a foriegn nation from people protesting they don't like how that nation behaves and boycotting companies to make change...
I bet he had no problem with all of the people who boycotted Dicks Sporting Goods when they dropped assault style weapons from the inventory...
Perhaps someone should send him an insane legal threat completely untethered from the law so he doesn't feel so alone.
Whats that phrase... Oh yes...
Christ what an asshole.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 25 Apr 2019 @ 6:26am
Fair Use is only easy to spot when it benefits a corporation.
Perhaps if various corporations hadn't sued other corporations because their logo was incidentally seen in a camera shot of a real place we would have a cleaner understanding of this.
But then I've seen documentaries on PBS where they spent untold money & effort to make sure to blur out every logo from real places to avoid these sorts of lawsuits.
Perhaps we should ask the Mercedes lawyers what would happen if someone snapped a picture of their mural & a Mercedes happened to be driving by if the artist made money from that photo... but then I like watching heads explode like in 'Scanners'.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 25 Apr 2019 @ 6:21am
Perhaps instead of adding more kids to the adult table, we should take the beer away from our uncles, who keep trying to catch us naked in the shower, and tell them to sober up & act like Uncles and not clowns putting on dog and pony shows to show us how wonderful they are & to overlook them puking on the dog and what they did to that poor poor pony.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 25 Apr 2019 @ 6:18am
But their lobbyists, as they handed us generous donations, told us this would never happen & that anyone saying it was a bad thing was just uninformed!
It is a pity that the lessons of history are lost on our leaders, but then the shiny shiny donations to their warchests blind them to downside for citizens.
Patents, Trademarks, Copyright all grant these magical one sided powers to protect the holders from any scrutiny, while shifting all of the burdens to society that was meant to benefit but get barren plains as a reward. The battle cry of IP is our greatest asset, perhaps we should look at the quality of that IP & see if its actually worthy or just bolting 'on the internet' onto things to allow those who add nothing to extra rent from real innovators.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 24 Apr 2019 @ 12:04pm
BUT THERE IS NO WAY THIS COULD HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY DID NO ONE WARN US!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps its time to listen to the people who know how all of this works rather than the legacy players who are sure 1 more law will solve the problems they helped create.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 24 Apr 2019 @ 11:19am
I honestly would love for them to do this to a Judge without knowing it was a Judge.
It really is time it happens to those so far removed form the reality of whats really happening so they can see how much of an injustice it really is.
Drugs are bad!!!!!!!
Funny how they rarely find the drugs they claim flow like water from all of these drug hubs, but manage to rack in cash.
How can you tell a cop from a mafia member?
The mafia member is way more polite when robbing you & is less likely to murder you because dead men don't pay.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 24 Apr 2019 @ 6:46am
They get what they pay for.
Sadly voters will vote for anyone who who blows the correct whistles on the big issues while ignoring a $45 million handout to companies who regularly screw them.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 24 Apr 2019 @ 6:08am
Re: Re: Re: Re:
It is an uphill battle as their voices are always left of of the discussions or are portrayed as being naive about things work in the real world by gatekeepers who have the ears of the politicians.
It is hard to walk the line of piracy is a failure to serve the markets when the big guns keep drowning out what you say by screaming the Boston Strangler is coming to murder puppies.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 24 Apr 2019 @ 5:33am
Re: Re:
Lets burn the studios and gatekeepers too!!
If they hadn't produced the content, the chain of piracy would never have occurred.
But good on you for trying to cloud the issue.
That tugboat sailed & sank already.
The white pages has the number of someone who sells drugs, does this mean the DEA should raid their offices?
This is one of those fun things where we add 'on the internet' & claim tech can fix it... but only if someone else pays for it & they just do what we tell them.
We have courts pretending that DMCA notices are evidence that requires ISPs to pay the price for ignoring 'repeat infringers'. One does wonder if the Judge has read any of the notices the ISP didn't forward which are veiled threats seeking money for questionable claims.
The law is easily abused and exploited because it starts from the presumption that anyone sending a DMCA notice is honest & without huge punishments recipients wouldn't carry the costs of protecting copyrights. Many of these DMCA notices are 'generated' by magical black boxes that can't be audited or examined, they only point to an IP address (sadly not all circuits have been educated to the idea that an IP address alone can not identify the infringer & allowing deposing the neighbors & sifting the digital lives of everyone in the home or who visited in the last 2 years is really way over the edge.)
They release reports talking about how many kajillion of notices they sent Google to stop piracy but don't include the numbers of how many Google refused to act on as being flawed. This make idiots think piracy is massive, but the only thing that is massive is the workload created by these flawed notices.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Apr 2019 @ 5:58pm
Perhaps we need to stop pretending that corporations are always acting to the letter of the law.
It is shitty enough to get a bogus DMCA notice to fight, but with platforms issuing 'a mark on your permanent record' that can cut off your access based on lies told by the corps (and/or minions). Unless they put in real penalties for bogus shit like this, it will continue. Its obvious they can and will abuse the system in ways they think it should work & they need to be punished.
Imagine if someone pointed out that Google wasn't hosting any infringing links, so they are not the correct place to send a DMCA notice... how many fines until they stop?
How many fines until they stop submitting bogus notices for content they invented but doesn't actually exist?
All content is not owned by the corporations & this sloppy bullshit harming other people. They steal the public domain and don't have to worry about any downside other than some bad press, but someone who shared the video might find their entire channel wiped away for getting 1 to many strikes and the content lost. If we don't jump high enough or fast enough the law makes it clear how bad it will be for us, its time to admit the system is fscked & there needs to be penalties on both sides to improve the system.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Apr 2019 @ 1:52pm
Re: Re:
A server doesn't tell you that chemtrails make frogs gay, some idiot has to put the information out there, and some other idiots have to believe it.
We blame tech for making it possible, ignoring that the person who posted it & the idiots who lap it up as gospel.
Street gangs aren't tech, the gang is a living thing that has to make the decisions tech is just their selection of tools/clothes. The tools/clothes don't make them rob little old ladies, they decide to rob little old ladies.
We like to make excuses for bad upbringing and hey didn't know better... and those should go over like lead balloons.
Unless someone held a gun to their head and forced them to do it, they knew it was wrong, they knew they were stealing, they knew society would take issue with them doing it, but they still did it.
My kids are fat, its mcdonalds fault because they put toys in the happy meals!! No you suck at being a parent for the hard things.
I'm addicted to shopping!! No you are shitty at managing money.
We let people excuse the little things and magically now we blame everything but the person who did it...
To go back to my I'm an immortal sociopath schtick, I can't wait until you hairless apes wipe yourselves out so I can see what nature tries to uplift next.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Apr 2019 @ 11:47am
leaves the video of police having to protect a random guy from a mob who they convinced themselves he was a terrorist
Social media is a lovely scapegoat for this incident, just like the claims it was payback fro Christschurch.
This happened because the adults refused to behave like adults, and their bullshit feud now has a bodycount. They want to blame everything else, because we never have to take responsibility for our actions, some evil outside force made you do it. (All the better if they have lots of money we can demand they give us).
We live in a world where politicians were so afraid they embraced anti-vaxxers & gave them free passes to be stupid. Now people are up in arms about fines for the unvaccinated going out in public. People are dying & somehow no one has suggested removing the stupid rules allowing anti-vaxxers to place their own children in harms way and the rest of society as well. Facebook had to be publicly humiliated for allowing anti-vaxxers to target their bullshit at people who were pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant before they stopped taking the money.
Sri Lanka cut off the internet to "stop the spread of misinformation'... and that sounds like a reasonable thing in a country where rumors on the street lead to people being attacked for nothing other than someone pointed at them and screamed witch, but perhaps its time to hold society responsible for its behavior & not try to get tech to solve it.
Someone posts claiming a person is part of the terrorist group & something bad happens to that target... you arrest the asshole who made the false accusation but you also remind the public that just because you saw it on the internet doesn't make it any truer than gossip whispered by the jealous. That mob rule has no place in society & if people have concerns or information you inform the authorities you don't try to create a facebook posse.
We blame all of the tools, but never the people operating them... its kinda sad.
The tools just sit there until someone uses them, how can they be the cause of all these bad things when they create nothing themselves?
People are capable of horrible things, pretending that if not for the tech they would have been good people is a cop out.
We spend so much time demanding the tech make sure we are never lied to, never upset, never offended... perhaps we should make people responsible for themselves.
If you don't like what is being said, share your view or stop listening. You aren't forced to hear all of the ideas, but pretending tech has to censor everything for you just makes it easier to pretend it can be done & someone should do it for you. If someone on FB is pissing you off... block them, don't start wars reporting both sides for all sorts of things to win.
But then we're stupid, but its not our fault we are... tech made us do it.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Apr 2019 @ 9:41am
Your video MIGHT contain copyrighted material, rather than bother to check we just took it down b/c if we don;t jump high enough they get to sue us for lots of money...
There is no public domain, everything is owned by corporations... the law implies this.
Enjoy your strike b/c there is no way in hell we'll side with you unless someone posts it online and mocks the shit out of how dysfunctional our system is... but we can survive that drama, we've survived every other boneheaded thing... because the law doesn't give you a recourse but saying no its not & having to provide all your info so the corporation can crush you more directly.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Apr 2019 @ 7:30am
One does wonder how the citizens feel about their representative wasting time & resources on a non-issue taking time away from actual problems in the city.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Apr 2019 @ 7:26am
"who often seemed to go out of their way to push problems back on drivers"
Well because we have this whole new super awesome system thats going to work like a dream and make everything better, so we just blame the end users to cover up our incompetence.
(See also the huge amount of spying on Americans that hasn't stopped anything real)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Apr 2019 @ 4:40am
Re: Re:
Neil Gaiman is one of the few creators who have gotten past the (there is not a nice way to say this) inflated self importance that is pumped up by the groups who steal more from them than the 'pirates'.
The gatekeepers put thousands of gates between your fans & your art, because they've created a tangle of rules & regulations that make what should be simple, super complex.
Screw the disabled, their editions might allow piracy!!!
You have people who might become huge fans, but your gatekeeper has decided their market doesn't matter vs imaginary losses.
Screw Australia, they are stupid upside down people who don't need access to content at the same time as the rest of the world because the sea monsters make it hard to get our tradeships there.
Magically when they discovered treating them like an actual country, as opposed to an island of prisoners, & delivered the content at the same time as the rest of the globe piracy did drop.
Piracy will never been stamped out until it is as easy to access the content legally as it is illegally. Millions of dollars have been wasted on anti-piracy efforts & on "delivery platforms" that punish you for playing by the rules, and the piracy it doesn't stop. Why do they keep pirating just because we demand to have their social security number & access to a camera watching them to make sure they haven't exceeded the number of people we will allow them to have view the content they 'purchased'??
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What can we do so we don't have to spend any money teaching children right from wrong??
We'll pass a law
lets name it after that dead kid!!
Perfect, everyone will vote for it to avoid any bad publicity!
then we can waste more tax dollars on defending the stupid law!
PERFECT!
Much like the laws of Australia can't change the law of Math, the laws of Maryland can't stop kids from being shitty to each other.
On the post: Maryland's Terrible Cyberbullying Law Gets Worse With The Addition Of Jail Sentences For Inducing Suicide Attempts
Re:
Did it hurt...when you crawled up from hell?
Everything isn't about persecuting Christians & you should be careful.. after all we have the power to summon god's rage to punish everyone for not casting us out and I dunno if your trailer can survive a tornado.
You go to the corner & think about what you have done!
Then reread the article until you come up with a comment thats actually on topic.
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1-800-Lawfirm got a new name?
"party becomes a quasi-state actor"
How the fsck did this asshole pass the bar?
Member, The Federalist Society - Oh.
THE BDS MOVEMENT IS ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!! Wargle wargle wargle...
His SSRN pages are... the stuff of WHAT THE FSCK.
'The Inapplicability of First Amendment Protections to BDS Movement Boycotts.2016 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 112.'
I wonder where he stands on the laws demanding you can't do business with a state unless you sign a pledge no not boycott Israel, I have a feeling that is perfectly fine as long as it doesn't apply to him.
Aww he couldn't pass muster to get his own Wikipedia page.
"Marc Greendorfer, founder of the Zachor Legal Institute, said the ties between BDS and terror organizations are “extensive.”"
Because its all Hamas and other pro-Palestine terrorist groups took over all the SJW control nodes & are directing people to push the evil of BDS!!!!!
He is very excited some of his language was used in the Hobby Lobby case, those moral people who were so deeply offended by birth control they sued while investing in & profiting all their workers from a company making birth control...
The best lawyers always misrepresent the foundational laws of the country to suit their personal crusade to protect a foriegn nation from people protesting they don't like how that nation behaves and boycotting companies to make change...
I bet he had no problem with all of the people who boycotted Dicks Sporting Goods when they dropped assault style weapons from the inventory...
Perhaps someone should send him an insane legal threat completely untethered from the law so he doesn't feel so alone.
Whats that phrase... Oh yes...
Christ what an asshole.
On the post: Mercedes Goes To Court To Get Background Use Of Public Murals In Promotional Pics Deemed Fair Use
Fair Use is only easy to spot when it benefits a corporation.
Perhaps if various corporations hadn't sued other corporations because their logo was incidentally seen in a camera shot of a real place we would have a cleaner understanding of this.
But then I've seen documentaries on PBS where they spent untold money & effort to make sure to blur out every logo from real places to avoid these sorts of lawsuits.
Perhaps we should ask the Mercedes lawyers what would happen if someone snapped a picture of their mural & a Mercedes happened to be driving by if the artist made money from that photo... but then I like watching heads explode like in 'Scanners'.
On the post: ICE, CBP Want To Sit With The Adults, Angling For Entrance Into The Intelligence Community
Perhaps instead of adding more kids to the adult table, we should take the beer away from our uncles, who keep trying to catch us naked in the shower, and tell them to sober up & act like Uncles and not clowns putting on dog and pony shows to show us how wonderful they are & to overlook them puking on the dog and what they did to that poor poor pony.
On the post: How Landmark Technology's Terrible Patent Has Survived
But their lobbyists, as they handed us generous donations, told us this would never happen & that anyone saying it was a bad thing was just uninformed!
It is a pity that the lessons of history are lost on our leaders, but then the shiny shiny donations to their warchests blind them to downside for citizens.
Patents, Trademarks, Copyright all grant these magical one sided powers to protect the holders from any scrutiny, while shifting all of the burdens to society that was meant to benefit but get barren plains as a reward. The battle cry of IP is our greatest asset, perhaps we should look at the quality of that IP & see if its actually worthy or just bolting 'on the internet' onto things to allow those who add nothing to extra rent from real innovators.
On the post: Universal And Warner Block Time Live Streaming Its Time 100 Event Because Copyright Censors
BUT THERE IS NO WAY THIS COULD HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY DID NO ONE WARN US!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps its time to listen to the people who know how all of this works rather than the legacy players who are sure 1 more law will solve the problems they helped create.
On the post: Federal Agent: Using A Taped Box To Send Stuff Overnight Via FedEx Is Suspicious Behavior
I honestly would love for them to do this to a Judge without knowing it was a Judge.
It really is time it happens to those so far removed form the reality of whats really happening so they can see how much of an injustice it really is.
Drugs are bad!!!!!!!
Funny how they rarely find the drugs they claim flow like water from all of these drug hubs, but manage to rack in cash.
How can you tell a cop from a mafia member?
The mafia member is way more polite when robbing you & is less likely to murder you because dead men don't pay.
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They get what they pay for.
Sadly voters will vote for anyone who who blows the correct whistles on the big issues while ignoring a $45 million handout to companies who regularly screw them.
On the post: Werner Herzog Joins Plenty Of Other Artists In Recognizing Piracy Isn't The Problem
Re: Re: Re: Re:
It is an uphill battle as their voices are always left of of the discussions or are portrayed as being naive about things work in the real world by gatekeepers who have the ears of the politicians.
It is hard to walk the line of piracy is a failure to serve the markets when the big guns keep drowning out what you say by screaming the Boston Strangler is coming to murder puppies.
On the post: Another Week, Another Hollywood Company Files A Takedown Against TorrentFreak
Re: Re:
Lets burn the studios and gatekeepers too!!
If they hadn't produced the content, the chain of piracy would never have occurred.
But good on you for trying to cloud the issue.
That tugboat sailed & sank already.
The white pages has the number of someone who sells drugs, does this mean the DEA should raid their offices?
This is one of those fun things where we add 'on the internet' & claim tech can fix it... but only if someone else pays for it & they just do what we tell them.
We have courts pretending that DMCA notices are evidence that requires ISPs to pay the price for ignoring 'repeat infringers'. One does wonder if the Judge has read any of the notices the ISP didn't forward which are veiled threats seeking money for questionable claims.
The law is easily abused and exploited because it starts from the presumption that anyone sending a DMCA notice is honest & without huge punishments recipients wouldn't carry the costs of protecting copyrights. Many of these DMCA notices are 'generated' by magical black boxes that can't be audited or examined, they only point to an IP address (sadly not all circuits have been educated to the idea that an IP address alone can not identify the infringer & allowing deposing the neighbors & sifting the digital lives of everyone in the home or who visited in the last 2 years is really way over the edge.)
They release reports talking about how many kajillion of notices they sent Google to stop piracy but don't include the numbers of how many Google refused to act on as being flawed. This make idiots think piracy is massive, but the only thing that is massive is the workload created by these flawed notices.
On the post: Another Week, Another Hollywood Company Files A Takedown Against TorrentFreak
Perhaps we need to stop pretending that corporations are always acting to the letter of the law.
It is shitty enough to get a bogus DMCA notice to fight, but with platforms issuing 'a mark on your permanent record' that can cut off your access based on lies told by the corps (and/or minions). Unless they put in real penalties for bogus shit like this, it will continue. Its obvious they can and will abuse the system in ways they think it should work & they need to be punished.
Imagine if someone pointed out that Google wasn't hosting any infringing links, so they are not the correct place to send a DMCA notice... how many fines until they stop?
How many fines until they stop submitting bogus notices for content they invented but doesn't actually exist?
All content is not owned by the corporations & this sloppy bullshit harming other people. They steal the public domain and don't have to worry about any downside other than some bad press, but someone who shared the video might find their entire channel wiped away for getting 1 to many strikes and the content lost. If we don't jump high enough or fast enough the law makes it clear how bad it will be for us, its time to admit the system is fscked & there needs to be penalties on both sides to improve the system.
On the post: Like Clockwork After A Big Tragedy, People Rush In To Blame... Social Media
Re: Re:
A server doesn't tell you that chemtrails make frogs gay, some idiot has to put the information out there, and some other idiots have to believe it.
We blame tech for making it possible, ignoring that the person who posted it & the idiots who lap it up as gospel.
Street gangs aren't tech, the gang is a living thing that has to make the decisions tech is just their selection of tools/clothes. The tools/clothes don't make them rob little old ladies, they decide to rob little old ladies.
We like to make excuses for bad upbringing and hey didn't know better... and those should go over like lead balloons.
Unless someone held a gun to their head and forced them to do it, they knew it was wrong, they knew they were stealing, they knew society would take issue with them doing it, but they still did it.
My kids are fat, its mcdonalds fault because they put toys in the happy meals!! No you suck at being a parent for the hard things.
I'm addicted to shopping!! No you are shitty at managing money.
We let people excuse the little things and magically now we blame everything but the person who did it...
To go back to my I'm an immortal sociopath schtick, I can't wait until you hairless apes wipe yourselves out so I can see what nature tries to uplift next.
On the post: Like Clockwork After A Big Tragedy, People Rush In To Blame... Social Media
leaves the video of police having to protect a random guy from a mob who they convinced themselves he was a terrorist
Social media is a lovely scapegoat for this incident, just like the claims it was payback fro Christschurch.
This happened because the adults refused to behave like adults, and their bullshit feud now has a bodycount. They want to blame everything else, because we never have to take responsibility for our actions, some evil outside force made you do it. (All the better if they have lots of money we can demand they give us).
We live in a world where politicians were so afraid they embraced anti-vaxxers & gave them free passes to be stupid. Now people are up in arms about fines for the unvaccinated going out in public. People are dying & somehow no one has suggested removing the stupid rules allowing anti-vaxxers to place their own children in harms way and the rest of society as well. Facebook had to be publicly humiliated for allowing anti-vaxxers to target their bullshit at people who were pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant before they stopped taking the money.
Sri Lanka cut off the internet to "stop the spread of misinformation'... and that sounds like a reasonable thing in a country where rumors on the street lead to people being attacked for nothing other than someone pointed at them and screamed witch, but perhaps its time to hold society responsible for its behavior & not try to get tech to solve it.
Someone posts claiming a person is part of the terrorist group & something bad happens to that target... you arrest the asshole who made the false accusation but you also remind the public that just because you saw it on the internet doesn't make it any truer than gossip whispered by the jealous. That mob rule has no place in society & if people have concerns or information you inform the authorities you don't try to create a facebook posse.
We blame all of the tools, but never the people operating them... its kinda sad.
The tools just sit there until someone uses them, how can they be the cause of all these bad things when they create nothing themselves?
People are capable of horrible things, pretending that if not for the tech they would have been good people is a cop out.
We spend so much time demanding the tech make sure we are never lied to, never upset, never offended... perhaps we should make people responsible for themselves.
If you don't like what is being said, share your view or stop listening. You aren't forced to hear all of the ideas, but pretending tech has to censor everything for you just makes it easier to pretend it can be done & someone should do it for you. If someone on FB is pissing you off... block them, don't start wars reporting both sides for all sorts of things to win.
But then we're stupid, but its not our fault we are... tech made us do it.
On the post: Emilio Estevez Uses Some Public Domain Footage In Film, So Universal Studios Forces Original Public Domain Footage Offline
Your video MIGHT contain copyrighted material, rather than bother to check we just took it down b/c if we don;t jump high enough they get to sue us for lots of money...
There is no public domain, everything is owned by corporations... the law implies this.
Enjoy your strike b/c there is no way in hell we'll side with you unless someone posts it online and mocks the shit out of how dysfunctional our system is... but we can survive that drama, we've survived every other boneheaded thing... because the law doesn't give you a recourse but saying no its not & having to provide all your info so the corporation can crush you more directly.
On the post: City Of Marathon Hand-Waves Stupid Cease And Desist Sent By Councilman Over City Seal
One does wonder how the citizens feel about their representative wasting time & resources on a non-issue taking time away from actual problems in the city.
On the post: Watchdog Says Australia's Traffic Enforcement System Has Hits Hundreds Of Drivers With Bogus Fines
"who often seemed to go out of their way to push problems back on drivers"
Well because we have this whole new super awesome system thats going to work like a dream and make everything better, so we just blame the end users to cover up our incompetence.
(See also the huge amount of spying on Americans that hasn't stopped anything real)
On the post: Trump's Chinese Telecom Protectionism Always Seems To Be Lacking Evidence
I await China cancelling his families trademarks & the ensuing trade war.
On the post: Werner Herzog Joins Plenty Of Other Artists In Recognizing Piracy Isn't The Problem
Re: Re:
Neil Gaiman is one of the few creators who have gotten past the (there is not a nice way to say this) inflated self importance that is pumped up by the groups who steal more from them than the 'pirates'.
The gatekeepers put thousands of gates between your fans & your art, because they've created a tangle of rules & regulations that make what should be simple, super complex.
Screw the disabled, their editions might allow piracy!!!
You have people who might become huge fans, but your gatekeeper has decided their market doesn't matter vs imaginary losses.
Screw Australia, they are stupid upside down people who don't need access to content at the same time as the rest of the world because the sea monsters make it hard to get our tradeships there.
Magically when they discovered treating them like an actual country, as opposed to an island of prisoners, & delivered the content at the same time as the rest of the globe piracy did drop.
Piracy will never been stamped out until it is as easy to access the content legally as it is illegally. Millions of dollars have been wasted on anti-piracy efforts & on "delivery platforms" that punish you for playing by the rules, and the piracy it doesn't stop. Why do they keep pirating just because we demand to have their social security number & access to a camera watching them to make sure they haven't exceeded the number of people we will allow them to have view the content they 'purchased'??
On the post: Werner Herzog Joins Plenty Of Other Artists In Recognizing Piracy Isn't The Problem
If only those factions screaming how piracy is killing them put that much effort into making sure that all the content was available for consumers.
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