Given your clearly stated opinion of Al Jazeera, I don't believe for a second that you watched it.
Funny that you were completely incapable of refuting or even discussing any points made in the video. Just a lame attack on Mike because based on your ignorant opinion of a non-US news source.
Your question is stupid and pointless. Someone's personal opinion on whether it's OK or not simply doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how you respond to it. Legislation has proven not to work. Litigation has proven not to work. Moral arguments have proven not to work (possibly due to immense hypocrisy). The only things that have proven to reduce piracy involve providing customers what they telling you they actually want, and treating them in a way that makes them genuinely like you. Something you need to work on...
"They can't get an easy and legitimate copy of a movie that hasn't been release on DVD yet."
Exactly! They should be able to get a legitimate copy on DVD on the day the movie is released. They should be able to watch a legitimate stream or legitimate download on the day the movie is released. They should be able to, because the technology allows it and the customers want it. But the old-fasioned, backwards-looking content industries want to keep pretending it's 1995, and base their release schedules, distribution methods and pricing on technological and physical restrictions that simply don't exist anymore, and then get all upset when people don't respect these non-existent restrictions. What a great long-term strategy!
"The lesson of SOPA has moved all enforcement from legislation-based to industry agreements, best practices. By definition, you and your fellow copyright anarchists are on the margins as you hold no sway in industry agreement discussions."
You know who does hold the most sway? The paying customer! If you think back-room industry deals are going to endear customers to these companies you're out of your frickin' mind. The process that sunk SOPA will be equally effective at dealing with companies trying to secretly screw over the very people that are their income source.
"Finally, your way of dealing with infringement is to ignore enforcement entirely."
Correction, the way to deal with infringement is to ignore enforcement entirely and concentrate on meeting your customers demands instead.
"I want to debate him on the issues of law, where I actually can prove that he's lying, deliberately so, because he's a total scumbag manipulator."
You don't need Mike's response to do that, you can post your views for all to read and respond to. There are plenty of intelligent people here who can figure out if you've proved Mike's lied about anything. I can see how upset you are at so far failing spectacularly to do that.
"About Mil-Spec.. I won't bore you with the details about the difference between a mil-spec AR15 clone and a weapon that is intended and ready for use in the armed services..."
Actually, instead of acting like an asshole, why don't you contribute something useful and bore us with exactly those details, because some of us do give a shit about the facts and would much rather have an informed debate.
Personally I doubt there's as much difference between a mil-spec AR15 clone and a weapon that is intended and ready for use in the armed services as you imply, beyond the lack of full-auto capability, so here's your chance to educate us all.
"Your mistake. Most people want it, and want it bad - that's why it's so wildly pirated."
If they "wanted it bad" they'd be happy to pay for it. High consumption of something that's freely available does not indicate quality or demand. Your mistake is over-valuing the content, as usual.
"If it was shit nobody would bother. It's the contradiction that nobody here ever seems willing to address."
If it's shit, people won't bother paying for it. If people think it's worth the asking price, they will pay it. There is no contradiction, just simple common sense and the most fundamental economics.
"This guy's as slimy as they come. Total fake person. Total piece of shit."
If you post this sort of puerile crap, repeatedly, and still wonder why Mike won't bother with you, you're a moron. Seriously, if you called someone stuff like that to their face, would you also wonder why they punched you? Is this actually how you want to be talked to?
But it can, and anybody familiar with Twitter and other social media should know that. Perhaps you'll put more than a few seconds of thought into your future attempts to skewer people you think are doing you wrong.
Now that you've realised your mistake and apologised, what are you actively doing to undo the damage you've contributed to?
Considering bob has never once provided a credible source for his batshit-crazy claims ("EFF brag about the money they get from the billionaires at Google!"), I think you probably are asking too much.
This stuff is purely a product of his over-fertile imagination. Unfortunately he combines this with a penchant for verbosity and a lot of free time...
"Information provided to the STG by OFCANZ said Dotcom had access to weapons and was "exhibiting violence". The file included pictures of Dotcom grinning and holding a shotgun. It also said there was a "reasonable risk of injury or death" to police from Dotcom or those on his property.
Asked if he believed there truly was a risk of death or injury, the sergeant answered "no". "
That photo if Kim holding a shotgun has been floating around the web for years, before he moved to NZ. How it could an indication of anything is beyond me. If that's the rational the police are going to use to escalate from 'a knock on the door' to 'tactical assault', I would be very afraid if I was one of the people featured in the 1,240,000 results you get from typing "grinning holding gun" into Google Images. Even more scary is the 8,710,000 results from "smiling holding gun"!
They didn't cut through the saferoom wall, they were let in by the head of security after they tried to bash their way into what any fool could see was actually a dumb waiter.
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Funny that you were completely incapable of refuting or even discussing any points made in the video. Just a lame attack on Mike because based on your ignorant opinion of a non-US news source.
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Are you that clueless that you don't realise you just answered your own question?
"... shangrila..."
Yep, clueless...
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Exactly! They should be able to get a legitimate copy on DVD on the day the movie is released. They should be able to watch a legitimate stream or legitimate download on the day the movie is released. They should be able to, because the technology allows it and the customers want it. But the old-fasioned, backwards-looking content industries want to keep pretending it's 1995, and base their release schedules, distribution methods and pricing on technological and physical restrictions that simply don't exist anymore, and then get all upset when people don't respect these non-existent restrictions. What a great long-term strategy!
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You know who does hold the most sway? The paying customer! If you think back-room industry deals are going to endear customers to these companies you're out of your frickin' mind. The process that sunk SOPA will be equally effective at dealing with companies trying to secretly screw over the very people that are their income source.
"Finally, your way of dealing with infringement is to ignore enforcement entirely."
Correction, the way to deal with infringement is to ignore enforcement entirely and concentrate on meeting your customers demands instead.
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You don't need Mike's response to do that, you can post your views for all to read and respond to. There are plenty of intelligent people here who can figure out if you've proved Mike's lied about anything. I can see how upset you are at so far failing spectacularly to do that.
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Actually, instead of acting like an asshole, why don't you contribute something useful and bore us with exactly those details, because some of us do give a shit about the facts and would much rather have an informed debate.
Personally I doubt there's as much difference between a mil-spec AR15 clone and a weapon that is intended and ready for use in the armed services as you imply, beyond the lack of full-auto capability, so here's your chance to educate us all.
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If they "wanted it bad" they'd be happy to pay for it. High consumption of something that's freely available does not indicate quality or demand. Your mistake is over-valuing the content, as usual.
"If it was shit nobody would bother. It's the contradiction that nobody here ever seems willing to address."
If it's shit, people won't bother paying for it. If people think it's worth the asking price, they will pay it. There is no contradiction, just simple common sense and the most fundamental economics.
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If you post this sort of puerile crap, repeatedly, and still wonder why Mike won't bother with you, you're a moron. Seriously, if you called someone stuff like that to their face, would you also wonder why they punched you? Is this actually how you want to be talked to?
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But it can, and anybody familiar with Twitter and other social media should know that. Perhaps you'll put more than a few seconds of thought into your future attempts to skewer people you think are doing you wrong.
Now that you've realised your mistake and apologised, what are you actively doing to undo the damage you've contributed to?
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This stuff is purely a product of his over-fertile imagination. Unfortunately he combines this with a penchant for verbosity and a lot of free time...
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"Information provided to the STG by OFCANZ said Dotcom had access to weapons and was "exhibiting violence". The file included pictures of Dotcom grinning and holding a shotgun. It also said there was a "reasonable risk of injury or death" to police from Dotcom or those on his property.
Asked if he believed there truly was a risk of death or injury, the sergeant answered "no". "
That photo if Kim holding a shotgun has been floating around the web for years, before he moved to NZ. How it could an indication of anything is beyond me. If that's the rational the police are going to use to escalate from 'a knock on the door' to 'tactical assault', I would be very afraid if I was one of the people featured in the 1,240,000 results you get from typing "grinning holding gun" into Google Images. Even more scary is the 8,710,000 results from "smiling holding gun"!
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No he didn't. Get your facts right before acting like such a jackass.
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How did you not get knocked over by the irony of combining those two claims?
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