"If this were 1776, Comey would of course be going after Thomas Paine, for publishing "revolution porn", and not being a real journalist."
While it's awesome and accurate, the cognitive dissonance people in power have today is so incredibly bad they can't relate their tyrannical actions with historical events where they would be the villains.
Upton Sinclair. That's all the wisdom need here. And heck, we are talking about a guy who thinks frying bacon on the barrel of a machine-gun is fun. God bless America.
1- Whine about going dark 2- have backdoors mandated in security by law 3- have the magic key be either discovered the hard way or stolen/leaked 4- watch mayhem ensue because the thing is installed in the infrastructure level and is hard to remove or replace 5- ??? 6- profit?
It's easier to understand if you think about anti-piracy efforts as a huge industry designed to take money that would go to the artists and inject into other pockets while pretending to do something. That's why there's so much whining and crying whenever anyone tries to make copyright slightly more open. Think of leeches except for the fact that leeches actually have an important role in the ecosystems they are part of.
Even Russians could simply buy some hosting with unlimited bw (or the bw they tend to use monthly) in some international service and set up a vpn using open source stuff. It's dirty easy these days (compared to, say, 2000). I wonder what they will do with this kind of workaround. I'd infer it's happening in China for ages already.
If they were more transparent and offered more tools to control how the data flows through their services it would be a non-issue. If companies in general weren't so eager to inject ads into our brains regardless of the costs involved (including those involving money) people wouldn't be that up in arms about privacy. If governments were less surveillance happy people would be less concerned about their data being shared and all.
That's many ifs. Too bad the damage is done and now the costs to the companies and to the governments (again, including financial) is much higher than if they hadn't abused the peoples in the first place.
Who would have told you can compete with piracy eh? The MAFIAA is creating their own demise by charging prohibitive fees on their content. Netflix decided the best course of action was to produce their own content and eventually be able to ditch the MAFIAA. Just another one of their (the MAFIAA) frequent bad moves that just haven't killed them because they still have copyright to protect their failed business model.
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That's one of the most important aspects of this issue. I'd go even further though. Countries like China could use the technology to rewrite history as they please. The implication of technologies that allow the production of full videos with voice and all that are very hard to distinguish from reality can have very real and devastating consequences. One more reason to doubt everything unless there's a way to trace the 'supply chain' of the thing. Maybe we are entering an era of zero trust. Which may be a good thing since people will try to develop systems that don't rely on trust to operate and produce reliable, trustworthy results (CAs came to mind instantly because they are already living that trust crisis).
"Additionally, reports have speculated that AmoGood downloads the source films illegally, since he's able to produce the parodies so quickly after their box office debut."
Creative person: Hey MAFIAA, can I have a sample video of your movie so I can make an insanely funny parody that will most likely get viral and drive more viewers to it? MAFIAA: Sure! If you need further assistance or some nod from us in the social media just say it.
Not. In. The. Next. Millennia. Of course he'd need to either pirate or draw in crayon. In a sane world he'd be able to request some footage to the studio to get his job done but in our world he's charged and possibly arrested. For life if the MAFIAA has its way.
So we have plenty, PLENTY of examples of the Governments abusing powers that have no practical bounds, even when there are laws and constitutions that should prevent such abuses. The issue is actually that this is not going to stop and new laws and restrictions on the govt aren't going to do shit about it. So, knowing that much, how do you stop govt abuse?
"Hopefully Rivkin will be more forward-looking, and will recognize that (1) the public and (2) the internet are not enemies of the movie industry."
That AC beat me but heck you could have asked for leprechauns and unicorns as well! Kim Jong-un turning DPRK into a democracy seems more feasible to me.
I don't know about you but NSA has a long history of lying and ignoring the US Constitution and laws. So you'd excuse me if I said I don't believe them and that we should keep proceeding as if they have full access to the internet backbone. Encrypt everything you believe to be sensitive and take steps to mask your metadata.
Anomalies of course. Maybe go the Kenyan (was it Kenya?) route and scrap the agency and replace it with something equal hoping it's going to work this time?
An thus we are living exactly what he predicted, 176 years later. The man was a prophet. Or simply sane. I'll gladly reproduce the prophecy below and give it first word. The MAFIAA has been shooting themselves in the feet for decades now and people couldn't care less with copyright.
" ... Sir, of the kindness with which the House has listened to me, that I will not detain you longer. I will only say this, that if the measure before us should pass, and should produce one tenth part of the evil which it is calculated to produce, and which I fully expect it to produce, there will soon be a remedy, though of a very objectionable kind. Just as the absurd Acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue Acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will this law be virtually repealed by piratical booksellers.
At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as “Robinson Crusoe” or the “Pilgrim’s Progress” shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich for the advantage of the great-grandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress? Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
"They claimed, falsely, that copyright creates 5 million jobs"
Silly him, obviously copyright is responsible for ALL JOBS EVER CREATED. Bear with me for a moment.
Let's think planes. Artists have to travel, mafia members.. ahem, studio and label personnel too so obviously companies like United, Delta, Emirates and others exist because of copyright. That in turn mean that airplane makers exist only because of copyright and the supply chain behind them (raw materials, steel boards, wires, electric circuits) also exist because of copyright. I'm not even talking about Google because nobody searches for anything except copyrighted content produced by the mafia.. Er, Hollywood and the Great American Creative Sector (tm). So obviously ISPs exist because of copyright and.. You got my point.
The conclusion is fairly obvious: every single job in existence is there because of copyright. Before copyright existed? There were just dumb apes swinging around and eating bananas. I have proclaimed the truth. An Masnick is a Google shill.
FCC boss does something incredibly harmful to consumers but awesome to his paying bosses (not the citizens, the corporations, they pay more). In another news water is wet, the sun is hot and money buys almost anything.
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While it's awesome and accurate, the cognitive dissonance people in power have today is so incredibly bad they can't relate their tyrannical actions with historical events where they would be the villains.
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2- have backdoors mandated in security by law
3- have the magic key be either discovered the hard way or stolen/leaked
4- watch mayhem ensue because the thing is installed in the infrastructure level and is hard to remove or replace
5- ???
6- profit?
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Re: Just... how?
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That's many ifs. Too bad the damage is done and now the costs to the companies and to the governments (again, including financial) is much higher than if they hadn't abused the peoples in the first place.
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Creative person: Hey MAFIAA, can I have a sample video of your movie so I can make an insanely funny parody that will most likely get viral and drive more viewers to it?
MAFIAA: Sure! If you need further assistance or some nod from us in the social media just say it.
Not. In. The. Next. Millennia. Of course he'd need to either pirate or draw in crayon. In a sane world he'd be able to request some footage to the studio to get his job done but in our world he's charged and possibly arrested. For life if the MAFIAA has its way.
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I'm not talking about the dude impregnating the chic.
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That AC beat me but heck you could have asked for leprechauns and unicorns as well! Kim Jong-un turning DPRK into a democracy seems more feasible to me.
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Prophet
" ... Sir, of the kindness with which the House has listened to me, that I will not detain you longer. I will only say this, that if the measure before us should pass, and should produce one tenth part of the evil which it is calculated to produce, and which I fully expect it to produce, there will soon be a remedy, though of a very objectionable kind. Just as the absurd Acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue Acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will this law be virtually repealed by piratical booksellers.
At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as “Robinson Crusoe” or the “Pilgrim’s Progress” shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich for the advantage of the great-grandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress? Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living."
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Silly him, obviously copyright is responsible for ALL JOBS EVER CREATED. Bear with me for a moment.
Let's think planes. Artists have to travel, mafia members.. ahem, studio and label personnel too so obviously companies like United, Delta, Emirates and others exist because of copyright. That in turn mean that airplane makers exist only because of copyright and the supply chain behind them (raw materials, steel boards, wires, electric circuits) also exist because of copyright. I'm not even talking about Google because nobody searches for anything except copyrighted content produced by the mafia.. Er, Hollywood and the Great American Creative Sector (tm). So obviously ISPs exist because of copyright and.. You got my point.
The conclusion is fairly obvious: every single job in existence is there because of copyright. Before copyright existed? There were just dumb apes swinging around and eating bananas. I have proclaimed the truth. An Masnick is a Google shill.
Ahem.
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