Note he is ripping so he actually can watch it with his equipment. He's being blocked from watching legally purchased blu-rays in his legally owned equipment. And the MAFIAA and their minions wonder why people gave them the middle finger and went piracy. I've never bought a blu-ray and never will exactly because of this kind of bullshit.
It's kind of funny if you think about it. The phrase "The millennials are coming" is currently being received by the MAFIAA with terror when it should be received with delight. They can get more money by offering it to more people at a time but they are stuck wanting to get awesome profits per unit. This is obviously going to fail in the long term when you consider digital goods.
My thoughts. Keep bricking the new stupid iot thing they buy until they stop buying crappy products. I do believe issuing patches would be much, much better but how do you do it for each and every model out there? If you can brick them all with standard commands then just do it and hurt these bad companies in their pockets by destroying customer trust.
It could be nice if they could show a message to the user warning them they bought crap and that this is the reason the thing is being wasted.
I'd say that making storage, transmission and general data manipulation security mandatory, disclosure of what data could be collected for the device to do its basic task (ie: toasters making toasts should collect no data while self-driving vehicles need all sorts of environment data to self-drive) and make further data collection than that basic strictly opt-in could be nice obligations that wouldn't cause any harm to innovation. The way the bill has been crafted is completely flawed but I'd argue we need strong laws to protect everybody from the INEPT.
Maybe we should remove the definition of murder from the dictionary and prevent people from using the word murder. It'll surely prevent all murder-y activity once it's done, right, right? Or even better, the Govt can use their own magic dictionary of secret interpretations and simply create another official meaning. I suggest using the same meaning as love for added effectivity.
"I murder you honey!" "Aw, how sweet!" And everybody lived happily ever after in a positively word-that-shall-not-be-mentioned world!
The thing is, these 'paid regulations' will still be valid after this document exposed they are the polar opposite of something that represents the people and seeks balance and general welfare. Much like the telco sector. When it's revealed that private companies or groups are working in some promiscuous partnership with the government to screw others from doing their magic via laws and regulation then said laws and regulation should be rendered invalid until there's a public discussion over them.
The strategy is so effective that the losers are the ones that try to compete in the market instead of hiring lobbyists and most companies start going the political entrepreneurship once they get more mature. This can only be bad in the long term.
That's why they have to fight tooth and nail against laws, regulations or the repeal of both that would enable more competition. If the market becomes truly competitive Crapcast and friends would quickly go bankrupt.
With AI getting better and better you could also add some sort of teaching to the mix letting the user show the blocker which bits are annoyances further improving it.
Fact is, advertisers brought it upon themselves with more and more intrusive, obnoxious ads. Now they are heaping what they have sown.
I do agree with you but if it was built with such feature (and anything that has an auto-update option can be 'bricked remotely') then just bring it down. If not, make a recall and get fined for every single item that's not returned.
"To give them the space to crush us with misappropriated secrets is a perversion of what our great Constitution stands for."
I don't think you understand what the Constitution stands for, totalitarian sir. Giving people to express their opinions and to shine light over shady government practices while being protected for doing so is what the Constitution stands for. And believe me, I think you are part of a hostile intelligence service and that you are spewing utter bullshit but contrary to you I don't think you should be silenced. Actually, I'm exercising my free speech rights to call you on your bullshit.
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It could be nice if they could show a message to the user warning them they bought crap and that this is the reason the thing is being wasted.
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Browse around. Merely being in one of the five eyes is already hostile enough in my opinion (or THE eye..)
Of course it depends on your goal. It's not a deal breaker for me considering my activities and their other strong points.
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*sound of head exploding*
And the troll met his tragic, explode-y end.
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"I murder you honey!"
"Aw, how sweet!"
And everybody lived happily ever after in a positively word-that-shall-not-be-mentioned world!
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The strategy is so effective that the losers are the ones that try to compete in the market instead of hiring lobbyists and most companies start going the political entrepreneurship once they get more mature. This can only be bad in the long term.
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Fact is, advertisers brought it upon themselves with more and more intrusive, obnoxious ads. Now they are heaping what they have sown.
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I don't think you understand what the Constitution stands for, totalitarian sir. Giving people to express their opinions and to shine light over shady government practices while being protected for doing so is what the Constitution stands for. And believe me, I think you are part of a hostile intelligence service and that you are spewing utter bullshit but contrary to you I don't think you should be silenced. Actually, I'm exercising my free speech rights to call you on your bullshit.
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