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Please explain to me the Master Plan, because I can't fathom how this helps America at all.
it probably has to do with some sort of "great firewall of china" scheme or some sort of blocklist to prevent access to certain domains, both of which are easily circumvented.
i say let them keep doing it. this does nothing to prevent piracy and everything to make the content industries and the american government appear corrupt. the more frustration and distrust these actions foster, the less this will be about getting free music and the more it will be about building the tools for dissent.
You may call anonymous "unstructured", but like anything it has it's leaders and it's followers.
not really. anonymous is a form of leaderless resistance. the point is that there is no central or hierarchical leadership.
al-qaeda has evolved into such a structure.
It's the ideas of a small number of people and a large number of "yeah, good idea" types following along. Take out the small number of people with the ideas (and the balls to use them) and you have are left with a collection of people with not direction and no power.
yeah, the central idea is really simple: get pissed at someone, tell people to download loic and go nuts, rinse and repeat.
these aren't sophisticated attacks perpetrated by skilled hackers. this is literally less than a dozen lines of code and maybe a thread pool.
i've done it by accident using the wrong options for wget.
it's easier than filesharing, and like filesharing, you'd have to go house to house and shoot people to put a stop to it.
The phenomenon speaks to the power of building a community. People keep coming back to the Facebook community even though the Facebook company makes everyone angry on a regular basis.
Basically, it is between community and platform. Facebook allows you to create a dashboard of your friends and to share links, chit-chat, etc. Of course Facebook does not do that out of the goodness of its heart, it is a profit maximisation company. What they say is: “I make the platform, you use it and in exchange I will sell your eyeballs to advertisers and I know so much about you that I can compete with traditional advertising”. If you are Facebook, [and] if you do not enable and empower sharing and cooperation nobody is coming; at the same time, if you do not protect some aspects of this platform that you can sell as a scarcity... that is not going to work either. You always have to find a balance between the sharing/empowering part and the control part...This is the tension that we have today, this is ‘class struggle 3.0’, between user communities and platform owners, between value creators and value realizers.
First of all, the Democrats were targeting states where they needed to focus future campaign efforts. Palin's map targeted individuals, and did so after the voters could have any impact on the legislation mentioned in the graphic.
OMFG libtard, the dems want someone to shoot entire states and you think that's fine? that's genocide!
But our culture values original artwork less and less.
our culture is evolving past broadcast media (TV, radio, film, etc.) where consumers passively observe mostly original works.
what our culture is moving toward is a more participatory medium where people are doing things with the media they see and hear.
look at how internet memes are born and spread. this is an example of how the creation process, rather than the finished work, is the emphasis. the end result isn't "my original comic is great", instead it's "hey guys i made a rage comic about us!" or "since we're all talking about this event, here's a comic!" and it's funny, not because it's a good comic, or because it's original, but because it is meaningful to a group of people.
I wonder if Masnick would tell all grocery stores to drop their "obsolete business practices" because of their losses from shoplifting...
if grocery stores sold a product that it was effortless to steal and the risk of getting caught was so low that it was considered risk free, then yes i would strongly encourage a grocery to stop selling that product.
recorded media is a product that is effortless to obtain illegally, the illegal product is vastly superior in quality, features, and convenience when compared to the legal variety, and it gets distributed on a global scale by people with practically zero chance of being punished.
why on earth is anyone still selling recorded media?
amazing, yes, blame it on the major content providers for dragging their feet on a new scheme that is supposed to put them out of business !!!
that's called the innovator's dilemma: do i cannibalize my own business now to stay ahead of changes in the market, or do i continue to do what is profitable now and risk being pushed out of the market by a new innovation.
one answer to the innovator's dilemma is that it's always better to be the first mover.
Marcus, all of that is stuff that you could easily program a computer to do, do well, and without issue.
yes you can program a computer to create art, it's called generative art and a small portion of it is awesome.
it works like growing a flower: you skillfully tend the creation process, but the finished product is not something that you created. in that regard you are more like a horticulturalist.
gardening may not be art, but people think it's cool and it doesn't hurt anyone, so people should be allowed to do it.
there's also circuit bending, glitch art, and all sort of other experimental shit out there that people are making from existing things. the result is stuff that people like creating and sharing.
Sorry, not seeing the art here. Playing other people's recorded music and mixing it nicely is a skill, but so is tying your shoes or doing long division. It's hard to tell the difference, because both require nothing new, just a set of rote skills.
there's nothing wrong with being out of touch. you don't get it, that's fine. they still make mainstream media for folks like you. you're going to be fine.
a bunch of legacy industries are also out of touch as well. the problem is the steps being taken to prop up all of this crumbling stuff affects people's ability to create things that people value.
I understand electronic music just fine. I also understand what an existing recorded performance is: someone else's work...Sorry, just saying "you don't understand electronic music" is a major cop out, and admission that you see no value in the work of others.
of course i value other people's work: all the music i listen to is made from someone else's work. saying i don't is also a cop out.
i think you're confusing the finished product with the creation process. a mixtape from a DJ is a demonstration of the DJ's ability to cut and mix. no one for a minute thinks that a club mix or a mashup is an original compilation. the artistry isn't in the originality, but in the transformation. no one listens to "you humped me all night long" and says "wow that DJ mei wun is a hell of a guitar player!"
you don't get where the artistic value lies, so you are calling it infringement. go ahead. it's not going to change anything.
you not seeing the value of a remix culture doesn't change it's value any more than my hating country music or reality television changes their respective values.
music mixes get made anyway and the damage done by a club DJ to the people they sample is non-existent.
the music that made up 'the good old days' of rock and roll was 'stolen' too. white rock n' roll was 'stolen' from black blues artists who stole from folk songs. james brown stole tunes from africa, and every time an 80's song, which is a remake from the 60's gets sampled into some hip hop song, the end result is more art which is always a good thing and never a bad thing.
I can put a needle on a turntable and play someone else's music. Does that make me an artist? I can capture a sample and retrigger it to play. Does that make me an artist? I can duplicate a CD. Does that make me an artist?
if i consider your finished product to have artistic value, then yes. others will disagree. if you like creating it, then you should create it and share it. if people like it something cool could happen. if people hate it nothing bad will happen, so there's really no reason to not create and distribute.
it's not, but even if it was, it doesn't matter. you can't stop it. piracy is a fact of life and there's not a damn thing that you or anyone else can do to stop it.
if you don't like your movies being pirated, then stop making them. if you're not prepared to stop making movies, then crying about piracy won't do you any good.
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not paying your due to a large multi-national corporation is a form of piracy.
Eating before going to a movie theater is cheating the theater out of money you might have otherwise spent on popcorn.
yes, it's food piracy.
Giving food to the homeless is depriving food vendors of the money they might have gotten from the homeless.
more food piracy.
Letting a friend crash on your couch is depriving a motel of the money they would have made renting out a room.
bed piracy.
The service they are paying for is the same whether it's 3 neighbors using the access or 10 people who live in the same house using the access.
but the difference is 3 vs. 10 counts of wifi piracy.
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it probably has to do with some sort of "great firewall of china" scheme or some sort of blocklist to prevent access to certain domains, both of which are easily circumvented.
i say let them keep doing it. this does nothing to prevent piracy and everything to make the content industries and the american government appear corrupt. the more frustration and distrust these actions foster, the less this will be about getting free music and the more it will be about building the tools for dissent.
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yeah, that always works. thanks to operation sundevil no one hacks computers anymore.
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not really. anonymous is a form of leaderless resistance. the point is that there is no central or hierarchical leadership.
al-qaeda has evolved into such a structure.
It's the ideas of a small number of people and a large number of "yeah, good idea" types following along. Take out the small number of people with the ideas (and the balls to use them) and you have are left with a collection of people with not direction and no power.
yeah, the central idea is really simple: get pissed at someone, tell people to download loic and go nuts, rinse and repeat.
these aren't sophisticated attacks perpetrated by skilled hackers. this is literally less than a dozen lines of code and maybe a thread pool.
i've done it by accident using the wrong options for wget.
it's easier than filesharing, and like filesharing, you'd have to go house to house and shoot people to put a stop to it.
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it's like a new form of class struggle:
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ubuntu desktop might, but there are many more varieties of linux.
debian doesn't ship with firefox.
a lot of KDE based distros ship with konqueror instead of or in addition to firefox.
lightweight distros like DSL and puppy ship with dillo.
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OMFG libtard, the dems want someone to shoot entire states and you think that's fine? that's genocide!
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the birther movement is a false flag operation to distract the electorate from the fact that obama is a cactus.
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our culture is evolving past broadcast media (TV, radio, film, etc.) where consumers passively observe mostly original works.
what our culture is moving toward is a more participatory medium where people are doing things with the media they see and hear.
look at how internet memes are born and spread. this is an example of how the creation process, rather than the finished work, is the emphasis. the end result isn't "my original comic is great", instead it's "hey guys i made a rage comic about us!" or "since we're all talking about this event, here's a comic!" and it's funny, not because it's a good comic, or because it's original, but because it is meaningful to a group of people.
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if grocery stores sold a product that it was effortless to steal and the risk of getting caught was so low that it was considered risk free, then yes i would strongly encourage a grocery to stop selling that product.
recorded media is a product that is effortless to obtain illegally, the illegal product is vastly superior in quality, features, and convenience when compared to the legal variety, and it gets distributed on a global scale by people with practically zero chance of being punished.
why on earth is anyone still selling recorded media?
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see also: hackerspaces
helping to build one in cincinnati has helped me learn all sorts of things about electronics and the local community.
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that's called the innovator's dilemma: do i cannibalize my own business now to stay ahead of changes in the market, or do i continue to do what is profitable now and risk being pushed out of the market by a new innovation.
one answer to the innovator's dilemma is that it's always better to be the first mover.
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and that's the royalty groups' problem, not mine.
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yes you can program a computer to create art, it's called generative art and a small portion of it is awesome.
it works like growing a flower: you skillfully tend the creation process, but the finished product is not something that you created. in that regard you are more like a horticulturalist.
gardening may not be art, but people think it's cool and it doesn't hurt anyone, so people should be allowed to do it.
there's also circuit bending, glitch art, and all sort of other experimental shit out there that people are making from existing things. the result is stuff that people like creating and sharing.
Sorry, not seeing the art here. Playing other people's recorded music and mixing it nicely is a skill, but so is tying your shoes or doing long division. It's hard to tell the difference, because both require nothing new, just a set of rote skills.
there's nothing wrong with being out of touch. you don't get it, that's fine. they still make mainstream media for folks like you. you're going to be fine.
a bunch of legacy industries are also out of touch as well. the problem is the steps being taken to prop up all of this crumbling stuff affects people's ability to create things that people value.
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of course i value other people's work: all the music i listen to is made from someone else's work. saying i don't is also a cop out.
i think you're confusing the finished product with the creation process. a mixtape from a DJ is a demonstration of the DJ's ability to cut and mix. no one for a minute thinks that a club mix or a mashup is an original compilation. the artistry isn't in the originality, but in the transformation. no one listens to "you humped me all night long" and says "wow that DJ mei wun is a hell of a guitar player!"
you don't get where the artistic value lies, so you are calling it infringement. go ahead. it's not going to change anything.
you not seeing the value of a remix culture doesn't change it's value any more than my hating country music or reality television changes their respective values.
music mixes get made anyway and the damage done by a club DJ to the people they sample is non-existent.
the music that made up 'the good old days' of rock and roll was 'stolen' too. white rock n' roll was 'stolen' from black blues artists who stole from folk songs. james brown stole tunes from africa, and every time an 80's song, which is a remake from the 60's gets sampled into some hip hop song, the end result is more art which is always a good thing and never a bad thing.
I can put a needle on a turntable and play someone else's music. Does that make me an artist? I can capture a sample and retrigger it to play. Does that make me an artist? I can duplicate a CD. Does that make me an artist?
if i consider your finished product to have artistic value, then yes. others will disagree. if you like creating it, then you should create it and share it. if people like it something cool could happen. if people hate it nothing bad will happen, so there's really no reason to not create and distribute.
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it's not, but even if it was, it doesn't matter. you can't stop it. piracy is a fact of life and there's not a damn thing that you or anyone else can do to stop it.
if you don't like your movies being pirated, then stop making them. if you're not prepared to stop making movies, then crying about piracy won't do you any good.
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i like to think of it as a tax on being old and retarded.
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all social network sites have private options.
yeah, but that involves changing the settings from their defaults.
it's hard you know, clicking. and thinking.
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i have wondered something similar: kinetic weapons are supposed to blow things up without explosives, but i don't see how that works.
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