Hollywood is trying to educate event organizers. Event organizers are not getting the message.
The lesson for all event organizers: Anyone caught listening to any RIAA music will be ejected and banned from the event. The event organizers do not want the record of their event marred by RIAA label music that will permanently damage or outright destroy recordings of the event.
Eventually people will get the message and stop listening RIAA artists at the event, and hopefully altogether.
When Ice Cream sales are highest, the temperature goes up as a result.
Any idiot can plainly see that the tides obviously cause the moon.
And this...
What's certain is that [piracy] has created a public that is accustomed to viewing content online. We will offer an alternative that is much simpler and immediate than looking for a torrent.
It would be just silly to think that: * People buy ice cream because it is hot outside * The moon causes the tides due to an unseen, odorless, colorless magical force called gravity * The public WANTED online viewing. The lack of anyone providing it led to piracy. So blame Hollywood. (Just like the rise of open source was ultimately caused by Microsoft's crushing monopoly.) They did it to themselves.
It sounds so good. It could even be confused for green.
This fantastic idea works like this.
Your electric utility strikes a deal with a major appliance manufacturer, say ElectroWhiz. ElectroWhiz pays your utility a fee in order for all ElectroWhiz appliances to be zero-rated.
You benefit from your appliances being zero rated because they no longer count against your electricity monthly usage cap. Even better, certain high consumption appliances such as ElectroWhiz clothes dryers, and ElectroWhiz kitchen ranges do not cause your home to get throttled by your electric utility.
You should be happy because you then do not have to move to a higher priced electricity plan that has a higher killowatt-hour per month usage cap.
What could possibly be bad* about this?
* please ignore the ever increasing hidden cost of your appliances
Consider this. If this trend continues, then soon everyone will have encryption that is as strong as the encryption used by the bad guys. That will make everyone a bad guy. Therefore it is better to use genuine Golden Key encryption approved by both Big Brother and our Dear Leader. That way your data will be nice and safe. None of your comrades can read your documents. They can be read only by you, the National Corporation, and anyone possessing a copy of The Golden Key.
Isn't there a rule somewhere that litigation designed to, or litigation tactics designed to increase costs are against the rules? Or misusing the court system?
Any lawyers? I'm just a long time armchair Groklaw reader.
Because: (please check all that apply) (items are conveniently arranged in decreasing order of national importance) [_] Possible leak of information that embarrasses or incriminates rich people [x] Infringement [x] Think of the children [x] Terrorists
The San Bernardino Sheriff's Department . . . never seeks a warrant before deploying Stingrays.
Your honor, we search and seize first. Then if we find anything, we fully and faithfully go through the technicality of obtaining a warrant as required by the 4th amendment.
Don't you think 3D printed guns are like a weapon?
The new 3D printing must be heavily regulated. There are terrible threats to society that you may not have considered.
Here is only one example of the danger. An unregulated 3D printer could be used, in secret, to circumvent Arizona's legal limit of two dildos per household. Regulating 3D printers will help keep us all safe from such dangers.
While that is true that they don't care about the little guy, they may foolishly fail to recognize that digital bits do not recognize the difference between the nobility and the peasants. A cyber pearl harbor might wipe out the wealth of the rich and poor alike. Equal opportunity hacking.
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Re: "DARPA, the wonderful government agency"
We're still a long way off from that.
Google bought Boston Dynamics last year. It is really only the RIAA who should worry about happy polite killer robots.
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Re: As if there's a topic worth mention: Boohoo! You attack copyright everyday!
I would like to watch this YouTube video.
> Just start UNIFORMLY advocating that people
> leave other people's stuff alone.
Like rights holders leaving other people's recorded events alone?
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The lesson to be learned
The lesson for all event organizers: Anyone caught listening to any RIAA music will be ejected and banned from the event. The event organizers do not want the record of their event marred by RIAA label music that will permanently damage or outright destroy recordings of the event.
Eventually people will get the message and stop listening RIAA artists at the event, and hopefully altogether.
On the post: Netflix Says Piracy Helped It Succeed In The Netherlands, And Will Help When It Launches In Spain
Correlation IS Causation
When Ice Cream sales are highest, the temperature goes up as a result.
Any idiot can plainly see that the tides obviously cause the moon.
And this...
It would be just silly to think that:
* People buy ice cream because it is hot outside
* The moon causes the tides due to an unseen, odorless, colorless magical force called gravity
* The public WANTED online viewing. The lack of anyone providing it led to piracy. So blame Hollywood. (Just like the rise of open source was ultimately caused by Microsoft's crushing monopoly.) They did it to themselves.
On the post: AT&T Might Agree To Adhere To Neutrality Rules To Seal Its $49 Billion DirecTV Purchase, But Probably Not
Re: How about Zero Rated electric appliances
Natural gas suppliers, take note. AT&T is paving the way to the future here.
On the post: AT&T Might Agree To Adhere To Neutrality Rules To Seal Its $49 Billion DirecTV Purchase, But Probably Not
How about Zero Rated electric appliances
This fantastic idea works like this.
Your electric utility strikes a deal with a major appliance manufacturer, say ElectroWhiz. ElectroWhiz pays your utility a fee in order for all ElectroWhiz appliances to be zero-rated.
You benefit from your appliances being zero rated because they no longer count against your electricity monthly usage cap. Even better, certain high consumption appliances such as ElectroWhiz clothes dryers, and ElectroWhiz kitchen ranges do not cause your home to get throttled by your electric utility.
You should be happy because you then do not have to move to a higher priced electricity plan that has a higher killowatt-hour per month usage cap.
What could possibly be bad* about this?
* please ignore the ever increasing hidden cost of your appliances
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Re: If this trend continues . . .
On the post: House Overwehelmingly Passes Amendments Blocking Funding For Undermining Encryption
If this trend continues . . .
On the post: City Tries To Silence YouTube Critic By Suing For Copyright Infringement
Doesn't this lawsuit violate FRCP?
Any lawyers? I'm just a long time armchair Groklaw reader.
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Re: Re: Re: Fair Use?
This, despite, I'm sure, the extraordinarily high production quality and special effects used in these five star worthy videos.
On the post: Lawyer Stupidly Sues EFF For Defamation After It Called His Stupid Patent Stupid
Re: Re: Re: It's a sign of a failing patent system
Google for this video: ted talks lesterland
Short summary: the rich people control which candidates you get to vote for long before you ever get to vote.
"I don't care who does the voting as long as I get to do the Nominatin'"
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Re:
On the post: City Tries To Silence YouTube Critic By Suing For Copyright Infringement
Fair Use?
(ducks under desk and hides)
On the post: 'Insert Probable Cause:' Pen Register Boilerplate Hides Sheriff's Department's Hundreds Of Stingray Deployments
Re: Re:
(items are conveniently arranged in decreasing order of national importance)
[_] Possible leak of information that embarrasses or incriminates rich people
[x] Infringement
[x] Think of the children
[x] Terrorists
On the post: As Merger Mania Rises, Cable And Broadband Customer Satisfaction Worse Than Ever
How to interpret the results
and if you hate your ISP, (very likely)
then just realize that Comcast is actually worse than your ISP. You might not have thought it possible, but it really is.
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On the post: Steve Albini Takes On 'Parasitic' Record Labels And Copyright's 'Outdated' Illusion Of Control
Re: Re: Check out this quote
We must continue to encourage online distribution of music until the old exploitative record label model can be made to work for everyone.
On the post: US Government Making Another Attempt To Regulate Code Like It Regulates International Weapons Sales
Re: Why Code Is Not Like A Weapon
The new 3D printing must be heavily regulated. There are terrible threats to society that you may not have considered.
Here is only one example of the danger. An unregulated 3D printer could be used, in secret, to circumvent Arizona's legal limit of two dildos per household. Regulating 3D printers will help keep us all safe from such dangers.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Security Researchers
Hey, man, get with the times. We now have secret courts. It fits the pattern that follows from the spying.
Massive spying on citizens
Secret laws
Secret interpretations of laws
Secret courts
Secret court orders
Secret arrests (in the middle of the night)
Secret evidence (that the defense cannot access)
Secret trials
Secret convictions
Secret incarceration
Widespread police brutality condoned, maybe even encouraged
Government torture programs
Sound like what we were fighting in the previous century?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Security Researchers
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