Consumer outrage will sort it out. Until it doesn't. Because not all outrage in the world prevented things from deteriorating and clowns like Pai spewing foul waste every single time he opens his mouth to talk about important Internet related topics.
Sit tight Netflix, this is going to bite you where it hurts the most: the pockets. Good thing you can survive the bite. But it's going to bleed.
So to have your privacy you'll have to shell some extra money to get a VPN and use protective measures like DNSCrypt from OpenDNS (and their own service on DNS queries). The advertisement industry is out of control.
And honestly, to me all advertising via the Internet has become poison. I avoid clicking ads like the plague and I'm actively using all means to prevent as much tracking and advertising as possible (ublock, Noscript, RequestPolicy, you name it). I actively avoid products that are advertised in ways that are intrusive, targeted. Once this becomes the norm and advertising that way becomes toxic to the companies doing it we will slowly come back to sanity.
If they want war, we the public should give them war. And fund EFF to counter-lobby these morons.
No seriously, the guy is a moron. If there's child abuse of any kind in there and all the employees are participating IT'S FREAKING RIGHT IF ANYBODY PUT A GODDAMN CAMERA AND MAKE THEM PAY.
It's not like you are putting images without consent of normal activity. It's proof of criminal activity and it should stand in court and the ones behind the recording should be fully protected.
Or you don't fly to the countries that implement that bullshit. Not that they aren't taking financial damage with this bs but once it's visible in direct numbers (drop in tourism, business trips, business deals struck with the US etc) this will be scaled back.
Of course once you consider how much is being spent in this futility alone you should get a pretty decent losses number for starters.
And thank god we have the Internet Archive and pirates to protect older content. We've seen how much of old movie titles (for instance) were lost due to deterioration, bad storage and other issues. In a few more decades people will be thanking pirates for their services.
This is all pure BS but that's just repeating the obvious and tired argument. So I'll leave that to others and ask one thing: what if you left the US to one of those countries (say, to cover some news) and then you come back after a few days? Is there any mention to those cases or it's just a blunt ban?
You don't need specific cyberstalking laws to deal with it. The guy had all the intents to harm Kurt and having a friend who suffers from seizures I can tell it can be deadly yes. It's no joke. If you try to kill or physically harm someone, doesn't matter the means, it's a crime regardless of cyberstalking laws.
My only issue is that instead of seeing this, these awful laws will be praised as the ones that solved the whole thing. And down we go in the slippery slope.
Emulators should be fully legal. And the games should be automatically on public domain if they can't be found for sale for a working, supported platform. Simple as that. If the company isn't bothering to keep it on sale then why should it get any protections? And why should I be prohibited from running my legally purchased things in an emulator (and I already do it with PS2 games)?
When copyright law respects me I will start respecting it.
Quixotic yes. Costly? Certainly. Was the burden of all legal costs placed under the company? If not it should. Make these morons think twice before going nuclear.
The moment laws are tweaked to foster competition by strictly permitting new entrants to use public networks, easily deal with utility poles, let the Governments pursue municipal/public networks if their constituents so wish, enforce net neutrality principles.... etc, this will be solved. Don't expect evolution in the next 4 years at best. Forever at worst.
And who chooses what should be preserved? You? No thanks. I'd rather have as much as possible preserved so I will be able to enjoy what you don't believe that is art but I do.
"The majority also pointed out the government can violate the First Amendment in the interest of national security, and that this court in particular seemed inclined to let it."
This is the same as not having these Constitutional rights in the first place. If the Government can use the "national security" excuse to trample such basic rights then just put the Constitution in the shredder and stop pretending to care. This is what a totalitarian state is like. If you are planning to go down that route stop criticizing Venezuela, China, North Korea and so on.
Previous generations were dumb enough that we could fool them into accepting anything to be 'patriots'.
So in the end he is actually praising the millenials. Too bad the ones from the previous generations made sure the millenials (and everybody afterwards) would be thoroughly screwed and excluded from their 'we have the power and the money' club.
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Sit tight Netflix, this is going to bite you where it hurts the most: the pockets. Good thing you can survive the bite. But it's going to bleed.
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And honestly, to me all advertising via the Internet has become poison. I avoid clicking ads like the plague and I'm actively using all means to prevent as much tracking and advertising as possible (ublock, Noscript, RequestPolicy, you name it). I actively avoid products that are advertised in ways that are intrusive, targeted. Once this becomes the norm and advertising that way becomes toxic to the companies doing it we will slowly come back to sanity.
If they want war, we the public should give them war. And fund EFF to counter-lobby these morons.
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It's not like you are putting images without consent of normal activity. It's proof of criminal activity and it should stand in court and the ones behind the recording should be fully protected.
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"Defendant-who-shall-not-be-named A and Defendant-who-shall-not-be-named B hereby ask the court..."
He-who-must-not-be-named from a determined wizardry-series-that-shall-not-be-named would be proud.
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Of course once you consider how much is being spent in this futility alone you should get a pretty decent losses number for starters.
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My only issue is that instead of seeing this, these awful laws will be praised as the ones that solved the whole thing. And down we go in the slippery slope.
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Silly. The solution is to write worse laws. It's cheaper than upgrading the network.
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When copyright law respects me I will start respecting it.
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This is the same as not having these Constitutional rights in the first place. If the Government can use the "national security" excuse to trample such basic rights then just put the Constitution in the shredder and stop pretending to care. This is what a totalitarian state is like. If you are planning to go down that route stop criticizing Venezuela, China, North Korea and so on.
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So in the end he is actually praising the millenials. Too bad the ones from the previous generations made sure the millenials (and everybody afterwards) would be thoroughly screwed and excluded from their 'we have the power and the money' club.
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