There's only one troll calling him an apologist in the last few threads. It's been you after people have shown you repeatedly that you're lying out your ass. So there's really no more of a point in talking to you since all you're going to do is keep pulling up the same crap line about how Mike's a pirate.
"So the solution to our monetary and other problems isn't 'bitcoin' or 'digital money', it's a having a reasonable non-oppressive government. There is no easy solution, we still need to go out there and protest, vote, assemble, keep ourselves informed, etc.."
I believe a look at who would oppose bitcoin is more telling than how the government might oppose it. Sure, they can try to buy more bitcoins, increasing the value. Just the same that people can buy more gold and it raises the value.
I believe the ones opposed are the ones tied to the current system of borrowing money, ie the Federal Reserve Bank. Otherwise, bitcoins sound pretty good to use and I just don't understand how the government could even know what your money is without infringing on your rights to privacy and anonymity.
Which is actually a false claim. Having talked to a few people that have moved on to other sites, NV had an app made by Matt, but the content was still from Megavideo and other third party sites.
"2. They had direct, specific knowledge that the material was infringing;"
They had a working relationship with third parties to find good links. There's a few other sites with a similar set up where people uploaded content for streaming.
"3. They personally facilitated the uploading of content, even obtaining the content in the first place."
I'm not sure on this, but one of the things that was said is that they had a team that found content and "verified it". I believe Torrentfreak knew more of NV before the raid, trying to warn them of what was going on.
"4. At least according to the indictment, the infringing materials were hosted on NinjaVideo's servers; they weren't just providing links to third party sites."
A huge thing to note here. Did they follow DMCA protocol? How can we know? How can ICE know? Not trying to justify or condemn what they did, but it seems that through all of the talk, we don't know why they were targeted save for the fact that they are smaller than Google. Also, given that there are two people left that are face with arraignment (since one is in Greece, who has no extradition contracts with the US) I would wait to see what happens as the plea deals are used to coerce them.
"If it was only me, well, then we would have something. How many people has Mike chased away with scathing comments, rudeness, and insults? More than a few."
... They've chased him away from commenting...
On his own blog which provides new content for free every day...
"What FOIA? Did Masnick file one on these cases as well. Someone has to file a FOIA, they don't just happen. Is you're so interested why don't you do it."
The rule explained nothing. It didn't explain how they could misinterpret the law, the length by which they had to charge or indict, how this assists with the seizure, what rules were used for the domain seizures or anything.
If you want an apology for smoke and mirrors, this rule does nothing for it. It's sad that an open court has to figure this stuff out because even the law is vague about the rules for prior restraint.
So you don't have anything to say but attacks on a person's character. Bravo, coward, for doing nothing to add to intelligent conversations and trolling for all you're worth. You get one free internet cookie from me.
"Honestly, Mike has in the past made some of the most scathing and personal attacks in Techdirt history, so he gets back the respect he gives to others."
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"More over, because Mike plays the weasel word game, and tries to act like things aren't his opinion, just those of others. Yet he posts and defends them like his own, until the cracks appear. Then suddenly it's "not his opinion"."
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It's not my bias. You want to have your own foglights on, feel free. But damn is it annoying when you seem to always go on and on about "pirate Mike" trying to disparage his position when you could be a lot better at building up your own.
They began a preliminary motion, that was an injunction for how long agains the domains? Where's the end date on this?
Then where is the "specific facts in an affidavit or a verified complaint clearly show that immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to the movant before the adverse party can be heard in opposition"?
Not like the sites were going anywhere or being shut down. And when have the sites been heard? In a year and a half since these take downs?
Further looking into this why has no information come out about the seizures, particularly Ninjavideo and TVShack when the FOIA Act was supposed to reveal information about them?
Obviously, it's another amount of smoke and mirrors. You've been quite good at saying all of this depends on just one Rule of law. That just opens more questions than answers.
"Why you ignore the aspect of cutting off the flow of money (ad networks and payment processors) eludes me. And you also assume a large percentage of opportunistic infringers will use technical work arounds to access sites that are delisted from search engines. I don't see it. "
That's right, you don't see how they've been given no due process to answer the crimes either.
"You are utterly clueless. What happens when one of these sites gets a DMCA takedown notice? They ignore it. So then what?"
Have any proof of DMCA takedown notices ignored? Oh wait, the site is down. Guess not.
You see, that's "Drive bye". Once you deflate his argument, he drives up to you, insults you, without so much as a good bye. He does this in a lot of threads and I find it absolutely hilarious. Hence, the nickname "Drive bye"
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Have there been any verifications of that, chief?
Herp a derp.
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I believe a look at who would oppose bitcoin is more telling than how the government might oppose it. Sure, they can try to buy more bitcoins, increasing the value. Just the same that people can buy more gold and it raises the value.
I believe the ones opposed are the ones tied to the current system of borrowing money, ie the Federal Reserve Bank. Otherwise, bitcoins sound pretty good to use and I just don't understand how the government could even know what your money is without infringing on your rights to privacy and anonymity.
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Which is actually a false claim. Having talked to a few people that have moved on to other sites, NV had an app made by Matt, but the content was still from Megavideo and other third party sites.
"2. They had direct, specific knowledge that the material was infringing;"
They had a working relationship with third parties to find good links. There's a few other sites with a similar set up where people uploaded content for streaming.
"3. They personally facilitated the uploading of content, even obtaining the content in the first place."
I'm not sure on this, but one of the things that was said is that they had a team that found content and "verified it". I believe Torrentfreak knew more of NV before the raid, trying to warn them of what was going on.
"4. At least according to the indictment, the infringing materials were hosted on NinjaVideo's servers; they weren't just providing links to third party sites."
A huge thing to note here. Did they follow DMCA protocol? How can we know? How can ICE know? Not trying to justify or condemn what they did, but it seems that through all of the talk, we don't know why they were targeted save for the fact that they are smaller than Google. Also, given that there are two people left that are face with arraignment (since one is in Greece, who has no extradition contracts with the US) I would wait to see what happens as the plea deals are used to coerce them.
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... They've chased him away from commenting...
On his own blog which provides new content for free every day...
You really aren't making a lot of sense here...
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They have been filed. 6 months, 2 weeks and counting
"At least now you know what Rule 65 is."
The rule explained nothing. It didn't explain how they could misinterpret the law, the length by which they had to charge or indict, how this assists with the seizure, what rules were used for the domain seizures or anything.
If you want an apology for smoke and mirrors, this rule does nothing for it. It's sad that an open court has to figure this stuff out because even the law is vague about the rules for prior restraint.
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AC does not read...
Alright, do what you want man. The record shows the three links in blue and your ignorance doesn't allow you to actually read the contents.
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[citation needed]
"More over, because Mike plays the weasel word game, and tries to act like things aren't his opinion, just those of others. Yet he posts and defends them like his own, until the cracks appear. Then suddenly it's "not his opinion"."
[citation needed]
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Finally, a few Google searches, would help you go a lot further than your Boy crying wolf routine.
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They began a preliminary motion, that was an injunction for how long agains the domains? Where's the end date on this?
Then where is the "specific facts in an affidavit or a verified complaint clearly show that immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to the movant before the adverse party can be heard in opposition"?
Not like the sites were going anywhere or being shut down. And when have the sites been heard? In a year and a half since these take downs?
Further looking into this why has no information come out about the seizures, particularly Ninjavideo and TVShack when the FOIA Act was supposed to reveal information about them?
Obviously, it's another amount of smoke and mirrors. You've been quite good at saying all of this depends on just one Rule of law. That just opens more questions than answers.
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That's right, you don't see how they've been given no due process to answer the crimes either.
"You are utterly clueless. What happens when one of these sites gets a DMCA takedown notice? They ignore it. So then what?"
Have any proof of DMCA takedown notices ignored? Oh wait, the site is down. Guess not.
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