while i know it bucks the trends, i kind of have to begrudgingly give this one to the trolls & morons... and heres why:
in 1994, consumer users base vs. educational/governmental user bases were ~2:1. around 1994 the financial institutions were just then getting an online presence. w3c was founded in 1994... hell, time even had a front cover called "the strange new world of the internet".
the point in all that is that it was a very new concept. and while yes, it would have been great to say that every facet of the government would have already had access to the interet, this *IS* the federal US government we are talking about here. the government moves at a pace that makes snails look pretty damn zippy. besides, it was NEW. very very NEW. the internet has been around long enough by now and how many times do we see politicians sticking their foot in their collective mouths and their general complete lack of understanding of something thats been a fundamental of the majority of people for the last 10 years?
i dont like a single bit of it... but in this case i understand it and when set in its proper context, its not as bad as it sounds.
and dear trolls (you know who you are) please diaf... kthxbye
in a capitalist economy there can be no such thing as the end of monopolies entirely.
it is not now, nor will it ever be near so far as capitalism is running.
now if you take that away, then perhaps you may be right but only if you also alter the definition of monopoly but really, if the government controls all commerce is that not also a monopoly? we dont call it that, but once you strip out all the nuances to its basic foundations... its pretty much still a monopoly.
Over the last few weeks, you have been slammed by the publiic for your ham-fisted overreaches which you like to call SOPA and PIPA. The amount of public pushback only surprised you as you obviously believe that with large amounts of money dedicated to such lofty goals as lobbying, you get to write all the rules and the public be damned which motivates us to respond to you with a mass wave of the "one fingered salute".
We have attempted to open discourse with you and your colleages several times over the last few years through several means about these and related issues. We would be happy to give you a formal presentation followed by an open discussion period and have in fact, made several such offers in the past yet you and your colleages seem intent on being resistant to any such discussions.
Either way, our goal is to foster an understanding about the importance and proper enforcement of copyright and the exchange of ideas which would lead to a reduction in copyright infringement while still fostering better ideas to bring content to consumers in a method that is benificial to the industry in general AND consumers rather than the one way over-reaching methods which are quite honestly, very anti-consumer. We think about and discuss these issues on a daily basis but over the last few months it has become painfully clear to us that you still have a lot to learn. We would love to bring these ideas to the table and discuss them openly with you and other representatives of your industry, but you have continually locked us out of the process and we have come to the eventual realization that you simply do not care about your customers.
Please feel free to reach out to us at any time should you wish to talk about possible dates where we can meet and discuss the issues that both parties feel are incredibly important.
perhaps he may be alluding to the fact that the end of the cold war was in fact due to the solidarity movement in poland and is now drawing compaison to current events...
not everyone see's poland as little more than a source of jokes ya know...
long version:
The internet drives communication. in being an increasingly large part of how people communicate it does in turn help to drive culture. The screaming kid in the back seat means little to the groups of people who use every means of social media to let the world know about the minutia of their lives.
And while you are correct in that the vast majority of culture isnt created online, online is where the vast majority of people who use the internet for communicative purposes are going to find out about whatever was created.
Yes, you are also right that if you take away the outside cultural materials that the internet would be pretty empty... but thats not the whole deal. you may as well make the statement that if you turn off the sun it'd be dark all the time. yes its factually correct, but it denies the reality that you cant just turn off the sun in the same way your statement denies the reality that you cant simply just take away the culture you are referring to from the internet?
as proof i use the following:
"im pretty sure that if you took all the porn off the internet there would only be one website left & it would be called 'bring back the porn'"
i just made a pop culture reference on the internet and you now cannot take it away no matter what you try to do....
your comment on memes created online again misses the point that it doesnt really matter where it was created, its the fact that it IS a meme thats important. the internet didnt create memes, it just makes them easier to become memes in an incredibly shorter amount of time then it otherwise would have and in fact some memes could only become memes because of the internet.
you think lolcats would have become the meme its become by sending those pics through the us postal service??
Theres a large difference between coulton having money pouring in after this because of his position on this than money pouring into the *AA's because they operate under the belief that their farts are made of cotton candy and rainbows.
the scary problem is that if you factor out those who dont go online, those who dont understand how the internet works and those who dont understand how this legislation actually works, you have also just factored out an alarmingly high percentage of elected officials.
yes. by all means point to a wikipedia entry that attempts to make a tenuous link of wholesale copyright violation on a commercial scale by means of a link that even in actual article linked to john malcolm says that there is no solid evidence to support the idea that file trading results in financial support of terrorist activity when asked directly by smith... he just says that he wouldnt be surprised if it were large... and smith even after being told point blank that there is no solid evidence saddles right up with the content industry...
by all means do hold that up as a shining example of how legit smith is...
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in 1994, consumer users base vs. educational/governmental user bases were ~2:1. around 1994 the financial institutions were just then getting an online presence. w3c was founded in 1994... hell, time even had a front cover called "the strange new world of the internet".
the point in all that is that it was a very new concept. and while yes, it would have been great to say that every facet of the government would have already had access to the interet, this *IS* the federal US government we are talking about here. the government moves at a pace that makes snails look pretty damn zippy. besides, it was NEW. very very NEW. the internet has been around long enough by now and how many times do we see politicians sticking their foot in their collective mouths and their general complete lack of understanding of something thats been a fundamental of the majority of people for the last 10 years?
i dont like a single bit of it... but in this case i understand it and when set in its proper context, its not as bad as it sounds.
and dear trolls (you know who you are) please diaf... kthxbye
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it is not now, nor will it ever be near so far as capitalism is running.
now if you take that away, then perhaps you may be right but only if you also alter the definition of monopoly but really, if the government controls all commerce is that not also a monopoly? we dont call it that, but once you strip out all the nuances to its basic foundations... its pretty much still a monopoly.
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if you wish to see explosive hyperbole, re-read your post... its full of it.
as for suggested reading material, kettle is on line 2 & wants to talk to you..
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Over the last few weeks, you have been slammed by the publiic for your ham-fisted overreaches which you like to call SOPA and PIPA. The amount of public pushback only surprised you as you obviously believe that with large amounts of money dedicated to such lofty goals as lobbying, you get to write all the rules and the public be damned which motivates us to respond to you with a mass wave of the "one fingered salute".
We have attempted to open discourse with you and your colleages several times over the last few years through several means about these and related issues. We would be happy to give you a formal presentation followed by an open discussion period and have in fact, made several such offers in the past yet you and your colleages seem intent on being resistant to any such discussions.
Either way, our goal is to foster an understanding about the importance and proper enforcement of copyright and the exchange of ideas which would lead to a reduction in copyright infringement while still fostering better ideas to bring content to consumers in a method that is benificial to the industry in general AND consumers rather than the one way over-reaching methods which are quite honestly, very anti-consumer. We think about and discuss these issues on a daily basis but over the last few months it has become painfully clear to us that you still have a lot to learn. We would love to bring these ideas to the table and discuss them openly with you and other representatives of your industry, but you have continually locked us out of the process and we have come to the eventual realization that you simply do not care about your customers.
Please feel free to reach out to us at any time should you wish to talk about possible dates where we can meet and discuss the issues that both parties feel are incredibly important.
Many thanks,
The rest of the internet around the world.
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not everyone see's poland as little more than a source of jokes ya know...
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long version:
The internet drives communication. in being an increasingly large part of how people communicate it does in turn help to drive culture. The screaming kid in the back seat means little to the groups of people who use every means of social media to let the world know about the minutia of their lives.
And while you are correct in that the vast majority of culture isnt created online, online is where the vast majority of people who use the internet for communicative purposes are going to find out about whatever was created.
Yes, you are also right that if you take away the outside cultural materials that the internet would be pretty empty... but thats not the whole deal. you may as well make the statement that if you turn off the sun it'd be dark all the time. yes its factually correct, but it denies the reality that you cant just turn off the sun in the same way your statement denies the reality that you cant simply just take away the culture you are referring to from the internet?
as proof i use the following:
"im pretty sure that if you took all the porn off the internet there would only be one website left & it would be called 'bring back the porn'"
i just made a pop culture reference on the internet and you now cannot take it away no matter what you try to do....
your comment on memes created online again misses the point that it doesnt really matter where it was created, its the fact that it IS a meme thats important. the internet didnt create memes, it just makes them easier to become memes in an incredibly shorter amount of time then it otherwise would have and in fact some memes could only become memes because of the internet.
you think lolcats would have become the meme its become by sending those pics through the us postal service??
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and by funny i mean of course "you have no idea what you are talking about".
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by all means do hold that up as a shining example of how legit smith is...
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then i *might* think about using godaddy.
they're awful to begin with.
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