Feh - Her and the rest of the Hippies Screwed it up
Children no longer develop social graces. They don't hang out anymore
Children no longer hang out because they are no longer permitted to hang out. Children are no longer permitted to hang out because of her generation's so called "social graces". Fuck rock and roll, it died with Chuck Berry, and was burned by the self-important losers hanging out on corners acting lewd and doing drugs in public, thinking they were "something". Thanks for fucking every following generation's childhood, idiot losers.
If anything destroyed rock, it's that shrieking harpy
Yes, but harpies can actually move men with their voices. Again I have to side with the South Park guys on this one, she sounds more like a bleating old goat.
The conflation is saying that since more people infringed, the message that infringement is illegal wasn't being spread.
Once again, that is not Mike's conflation.
Looking back on it, they may have gotten their "message" out that "getting free music over P2P is illegal", but apparently lots of people only heard the "getting free music over P2P" bit.
If that makes the RIAA brass want to don their flight suit and declare "mission accomplished", more power to them.
I would still like to know why corporations are welcome to start social engineering campaigns using the justice system as their puppet, but not individuals.
Whether or not more people accessed unauthorized files is a completely different matter than whether or not they knew it was infringement. Why conflate the two?
The article, in addition to discussing how defendants did not know what they were doing was illegal, also noted that RIAA brass felt the spray of litigation amounted to a successful PR campaign. (Which strikes me as odd, as I thought use of the judicial system for this purpose was illegal).
I see no conflation on Mike's part... but I do see conflation.
RIAA's lawsuits were demonstrably a successful PR campaign... for the use of P2P to get "free" music.
but this is rather different to handing a tax over to a private corporation who may just use the money to line their own pockets.
I do like the BBC and a whole lot of the stuff they produce a lot, don't get me wrong. But with the tax "accounting" system we use in the U.S. (Social Security Taxes are routed to the nation's general general checking account), I hope we never import this notion.
Taxes paid to the government in the U.S. are technically easier to use "for the lining of pockets" than are grants and subsidies to a private corporation.
It's understandable to request information when minors are at risk
Sorry I don't see how is this relevant to the situation discussed in the article? Exactly what "risk" is even present here?
Name calling and bullying have been around for-ever, and we already have laws to deal with them when they cross the line into assault and libel. Why should we write new, more draconian laws that remove Constitutional protections specifically for the Internet just "for the children"?
Why should we permit, by accusation, an activity that requires a court order in the real world? (revealing an anonymous "source")
Is the Internet to be relegated as our testbed for tyranny?
They would need to pay ASCAP/BMI/SESAC if those organizations came calling, but playing recorded music in your venue is permitted by anyone as long as the performance licensing organizations are paid.
True, but a continuous, large public performance would likely get tagged with prohibitive overhead: especially for a museum:
Generally, rates are based on the manner in which music is performed (live, recorded or audio only or audio/visual) and the size of the establishment or potential audience for the music. For example, rates for restaurants, nightclubs, bars and similar establishments depend on whether the music is live or recorded, whether it's audio only or audio visual, the number of nights per week music is offered, whether admission is charged and several other factors.
This pricing structure does not favor inclusive, low cost admissions for, say, a public museum.
I don't recall, but there is the ongoing outcry from people getting their packages in order, but concerned about how their neighbor seems to get a visit from the delivery truck every day, and they always bring a dolly, and that doesn't seem right.
I wasn't aware that the vast majority of Americans voted anymore.
They do not. I don't have a link to the latest stats, but when we have a Presidential election every four years, about 45% of our population that could register to vote turns out to vote.
In the elections that really count (i.e. every election except the four year cycle) I think the number was closer to 12%.
should be noted that cars are a problem even without taking global warming into production.
True, however this is not the fault of the people driving cars. Independent inventors have been coming up with fuel efficient and alternate fuel vehicles since the middle of the 20th century. These forward looking designs were systematically suppressed thanks to the patent system and the sponsorship of Big Money interests by the U.S. government.
Mercantilism is not for the masses nor for the environment.
Should we trust reform to the same people who allowed us to get in this position of having a huge (nearly legislated) demand for a limited natural resource?
Sea change was ready decades ago, only the entrenched money players, with the help of legislative powers, prevented the evolution of the market. - This is exactly what multi-national industrial "controls" will do. Change for the better will be stymied at our expense as well as the world's.
free parking encourages people to drive, which is bad.
I think you hit the nail on the head as far as the intent and meaning behind the argument.
"Global Warming" has got to be one of the best, potentially profitable red herrings in the history of red herrings. Not at all unlike the good old "Clean Water" bond initiatives that show up every presidential election cycle on California's proposition list:
Every four years in the U.S.. we get the common sheep coming out in droves thinking they are doing a great thing just voting for President (far from the truth, and an absurd notion in the first place that the President is some kind of all-powerful leader in the U.S.). This demographic tends to "vote with their conscience" using only the on-ballot briefs for every other item beside their favorite Executive horse. The sheep see "Clean Water" in the description and think "yes, clean water is important, I must vote yes". The problem is when you read the details of the proposition (in the voter pamphlet btw... which so few people read), these bond propositions carried no obligations to allocate the borrowed funds for any specific purpose... they go to general use. It's an easy formula to profit.
With global warming, we see the very same "yes we need clean water" effect, only on an international scale.
People are willing to open their pockets and change their lifestyle to protect their home. Now we have international negotiations to limit productivity and centralize control of industry in general in the name of global warming. I cannot think of a better way to freeze time and money in place and prevent the redistribution of money based on market changes and innovation.
I cannot think of a faster more effective way to return to feudalism.
I have respect for the Greens who honestly do care for the environment, however I fear any similar cause, once taken up by the powers-that-be, will be abused and milked for every penny and liberty possible to the benefit of those in power, and to the detriment of the rest of the world's citizens... with no effect on the environment at all.
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Re: Re: Jeffrey Morris, The Loser
is that when you went to plaid?
On the post: Legal Threat Demands We Shut Down Techdirt
Jeffrey Morris, The Loser
Thou Shalt Not Google Thyself
(nor thy neighbor's wife, nor his oxen, nor his neighbor's smart-phone)
Vanity, not curiosity, killed the cat.
I have no idea who Jeffrey Morris is, but all the readings I'm getting point to "Jeffrey Morris is a fucking tosser".
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Feh - Her and the rest of the Hippies Screwed it up
Children no longer hang out because they are no longer permitted to hang out. Children are no longer permitted to hang out because of her generation's so called "social graces". Fuck rock and roll, it died with Chuck Berry, and was burned by the self-important losers hanging out on corners acting lewd and doing drugs in public, thinking they were "something". Thanks for fucking every following generation's childhood, idiot losers.
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Yes, but harpies can actually move men with their voices. Again I have to side with the South Park guys on this one, she sounds more like a bleating old goat.
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Don't forget AT&T has its own Legacy TV offering now. Anemic bandwidth is epidemic in the U.S.
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I just wish they would stop futzing with Netflix and mlb streams (OK, I'll blame MLB on MLB... give me BITS dammit!)
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Once again, that is not Mike's conflation.
Looking back on it, they may have gotten their "message" out that "getting free music over P2P is illegal", but apparently lots of people only heard the "getting free music over P2P" bit.
If that makes the RIAA brass want to don their flight suit and declare "mission accomplished", more power to them.
I would still like to know why corporations are welcome to start social engineering campaigns using the justice system as their puppet, but not individuals.
On the post: Did The RIAA Just Destroy Its Own Argument Concerning Innocent Infringement?
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The article, in addition to discussing how defendants did not know what they were doing was illegal, also noted that RIAA brass felt the spray of litigation amounted to a successful PR campaign. (Which strikes me as odd, as I thought use of the judicial system for this purpose was illegal).
I see no conflation on Mike's part... but I do see conflation.
RIAA's lawsuits were demonstrably a successful PR campaign... for the use of P2P to get "free" music.
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Re: Re: Umm,
I do like the BBC and a whole lot of the stuff they produce a lot, don't get me wrong. But with the tax "accounting" system we use in the U.S. (Social Security Taxes are routed to the nation's general general checking account), I hope we never import this notion.
Taxes paid to the government in the U.S. are technically easier to use "for the lining of pockets" than are grants and subsidies to a private corporation.
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Re: Nonsense
Sorry I don't see how is this relevant to the situation discussed in the article? Exactly what "risk" is even present here?
Name calling and bullying have been around for-ever, and we already have laws to deal with them when they cross the line into assault and libel. Why should we write new, more draconian laws that remove Constitutional protections specifically for the Internet just "for the children"?
Why should we permit, by accusation, an activity that requires a court order in the real world? (revealing an anonymous "source")
Is the Internet to be relegated as our testbed for tyranny?
On the post: Treasure Trove Of Jazz To Be Blocked, Perhaps Forever, Thanks To Copyright
Re: Re: Re: Leverage the scarcity
True, but a continuous, large public performance would likely get tagged with prohibitive overhead: especially for a museum:
From ASCAP:
This pricing structure does not favor inclusive, low cost admissions for, say, a public museum.
On the post: John Mellencamp: The Internet Is An Atomic Bomb For Music
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One bad apple of a high intensity burst, and the very source of life gets ostracized.
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True, but they could hug their kids with nuclear arms...
Everyone and their mothers love demonizing nuclear weapons, but they'll come running back to their atomic daddy when NEAT finds the pop rock of DOOM!
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Also
Still, I'm on hold and the silence is killing me.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Trying again...
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Re: Re: Re: Bring out ya dead!
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They do not. I don't have a link to the latest stats, but when we have a Presidential election every four years, about 45% of our population that could register to vote turns out to vote.
In the elections that really count (i.e. every election except the four year cycle) I think the number was closer to 12%.
On the post: Is Free Parking Costing Us Billions?
Re: Re: Milk Money
True, however this is not the fault of the people driving cars. Independent inventors have been coming up with fuel efficient and alternate fuel vehicles since the middle of the 20th century. These forward looking designs were systematically suppressed thanks to the patent system and the sponsorship of Big Money interests by the U.S. government.
Mercantilism is not for the masses nor for the environment.
Should we trust reform to the same people who allowed us to get in this position of having a huge (nearly legislated) demand for a limited natural resource?
Sea change was ready decades ago, only the entrenched money players, with the help of legislative powers, prevented the evolution of the market. - This is exactly what multi-national industrial "controls" will do. Change for the better will be stymied at our expense as well as the world's.
On the post: Is Free Parking Costing Us Billions?
Milk Money
I think you hit the nail on the head as far as the intent and meaning behind the argument.
"Global Warming" has got to be one of the best, potentially profitable red herrings in the history of red herrings. Not at all unlike the good old "Clean Water" bond initiatives that show up every presidential election cycle on California's proposition list:
Every four years in the U.S.. we get the common sheep coming out in droves thinking they are doing a great thing just voting for President (far from the truth, and an absurd notion in the first place that the President is some kind of all-powerful leader in the U.S.). This demographic tends to "vote with their conscience" using only the on-ballot briefs for every other item beside their favorite Executive horse. The sheep see "Clean Water" in the description and think "yes, clean water is important, I must vote yes". The problem is when you read the details of the proposition (in the voter pamphlet btw... which so few people read), these bond propositions carried no obligations to allocate the borrowed funds for any specific purpose... they go to general use. It's an easy formula to profit.
With global warming, we see the very same "yes we need clean water" effect, only on an international scale.
People are willing to open their pockets and change their lifestyle to protect their home. Now we have international negotiations to limit productivity and centralize control of industry in general in the name of global warming. I cannot think of a better way to freeze time and money in place and prevent the redistribution of money based on market changes and innovation.
I cannot think of a faster more effective way to return to feudalism.
I have respect for the Greens who honestly do care for the environment, however I fear any similar cause, once taken up by the powers-that-be, will be abused and milked for every penny and liberty possible to the benefit of those in power, and to the detriment of the rest of the world's citizens... with no effect on the environment at all.
We'll see.
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