It is perfectly reasonable to expect that several members of the household might use their TVs to watch Netflix.
(Now just watch the cable tv industry say it isn't reasonable while at the same time saying that it is reasonable to expect to watch several cable tv channels at the same time. Of course, these are the dinosaurs who seemed to think there should be a monthly fee per cable tv outlet rather than a one time installation fee per outlet. Maybe you should have to pay your cable provider per Netflix stream you use -- after all you are using their network service?)
Could the other intelligence agencies who know the NSA is peeking, or allow them to do so, deliberately give the NSA disinformation that the NSA would believe to be genuine surveillance results?
People unable to think things out to their natural consequences think they can continue pushing forever with no consequences. Not unlike the government printing money or borrowing whenever it seems necessary to avoid difficult responsible decisions. Copyright maximalists think they can just push and stretch the bounds of copyright to infinity. Sue the whole world for $75 TRILLION.
It's nice to start seeing some pushback on copyright insanity.
Delusional Dinosaurs to the last. I hope they can find a comfortable tarpit. They seem incapable of adapting to the 21st century.
Impose a substantial penalty for misusing any takedown mechanism (such as the US DMCA, or other national equivalents) when the person doing the takedown is not the owner, nor an agent of the owner, or the use is clearly fair use, or if the takedown is clearly to silence protected speech.
How about allowing reverse engineering or circumventing protection mechanisms for interoperability.
No more taxes on blank media.
Make it the law that search engines have no liability for doing the very thing they are designed to do -- help you find what you are looking for. Which is useful to copyright enforcers to find pirated content in order to get it removed at the source rather than removed from the search engine. Make it the law that copyright owners must go after the source of the piracy not intermediate parties or search engines. Or blog posts.
If Marriott were concerned for security, they would make sure their WiFi were free to all guests. Maybe to anyone in the area. Better to 'protect' everyone.
If Marriott tells the lie that it needs to make money in order to offer WiFi, then I would ask this. Why don't you also charge a special fee for: * Electricity * Indoor Plumbing * Air Conditioning / Heating * Television channels * Use of in-room phone
Each of the things I listed have a huge up front cost to install, along with an ongoing cost to operate. How is WiFi different?
The retransmission fees are evidence that Broadcast and Cable TV are locked in a death spiral.
As more people cut the cord, they'll get left behind. The cable companies will interfere with your internet connection. The tv broadcasters have no such luxury; so they will have to lobby to get it.
> Not defending the company, but before the break-up, the government > was making sure AT&T wasn't abusing its monopoly power.
Uh, the way I seem to remember it (yes, I'm that old) is that the reason for the breakup is because AT&T was abusing its monopoly power.
After the breakup, there were a zillion inexpensive phones you could buy from everywhere in any color, size, shape, and style that you could imagine. Things customers were demanding that you couldn't from AT&T; such as a phone handset shaped like a small toilet that you hold to your face to converse.
After the breakup, there was an explosion of FCC approved accessories you could plug in to your phone line. Like answering machines that didn't cost over a thousand dollars. Imagine that! What was making AT&T's answering machines high prices? An abusive monopoly perhaps?
And let's not even talk about what happened to long distance prices after the breakup. MCI. Sprint. A thousand other wannabe long distance carriers.
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On the post: European Commission Wants Collection And Retention Of Passenger Data For Everyone Flying In And Out Of Europe
As long as they store the data in Write Only Memory
On the post: Comcast Caught Ghost Writing Politicians' Merger Support Letters
Appluad Comcast for Outstanding Customer support!
Now that's service.
(AT&T, Verizon, please pay attention.)
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Just one teeny problem
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So why would they think of Internet any differently. After all, the only thing anyone does on the internet is Netflix, Amazon and YouTube. Right?
On the post: Cable Industry Fights New 25 Mbps Broadband Definition Because The Need For Those Speeds Is 'Hypothetical'
Re: Hypothetically Hypothetical speeds
Hypothetically you could get 1 Gbps download speeds! *
* if we were to upgrade our network infrastructure. Which we won't. So there.
On the post: Cable Industry Fights New 25 Mbps Broadband Definition Because The Need For Those Speeds Is 'Hypothetical'
Simultaneous Netflix viewers
(Now just watch the cable tv industry say it isn't reasonable while at the same time saying that it is reasonable to expect to watch several cable tv channels at the same time. Of course, these are the dinosaurs who seemed to think there should be a monthly fee per cable tv outlet rather than a one time installation fee per outlet. Maybe you should have to pay your cable provider per Netflix stream you use -- after all you are using their network service?)
On the post: Cable Industry Fights New 25 Mbps Broadband Definition Because The Need For Those Speeds Is 'Hypothetical'
What do you mean Hypothetical?
Every little bit helps in a bittorrent*.
* should not be taken to mean that any copyright infringement is taking place
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On the post: DOJ Pays $134,000 To Settle Case Of DEA Agents Impersonating A Woman On Facebook
Yeah, but there's a WAR ON DRUGS going on!
If we were to take one teeny tiny step back from this war on (some) drugs, it could lead to dire consequences and the sky would fall!
On the post: Autonomous Bot Seized For Illegal Purchases: Who's Liable When A Bot Breaks The Law?
It should be illegal !
(Only the rich and powerful should be allowed to break the law.)
On the post: If We're Going To Fix Copyright, We Need Much More Transparency
But, but . . .
Transparency is just another for piracy since it would mean letting everyone see all the secrets.
Your friends at the RIAA and MPAA.
On the post: Snowden Documents Show NSA Can't Keep Its Eyes On Its Own Papers; Harvests Data From Other Surveillance Agencies
Could the NSA collect disinformation?
On the post: Court Says Dish's Hopper Technology Does Not Infringe On Copyrights
The pendulum ony swings so far one way
People unable to think things out to their natural consequences think they can continue pushing forever with no consequences. Not unlike the government printing money or borrowing whenever it seems necessary to avoid difficult responsible decisions. Copyright maximalists think they can just push and stretch the bounds of copyright to infinity. Sue the whole world for $75 TRILLION.
It's nice to start seeing some pushback on copyright insanity.
Delusional Dinosaurs to the last. I hope they can find a comfortable tarpit. They seem incapable of adapting to the 21st century.
On the post: European Parliament Report Proposes Wide-Ranging Copyright Reform, Including Reduction Of EU Copyright Term
Fix a few other copyright messes
How about allowing reverse engineering or circumventing protection mechanisms for interoperability.
No more taxes on blank media.
Make it the law that search engines have no liability for doing the very thing they are designed to do -- help you find what you are looking for. Which is useful to copyright enforcers to find pirated content in order to get it removed at the source rather than removed from the search engine. Make it the law that copyright owners must go after the source of the piracy not intermediate parties or search engines. Or blog posts.
On the post: Outnumbered And Outgunned, Marriott Sort Of Backs Off Stupid Plan To Ban Guest Device Wi-Fi
Transparent Lying Liars
If Marriott tells the lie that it needs to make money in order to offer WiFi, then I would ask this. Why don't you also charge a special fee for:
* Electricity
* Indoor Plumbing
* Air Conditioning / Heating
* Television channels
* Use of in-room phone
Each of the things I listed have a huge up front cost to install, along with an ongoing cost to operate. How is WiFi different?
I will be anxiously awaiting your lies.
On the post: The Cable Industry's Latest Lame Argument: We're Burying Sneaky Fees In Your Bill As Part Of An Effort To Be More Transparent
Broadcast retransmission fees
As more people cut the cord, they'll get left behind. The cable companies will interfere with your internet connection. The tv broadcasters have no such luxury; so they will have to lobby to get it.
On the post: Judge Not Too Concerned That 68-Year-Old Woman's House Was Raided Because Someone Used Her Open WiFi To Post A Threat
Protecting and Serving
* protecting themselves from community outrage due to excessive use of force
** serving no-knock warrants on what they know to be the wrong house, fueling community outrage, requiring more Protecting
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> was making sure AT&T wasn't abusing its monopoly power.
Uh, the way I seem to remember it (yes, I'm that old) is that the reason for the breakup is because AT&T was abusing its monopoly power.
After the breakup, there were a zillion inexpensive phones you could buy from everywhere in any color, size, shape, and style that you could imagine. Things customers were demanding that you couldn't from AT&T; such as a phone handset shaped like a small toilet that you hold to your face to converse.
After the breakup, there was an explosion of FCC approved accessories you could plug in to your phone line. Like answering machines that didn't cost over a thousand dollars. Imagine that! What was making AT&T's answering machines high prices? An abusive monopoly perhaps?
And let's not even talk about what happened to long distance prices after the breakup. MCI. Sprint. A thousand other wannabe long distance carriers.
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How about making it work the other way?
(Wouldn't want to 'accidentally' leave the camera in the car. In a plastic bag. With a sign saying: Danger! Biohazard!)
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