So what is your take on what Sony did to Bleem? The short version is Sony took Bleem to court several times, lost every case and kept going after Bleem with various lawsuits until Bleem went bankrupt.
Let me reiterate - Sony lost every lawsuit it brought against Bleem and they kept filing until Bleem went bankrupt.
Also, let's not forget the shenanigans Sony pulled at the Bleem booth at E3 1999. Sony tried to pull one over on the show management by claiming there was an injunction against Bleem and tried to get the show to pull the Bleem booth. There was no injunction.
Really? You want to know what my fucking agenda is? It's to get ICE to do its job instead of some bullshit knee-jerk reaction to their failed torrent-site takedown program. When they have the immigration and customs part locked down, then they can move on to other things. That's my agenda, seeing them do their mandate, not branching off on tangents they have ZERO business being in.
I am angry because ICE doesn't give two shits about child porn. When they started taking down all the torrent and media sites, they started to take heat for it. So now they announce an operation where they take down a few child porn sites and 84,000 legitimate sites while calling it a success. This was done to make themselves look better in our eyes and to pat themselves on the back.
Lastly, who was arrested for these child porn websites? All that manpower and time and energy surely resulted in some arrests...right?
How is knocking 84,000 websites offline a simple mistake? I'll tell you. The morons at ICE responsible for seizing Internet domains are completely clueless. First they go after the torrent sites at the request of Hollywood, then they go after the sports streaming sites at the request of major sports, then they finally get around to going after child porn. Where the fuck are their priorities? Why didn't they go after the pedophiles first? In fact, if they are so keen on making the Internet safer, why isn't their main focus child porn? Oh wait, I know why, because ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has fuck-all to do with Sports, movies or child porn.
ICE is so fucking clueless they have no fucking idea what their mandate is. So how can you expect them to actually do their job right if they don't even know what it is.
Imagine if Anonymous didn't expose all this HBGary data, we would have no idea that the Federal Government was interested in manipulating the public on such a scale. Now take it a step further and imagine if the Egyptian Government had such software. They could have disrupted the protests much more efficiently than anything else.
As a country we are applauding the Egyptian people for what they have done while our government is looking for ways to prevent the same from happening here.
There are rumors of a rootkit in the latest PS3 update. If true this will allow Sony to execute code on the PS3 remotely, without your knowledge. If they have that ability then they can detect jailbroken PS3's by running a program and examining the results. If they get the wrong results they can block your PS3.
"... and they still don't understand it: why is legit content still inferior to the pirated version?"
Exactly! I don't want to wade through their crappy commercials. I just want to watch the movie. I don't think the studios realize just how much resentment this one thing has caused among consumers, and while they might get a small upfront boost in cash from them it's costing them in the long run.
Please explain what activities Mike does that enable piracy. Reporting on how Hollywood doesn't want to acknowledge the Internet and stay in the past doesn't help me download movies.
How is Amazon responsible for this tax? It's up to the buyer to declare and pay the tax, not Amazon. And Amazon is well within its rights to threaten to relocate. Basically, it comes down to the Comptroller overstepping her bounds. She obviously has no grasp on the situation, or she would have seen what has happened in every other state that went after Amazon. Yes judges went against Amazon but in return Amazon severed ties with their affiliates in those states. Who really won?
More and more politicians are waking up to the fact that they don't have the final say anymore. They see a company that is thriving within the framework of the current laws and then they amend, twist or re-interpret the laws to their own financial benefit (government, not personal) while completely ignoring all other ramifications. That $269M would certainly help Texas out, but how much of that would go towards unemployment for the warehouse employees? How would it impact the local businesses? The question boils down to whether Texas needs the $269M or the jobs more.
I was trying to point out that musicians have many established methods of getting paid, like live performances, tours, merchandise and so on, while bloggers don't generally have the same avenues available. My hope was to point out the flaws in Average_Joes comparison of musicians to bloggers.
Musicians also go on tour and can sell T-Shirts and other merchandise. When was the last time you went down to your local venue and watched your favorite blogger blog for a couple hours in front of thousands of screaming fans?
But the goal isn't to shut Google down. It's to extort massive amounts of money from them with the threat of blocking them from the Internet or whatever. The fact that there was no due process for the smaller lesser/unknown websites didn't stop them, it merely emboldened them.
I have no doubt this will backfire on them, they just don't see that yet.
Maybe you should count yourself among those who didn't read the article. It says that there has been a spike in the number of infringement notices Google has been receiving. Either the number of people filesharing has suddenly spiked or the MPAA is looking at bigger targets.
Occam's razor applies here. The MPAA has had success with smaller websites and now they are setting up for larger ones.
Looks like someone's getting too big for their britches! No doubt the asshats at the MPAA have been emboldened by the recent website shutdowns, and their strategy is now clear.
Their goal was never about shutting down these smaller websites, but about setting precedent so they could go after bigger fish. Looks like Google is their first target. Also, to continue with fishing analogies, the MPAA is going to need a bigger boat.
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Let me reiterate - Sony lost every lawsuit it brought against Bleem and they kept filing until Bleem went bankrupt.
Also, let's not forget the shenanigans Sony pulled at the Bleem booth at E3 1999. Sony tried to pull one over on the show management by claiming there was an injunction against Bleem and tried to get the show to pull the Bleem booth. There was no injunction.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!
Sony sued them into bankruptcy even though Sony lost every lawsuit against them. They will try the same tactic with Geohot.
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I am angry because ICE doesn't give two shits about child porn. When they started taking down all the torrent and media sites, they started to take heat for it. So now they announce an operation where they take down a few child porn sites and 84,000 legitimate sites while calling it a success. This was done to make themselves look better in our eyes and to pat themselves on the back.
Lastly, who was arrested for these child porn websites? All that manpower and time and energy surely resulted in some arrests...right?
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ICE is so fucking clueless they have no fucking idea what their mandate is. So how can you expect them to actually do their job right if they don't even know what it is.
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As a country we are applauding the Egyptian people for what they have done while our government is looking for ways to prevent the same from happening here.
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Exactly! I don't want to wade through their crappy commercials. I just want to watch the movie. I don't think the studios realize just how much resentment this one thing has caused among consumers, and while they might get a small upfront boost in cash from them it's costing them in the long run.
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More and more politicians are waking up to the fact that they don't have the final say anymore. They see a company that is thriving within the framework of the current laws and then they amend, twist or re-interpret the laws to their own financial benefit (government, not personal) while completely ignoring all other ramifications. That $269M would certainly help Texas out, but how much of that would go towards unemployment for the warehouse employees? How would it impact the local businesses? The question boils down to whether Texas needs the $269M or the jobs more.
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I was trying to point out that musicians have many established methods of getting paid, like live performances, tours, merchandise and so on, while bloggers don't generally have the same avenues available. My hope was to point out the flaws in Average_Joes comparison of musicians to bloggers.
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I have no doubt this will backfire on them, they just don't see that yet.
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Occam's razor applies here. The MPAA has had success with smaller websites and now they are setting up for larger ones.
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You do have alternatives. Might I suggest http://vodo.net/ for original content. I am a fan of Pioneer One myself.
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Their goal was never about shutting down these smaller websites, but about setting precedent so they could go after bigger fish. Looks like Google is their first target. Also, to continue with fishing analogies, the MPAA is going to need a bigger boat.
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