"...more analysis will show that Internet providers sent out more first and second notices and fewer fifth and sixth notices, which would demonstrate that users stopped sharing infringing content."
Of course that's going to happen. After the ISPs see that the first four notices change nothing, they will decide that the whole thing is a waste of money, and they, won't bother to send the last couple of notices.
Being cheap and cutting corners increases profit, and thus shareholder value. Since company management is legally obligated to act in a manner most benificial to shareholders, you could probably make a case that the company is required to cut whatever corners it can as long as no laws are broken in the process.
Google would presumably take other content down as well if ordered to by a court.
There's a big part of the problem. Google not only does not take content down, it can't take content down. The best it can do is remove the content from the search listings. As long as people keep talking as if delisting is the same as removal, politicians will assume that to be true, and insist that Google is capable of actually removing content instead of merely sweeping it under the rug.
I tend to suspect that the main reason Lindsay Lohan does this sort of thing is because the Streisand Effect is about the only way she can get anyone to pay attention to her.
Better yet, just have the Nortel patents nullified. Rockstar loses the money they paid as a penalty, and as an additional penalty, nobody can ever sue over those patents again.
I wonder what would happen if Antigua were to set up a flat rate streaming music/video site and simply accept monthly subscriptions until the quota was met.
15% of the time the software will incorrectly identify a terrorist as an innocent person. From a security standpoint, that's not a problem, the next camera will catch them. The problem is that 20% of the time the system will flag an innocent person as a terrorist. That's a massive problem, and here's why. Boston's Logan airport handles about 2.5 million passengers every month. 20% of that is about 500,000 false alarms every month, or one false alarm about every five seconds 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Just how long do you think the security people will put up with that before they start treating every alarm as a false alarm, and ignoring it totally? This facial recognition system needs an error rate of more like 0.00002% before it's going to be much use for anything.
That's the nature of the law (and the fact that non-US persons aren't actually under the jurisdiction of the US Constitution in the first place)
Perhaps this is an interpretation of the Constitution that needs to change. If you read through the US Constitution, it could be argued that most US Citizens don't fall under the jurisdiction of the Constitution either. The U.S. Constitution, as written, applies to the government of the United States, not the citizens. The fourth amendment to the US Constitution starts out `The Right of the people`, so unless you are going to define non-US citizens as somehow not people, that clause pretty much has to apply to everyone. In the 1700`s when that constitution was written, that interpretation made sense, since if your papers were within the reach of US law enforcement, you were probably a US citizen living in the United States. In a world of global electronic communications, that assumption is no longer true.
Ah, but disagreeing with a government, any government, is obviously terrorism. After all, if someone will disagree with one government, they might disagree with another too, like our government. The government can't allow that, so anyone daring to disagree must be swiftly punished, no matter which government they are disagreeing with.
Given the NSA's willingness to lie to those in charge, it's pretty obvious that nothing the NSA says can be trusted. That would include the intelligence reports that are the NSA's entire reason for existing. There's no reason to pay for reports you can't trust, so why not fire the entire agency, and divert the money elsewhere to something that's at least useful for more than a good source of bird cage liner material.
So at the same time as they are building up the world's biggest database of private information, they are also pissing off hackers around the world, and getting rid of 90% of the people who maintain their computer security. What could possibly go wrong with that.
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Of course that's going to happen. After the ISPs see that the first four notices change nothing, they will decide that the whole thing is a waste of money, and they, won't bother to send the last couple of notices.
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Re: It's not complicated
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/08/22/americas-10-deadliest-jobs-2/
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Re: NSA's new target?
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Perhaps what is needed is a requirement that the laws must be written in a form the average citizen can understand.
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Here's a big part of the problem.
There's a big part of the problem. Google not only does not take content down, it can't take content down. The best it can do is remove the content from the search listings. As long as people keep talking as if delisting is the same as removal, politicians will assume that to be true, and insist that Google is capable of actually removing content instead of merely sweeping it under the rug.
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Putting the Streisand Effect to use?
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You've got the statistics backwards.
This facial recognition system needs an error rate of more like 0.00002% before it's going to be much use for anything.
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Perhaps this is an interpretation of the Constitution that needs to change. If you read through the US Constitution, it could be argued that most US Citizens don't fall under the jurisdiction of the Constitution either. The U.S. Constitution, as written, applies to the government of the United States, not the citizens. The fourth amendment to the US Constitution starts out `The Right of the people`, so unless you are going to define non-US citizens as somehow not people, that clause pretty much has to apply to everyone. In the 1700`s when that constitution was written, that interpretation made sense, since if your papers were within the reach of US law enforcement, you were probably a US citizen living in the United States. In a world of global electronic communications, that assumption is no longer true.
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Re: Easy solution
If you ever want to win an election, change your name to "Of_the_Above None" and run for office. You'd win in a landslide.
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Is it past time to disband the NSA entirely?
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