Yeah, I think the idea is that even if the key is shared publicly, it could be Mega's policy that they never ever look at keys on the net. So even if I put a link in my website and the key alongside it, Mega wouldn't have looked for it so they can say that they just don't know it.
Of course, just like hitting Refresh in your browser is akin to masturbation, hitting Refresh while having unlicensed intentions is more like raping an innocent underage boy!
And what does this "settlement" or exchange of coin exactly means to JSTOR or MIT? Either it's a stupid amount that would make Swartz suffer, or is so little as to be a slap on his wrist and mean the equivalent of pocket change?
Why people who get "caught" doing the equivalent of planting a bag of poo in your front door must have some sort of money settlement? Can't they just agree that the action was unwelcome and just promise not to do it again? (which basically is *what already happened*). Or is it to appease the God of Capitalism, that Coin must grease the Palms of Due Process or something?
I really don't get this point that someone "has" to be punished at all when the parts basically agree not to punish each other (except by involving the Spooks which pretty much everyone agrees was a bad mistake).
If these files are illegal, why is CBS allowed to own them? Shouldn't they be arrested?
Surely if someone else was in possession of something illegal, they'd be arrested? Why not CBS, if these files are illegal? Why can they have illegal things?
I agree that allegations of file sharing should be punished. We should start by cutting all the funds of all the music labels who make these allegations.
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HITLER.
Coincidence...?
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It all makes sense now.
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Who said they "should"?
Mike says they'll *probably* cut him a check.
Because that's the usual way big corps make problems go away.
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Who said they "should"?
Mike says they'll *probably* cut him a check.
Because that's the usual way big corps make problems go away.
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Why people who get "caught" doing the equivalent of planting a bag of poo in your front door must have some sort of money settlement? Can't they just agree that the action was unwelcome and just promise not to do it again? (which basically is *what already happened*). Or is it to appease the God of Capitalism, that Coin must grease the Palms of Due Process or something?
I really don't get this point that someone "has" to be punished at all when the parts basically agree not to punish each other (except by involving the Spooks which pretty much everyone agrees was a bad mistake).
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I don't get the why he *must* be punished somehow, even if just to prove the point that he was a naughty, naughty boy?
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Surely if someone else was in possession of something illegal, they'd be arrested? Why not CBS, if these files are illegal? Why can they have illegal things?
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