Yeah, and that's easy to say, right up until you have a legitimate use case for remotely logging in to said important/vital systems. Then things get a lot tricker.
Wow. As obnoxious as the super-injunction is, I can't help but give some props to the Australian government on this case. At least they have the good sense to put powerful bankers on trial when they commit massive crimes.
AARC collects a tiny, tiny amount of money. The Copyright Office's data shows a total of $748,277.72 in 2013. That's down from previous years, but at it's very highest AARC collected $5.3 million, and most years it was closer to $2 million.
You seem to have missed the point, which is that we're talking about communications networks, which don't inherently have anything to do with the creation (cameras) or consumption (projectors) of content.
The idea of "content is king" is that this commercial content is the most important thing on the network, and therefore it should be treated with preference. But it's not. Magically remove all music and movies from the Internet, and the Internet would survive and continue to prosper. But if you were to magically remove the Internet... the music and movie businesses that derive significant percentages of their revenue from online business would be severely impacted.
The network itself is what matters. Connectivity is king; content is just along for the ride.
I do have to wonder, though. The "illegal seizure" mentioned here involves the making of a copy of the data stream.
An important principle that's frequently brought up here in the context of copyright abuse is that copying is not theft. That being true, how can copying be considered seizure of property?
What in the world do cameras and projectors have to do with anything? And furthermore, how could the video camera have been invented "for the very purpose of" movies that already existed before its invention?
I get the feeling that there's a coherent argument in here somewhere, but it needs a bit of proofreading because at the moment, I have no idea what you're trying to say or how it has any relevance to the point I made. :(
Umm... you do know that the Inquisition was the legal organization that led the fight against the use of torture and pioneered such concepts as "innocent until proven guilty" and "the defendant has a right to legal counsel," right?
The industry's idea is "content is king." They've thought that forever, and they've been wrong about it forever. Content is fungible to the point of irrelevancy; get rid of one piece of content and another will show up to take its place. The true king is connectivity.
Create a platform that allows people to interact with each other, and content will arrive to fill it. This has been true since the days of the Pony Express. Create content, and nothing interesting to do with it, and nobody will care.
Connectivity is king. Content is just riding its coattails. Always has been, always will be.
That article evaluated a paper published by Tobinick, in which he presented a study involving one patient who purportedly improved his Alzheimer’s condition within minutes of receiving Enbrel injections (as if such a thing were possible).
This is actually very possible, and plausible even... and that's why it's unreliable. Drugs can very quickly decrease all sorts of symptoms. Just look at all the commercials you see that promise their product "offers immediate relief." So it's not at all doubtful that this patient started feeling better right away.
What's doubtful is that he stayed improved permanently, or even for any significant amount of time afterwards.
We're talking about a kid who has the ability to OPEN THE DOOR AND GET OUT if she gets to hot.
That's the thing that gets me about all these stories. You don't have to be 13 for that; I was capable of doing that as far back as I can remember. It doesn't take much intelligence to figure out a car door handle, or much brute strength to push one open. (Unless it's the sliding door of a van, but even vans have normal car doors up front.) It literally is "so easy, even a child could do it." So how does this ever end up causing trouble for any kid big enough to be out of carseats?
This ongoing plunder will harm American competitiveness, depress job creation, and ultimately reduce the U.S. standard of living.
The problem is, this is exactly what's happening, but for a very different reason that most people aren't aware of, and since most people don't understand the causality behind it, when it keeps happening (and getting worse), copyright abusers will be able to point to this and say "see, we told you so!"
The simple truth is that the US economy, and American competitiveness and the job market that it supports, is overwhelmingly driven by one factor: consumer spending. And consumer spending is overwhelmingly driven by the largest, most influential consumer demographic: the baby boom generation. But the baby boomers are beginning to retire now, which means they're starting to care more about saving money, paying off debts, and reducing expenditures to fit reduced incomes... which means they've switched from driving the economy to dragging it down. And that's not going to change until the vast majority of them are dead.
The last time the US had a major "boom generation" starting to age was the 1930s, and we all know how that turned out. The US is going to be in decline for the next couple decades, and there's really nothing we can do about it, short of taking a page directly from the playbook of Nazi Germany. If we aren't willing to go to such horrendous extremes (and I certainly hope that we aren't!) then we just have to do the best we can and wait it out.
Actually, when I read that I immediately thought of 2008, when a group of bankers took the entire world economy hostage and threatened to execute it unless their demands for money and political concessions were met.
Largest terrorist act in history right there (yes, bigger than 9/11, when you consider the number of people who ended up dead due to exposure after bogus evictions, etc) and it went 100% unpunished.
The "you only use 10% of your brain" thing is badly misunderstood. Closer to the truth is, "you only are using 10% of your brain at any given moment." But the whole brain gets used on a pretty regular basis, because you do all sorts of different things with it.
It's like saying that, because I'm sitting at a desk typing this post right now, that I don't use my feet and therefore they're obviously useless (or do something mysteeeeeeerious that we don't know about.)
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Re: Easy to beat
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DON'T FEED THE TROLLS. Just click "report" and ignore him.
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Re: Re: Re: Just wow.
It's sad but true: Nobody respects the Spanish Inquisition. :P
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Well yeah, isn't that the whole point of having a reputation?
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Could I have a tiny, tiny amount of money please?
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Re: Re: Re: But Content is King
The idea of "content is king" is that this commercial content is the most important thing on the network, and therefore it should be treated with preference. But it's not. Magically remove all music and movies from the Internet, and the Internet would survive and continue to prosper. But if you were to magically remove the Internet... the music and movie businesses that derive significant percentages of their revenue from online business would be severely impacted.
The network itself is what matters. Connectivity is king; content is just along for the ride.
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An important principle that's frequently brought up here in the context of copyright abuse is that copying is not theft. That being true, how can copying be considered seizure of property?
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Re: But Content is King
I get the feeling that there's a coherent argument in here somewhere, but it needs a bit of proofreading because at the moment, I have no idea what you're trying to say or how it has any relevance to the point I made. :(
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Re: Just wow.
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Create a platform that allows people to interact with each other, and content will arrive to fill it. This has been true since the days of the Pony Express. Create content, and nothing interesting to do with it, and nobody will care.
Connectivity is king. Content is just riding its coattails. Always has been, always will be.
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This is actually very possible, and plausible even... and that's why it's unreliable. Drugs can very quickly decrease all sorts of symptoms. Just look at all the commercials you see that promise their product "offers immediate relief." So it's not at all doubtful that this patient started feeling better right away.
What's doubtful is that he stayed improved permanently, or even for any significant amount of time afterwards.
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That's the thing that gets me about all these stories. You don't have to be 13 for that; I was capable of doing that as far back as I can remember. It doesn't take much intelligence to figure out a car door handle, or much brute strength to push one open. (Unless it's the sliding door of a van, but even vans have normal car doors up front.) It literally is "so easy, even a child could do it." So how does this ever end up causing trouble for any kid big enough to be out of carseats?
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American Public: Based on what?!?
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The problem is, this is exactly what's happening, but for a very different reason that most people aren't aware of, and since most people don't understand the causality behind it, when it keeps happening (and getting worse), copyright abusers will be able to point to this and say "see, we told you so!"
The simple truth is that the US economy, and American competitiveness and the job market that it supports, is overwhelmingly driven by one factor: consumer spending. And consumer spending is overwhelmingly driven by the largest, most influential consumer demographic: the baby boom generation. But the baby boomers are beginning to retire now, which means they're starting to care more about saving money, paying off debts, and reducing expenditures to fit reduced incomes... which means they've switched from driving the economy to dragging it down. And that's not going to change until the vast majority of them are dead.
The last time the US had a major "boom generation" starting to age was the 1930s, and we all know how that turned out. The US is going to be in decline for the next couple decades, and there's really nothing we can do about it, short of taking a page directly from the playbook of Nazi Germany. If we aren't willing to go to such horrendous extremes (and I certainly hope that we aren't!) then we just have to do the best we can and wait it out.
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Backing down when the kid threatens to throw a tantrum, on the other hand? Definitely bad parenting.
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Largest terrorist act in history right there (yes, bigger than 9/11, when you consider the number of people who ended up dead due to exposure after bogus evictions, etc) and it went 100% unpunished.
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It's like saying that, because I'm sitting at a desk typing this post right now, that I don't use my feet and therefore they're obviously useless (or do something mysteeeeeeerious that we don't know about.)
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