Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The following two cases ....
At least until 'their' content (ie. software) needs to be 'protected'......
It's only fun being the 800 pound gorilla in the room when there are other things to throw around, once they have tossed all the entertainment industries out the window, they will turn to what's left.... their customers
You don't think the entertainment industry started out crapping on their customers, do you? They worked long and hard to eliminate all the competition and gain control of everything first... only after they had no competition that they could directly face (those evil 'pirates' are so hard to catch) did they start destroying their customer base...
I guess when you're an 800 pound gorilla, everything looks like something to be thrown, eaten, or crapped on, it's anyone's guess as to which one the industry is doing now
Re: Didn't I read a book about this in highschool...
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451...
Replace 'Firemen' with 'ICE'
Replace 'Books' with 'Websites, Domain names, etc'
Replace 'For the good of Humanity' with 'For our corporate Masters'
Reread the story with the above substitutions, and you would have a good idea of where things might be heading.... Now if the **AA could just get those mechanical dogs working correctly, they could have them track down and kill any IP thieves out there...
I only have one thing to say: Aluminum Cranium Protection Device (ACPD)...
I'd be more than happy to furnish everyone in the US with one, for only 1.5 trillion, a savings of .5 trillion dollars is nothing to sneeze at.
Disclaimer: ACPD not tested against direct lightning strikes, but are guaranteed to provide more protection than having someone grab your 'junk' while you are struck by lightning, so that's something, right?
Hmmm .... "experience and data demonstrate that such registrations are particularly attractive to spammers, copyright thieves, fraudsters and other wrongdoers."
FTFY .... "experience and data demonstrate that money is particularly attractive to spammers, copyright thieves, fraudsters and other wrongdoers."
Obviously we need to eliminate Money and the spammers, copyright thieves, fraudsters, and other wrongdoers would have no motive to do anything..... Sometimes these things are so simple and the politicians just aren't willing to accept the easy solution. Obviously they should all be pushing laws to eliminate currency exchange in any form as it is the root of all evils....
Where's that foil, I need another layer on my beanie....
we'll be waiting for the wikileaks cable that shows this information...
The CABAL is the group of companies, purchased politicians and international organizations behind all these laws and back room deals, and they don't like to be recognized or named. So now that you've named them (inadvertently of course, but making a mistake like a typo is no excuse for mere individuals, mistakes are only excuses when companies mess things up, like Sony 'forgetting' to secure their networks), so expect to be seeing their representatives very soon (as if you'd be able to see the black helicopters and men in black suits before they haul you away)....
Where's the Sanctuary when you need them... I'm sure they would be willing to stand up to the Cabal... /sarcasm off
I had an idea about how to get obscene amounts of money for doing little actual work....
You take someone's idea that may or may not be in use, but is written down somewhere (like copyrighted works, or filed at the patent office), you find someone who's using something similar to the idea in the real worls, and you threaten to sue them until they either go out of business or pay you for the use of your idea.
Since all the IP lawyers these day's are using my idea, I think I should get a cut of all legal fees (lawyers for both the plantiff and defendant should have to 'license' the idea from me) plus I should get a cut of any settlements.... It's only fair, since I had the idea, right?
What about the bandwidth costs and the connection that is being 'stolen' by the hardware to transmit the images?
In the current climate, many users internet connections are limited, and I'm not sure about the size/volume of data being transmitted via this hardware spying, I see to possible issues.
First this 'unauthorized access of a computer network' since the users didn't give permission for the pictures to be transmitted over their internet connection. This bogus claim has been used against multiple individuals for various computer related 'crimes' that weren't really crimes, so it should be applicable to Companies as well.... right?
If this data put anyone over their ISP's limit and forced them to pay additional fees, there should be some sort of claim to recoup these costs. also they 'stole' the connection, so there has to be some payment for that (if you can steal a song, you can steal an internet connection, amIright?)
I'm sure this would also all depend on who the laptop was rented to... I'm sure the laptop rented to the 18 year old female college swimsuit model was 'transmitting' a lot more pictures and video than the one rented to the 40 year old overweight balding middle aged man...
Yes, I'm a cynic... but that doesn't mean I'm wrong
Next up... vehicles will be required to have RFID tags in the Drivers seat
The next law will require all vehicles to be 'retrofitted' with RFID tags in the drivers seat that the mobile phone will 'read' to tell if the driver is the one using the phone and if so it will limit all functions of the phone.....
No I'm not serious, but I am claiming this ideas as my Intellectual Pooperty....(because I know it's a load of crap). Anyone attempting to implement this idea with paying the proper licensing fee of $500 per vehicle will suffer the wrath of 1000 monkey lawyers flinging their intellectual pooperty... They look like a cross between the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz and the ape men from Plane of the Apes, just in case anyone is wondering what monkey lawyers flinging Intellectual pooperty might look like...
Assuming there is more than one phone in the vehicle, the phones should just talk to each other to figure out who is driving.....
Sure I'm serious, if the vehicle is heading north
and there are 2 phones in the vehicle, the westernmost phone is obviously the driver (assuming we are in the US and not England). If there are 3-4 phones in the vehicle, then the western most northern most phone is the 'driver'... in a bus, same principle applies, if you aren't in the 'driver seat' position of the vehicle, then you aren't driving and can text away with no problem. If your phone is the only one in the vehicle then obviously you are the driver and can't text (there isn't anyone out there who doesn't have a mobile phone, and might happen to be be driving while you are riding in the passenger seat texting, right?)
Sure there are logic holes (what if the vehicle is going backwards... or a double decker buss...), what if you are in the backseat and have the only phone in the vehicle... and missing technology to allow the phones to 'talk nicely'.
For any stupid idea, there are stupid and 'less stupid' ways to implement things, of course the political choice would probably be the broader more stupid method of limiting all moving phones.
How is this different than Copyright Infringement? Oh, that's right the **AA's bought the laws
So if individuals have to prove 'actual harm' when a company hands over all of their personal information (lets start calling it PIP - Personal Intellectual Property which is what it is after all). Why don't companies have to prove 'actual harm' when an individual hands one piece of their IP to someone else?
Yes, I know it's because there is a law with a 'statutory damages' clause that makes this possible....
So lets get a new law passed (anyone out there own a congress critter to get this going?) applying the same 'statutory damages' concept to companies infringing on individuals PIP. I think it would be fair to add a 'punitive damages' clause to PIP losses as well, since without these excessive damage awards, companies will never learn that they need to be careful with everyone's intellectual property, not just their own.
If sharing one song is worth $150,000, I'm sure that sharing one individuals PIP would be worth at least $1,500,000 in statutory damages, and another $5,000,000 in punitive damages, after all one individual could have produced an infinite number of songs/movies/games/software/etc, if only their valuable personal intellectual property hadn't been stolen by those dirty rotten corporations....
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Headline a bit misleading
I think everyone is missing the fact that THIS example is exactly what will be used to push forward the laws to make individuals responsible for everything that happens over their router regardless of security, hacking, key-loggers, back doors installed at the government's request, etc. It won't matter, if they can show that it came thru your modem, they will hold you responsible for it.
Corporations (the same ones pushing the passing of the new laws) will be exempt from the new laws that will be included as a small sub-clause in the next, "think of the children, punish the pedophiles" type bill that nobody will want to stand up and say no to (what, you're not for saving the children?), at least those big enough to lease their own congress critters. So while the government would have no problem with the mom and pop coffee shop getting shut down for users activity on their free-wifi, they wouldn't want McDonalds being held responsible for users doing bad things on their free wi-fi.
Some of this stuff is just so crazy it seems insane.... then it actually happens one day and people go WTF when did that become a law and why didn't someone stop it.
Much like a stopped clock being right twice a day, a conspiracy theorist only has to be right once and suddenly they aren't such a nut job after all... Then the men in black show up, throw them in a military prison, keep them awake and almost naked in solitary confinement for 23 hours out of the day, put him on 'suicide watch' and tell everyone that he's just a little unstable and the harsh treatment is for his own protection, and suddenly everyone goes, "Oh, well he did some things we don't agree with (whistle-blowing...), so maybe he really is just a little out there and deserves to be treated that way."
Now for a modified Neimoller quote:
First they came for the Whistle Blowers, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Whistle Blower...
Then they came for the Open Wi-Fi Advocates, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not an Open Wi-Fi Advocate...
Then they came for the Accused Child Porn Downloaders, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not an Accused Child Porn Downloader.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
It's easier to accept the evil we know (our governments public issues) than the evil we know must be going on behind the scenes. /sarcasm off
I'm sure this has nothing to do with the budget issues or overzealous government intervention in our daily lives. It's the government 'bailout' for the SWAT teams, make the use of SWAT required on all pre-planned arrests, and suddenly there is a reason to justify the funding for the continuation of the SWAT programs.
I'm not implying that SWAT isn't useful for it's intended purpose, but if it costs $5000 (being conservative) to 'arrest' a suspected child porn downloader, compared to $500 to send a couple patrolmen in a black and white, is this really their purpose?
From the government perspective, perhaps the real purpose of SWAT is to inflate the cost of apprehending the "bad-guys" so that they can justify the excessive spending that's going on... but.... but.... but... it costs $5000 to arrest one individual (because we made it a requirement), we need more money or all those other nasty child porn downloaders will get away while we aren't looking.
/sarcasm off, now where did I leave that aluminum beanie?
Torture isn't a method of information gathering, it's a method of information planting.
If you torture an innocent person long enough, odds are that they will be willing to say whatever you want them to just to make the torture stop. Is this really 'gathering information' or is this 'planting a patsy'?
Serious terrorists that are willing to die for their cause are not going to 'break' and provide 'reliable intelligence' when being tortured. They may say things that 'sound' like what the interrogators want to hear, but the info will be bogus (probably leading to a trap if it's followed)..... this is all movie plot stuff people, get with the times....
Manning is being 'tortured' (brainwashed, indoctrinated, culticized, take your pick they are all about the same activity, just performed at different levels by different groups) to try and get him to say what they want him to say when they actually charge him with something.
Not exactly... If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem.... OR more realisticly:
Even if you are the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem. (quote is from a demotivational poster about consultants if I remember correctly, but applies to many industries)
Which is one of the biggest problems with the world today, there is no long term gain/profit/incentive to actually solve problems, only to provide short term 'remedies' or 'treatments' that make things seem better for a short time at a high cost, until the next remedy can be created and marketed.
World of Copycraft... Coming soon to a PC near you.
I'm willing to license this copyrighted/trademarked idea to anyone willing to develop the actual game for only $5 bazillion dollars... I'm sure the license fee is reasonable, since it will be a parody, there will be no other required licensing costs.
Borrow all the best concepts/ideas/storylines from the major MMO's but give them all enough of a parody twist to get around the copyright laws. While technically this should be possible, I'm sure any company trying it would still get sued out of existance.
On the post: BMI Says A Single Person Listening To His Own Music Via The Cloud Is A Public Performance
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The following two cases ....
It's only fun being the 800 pound gorilla in the room when there are other things to throw around, once they have tossed all the entertainment industries out the window, they will turn to what's left.... their customers
You don't think the entertainment industry started out crapping on their customers, do you? They worked long and hard to eliminate all the competition and gain control of everything first... only after they had no competition that they could directly face (those evil 'pirates' are so hard to catch) did they start destroying their customer base...
I guess when you're an 800 pound gorilla, everything looks like something to be thrown, eaten, or crapped on, it's anyone's guess as to which one the industry is doing now
On the post: Son Of COICA: PROTECT IP Act Will Allow For Broad Censorship Powers, Even Granted To Copyright Holders
Re: Didn't I read a book about this in highschool...
Replace 'Firemen' with 'ICE'
Replace 'Books' with 'Websites, Domain names, etc'
Replace 'For the good of Humanity' with 'For our corporate Masters'
Reread the story with the above substitutions, and you would have a good idea of where things might be heading.... Now if the **AA could just get those mechanical dogs working correctly, they could have them track down and kill any IP thieves out there...
On the post: Son Of COICA: PROTECT IP Act Will Allow For Broad Censorship Powers, Even Granted To Copyright Holders
Didn't I read a book about this in highschool...
On the post: Homeland Security Doesn't Do Cost/Benefit Analysis; They Just Do Fear And Bluster
Re:
I'd be more than happy to furnish everyone in the US with one, for only 1.5 trillion, a savings of .5 trillion dollars is nothing to sneeze at.
Disclaimer: ACPD not tested against direct lightning strikes, but are guaranteed to provide more protection than having someone grab your 'junk' while you are struck by lightning, so that's something, right?
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Re: After R'ing TFA
FTFY .... "experience and data demonstrate that money is particularly attractive to spammers, copyright thieves, fraudsters and other wrongdoers."
Obviously we need to eliminate Money and the spammers, copyright thieves, fraudsters, and other wrongdoers would have no motive to do anything..... Sometimes these things are so simple and the politicians just aren't willing to accept the easy solution. Obviously they should all be pushing laws to eliminate currency exchange in any form as it is the root of all evils....
Where's that foil, I need another layer on my beanie....
On the post: Portuguese Politicians Want To Make Creative Commons Illegal
Re: Re: And...
The CABAL is the group of companies, purchased politicians and international organizations behind all these laws and back room deals, and they don't like to be recognized or named. So now that you've named them (inadvertently of course, but making a mistake like a typo is no excuse for mere individuals, mistakes are only excuses when companies mess things up, like Sony 'forgetting' to secure their networks), so expect to be seeing their representatives very soon (as if you'd be able to see the black helicopters and men in black suits before they haul you away)....
Where's the Sanctuary when you need them... I'm sure they would be willing to stand up to the Cabal... /sarcasm off
On the post: Appeals Court Effectively Opens The Floodgates For People To Claim Hollywood 'Stole' Their Ideas
I had an idea once....
You take someone's idea that may or may not be in use, but is written down somewhere (like copyrighted works, or filed at the patent office), you find someone who's using something similar to the idea in the real worls, and you threaten to sue them until they either go out of business or pay you for the use of your idea.
Since all the IP lawyers these day's are using my idea, I think I should get a cut of all legal fees (lawyers for both the plantiff and defendant should have to 'license' the idea from me) plus I should get a cut of any settlements.... It's only fair, since I had the idea, right?
/sarcasm off
On the post: Laptop Rental Provider Sued For Spying On Renters Via Surreptitious Webcam Software
What about the bandwidth costs and the connection that is being 'stolen' by the hardware to transmit the images?
First this 'unauthorized access of a computer network' since the users didn't give permission for the pictures to be transmitted over their internet connection. This bogus claim has been used against multiple individuals for various computer related 'crimes' that weren't really crimes, so it should be applicable to Companies as well.... right?
If this data put anyone over their ISP's limit and forced them to pay additional fees, there should be some sort of claim to recoup these costs. also they 'stole' the connection, so there has to be some payment for that (if you can steal a song, you can steal an internet connection, amIright?)
I'm sure this would also all depend on who the laptop was rented to... I'm sure the laptop rented to the 18 year old female college swimsuit model was 'transmitting' a lot more pictures and video than the one rented to the 40 year old overweight balding middle aged man...
Yes, I'm a cynic... but that doesn't mean I'm wrong
On the post: Chicago Politicians Say Mobile Phones Should Block Kids From Texting While Driving
Next up... vehicles will be required to have RFID tags in the Drivers seat
No I'm not serious, but I am claiming this ideas as my Intellectual Pooperty....(because I know it's a load of crap). Anyone attempting to implement this idea with paying the proper licensing fee of $500 per vehicle will suffer the wrath of 1000 monkey lawyers flinging their intellectual pooperty... They look like a cross between the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz and the ape men from Plane of the Apes, just in case anyone is wondering what monkey lawyers flinging Intellectual pooperty might look like...
On the post: Chicago Politicians Say Mobile Phones Should Block Kids From Texting While Driving
Re: Required, but optional?
Sure I'm serious, if the vehicle is heading north
and there are 2 phones in the vehicle, the westernmost phone is obviously the driver (assuming we are in the US and not England). If there are 3-4 phones in the vehicle, then the western most northern most phone is the 'driver'... in a bus, same principle applies, if you aren't in the 'driver seat' position of the vehicle, then you aren't driving and can text away with no problem. If your phone is the only one in the vehicle then obviously you are the driver and can't text (there isn't anyone out there who doesn't have a mobile phone, and might happen to be be driving while you are riding in the passenger seat texting, right?)
Sure there are logic holes (what if the vehicle is going backwards... or a double decker buss...), what if you are in the backseat and have the only phone in the vehicle... and missing technology to allow the phones to 'talk nicely'.
For any stupid idea, there are stupid and 'less stupid' ways to implement things, of course the political choice would probably be the broader more stupid method of limiting all moving phones.
On the post: IFPI Convinces ISP To Just Hand Over Hard Drives Of Torrent Site
Re:
On the post: Sony Beware: New Argument Seeks To Establish Standing In 'Harmless' Data Breach Lawsuits
How is this different than Copyright Infringement? Oh, that's right the **AA's bought the laws
Yes, I know it's because there is a law with a 'statutory damages' clause that makes this possible....
So lets get a new law passed (anyone out there own a congress critter to get this going?) applying the same 'statutory damages' concept to companies infringing on individuals PIP. I think it would be fair to add a 'punitive damages' clause to PIP losses as well, since without these excessive damage awards, companies will never learn that they need to be careful with everyone's intellectual property, not just their own.
If sharing one song is worth $150,000, I'm sure that sharing one individuals PIP would be worth at least $1,500,000 in statutory damages, and another $5,000,000 in punitive damages, after all one individual could have produced an infinite number of songs/movies/games/software/etc, if only their valuable personal intellectual property hadn't been stolen by those dirty rotten corporations....
I'm not really serious.... or am i? /sarcasm off
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
On the post: You Shouldn't Need An Excuse For Having Fun & Creating Something
Why does it HAVE to be so complicated? Because SIMPLE doesn't require middlemen... Any other questions?
On the post: SWAT Team Raids Home Because Guy Had An Open Wireless Router
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Headline a bit misleading
Corporations (the same ones pushing the passing of the new laws) will be exempt from the new laws that will be included as a small sub-clause in the next, "think of the children, punish the pedophiles" type bill that nobody will want to stand up and say no to (what, you're not for saving the children?), at least those big enough to lease their own congress critters. So while the government would have no problem with the mom and pop coffee shop getting shut down for users activity on their free-wifi, they wouldn't want McDonalds being held responsible for users doing bad things on their free wi-fi.
Some of this stuff is just so crazy it seems insane.... then it actually happens one day and people go WTF when did that become a law and why didn't someone stop it.
Much like a stopped clock being right twice a day, a conspiracy theorist only has to be right once and suddenly they aren't such a nut job after all... Then the men in black show up, throw them in a military prison, keep them awake and almost naked in solitary confinement for 23 hours out of the day, put him on 'suicide watch' and tell everyone that he's just a little unstable and the harsh treatment is for his own protection, and suddenly everyone goes, "Oh, well he did some things we don't agree with (whistle-blowing...), so maybe he really is just a little out there and deserves to be treated that way."
Now for a modified Neimoller quote:
First they came for the Whistle Blowers, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Whistle Blower...
Then they came for the Open Wi-Fi Advocates, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not an Open Wi-Fi Advocate...
Then they came for the Accused Child Porn Downloaders, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not an Accused Child Porn Downloader.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
It's easier to accept the evil we know (our governments public issues) than the evil we know must be going on behind the scenes. /sarcasm off
On the post: SWAT Team Raids Home Because Guy Had An Open Wireless Router
Re: SWAT
I'm not implying that SWAT isn't useful for it's intended purpose, but if it costs $5000 (being conservative) to 'arrest' a suspected child porn downloader, compared to $500 to send a couple patrolmen in a black and white, is this really their purpose?
From the government perspective, perhaps the real purpose of SWAT is to inflate the cost of apprehending the "bad-guys" so that they can justify the excessive spending that's going on... but.... but.... but... it costs $5000 to arrest one individual (because we made it a requirement), we need more money or all those other nasty child porn downloaders will get away while we aren't looking.
/sarcasm off, now where did I leave that aluminum beanie?
On the post: Obama Says It's Okay To Treat Manning The Way He's Been Treated Because He 'Broke The Law'
Re: Obama should be 'transparent'
The majority of you make me sick, I guess that is why Obama is President though..................morons!
On the post: Obama Says It's Okay To Treat Manning The Way He's Been Treated Because He 'Broke The Law'
Re: Re:
If you torture an innocent person long enough, odds are that they will be willing to say whatever you want them to just to make the torture stop. Is this really 'gathering information' or is this 'planting a patsy'?
Serious terrorists that are willing to die for their cause are not going to 'break' and provide 'reliable intelligence' when being tortured. They may say things that 'sound' like what the interrogators want to hear, but the info will be bogus (probably leading to a trap if it's followed)..... this is all movie plot stuff people, get with the times....
Manning is being 'tortured' (brainwashed, indoctrinated, culticized, take your pick they are all about the same activity, just performed at different levels by different groups) to try and get him to say what they want him to say when they actually charge him with something.
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Re: Re:
Even if you are the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem. (quote is from a demotivational poster about consultants if I remember correctly, but applies to many industries)
Which is one of the biggest problems with the world today, there is no long term gain/profit/incentive to actually solve problems, only to provide short term 'remedies' or 'treatments' that make things seem better for a short time at a high cost, until the next remedy can be created and marketed.
On the post: More Video Game Makers Fear The Free Market And Don't Know How To Compete
Re: Re: Time for the first 'parody' MMO
I'm willing to license this copyrighted/trademarked idea to anyone willing to develop the actual game for only $5 bazillion dollars... I'm sure the license fee is reasonable, since it will be a parody, there will be no other required licensing costs.
Borrow all the best concepts/ideas/storylines from the major MMO's but give them all enough of a parody twist to get around the copyright laws. While technically this should be possible, I'm sure any company trying it would still get sued out of existance.
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