Re: HOLY COW! Thanks RIAA for protecting me from tyranny!
If that's what you think about Pandora, I'd love to hear your thoughts on old school broadcast radio.
Oh no, this radio station is FORCING me to listen to half an hour of nonstop ads! And they play songs I don't like, and they don't let me skip them! I can't turn it off or change the station or they'll EAT my SOUL!
How is the 10% of their income more important to them than the 10% I pay of my earnings to me?
Well, if somebody's literally living paycheck to paycheck, barely making rent/utility payments and having to carefully budget what they can afford to eat, I'd say that 10% of that money is pretty damn important to them. A lot more than to somebody with a $50k/year job who has $40k/year of expenses, for example. Sure it's always nice to have as much extra to save as you can get, but to some people it's a matter of survival, not convenience.
Ummm... didn't the WIPO panel just explicitly say otherwise?
The forum is primarily a noncommercial service and the products advertised and sold are ancillary to the website's primary purpose as a political forum.
Because a belief in privacy is completely irreconcilable with a desire to fight copyright trolls? I don't even see where you thought you were going with this one.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: WHOA! Stop at: "everyone just wants stuff for free".
I have not once asked Mike to debate me.
You may not use the word "debate", but you're awfully loud about "him discussing his views on the merits". Sounds a whole lot like a synonym for debate to me.
Hint, each of those words is a separate link to you saying the same thing, all from just your last 2 pages of logged in comment history.
Eh, I just go ahead and turn my phone off and leave it in my backpack when I get to the airport. Anybody who knows me enough to call or text will either know that I'm traveling or not be surprised at the lack of a swift response, so it's just easier for me not to have to deal with any of it.
And under your logic, I can say that my closet is lined with unicorn fur, and you couldn't say it's not true because you can't prove it. I am the one who would have the evidence, not you.
See, a rational person would just not believe that what I say is true until I showed them some compelling evidence. As the person making the positive claim, the burden of proof is on me.
...Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy...
How can it be an illegal copy if the copyright holder itself is making it available for free download? I would think that would at the very least be an implied license for it.
Also, I wonder if their piracy and sales rates would have been different had they not released their "cracked" version of it. The majority of the responses that I've heard are that it's a slightly worse version of a game that's already available for free. Could be that nobody would have bothered to crack it, leading to a much lower piracy rate. Even then, would more people have bought it?
(last year there were multiple versions before the compromise Cybersecurity Act became the bill of choice)
It took me several reads before I figured out that you hadn't forgotten to capitalize all the right letters of the Compromise Cybersecurity Act. I was wondering when they became so candid about it!
So how do you determine where the line is? Would you think it ok if I paid them to come install the antenna and set up the web server, but on my property? How about if they offered space for me to rent for an antenna, but I had to come out and personally install an antenna and server I had bought myself? How does the same exact result (transmission to a single person over the internet) get to be a private performance one way and a public performance another?
The broadcasters give it away for free to those with antennae to receive it.
And Aereo is renting out antennae to receive it. If I set up an antenna at my apartment connected to a personal web server that only I could access, would you argue that I needed to pay a retransmission fee if I were to stream from it while on vacation across the country? Why should anything be different if I'm paying someone else to set up and maintain the antenna and server instead of doing it myself?
Hmmm, punishment of causing death by reckless driving... Let's just say we're in Georgia for the sake of easily available sentencing data. For those of you who don't know what the blue letters in the previous sentence are for, Georgia's law prescribes 3-15 years of imprisonment, with no parole for at least 1 year, for killing another person with your vehicle while driving recklessly.
So with the above suggestion: Look at a billboard? 3 years in jail! Have a kid in the back clamoring for your attention? 3 years in jail! Glance at your phone to make sure which road you're supposed to turn on? 3 years in jail! Hell, look down to read the directions you've written down for yourself so you don't have to use your phone's GPS? You guessed it, 3 years in jail!
Re: PETA Reminds StarCraft Players That Zerglings Have Feelings, Too
Wait wait wait...
They call their blog "The PETA Files"?! Are they not aware of a) how most people pronounce their organization's acronym and b) the British pronunciation of "pedophile"?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So... To all pirates who think 6 Strikes can't work...
I still really feel like you're confusing these two, when they are not actually related to each other. JavaScript is typically handled by the user's browser, where Java requires you to have the JRE installed.
I ask mainly because if they're using flaws in Java, disabling JavaScript in your browser won't do anything about that, other than if they're using some JavaScript implementation flaws to download or start executing the Java in the first place. If they're using flaws in JavaScript for the worm itself, having Java installed or not will have no effect.
I understand that the menus are likely programmed in Java, a lot of things are. I don't want to sound like I'm questioning that at all. I just want you to figure out which you really mean and stick to that one.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So... To all pirates who think 6 Strikes can't work...
Java and JavaScript are completely separate. You don't have to update/install JavaScript, and Java doesn't have anything to do with your computer accessing the internet. Which one are you claiming they're using here?
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Re: HOLY COW! Thanks RIAA for protecting me from tyranny!
Oh no, this radio station is FORCING me to listen to half an hour of nonstop ads! And they play songs I don't like, and they don't let me skip them! I can't turn it off or change the station or they'll EAT my SOUL!
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Re: Re: Internet stations have THE WHOLE WORLD for market.
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Re: Re: Re: NULLIFY + REPUDIATE
Well, if somebody's literally living paycheck to paycheck, barely making rent/utility payments and having to carefully budget what they can afford to eat, I'd say that 10% of that money is pretty damn important to them. A lot more than to somebody with a $50k/year job who has $40k/year of expenses, for example. Sure it's always nice to have as much extra to save as you can get, but to some people it's a matter of survival, not convenience.
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Re: It's a for profit site
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Re: How droll
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: WHOA! Stop at: "everyone just wants stuff for free".
You may not use the word "debate", but you're awfully loud about "him discussing his views on the merits". Sounds a whole lot like a synonym for debate to me.
Hint, each of those words is a separate link to you saying the same thing, all from just your last 2 pages of logged in comment history.
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Re: I'm genuinely shocked
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See, a rational person would just not believe that what I say is true until I showed them some compelling evidence. As the person making the positive claim, the burden of proof is on me.
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Re: Definitions
Also, I wonder if their piracy and sales rates would have been different had they not released their "cracked" version of it. The majority of the responses that I've heard are that it's a slightly worse version of a game that's already available for free. Could be that nobody would have bothered to crack it, leading to a much lower piracy rate. Even then, would more people have bought it?
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So with the above suggestion: Look at a billboard? 3 years in jail! Have a kid in the back clamoring for your attention? 3 years in jail! Glance at your phone to make sure which road you're supposed to turn on? 3 years in jail! Hell, look down to read the directions you've written down for yourself so you don't have to use your phone's GPS? You guessed it, 3 years in jail!
Yeah, sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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Re: Re: Mike will follow a lawyer into any rat-hole!
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Re: PETA Reminds StarCraft Players That Zerglings Have Feelings, Too
They call their blog "The PETA Files"?! Are they not aware of a) how most people pronounce their organization's acronym and b) the British pronunciation of "pedophile"?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So... To all pirates who think 6 Strikes can't work...
I ask mainly because if they're using flaws in Java, disabling JavaScript in your browser won't do anything about that, other than if they're using some JavaScript implementation flaws to download or start executing the Java in the first place. If they're using flaws in JavaScript for the worm itself, having Java installed or not will have no effect.
I understand that the menus are likely programmed in Java, a lot of things are. I don't want to sound like I'm questioning that at all. I just want you to figure out which you really mean and stick to that one.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So... To all pirates who think 6 Strikes can't work...
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Re: Re: Re: Yawn. Mountain-out-of-a-molehill Mike rants again.
To respond on behalf of DH, I'd like to quote an earlier comment of yours.
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