Re: Where is the "transparency" the White House Promised?
The United States has much changed in recent years. Like they used be the number one country to lend money to others where now they hold the world's largest debt, money owed to others.
The US national debt back in 2000 stood at only $5.629 trillion but under George W(armonger) Bush just 8 years later this debt had climbed to $9.986 trillion. That is a 77.4% increase and to give you a comparison then most Presidents aim for an 8% increase. Clinton proved to be a rare President who did a 0% increase.
President Bush ruined your economy but what about President Obama?
Instead of fixing the problem he only made the situation even worse. The $9.986 trillion debt he was passed has now grown to $15.3 trillion. That happens to be a 53% increase on only THREE YEARS.
The US national debt now increases by about $3.8 billion each and every day but they still have to borrow $5 billion every day.
The funny part of all this is that this $15.3 trillion is not even real money when it is only numbers in accounts on computer systems. However had you had this $15.3 trillion in $50 notes, taped end to end, then this line would wrap around the entire World all of 116 times.
The budget deficit for 2013 is projected to be $901 billion as the US aims to reduce its huge debt through creating even more debt! The only good news there is a reduction when the past 4 previous years were all over $1 trillion including the $1.33 trillion budget deficit for 2012.
The United States now has to borrow 43 cents for every 1 dollar they spend. That is four times the rate it was back in the 1980s.
Well if the United States continues on this path of destruction then life will only get much worse. Their only solution is to ramp up taxes while making massive cuts in spending with welfare and the military being the top two.
We can begin to see that if the likes of China can get themselves organized they could take over being the World's number one power. This year it is true to say that China will over take the US on science spending years ahead of schedule.
It is nice to see my claims validated in that none of us, including the vast majority of MEPs, actually know what went on during the creation of ACTA.
So I will make my points again...
1. International law clearly states that such an agreement will override national laws. An example is already how they say that Congress will be denied setting the IP laws it wants due to living up to this trade agreement.
2. ACTA is about the most vague document you will ever have seen with many vague sections. It would have been nice had each country been allowed to decide for itself the meaning of these vague points but this so wont happen.
3. International law is very clear on how to define vague points when it says to refer to the original negotiations at the time of creation.
This all means that Governments are aiming to sign up and be honour bound to a vague agreement THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW THE TRUE MEANING OF BECAUSE THOSE CREATION DOCUMENTS ARE LOCKED UP IN SECRET.
There are many huge dangers here seeing that they are aiming to unify copyright enforcement laws to an international level under their control. Sure enough TPPA is already on the way.
Then who can say what a vague term like "commercial infringement" means? Is this sites like TPB and MU or simply any commercial operation they do not like? We will only find that out when the court cases start and they release a few of these secret creation documents.
I used to believe ACTA was not as bad as SOPA then thanks to a random meeting involing the above revelation I can now see that ACTA is a thousand times more dangerous.
China has a very slow network and all theirs links have to pass through their great firewall servers.
The best idea there is to have your business right on the China side of the Hong Kong border but then to run a data cable across the border to tap into the very high speed uncensored Hong Kong Internet. You could even do a WIFI or microwave link setup.
China is really a world apart when it comes to copyright, patents and trademarks. They more see that sucking everything in from everyone else benefits their country.
I am not surprised seeing that the United States have a policy to invade your servers and to examine your data.
Even home users should consider if they should use web mail service like Yahoo when US Law certainly does say that an email over 6 months old is considered "abandoned" and they certainly will copy out your private messages.
I am not at all surprised by this when the Mega raid is clearly an attack on DMCA safe-harbour law. I have been telling people for a long time that this is going to cause a "chilling effect" across the whole hosting and cloud services market.
Mega was a company aiming to follow the law and happy to meet any lawful challenge in court. They did certainly remove countless thousands of links as part of their DMCA take-down process. So even before they are found guilty of infringement in the slightest the US Government totally destroyed their corporation worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Combined with all the dishonesty contained in these charges this to me is in no way justice and due process but them conducting a War on infringement.
There seems little doubt to me that this raid was approved shortly after Mega made public their Mega Video. The timing is right to plan and pull off a raid. So now we can see what happens to file sharing services that mess with UMG's musicians.
The big question in all this is how safe is your company should users start uploading infringing files? Then we have to ask how safe is your domain when like JotForm it can be blocked with no reason give?
I am doubtful they will reach an agreement. After the Australian courts turned them down then the copyright cartels are only using this as a "bullying and threats" party.
Then after all that the content industry do not even want to pay for the filtering system that they want to force on to the Australian public. A situation that only provides the answer to Donald Duck off.
I am sure that the Tech Industry quickly learnt what little Hitlers the Content Industry is how they should not cooperate with them. The only way something would pass here was if they get tired of their whining screeching little child-like voices and just give them something to shut them the Hell up.
Let me put it this way. How much love would iiNet have for the people who dragged them through the courts?
Yes some due process on that one would soon dictate that a service does actually need to be found guilty of copyright infringement in civil court before destroying their business on some criminal copyright infringement charge.
Is this not the common American way of shoot first and find out if you have a valid victim afterwards?
Well what can you say to this one. Some psycho bitch in the US Secret Service took it down for a laugh. "Why?" is a question we may never find out.
This only leaves me thinking that the Internet needs its own Bill of Rights to clarify how the Governments of the World can correctly interface with this network. Well that and the rights of the citizens who use it.
This does make a good point when we have now established a road block to stop any further bad Hollywood creations passing.
SOPA = Dead and buried.
PIPA = Knocked into a coma.
ACTA = Having its limbs pulled off and soon dead.
So their key aim should not be a list of nasty new surprises but to actually write a trade agreement that the public will accept. Removing Internet attacks would be a good start.
However, if they go and throw another ACTA at us, then we will only blow it out the water. This would then waste all their time and money but we would not shed any tears.
There were plenty of official sources giving out usually factual details on SOPA and those were scary enough. Many tens of thousands of us directly rallied against SOPA because of this.
Then there is another element in this when I have seen my own ideas travel about to thousands of people. My rallying theory is the not untrue claim that these laws are an attack on the Indie market and an Internet land-grab.
The general population don't want a technical breakdown of what this exactly means when they just want some basic concept that they can rally behind. Something that can scare them into thinking "this is just not right"
So right here [wave] is one of their reasons. There are of course plenty others when I certainly cant cover every community but I did at least rally a few thousand.
I can certainly do the same for ACTA and to give the world a horror story that would rally them. Let me scare you...
1. Under international law a trade agreement overrides national laws. This is why it has been often said that ACTA will stop Congress setting the IP laws it wants.
2. ACTA contains many points that are very vague and open to different interpretations. It would be nice for each country to set its own definition but this certainly wont happen.
3. International law is very clear when it comes to the clarification of vague points then it says to refer to the points made during the original discussions. Those discussions we know were conducted in secret.
What this means is that countries have signed a very vague trade agreement that NO ONE KNOWS THE TRUE MEANING OF WHEN THOSE CREATION DOCUMENTS ARE HELD IN SECRET.
This also means that only once ACTA has been ratified by these countries and court case start will some of those documents be released. When it comes to vague terms like "commercial infringement" then clearly we have a big problem.
This is certainly all true & somewhere here are my notes which prove it. Maybe this situation explains why the United States long refused to make ACTA public denying any such request as "harming national security"
You are right there. The best defence is always a good offence.
It is shame we do not have this woman's name and contact details to point out a few facts that JotForm may be too polite to do themselves.
I stand by my claim. Under the law if someone cannot answer why your property has been seized when you ask then this is court quality evidence that they have no justifiable reason.
So JotForm are indeed in a nice position to sue should and when they feel is the right time. I trust they are recording the evidence.
I would say it is not true that they are unchanged when there has been many changes. They are just not reinventing themselves when they prefer to lock up their old market than to embrace the new market.
MP3s and FLAC files are clearly not creations of the content industry which are normally subject to encryption and content control. Piracy has created the whole market here.
You are now able to buy DVDs and Blurays much faster without society going through the PPV phaze, renting phaze, movie station phaze and more first. This is them aiming to beat piracy by getting out into the market early.
Then 3D had been rushed into cinemas much faster to give people a viewing experience that piracy could not.
So thanks to piracy they have made large progress. This now continues with getting media distributed across the world faster.
It sounds like the US Secret Service are operating outside their area. From Wikipedia...
The U.S. Secret Service has two distinct areas of responsibility:
Treasury roles, covering missions such as prevention and investigation of counterfeiting of U.S. currency and U.S treasury securities, and investigation of major fraud.
Protective roles, ensuring the safety of current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past Presidents, Vice Presidents, presidential candidates, foreign embassies (per an agreement with the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) Office of Foreign Missions (OFM)), etc.
The closest match there is major fraud but of course JotForm have not done even minor fraud when anything that has happened is through their users.
I would say the person at JotForm was being nice to her for her to get irritated. Had it been me I would so be calling her three-word abusive terms by now with the middle word always being "lazy"
You would think she would be able to answer exactly why this domain was taken offline even before she took it offline. So to now have no answer indicates that there was no valid reason to take it offline.
Once again the 1% of those rich enough to have power totally ignore that the other 99% exist or have a democratic voice which means they treat us as trash. Their own actions are undemocratic and so they ignore democracy.
They are not fully wrong when corporations often control the Government. But then the Government aims to serve the people while being paid to not do so by the corporations. This makes the whole system confused about who does wield the real power.
I have never seen the Digital Economy Act as a scheme that will ever be successful. The DEA was debated by the ignorant, passed by the absent and being implemented by the unwilling.
The scheme is going to cost so much that only the richest rights owners will be able to afford it. Not to forget "innocent until proven guilty" turns into "guilty with every innocent excuse stripped down to the bare minimum".
Then it comes under attack many times when it comes to any thought of public rights. Even within Government different departments are opposed about what to do. Then today the European Court of Justice makes clear that public rights should always come before copyright enforcement.
Considering the SOPA, PIPA and ACTA protests then UK Government are playing with fire. They had better hope that the UK population do not get annoyed and strike back.
Their best option is to just dig a big hole and bury the DEA in it, walk away whistling, then pretend it never happened.
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Re: Where is the "transparency" the White House Promised?
The US national debt back in 2000 stood at only $5.629 trillion but under George W(armonger) Bush just 8 years later this debt had climbed to $9.986 trillion. That is a 77.4% increase and to give you a comparison then most Presidents aim for an 8% increase. Clinton proved to be a rare President who did a 0% increase.
President Bush ruined your economy but what about President Obama?
Instead of fixing the problem he only made the situation even worse. The $9.986 trillion debt he was passed has now grown to $15.3 trillion. That happens to be a 53% increase on only THREE YEARS.
The US national debt now increases by about $3.8 billion each and every day but they still have to borrow $5 billion every day.
The funny part of all this is that this $15.3 trillion is not even real money when it is only numbers in accounts on computer systems. However had you had this $15.3 trillion in $50 notes, taped end to end, then this line would wrap around the entire World all of 116 times.
The budget deficit for 2013 is projected to be $901 billion as the US aims to reduce its huge debt through creating even more debt! The only good news there is a reduction when the past 4 previous years were all over $1 trillion including the $1.33 trillion budget deficit for 2012.
The United States now has to borrow 43 cents for every 1 dollar they spend. That is four times the rate it was back in the 1980s.
Well if the United States continues on this path of destruction then life will only get much worse. Their only solution is to ramp up taxes while making massive cuts in spending with welfare and the military being the top two.
We can begin to see that if the likes of China can get themselves organized they could take over being the World's number one power. This year it is true to say that China will over take the US on science spending years ahead of schedule.
On the post: Shining Light On ACTA's Lack Of Transparency
Horror in the Shadows
So I will make my points again...
1. International law clearly states that such an agreement will override national laws. An example is already how they say that Congress will be denied setting the IP laws it wants due to living up to this trade agreement.
2. ACTA is about the most vague document you will ever have seen with many vague sections. It would have been nice had each country been allowed to decide for itself the meaning of these vague points but this so wont happen.
3. International law is very clear on how to define vague points when it says to refer to the original negotiations at the time of creation.
This all means that Governments are aiming to sign up and be honour bound to a vague agreement THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW THE TRUE MEANING OF BECAUSE THOSE CREATION DOCUMENTS ARE LOCKED UP IN SECRET.
There are many huge dangers here seeing that they are aiming to unify copyright enforcement laws to an international level under their control. Sure enough TPPA is already on the way.
Then who can say what a vague term like "commercial infringement" means? Is this sites like TPB and MU or simply any commercial operation they do not like? We will only find that out when the court cases start and they release a few of these secret creation documents.
I used to believe ACTA was not as bad as SOPA then thanks to a random meeting involing the above revelation I can now see that ACTA is a thousand times more dangerous.
ACTA must die.
On the post: How Do We Know That Piracy Isn't Really A Big Issue? Because Media Companies Still Haven't Needed To Change As A Result Of It
Re:
So all you are saying is that these organizations without the protection of their monopoly is unable to compete and succeed in a fair and open market.
If they cant compete they deserve to die. Gone the way of the dinosaurs.
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Re: Re: Re: opportunity
The best idea there is to have your business right on the China side of the Hong Kong border but then to run a data cable across the border to tap into the very high speed uncensored Hong Kong Internet. You could even do a WIFI or microwave link setup.
China is really a world apart when it comes to copyright, patents and trademarks. They more see that sucking everything in from everyone else benefits their country.
On the post: How The Megaupload Shutdown Has Put 'Cloud Computing' Business Plans At Risk
Re: No cloud for us
Even home users should consider if they should use web mail service like Yahoo when US Law certainly does say that an email over 6 months old is considered "abandoned" and they certainly will copy out your private messages.
On the post: How The Megaupload Shutdown Has Put 'Cloud Computing' Business Plans At Risk
Re: opportunity
It makes a good point but if The Pirate Bay can stay afloat then so can much more harmless business sites.
On the post: How The Megaupload Shutdown Has Put 'Cloud Computing' Business Plans At Risk
Migrating risks
Mega was a company aiming to follow the law and happy to meet any lawful challenge in court. They did certainly remove countless thousands of links as part of their DMCA take-down process. So even before they are found guilty of infringement in the slightest the US Government totally destroyed their corporation worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Combined with all the dishonesty contained in these charges this to me is in no way justice and due process but them conducting a War on infringement.
There seems little doubt to me that this raid was approved shortly after Mega made public their Mega Video. The timing is right to plan and pull off a raid. So now we can see what happens to file sharing services that mess with UMG's musicians.
The big question in all this is how safe is your company should users start uploading infringing files? Then we have to ask how safe is your domain when like JotForm it can be blocked with no reason give?
On the post: Australian Government Holds Secret Anti-Piracy Meetings; The Public Is Not Invited
Not a lot
Then after all that the content industry do not even want to pay for the filtering system that they want to force on to the Australian public. A situation that only provides the answer to Donald Duck off.
I am sure that the Tech Industry quickly learnt what little Hitlers the Content Industry is how they should not cooperate with them. The only way something would pass here was if they get tired of their whining screeching little child-like voices and just give them something to shut them the Hell up.
Let me put it this way. How much love would iiNet have for the people who dragged them through the courts?
On the post: US Returns JotForm.com Domain; Still Refuses To Say What Happened
Re: Why do we need SOPA again?
On the post: US Returns JotForm.com Domain; Still Refuses To Say What Happened
Them crazy Americans
Well what can you say to this one. Some psycho bitch in the US Secret Service took it down for a laugh. "Why?" is a question we may never find out.
This only leaves me thinking that the Internet needs its own Bill of Rights to clarify how the Governments of the World can correctly interface with this network. Well that and the rights of the citizens who use it.
That would sure be an historic day.
On the post: Dear USTR: Want Other Countries To Sign Your Trade Agreements? Stop Letting Hollywood Write Them
F OFF Hollywood
SOPA = Dead and buried.
PIPA = Knocked into a coma.
ACTA = Having its limbs pulled off and soon dead.
So their key aim should not be a list of nasty new surprises but to actually write a trade agreement that the public will accept. Removing Internet attacks would be a good start.
However, if they go and throw another ACTA at us, then we will only blow it out the water. This would then waste all their time and money but we would not shed any tears.
On the post: Directors Guild Boss Insists That Everyone Against SOPA/PIPA Was Duped
Phantoms
There were plenty of official sources giving out usually factual details on SOPA and those were scary enough. Many tens of thousands of us directly rallied against SOPA because of this.
Then there is another element in this when I have seen my own ideas travel about to thousands of people. My rallying theory is the not untrue claim that these laws are an attack on the Indie market and an Internet land-grab.
The general population don't want a technical breakdown of what this exactly means when they just want some basic concept that they can rally behind. Something that can scare them into thinking "this is just not right"
So right here [wave] is one of their reasons. There are of course plenty others when I certainly cant cover every community but I did at least rally a few thousand.
I can certainly do the same for ACTA and to give the world a horror story that would rally them. Let me scare you...
1. Under international law a trade agreement overrides national laws. This is why it has been often said that ACTA will stop Congress setting the IP laws it wants.
2. ACTA contains many points that are very vague and open to different interpretations. It would be nice for each country to set its own definition but this certainly wont happen.
3. International law is very clear when it comes to the clarification of vague points then it says to refer to the points made during the original discussions. Those discussions we know were conducted in secret.
What this means is that countries have signed a very vague trade agreement that NO ONE KNOWS THE TRUE MEANING OF WHEN THOSE CREATION DOCUMENTS ARE HELD IN SECRET.
This also means that only once ACTA has been ratified by these countries and court case start will some of those documents be released. When it comes to vague terms like "commercial infringement" then clearly we have a big problem.
This is certainly all true & somewhere here are my notes which prove it. Maybe this situation explains why the United States long refused to make ACTA public denying any such request as "harming national security"
On the post: US Government 'Suspends' JotForm.com Over User Generated Forms; Censorship Regime Expands
Re: Its official ....
I hope JotForm provide her name. There are 306,611 users directly taken offline here with around 200,000 more with a vested interest.
And here she is thinking that she can take as long as she likes.
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Re:
It is shame we do not have this woman's name and contact details to point out a few facts that JotForm may be too polite to do themselves.
I stand by my claim. Under the law if someone cannot answer why your property has been seized when you ask then this is court quality evidence that they have no justifiable reason.
So JotForm are indeed in a nice position to sue should and when they feel is the right time. I trust they are recording the evidence.
On the post: How Do We Know That Piracy Isn't Really A Big Issue? Because Media Companies Still Haven't Needed To Change As A Result Of It
MP3s and FLAC files are clearly not creations of the content industry which are normally subject to encryption and content control. Piracy has created the whole market here.
You are now able to buy DVDs and Blurays much faster without society going through the PPV phaze, renting phaze, movie station phaze and more first. This is them aiming to beat piracy by getting out into the market early.
Then 3D had been rushed into cinemas much faster to give people a viewing experience that piracy could not.
So thanks to piracy they have made large progress. This now continues with getting media distributed across the world faster.
On the post: US Government 'Suspends' JotForm.com Over User Generated Forms; Censorship Regime Expands
Re:
The U.S. Secret Service has two distinct areas of responsibility:
Treasury roles, covering missions such as prevention and investigation of counterfeiting of U.S. currency and U.S treasury securities, and investigation of major fraud.
Protective roles, ensuring the safety of current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past Presidents, Vice Presidents, presidential candidates, foreign embassies (per an agreement with the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) Office of Foreign Missions (OFM)), etc.
The closest match there is major fraud but of course JotForm have not done even minor fraud when anything that has happened is through their users.
I would say the person at JotForm was being nice to her for her to get irritated. Had it been me I would so be calling her three-word abusive terms by now with the middle word always being "lazy"
You would think she would be able to answer exactly why this domain was taken offline even before she took it offline. So to now have no answer indicates that there was no valid reason to take it offline.
On the post: US Government 'Suspends' JotForm.com Over User Generated Forms; Censorship Regime Expands
What The Hell?
I have looked into this and JotForm provide a very useful service to those looking to create online forms. This is clearly all user creations.
Then after looking into where their .com has gone I see this...
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
NS2.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
I would call that shocking. No matter the complaint one look at the service would clearly highlight this is some user problem.
JotForm so need to switch domains to NameCheap.
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P O W E R
They are not fully wrong when corporations often control the Government. But then the Government aims to serve the people while being paid to not do so by the corporations. This makes the whole system confused about who does wield the real power.
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Re: Re:
The scheme is going to cost so much that only the richest rights owners will be able to afford it. Not to forget "innocent until proven guilty" turns into "guilty with every innocent excuse stripped down to the bare minimum".
Then it comes under attack many times when it comes to any thought of public rights. Even within Government different departments are opposed about what to do. Then today the European Court of Justice makes clear that public rights should always come before copyright enforcement.
Considering the SOPA, PIPA and ACTA protests then UK Government are playing with fire. They had better hope that the UK population do not get annoyed and strike back.
Their best option is to just dig a big hole and bury the DEA in it, walk away whistling, then pretend it never happened.
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Re: Costly system?
Copyright mystery.
Many lawful exceptions.
DMCA abuse.
Then the MPAA made $86 billion with extreme greed for more.
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