I think we should all give up and just push for stupidly UBER copyright law.
Customer goes into a store. Buys a CD. Staff member warns the customer that the CD has a GPS tracking device on it that cannot be switched off and that the RIAA will track the CD everywhere it goes.
Once the CD is opened, the built-in videocamera begins to record the customers every move when they use the CD, to ensure its not sold to the 2nd hand market.
Warning sticker on the back of the CD says the CD is only designed to be used with authorized RIAA-CD players and has been coated with an explosive substance that will destroy unauthorized players that spin at an incorrect speed.
Customer inserts CD. Rootkit software promptly installs itself and begins to phone home telling the record companies what software the customer is using to play the CD, what their favorite porn sites are (so future music can take into account the customers scat fetish) and what their bank account details are (so future payments are easier!)
PC webcam switches on, realizes there are bacteria and virues floating in the air around the customer whilst they listen to the CD and that this counts as a public performance. Appropriate monies are removed automatically from the customers bank account to cover the performance fees.
PC microphone picks up that the customer is singing along to the music SLIGHTLY AHEAD of playback and this means the customer has downloaded an pirated copy of the song into their organice storage module (brain). Lawsuits are automatically filed for the lost sale.
any time someone is trying to show a security flaw and gets sued they should INSTANTLY (anonymously) release the hack data to the public.
Company with security flaw suddenly has a major breach on its hands + monetary losses.
If this happens just a few times for a few hundred million a shot, companies wouldn't DARE to sue someone trying to help them as the consequences would be nightmareish
"They've put out for bid a search engine optimization contract, in which they want the top 150 results on the city's name to show "positive(protons) or neutral(neutrons) opinions of the ecology of Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk region." At most only 20% should show "negative reports about the region's environment.""
80%...chelyabinsk is great....i love the local parks!! etc
20%...hey this place is a radioactive hellhole and if you spend more than an hour here your testicles will grow tumors and fall off!!!!!!
Someone at the groups management has grabbed the idea that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" and has been reading techdirt it seems:
step1. have the band "cancel" halfway through a performance, drawing SOME media attention
step2. Issue massive takedown notices of any video about this to try to take advantage of the Streisand Effect
step3. ?????
step4. Profit when the "Surprise" new album/tour comes out......
step 1. say all end-users are "infringing" and must have an individually negotiated licence for each website they visit.
step 2. All-out civil war across the UK as people are imprisoned for trying to buy things from amazon. (Civil war here has happened before don't say it won't happen again)
The judge mentioned the NAME of meltwater...doesn't that mean the judge infringed on meltwater's IP?
That could be a hilarious chain of lawsuits waiting to happen....meltwater sues the court system, the court system can't appeal because they'd need to mention meltwater's name and in doing so would be accused of more and more infringement until eventually someone would have to send the TSA over to stick their fists up the judges ass "just in case" everything was terrorist related and the judge may one day go on holiday to the USA....
I was going to go to some news-sites in the UK like sky.com/news and bbc.co.uk/news (and possibly some newspaper websites themselves) but now I can't because I'll be infringing by "copying" their content onto my PC.....
Never mind I guess I'll just have to get my news via huffington and techdirt eh?
One flight is full of passengers that have been sexually assaulted (and raped afterwards just to break their spirit!), the other is full of happy passengers willing to spend money on the aircraft and have a good holiday because a fat TSA guy DIDN'T get to shove his pinky into their anus and asking if there were any terrorists up there.
When everyone get to see BOTH planes didn't suddenly get hijacked/crash into the ground in a screaming ball of wreckage then add up the wasted TSA salaries, perhaps we'd see change.
Please stop dissing the WSJ, they are trying their level best to come up with a reason for shutting down in August and you aren't making it easy for them.
Gotta blame those "misguided members of the public" not the fact that your own organization maliciously pretended a murder victim was alive, (allegedly) may have planted evidence that someone was a terrorist (causing them to get shot in the head on the London Underground), (alleged) insider trading being the reason for purchasing WSJ/Dow Jones and so many other things (we won't even mention the allegations that someone very high up at NI tried to engineer an assassination attempt on the Queen of England by freely giving away her personal security arrangements).....
There's a very simple answer to this..make sure the company in question is publicly slammed and slammed HARD....
We've all seen how public opinion can tip companies like news international into bankruptcy (oh wait thats next week teeheehee!) and a company like Aaron's will lose MILLIONS as customers turn away...."hey thats the store with the guys that like to masturbate to pictures of their customers children.....I'm off to best buy"......etc
probably on the list if you have saggy breasts or a small penis or are otherwise not attractive to the TSA staff (hence they'd rather thin the herd and have only sexy people flying)
I know WHY the TSA does such strict patdowns.
They are making sure the maximum number of passengers survive a crash by ensuring only the juiciest tenderest people get beyond the security gates so in the event of a crash there's plenty of meat for the survivors to munch on whilst they wait for rescue!
Didn't you notice after your patdown, they record info on a little handheld? its basically who would go well with a stick of butter and who's best off being spit roasted.
Firstly I get a terrorist with half a brain (literally) to plant plastic explosives where the missing hemisphere would be.
THEN (muhahaha) I get him to the airport and phone homeland security and tell them what I've done!
Then the TSA will have to cut the heads off random passengers and open their skulls with hammers just to "ensure no-one is killed on this flight".........
Copyright was originally enacted by Congress.
Is the defendant present?
AFACT has accused you of theft of something they state own
Do you deny the charges?
will you be defending yourself?
Does AFACT have any further facts to put to the Judge?
Some people have heralded the Internet as the death of copyright.....
The simple answer is as SOON as a politican starts using your music publicly, you come out and say what a god-awful retarded you think that person is and how they deserve to die in a ditch after being raped unconscious by wild baboons.......
get THAT onto twitter and watch the hilarity as they continue to use your music.....
Or (depending on the song) just make-up a reason for the lyrics.....oh yeah THAT song? yeah its a ballad about how awful politicians are and how they're all scum-sucking parasites that should be blasted into the sun!
We put this police officer and an unarmed completely innocent african-american in a box together and sealed the lid.
Now due to quantum mechanics we can't know for sure if the police man beat the other guy senseless for no good reason (but we can hazard a guess) until we open the box and observe the policeman and the citizen's corpse
the "wasting your bandwidth" law...wherein anyone downloading anything thats basically a rehash of something released last year (or a gritty reboot) gets 15years hard labor cleaning out the cage they keep Glenn Beck inbetween shows.
all it would take is about 1200 lines of text in total somewhere around the size of a typical techdirt post.
The answer?
The president's book of nuclear codes..after all if every american city is a smoldering radioactive wasteland with bits and pieces of (law-abiding) citizens everywhere then no-one can pirate anything ever again!
The alternative of course (that hollywood has already begun to test out) is to make content of such appallingly low quality that no-one wants to "pirate" it even if you threw a box and label printer at them.
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change the law
Customer goes into a store. Buys a CD. Staff member warns the customer that the CD has a GPS tracking device on it that cannot be switched off and that the RIAA will track the CD everywhere it goes.
Once the CD is opened, the built-in videocamera begins to record the customers every move when they use the CD, to ensure its not sold to the 2nd hand market.
Warning sticker on the back of the CD says the CD is only designed to be used with authorized RIAA-CD players and has been coated with an explosive substance that will destroy unauthorized players that spin at an incorrect speed.
Customer inserts CD. Rootkit software promptly installs itself and begins to phone home telling the record companies what software the customer is using to play the CD, what their favorite porn sites are (so future music can take into account the customers scat fetish) and what their bank account details are (so future payments are easier!)
PC webcam switches on, realizes there are bacteria and virues floating in the air around the customer whilst they listen to the CD and that this counts as a public performance. Appropriate monies are removed automatically from the customers bank account to cover the performance fees.
PC microphone picks up that the customer is singing along to the music SLIGHTLY AHEAD of playback and this means the customer has downloaded an pirated copy of the song into their organice storage module (brain). Lawsuits are automatically filed for the lost sale.
On the post: Dutch Journalist In Legal Trouble For Showing How New Transit Card Is Easy To Defraud
Company with security flaw suddenly has a major breach on its hands + monetary losses.
If this happens just a few times for a few hundred million a shot, companies wouldn't DARE to sue someone trying to help them as the consequences would be nightmareish
On the post: 'Dirty' City Decides It's Cheaper To Clean Up Google Rankings Than Clean Up
80%...chelyabinsk is great....i love the local parks!! etc
20%...hey this place is a radioactive hellhole and if you spend more than an hour here your testicles will grow tumors and fall off!!!!!!
I wonder which % would be more effective
On the post: Kings Of Leon Management Issuing Questionable DMCA Takedowns To Stop Clips Of On-Stage Problems?
simply because
step1. have the band "cancel" halfway through a performance, drawing SOME media attention
step2. Issue massive takedown notices of any video about this to try to take advantage of the Streisand Effect
step3. ?????
step4. Profit when the "Surprise" new album/tour comes out......
On the post: UK Appeals Court Agrees That Clicking A Link And Opening A Website... Is Infringing
the steps
step 2. All-out civil war across the UK as people are imprisoned for trying to buy things from amazon. (Civil war here has happened before don't say it won't happen again)
step 3. ?????
step 4. profit
On the post: UK Appeals Court Agrees That Clicking A Link And Opening A Website... Is Infringing
also
That could be a hilarious chain of lawsuits waiting to happen....meltwater sues the court system, the court system can't appeal because they'd need to mention meltwater's name and in doing so would be accused of more and more infringement until eventually someone would have to send the TSA over to stick their fists up the judges ass "just in case" everything was terrorist related and the judge may one day go on holiday to the USA....
On the post: UK Appeals Court Agrees That Clicking A Link And Opening A Website... Is Infringing
ah well
Never mind I guess I'll just have to get my news via huffington and techdirt eh?
On the post: Court: Naked Scanners Are Constitutional; But TSA Should Have Asked For Public Comment
the answer!
One flight is full of passengers that have been sexually assaulted (and raped afterwards just to break their spirit!), the other is full of happy passengers willing to spend money on the aircraft and have a good holiday because a fat TSA guy DIDN'T get to shove his pinky into their anus and asking if there were any terrorists up there.
When everyone get to see BOTH planes didn't suddenly get hijacked/crash into the ground in a screaming ball of wreckage then add up the wasted TSA salaries, perhaps we'd see change.
On the post: WSJ's Defense Of News Of The World: Hey, It's Not Like They Published Wikileaks Secrets
dear mike
Gotta blame those "misguided members of the public" not the fact that your own organization maliciously pretended a murder victim was alive, (allegedly) may have planted evidence that someone was a terrorist (causing them to get shot in the head on the London Underground), (alleged) insider trading being the reason for purchasing WSJ/Dow Jones and so many other things (we won't even mention the allegations that someone very high up at NI tried to engineer an assassination attempt on the Queen of England by freely giving away her personal security arrangements).....
On the post: Court Refuses To Issue Injunction Stopping Secret Web Spycams From Running On Rental Laptops
well
We've all seen how public opinion can tip companies like news international into bankruptcy (oh wait thats next week teeheehee!) and a company like Aaron's will lose MILLIONS as customers turn away...."hey thats the store with the guys that like to masturbate to pictures of their customers children.....I'm off to best buy"......etc
On the post: Court: Naked Scanners Are Constitutional; But TSA Should Have Asked For Public Comment
probably
On the post: Court: Naked Scanners Are Constitutional; But TSA Should Have Asked For Public Comment
I know why
They are making sure the maximum number of passengers survive a crash by ensuring only the juiciest tenderest people get beyond the security gates so in the event of a crash there's plenty of meat for the survivors to munch on whilst they wait for rescue!
Didn't you notice after your patdown, they record info on a little handheld? its basically who would go well with a stick of butter and who's best off being spit roasted.
Obesity FTW or something..................
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misunderstanding
On the post: Righthaven Loses Again (Yes, Again), With Another Judge... But Immediately Refiles Lawsuit
the big question is
The question they need to ask is...who do you sue to get a soul and a sense of dignity?
On the post: Woman Arrested For Not Letting TSA Grope Her Daughter
I know how to kill you all!!!!!!!
THEN (muhahaha) I get him to the airport and phone homeland security and tell them what I've done!
Then the TSA will have to cut the heads off random passengers and open their skulls with hammers just to "ensure no-one is killed on this flight".........
On the post: Australian Anti-Piracy Group Threatening ISPs With Legal Action... Even Though Court Already Ruled Against Them
selective hearing/reading
Is the defendant present?
AFACT has accused you of theft of something they state own
Do you deny the charges?
will you be defending yourself?
Does AFACT have any further facts to put to the Judge?
Some people have heralded the Internet as the death of copyright.....
AFACT [redacted] "what I wanna hear" version..
Copyright .................................
Is ......................
..........................theft......................
...you ..................
will.....be..................
..........................................put to.......
..............................................death......
On the post: Dear Musicians: Once Again, Politicians Can Probably Play Your Songs At Events Without Your Permission
easy answer
get THAT onto twitter and watch the hilarity as they continue to use your music.....
Or (depending on the song) just make-up a reason for the lyrics.....oh yeah THAT song? yeah its a ballad about how awful politicians are and how they're all scum-sucking parasites that should be blasted into the sun!
On the post: Woman Charged With 'Obstructing Governmental Administration' For Filming Police From Her Front Yard
well
We put this police officer and an unarmed completely innocent african-american in a box together and sealed the lid.
Now due to quantum mechanics we can't know for sure if the police man beat the other guy senseless for no good reason (but we can hazard a guess) until we open the box and observe the policeman and the citizen's corpse
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which leads me to
the "wasting your bandwidth" law...wherein anyone downloading anything thats basically a rehash of something released last year (or a gritty reboot) gets 15years hard labor cleaning out the cage they keep Glenn Beck inbetween shows.
On the post: The Return Of The Broadcast Treaty
i can solve "piracy"
The answer?
The president's book of nuclear codes..after all if every american city is a smoldering radioactive wasteland with bits and pieces of (law-abiding) citizens everywhere then no-one can pirate anything ever again!
The alternative of course (that hollywood has already begun to test out) is to make content of such appallingly low quality that no-one wants to "pirate" it even if you threw a box and label printer at them.
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