General society and the Police well tackled Child Pornography long before these web filters came about. It is true to say that the real CP these days are on dark nets and well removed from the web.
I have in fact seen a CP censorship list thanks to Wikileaks and the whole thing is little more than one age questionable photo on an otherwise pure adult site. Then many site owners soon correct the problem themselves when it becomes apparent.
Let us never forget why web filters exist when it was the RIAA and MPAA pushing ISPs to web filter in the name of filtering CP to protest children. They did that so when the CP filter was active they could then abuse it to censor copyright infringement.
So I do certainly say that all censorship should be removed from ISPs and to tackle CP in more traditional ways. It helps none to sweep CP under the rug and to pretend that it does not exist when little boys and girls still get sexually violated if you want to see it or not.
Protecting the children is the morally lowest excuse in the book and one that is often employed in politics to stir the voters. So when they make such claims you do need to look closely to see their true intentions. And here we have one more person thinking about copyright infringement.
My last comment is one famous quote... The greatest threat to society are those people who speak with good deeds in mind.
I have not liked any of the news reporting about this European wide ACTA protest day beyond RT. Many of them including the BBC and Guardian are vastly under-reporting this day then God only help us for finding a single mention on the likes of CNN and Fox News.
The largest crime here is to simply say "thousands were involved" and to omit mention of the 200 cities we aimed at with at least one protest within every one of the 27 EU countries. They do not even say "tens of thousands", which we can easily prove in just two cities, then the true value should be over 200,000 people. That is an average of 1,000 a city but while our lowest was about 200, most did a lot better, then the big cities managed 5000, 10000 and more. Germany alone is reported to have done 90,000.
Then my other gripe is that none of these so called independent news sites made use of the vast array of photos and videos from this day to highlight the true scale of this massive operation. Even above you see one city where dozens more can be easily called up.
My last comment is that while this day was very impressive and congratulations to all involved it has also highlighted some weak areas where we need more work. For our first ever major protest though we can be happy and proud of what we achieved.
I am not surprised by this. Those people mocking the families of the recently deceased, or others on their disabilities, are some of the most vile Internet users around who make an easy journalistic target.
This investigation I know well would be passed on to the Police and forms a first step in what could well be a Court case.
I should also add that some journalists misuse this investigative power to promote their own biased goals. For example they may focus on hammer attacks in one region and notice how some third party mugging website says you can buy really good hammers at such and such a place. Then despite this exact store selling thousands of hammers for a vast array of lawful purposes, and publicly condemning very rare unlawful use, these journalists can still report this store to the Police as the supplier of violent weapons! Not to forget this example journalist did not even talk to said store to get their input.
Oddly enough my exact electronics situation based on that journalistic example, in an 3-page article wrote by Paul Malley, was also something I discussed directly with one BBC journalist who just wrote it off as "old news"
The point to all this off-target rambling is that the Police and the main victim took this news report all too seriously resulting in a raid and seizure of my own company hardware. They were of course wrong in their failed case, once the record could be set straight, but there was still millions in damages done.
Maybe I don't understand this article but in all previous years you can certainly resell your used CDs, tapes, computer games, DVDs and now the latest BluRays. Hell even NetFlix would not exist if it could not buy on broadcasting agreements from others. So the resale of lawfully purchased MP3s does make a good point when from all known history it should be lawful.
I find it very interesting that EMI's Capitol Records want to make digital files an exception from the default resale concept when maybe here they are admitting that the whole file-sharing market is a very different beast.
With that said then yes the resale of MP3s is a deeply flawed concept from the technical point of view. All their IP rights come from how they physically package it, secure & encrypt it, brand & logo it. So any unapproved copies are usually easy for the eye to spot and those near prefect copies are what counterfeiting is all about.
Their digital problem is that they can't physically secure a file when any encryption and content control systems simply await the day they are hacked. And once hacked both decrypted and encrypted can be done as the hacker or skiddie likes.
I would say ReDigi is one brave company to take this on if not insanely foolish. Simple market demand has stripped away all content control concepts meaning that the whole scheme depends on user honesty. While many people would aim to be honest there are of course big exceptions.
Well the only solution is some kind of ownership scheme. An online database stands to be hacked and some physical card is both inappropriate to the digital world and right back to counterfeiting. So pick your poison.
This is a problem that does need to be solved if they want us to deal with only lawful media when we do indeed have the right to resell.
This is interesting. A large part of the online traffic is file-sharing, both lawful & infringing, and the Mega raid of course does not stop that demand.
They have however struck fear into many DMCA safe-harbour companies from having anything to do with US hosting or even domain names.
So now only the other countries in Europe and Asia provide the files people want but that now means importing vast amounts of expensive data.
We have already won Poland where over 40,000 people marched where the Government has now said ACTA will not be ratified and they will seek to stop ACTA in the European Parliament. Now we need to convince other countries to do the same.
I would expect Estonia take Hollywood more seriously when Hollywood stops providing media months or even years behind most other countries.
I have heard many time from people in this region that they simply cannot buy the media they want to. Hollywood prefers the richer countries while the poorer are neglected.
Well it is easy to say any law needs improvement but Estonia should do what is best for Estonia.
I would say this is more welcome than troubling. We should keep in mind that Censorship is already happening and this is just their response on how to deal with it.
In one example I have seen Google received a French court order to block links to a French infringing website. The only problem was Google did not just block France when they blocked many other countries as well including here in the UK.
So it is a good question of why google.co.uk is blocking UK people from seeing links to a French website? No British court has has made such a ruling and where I am sure French court orders do not apply outside the borders of France.
This then all comes down to the question of when next they receive a Censorship order from a French court then should they remove those links for France, Europe or Global?
This is exactly why Google, Twitter and others need to split their service by country so that all the Global community do not suffer from local Censorship.
As to their google.co.uk domain then that has been UK site focused for years but they are still quite happy to return more Global results if the search demands it.
What is unstated here is that this SOPA/PIPA fight gave us a new word to fight back named DNSSEC.
To censor is to lie to the Internet. Lies try to break the security of DNSSEC risking flawed security. However DNSSEC spots these problems and work around them even employing a VPN connection if needed which renders a DNS block useless.
DNSSEC is not yet tested in a Court case but it is unlikely a Judge would ruin Internet security for everyone just to benefit a small group of people.
So all these ISPs need to do to end DNS censorship forever is to plan their DNSSEC roll out. Once victory has been achieved in one case then the rest should soon follow all over Europe and beyond.
I am only left wondering if they will let him in on the next visit if he is good between now and then?
He at least got off lightly compared to one UK teenager who sent email of vile abuse to both Congress and the Whitehouse saying some very nasty things about the United States.
What was their reply you may wonder? They had the UK Government send a Police Officer around his house to inform him he had just got a lifetime ban from ever entering the United States.
I watched a young college student get naked and do the same on webcam back in 1997. So it is hardly new technology but at least said model was more open to questions.
Keeping some balance is a good idea but they should have ideally left in the best drug related question so that this community does not feel totally ripped off and ignored.
It is kind of a shame we did not hear about this beforehand when had we done so then we could have posed some very harsh political questions.
Mine would have to be... Was you, the vice-President, or another member of the Administration involved in forcing on Spain their own SOPA-like law and how do you justify this action in light of your recent rejection of SOPA?
I did not say mine was a question. It was just a list of topics on which a question could be based.
Sure not completely everyone hates SOPA, and Lamar Smith comes to mind, but let is keep in mind that the Entertainment Industry has been pumping into Congress their largest corruption money to date.
A more correct statement would be that everyone who values their job has a damned good reason to hate SOPA. Even the corrupt politicians can see they can still hate SOPA while shifting their support to PIPA.
We can only be thankful that PIPA lacked the 2/3rds majority required to remove it from the filibuster. The concern is though that PIPA support still hanged around the 50% level.
These bills are clearly going nowhere until they have been subject to a major rewrite.
I usually hear people run around telling everyone "ACTA is worse than SOPA". My reply is always "No it is not!"
What I most do not like about ACTA, beyond the attempted secrecy, is reflected by TPP (son of ACTA). When even before ACTA has passed they are already trying to chip away and get more through.
Also since I know about anti-circulation technology then are they including the common "fair use" I see within this?
It would have been better to have asked him about ACTA and why his invalid signature tries to bind Congress from setting the IP laws it wants.
SOPA I would say is a far too easy question when everyone hates SOPA making it easy to throw your own trash on. Now to run with PIPA would be a much more interesting question when the last results I saw read that Congress was split over PIPA.
You would think that lawyers would know better. I am not sure the Court's position in representing his own company interests but he certainly misled the Court by not revealing that company link to begin with.
So in the end he got struck off. Hard to believe he did even worse than Andrew Crossley who was only suspended for 2 years plus legal costs.
Don't worry BT and NewzBin2 when DNSSEC will save you from censorship.
I find it very interesting that the DoJ has so far said completely nothing about the vast array of people who have their lawful files caught up in this.
Yes another reason why I call them the Department of Punishment (ex-Justice).
On the post: Canadian Politician: You're Either In Favor Of Letting The Gov't Spy On Your Internet Usage... Or You're For Child Pornography
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The Internet has provided us with the greatest freedom of our generation and we should not allow politicians to sign that away so easily.
Down with SOPA. Down with PIPA. Down with ACTA. Down with TPP. Down with Pro-IP. And the attack on our freedom goes on and on and on.
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On the post: Canadian Politician: You're Either In Favor Of Letting The Gov't Spy On Your Internet Usage... Or You're For Child Pornography
Hidden wolves
General society and the Police well tackled Child Pornography long before these web filters came about. It is true to say that the real CP these days are on dark nets and well removed from the web.
I have in fact seen a CP censorship list thanks to Wikileaks and the whole thing is little more than one age questionable photo on an otherwise pure adult site. Then many site owners soon correct the problem themselves when it becomes apparent.
Let us never forget why web filters exist when it was the RIAA and MPAA pushing ISPs to web filter in the name of filtering CP to protest children. They did that so when the CP filter was active they could then abuse it to censor copyright infringement.
So I do certainly say that all censorship should be removed from ISPs and to tackle CP in more traditional ways. It helps none to sweep CP under the rug and to pretend that it does not exist when little boys and girls still get sexually violated if you want to see it or not.
Protecting the children is the morally lowest excuse in the book and one that is often employed in politics to stir the voters. So when they make such claims you do need to look closely to see their true intentions. And here we have one more person thinking about copyright infringement.
My last comment is one famous quote... The greatest threat to society are those people who speak with good deeds in mind.
On the post: Mass Protests Against ACTA All Across Europe
Poor Reporting
The largest crime here is to simply say "thousands were involved" and to omit mention of the 200 cities we aimed at with at least one protest within every one of the 27 EU countries. They do not even say "tens of thousands", which we can easily prove in just two cities, then the true value should be over 200,000 people. That is an average of 1,000 a city but while our lowest was about 200, most did a lot better, then the big cities managed 5000, 10000 and more. Germany alone is reported to have done 90,000.
Then my other gripe is that none of these so called independent news sites made use of the vast array of photos and videos from this day to highlight the true scale of this massive operation. Even above you see one city where dozens more can be easily called up.
My last comment is that while this day was very impressive and congratulations to all involved it has also highlighted some weak areas where we need more work. For our first ever major protest though we can be happy and proud of what we achieved.
On the post: BBC Tracks Down And Confronts An Internet Troll
Bloody Journalists
This investigation I know well would be passed on to the Police and forms a first step in what could well be a Court case.
I should also add that some journalists misuse this investigative power to promote their own biased goals. For example they may focus on hammer attacks in one region and notice how some third party mugging website says you can buy really good hammers at such and such a place. Then despite this exact store selling thousands of hammers for a vast array of lawful purposes, and publicly condemning very rare unlawful use, these journalists can still report this store to the Police as the supplier of violent weapons! Not to forget this example journalist did not even talk to said store to get their input.
Oddly enough my exact electronics situation based on that journalistic example, in an 3-page article wrote by Paul Malley, was also something I discussed directly with one BBC journalist who just wrote it off as "old news"
The point to all this off-target rambling is that the Police and the main victim took this news report all too seriously resulting in a raid and seizure of my own company hardware. They were of course wrong in their failed case, once the record could be set straight, but there was still millions in damages done.
On the post: Judge Denies Injunction Against MP3 Reseller Due To Lack Of Irreparable Harm... But Says EMI's Arguments Compelling
Re: used data?
On the post: Judge Denies Injunction Against MP3 Reseller Due To Lack Of Irreparable Harm... But Says EMI's Arguments Compelling
Preplexing
I find it very interesting that EMI's Capitol Records want to make digital files an exception from the default resale concept when maybe here they are admitting that the whole file-sharing market is a very different beast.
With that said then yes the resale of MP3s is a deeply flawed concept from the technical point of view. All their IP rights come from how they physically package it, secure & encrypt it, brand & logo it. So any unapproved copies are usually easy for the eye to spot and those near prefect copies are what counterfeiting is all about.
Their digital problem is that they can't physically secure a file when any encryption and content control systems simply await the day they are hacked. And once hacked both decrypted and encrypted can be done as the hacker or skiddie likes.
I would say ReDigi is one brave company to take this on if not insanely foolish. Simple market demand has stripped away all content control concepts meaning that the whole scheme depends on user honesty. While many people would aim to be honest there are of course big exceptions.
Well the only solution is some kind of ownership scheme. An online database stands to be hacked and some physical card is both inappropriate to the digital world and right back to counterfeiting. So pick your poison.
This is a problem that does need to be solved if they want us to deal with only lawful media when we do indeed have the right to resell.
On the post: Evidence Shows That Megaupload Shutdown Had No Real Impact On Infringement
Think of the economy!
They have however struck fear into many DMCA safe-harbour companies from having anything to do with US hosting or even domain names.
So now only the other countries in Europe and Asia provide the files people want but that now means importing vast amounts of expensive data.
Final Score: Piracy 0 US Economy -1
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ACTA Protest Day
The main ACTA Protest Day is this Saturday, February 11, 2012.
All of Europe is involved along with a few sites in Canada & the United States. You see the full schedule here...
https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/acta-protest-feb-11
We have already won Poland where over 40,000 people marched where the Government has now said ACTA will not be ratified and they will seek to stop ACTA in the European Parliament. Now we need to convince other countries to do the same.
Pick your location & come armed for this fight...
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/images/7/76/Acta-infographics.png
http://www.derechoalee r.org/images/2010/stop_acta-color_rgb-web.png
http://goo.gl/hCtz4
Loads of designs to choose from so look around for the best one & I will see you there. Warm clothing strongly recommended!
Please sign the online petition when they only need a few more people to hit their 2 million goal...
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet_spread/?fndLIcb&pv=307
See how Hollywood always fears technology and fights progress. Now they fear the Internet and want to censor you...
http://i.imgur.com/8ubzj.jpg
It is time to recover the many freedoms that these Governments have taken from us. Please spread this news.
On the post: Estonia Next In Line To Receive US 'Encouragement' To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws
East of here
I have heard many time from people in this region that they simply cannot buy the media they want to. Hollywood prefers the richer countries while the poorer are neglected.
Well it is easy to say any law needs improvement but Estonia should do what is best for Estonia.
On the post: The End Of The Global Internet? Google's Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship
Them pesky French
In one example I have seen Google received a French court order to block links to a French infringing website. The only problem was Google did not just block France when they blocked many other countries as well including here in the UK.
So it is a good question of why google.co.uk is blocking UK people from seeing links to a French website? No British court has has made such a ruling and where I am sure French court orders do not apply outside the borders of France.
This then all comes down to the question of when next they receive a Censorship order from a French court then should they remove those links for France, Europe or Global?
This is exactly why Google, Twitter and others need to split their service by country so that all the Global community do not suffer from local Censorship.
As to their google.co.uk domain then that has been UK site focused for years but they are still quite happy to return more Global results if the search demands it.
On the post: Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay Without A Direct Order
DNS Security
To censor is to lie to the Internet. Lies try to break the security of DNSSEC risking flawed security. However DNSSEC spots these problems and work around them even employing a VPN connection if needed which renders a DNS block useless.
DNSSEC is not yet tested in a Court case but it is unlikely a Judge would ruin Internet security for everyone just to benefit a small group of people.
So all these ISPs need to do to end DNS censorship forever is to plan their DNSSEC roll out. Once victory has been achieved in one case then the rest should soon follow all over Europe and beyond.
On the post: Homeland Security Denies Entrance To UK Tourist Because Of Twitter Joke
Its a bomb!
He at least got off lightly compared to one UK teenager who sent email of vile abuse to both Congress and the Whitehouse saying some very nasty things about the United States.
What was their reply you may wonder? They had the UK Government send a Police Officer around his house to inform him he had just got a lifetime ban from ever entering the United States.
He claims he could not remember what he wrote.
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On the post: Does President Obama's Google Hangout Represent A Milestone?
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Keeping some balance is a good idea but they should have ideally left in the best drug related question so that this community does not feel totally ripped off and ignored.
It is kind of a shame we did not hear about this beforehand when had we done so then we could have posed some very harsh political questions.
Mine would have to be... Was you, the vice-President, or another member of the Administration involved in forcing on Spain their own SOPA-like law and how do you justify this action in light of your recent rejection of SOPA?
On the post: Does President Obama's Google Hangout Represent A Milestone?
Re: Re: Easy
Sure not completely everyone hates SOPA, and Lamar Smith comes to mind, but let is keep in mind that the Entertainment Industry has been pumping into Congress their largest corruption money to date.
A more correct statement would be that everyone who values their job has a damned good reason to hate SOPA. Even the corrupt politicians can see they can still hate SOPA while shifting their support to PIPA.
We can only be thankful that PIPA lacked the 2/3rds majority required to remove it from the filibuster. The concern is though that PIPA support still hanged around the 50% level.
These bills are clearly going nowhere until they have been subject to a major rewrite.
On the post: Please Keep The ACTA Debate Fact-Based
Not a SOPA
What I most do not like about ACTA, beyond the attempted secrecy, is reflected by TPP (son of ACTA). When even before ACTA has passed they are already trying to chip away and get more through.
Also since I know about anti-circulation technology then are they including the common "fair use" I see within this?
On the post: Does President Obama's Google Hangout Represent A Milestone?
Easy
SOPA I would say is a far too easy question when everyone hates SOPA making it easy to throw your own trash on. Now to run with PIPA would be a much more interesting question when the last results I saw read that Congress was split over PIPA.
So all easy questions and no controversy there.
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Shocking
So in the end he got struck off. Hard to believe he did even worse than Andrew Crossley who was only suspended for 2 years plus legal costs.
Don't worry BT and NewzBin2 when DNSSEC will save you from censorship.
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Yes another reason why I call them the Department of Punishment (ex-Justice).
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