I'm no fan of our current school system. I long ago gave up on it and won't bother boring everyone with details of what I encountered.
I will say though that it does hurt someones credibility when they admit to lighting their shirt on fire and going to school without noticing. Sure the administration at most schools are staffed with idiots but least they are not flaming idiots.
Are you seriously trying to call school administration idiots while at the same time admitting you went to school with your shirt on fire and didn't notice?
I vote for the 6 strikes and we cut the companies access to the internet. They seem to think this is a logical and fair punishment so why not turn it around and see what they say.
Of course these don't need to be actual "mistakes". They just have to be accused 6 times and then without warning cut their net.
None of those compare to what you get from torrents and you are kidding yourself thinking they are. YouTube, Vimeo and such end up being lower quality and they are streams. A stream of a video is not the same as actually having the video file.
You then point to free web hosts. I guess you missed the part about being FAST. On a free web host you are going to be sharing a server with who knows how many other web pages. If you get 10-20 people downloading an HD video from your site while others are on the other pages on the server then it is going to be a crawl. Not to mention the fact the host will promptly throttle you or just kick you off.
What a wonderful idea, now why don't you enlighten us all on the other wonderful distribution methods that are out there for these artists to use. Now remember this distribution service needs to be free, extremely fast, and able to reach a large number of people easily.
What I find funny is they act like they have really tried hard to push these. I did not even know they existed till very recently. What they expect people to just magically know to walk into their local bank and request coins that they did not even know existed?
"sufficiently high to constitute a deterrent to future infringement."
I think this makes it pretty darn clear that the guys writing these laws do not understand what is going on. Most of the guys that are major players in this game, such as the guys running pirate bay, are likely to get ticked off proportional to the fine you throw at them. As a result, the harder you attack them the harder they will work at making you look a fool.
You know, I think that might be just the thing! The MPAA can go rate all the pages in the world and everyone can ignore them just like they do movie ratings!
The added bonus is that they will not have time to do anything other than rate pages so they can drop all their other stupid things.
That is impossible to even get an accurate figure on. See I could easily upload a song that I purchased to the site. Then later I download it to my phone over 3g and again to my laptop while at a coffee shop. I just uploaded it from one IP and downloaded from two different ones. There is no way to tell that it was me all 3 times unless they force you to login all the time. Forcing that though makes them useless for people using them to distribute things like android roms.
Hello I'm here to arrest you and throw you in jail for first degree murder. I don't have any actual, verifiable, solid evidence that you did it, but hey, you have any solid proof you didn't do it? Didn't think so! Thank you, have a nice life on death row.
That is one thing that had puzzled me. I can't imagine downloading a full HD movie from these places. They are generally slow and make you jump through some hoops.
What they are good for though is the smaller files like android roms and other tools. As a result I spent an entire weekend cursing ICE because every time I thought I found the files I needed for my phone I ended up being shown that damn ICE page at megaupload.
Really the best way to deal with that is every time there should be a class action lawsuit each individual should just file separately. Can you imagine the cost of having to deal with 10,000 lawsuits? It would gum up the system so bad they will be crying for mercy and go back to allowing class actions.
This has happened already, there have been some big debates over the legality of demanding a password from someone. In the US at least we are protected from being forced to say anything incriminating. So the question is does that cover me with holding my password.
That sounds like the story of most government programs. Well fair was a great and noble idea... and then people started scamming the system. So was copyright, patents, unemployment, social security, ect.
Most of these systems do not take into account the greed of some people. The idea is good but as with most ideas they simply do not work the same in the real world as they did in the planning room.
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Well whats worse is what do you think network security guys use to make sure their network is secure? In order to secure a network you have to find the holes and to find the holes you use the same "hacker tools" the bad hackers use.
So this law basically will make a criminal out of most network security professionals who will have to choose to be a criminal or change their job. They cannot do their job effectively without these tools and yet having them will be illegal.
On the other hand the true hackers will throw a party and run wild. Suddenly every hackers greatest enemy has been shut down by the government because the destructive hackers don't care about the law.
"It seems like a mistake has been made." We did not want to take the video down we were just looking for criminals name and address so we can sue him for his public performance of our copyrighted work.
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I will say though that it does hurt someones credibility when they admit to lighting their shirt on fire and going to school without noticing. Sure the administration at most schools are staffed with idiots but least they are not flaming idiots.
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Of course these don't need to be actual "mistakes". They just have to be accused 6 times and then without warning cut their net.
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You then point to free web hosts. I guess you missed the part about being FAST. On a free web host you are going to be sharing a server with who knows how many other web pages. If you get 10-20 people downloading an HD video from your site while others are on the other pages on the server then it is going to be a crawl. Not to mention the fact the host will promptly throttle you or just kick you off.
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I think this makes it pretty darn clear that the guys writing these laws do not understand what is going on. Most of the guys that are major players in this game, such as the guys running pirate bay, are likely to get ticked off proportional to the fine you throw at them. As a result, the harder you attack them the harder they will work at making you look a fool.
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The added bonus is that they will not have time to do anything other than rate pages so they can drop all their other stupid things.
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What they are good for though is the smaller files like android roms and other tools. As a result I spent an entire weekend cursing ICE because every time I thought I found the files I needed for my phone I ended up being shown that damn ICE page at megaupload.
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Most of these systems do not take into account the greed of some people. The idea is good but as with most ideas they simply do not work the same in the real world as they did in the planning room.
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Re: And thus sets back European security research by decades
So this law basically will make a criminal out of most network security professionals who will have to choose to be a criminal or change their job. They cannot do their job effectively without these tools and yet having them will be illegal.
On the other hand the true hackers will throw a party and run wild. Suddenly every hackers greatest enemy has been shut down by the government because the destructive hackers don't care about the law.
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A mistake was made.
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