The two above me put it very well. at this point the only thing i use dropbox for is nonessentials, sharing pictures and vids of the kids with technically hobbled grandparents.
Within my own network it's just easier to shift it where and when i need it, in the format i need it in.
Given that they don't understand the tech, or why keyword blocking won't work, it's not precisely reasonable to expect them to understand, or even be aware of the existence of, those tools you mention.
Here's what we've learned from the drug war... "You, and everything about your incomprehensible hippy lifestyle are now criminals. it doesn't matter how we screw up your lives, because all of you dirty pirates are breaking the law. You aren't consumers, or voters, or citizens. you're defendants in waiting, in need of being run to ground." If we don't have a law that fits you're crime, we'll make some shit up. Or we'll charge your wife with conspiracy (kim dotcom's learning all about this one).
Get used to it. pirate is the new dopefiend. (and anyone not toeing the line is a pirate. or a terrorist. whatever.)
Welcome to being the new enemy in "the war on".
see my comment above re: why your argument has no basis in reality. we can point to real damage being done, all you've got is "shit's pretty good for me, so this must be the best it can be"
@pink ac- While neither side can say with certainty where we'd be without patent trolling, we at least can sure as hell point out the hundred of millions of dollars that went into lawyers, settlements and judgements that sure as hell were never allowed to be spent making cool stuff.
The long list of crushed startups litigated out of existence is similarly real.
On the other hand all you've got is...um, wait, what exactly was your argument again? best of all possible worlds, trust me i'm from the government? herrp derp, derpderp. herp.
People fear change. what can you do, except keep on swinging, and hope they all die off.
It is kind of classy and ironic that EB met the future with characteristic English reserve, and a stiff upper lip though.
you can say it all you want, but for the most part that boils down to not voting.
Sure, i'm going to piss my presidential vote away on gary johnson, OR rp if he goes independant. And then romney will get elected anyway. as for local and state, there's usually not even a non party candidate, assuming they aren't running unopposed.
That's even if your willing to believe the counts not rigged, which after watching the GOP primaries i'm not.
My first criteria for candidates is "doesn't consider me and everyone i know to be a criminal" and usually, that's not even an option when you're talking about tech law, or the Drug war.
it's funny, i spent a few days last month trying to find any actual anti drug supporters... and encountered something similar. Empty facebook pages, or no facebook presence at all for major groups. No forums. No public commentary on their empty blogs....
I was left with the impression that we're fighting ghosts and inertia.
look, the plain fact is that if you want all content, available all the time, in high quality, in any format (or preferably in a universal format that everything can work with) you have to pirate. And anything less is unacceptable, when it's so easy to do.
Every piece of media on earth is available for free, one search and a couple clicks away.
I don't, and probably will never, have enough money that i can piss it away acquiring this stuff the way they want me to buy it. but i pay for netflix. and i pay for internet. i'd even pay more for good internet. Give me a nice fat data pipe like google wants to lay, and i'll pay money.
But content? yeah right. i've got kids, and bills, and a mortgage. They will never get that genie back in the bottle, sharing will never be hard again. (barring the fall of digital civilization, or a medium sized EMP pulse).
Leaving all that aside, i'd rather pay 8 bucks a month to russian gangsters for a nice proxy, than a hundred to cable for programming, of which 99% is irrelevant to my interests.
Dancing on the grave of the middlemen in a decade or two is just an added bonus. Declaring war on fans was one thing, suing grandma, or an occasional 8 year old or a printer...those sucked. Screwing with the web, rewriting laws worldwide to turn back the clock and piss all over civil liberties in a quest to make consumers bend over and take it again....that's a war to the knife. They should have expected us.
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Within my own network it's just easier to shift it where and when i need it, in the format i need it in.
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Here's what we've learned from the drug war... "You, and everything about your incomprehensible hippy lifestyle are now criminals. it doesn't matter how we screw up your lives, because all of you dirty pirates are breaking the law. You aren't consumers, or voters, or citizens. you're defendants in waiting, in need of being run to ground." If we don't have a law that fits you're crime, we'll make some shit up. Or we'll charge your wife with conspiracy (kim dotcom's learning all about this one).
Get used to it. pirate is the new dopefiend. (and anyone not toeing the line is a pirate. or a terrorist. whatever.)
Welcome to being the new enemy in "the war on".
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The long list of crushed startups litigated out of existence is similarly real.
On the other hand all you've got is...um, wait, what exactly was your argument again? best of all possible worlds, trust me i'm from the government? herrp derp, derpderp. herp.
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It is kind of classy and ironic that EB met the future with characteristic English reserve, and a stiff upper lip though.
Good show chaps, God save the Queen, wot wot?
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Sure, probably around the same time we vote to legalize drugs and pay for women's (or anyone elses) healthcare.
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Sure, i'm going to piss my presidential vote away on gary johnson, OR rp if he goes independant. And then romney will get elected anyway. as for local and state, there's usually not even a non party candidate, assuming they aren't running unopposed.
That's even if your willing to believe the counts not rigged, which after watching the GOP primaries i'm not.
My first criteria for candidates is "doesn't consider me and everyone i know to be a criminal" and usually, that's not even an option when you're talking about tech law, or the Drug war.
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I was left with the impression that we're fighting ghosts and inertia.
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Every piece of media on earth is available for free, one search and a couple clicks away.
I don't, and probably will never, have enough money that i can piss it away acquiring this stuff the way they want me to buy it. but i pay for netflix. and i pay for internet. i'd even pay more for good internet. Give me a nice fat data pipe like google wants to lay, and i'll pay money.
But content? yeah right. i've got kids, and bills, and a mortgage. They will never get that genie back in the bottle, sharing will never be hard again. (barring the fall of digital civilization, or a medium sized EMP pulse).
Leaving all that aside, i'd rather pay 8 bucks a month to russian gangsters for a nice proxy, than a hundred to cable for programming, of which 99% is irrelevant to my interests.
Dancing on the grave of the middlemen in a decade or two is just an added bonus. Declaring war on fans was one thing, suing grandma, or an occasional 8 year old or a printer...those sucked. Screwing with the web, rewriting laws worldwide to turn back the clock and piss all over civil liberties in a quest to make consumers bend over and take it again....that's a war to the knife. They should have expected us.
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