Being officially quoted as saying "We now recognize that historical facts are no one's property" is never going to make anyone look even a little less bad.
If the latter, probably everyone who wanted to get the DVD but hadn't gotten around to it. Maybe a few other people. I didn't even know that show existed and now I want to help support the pirates.
If the former, tough for the company. If they want people to pay for their stuff they should sell stuff worth paying for. If my choices are getting a good product for free or buying a broken one and then using the good one anyway, there isn't much reason to do the extra step unless you want to reward a company that sells crappy knockoffs of its own shows.
The problem here isn't IP law, it's a court system that favors the accusers. If the loser in a court case had to pay for the winner's court costs plus whatever extra stuff like this would be more of a gamble.
Whether or not it's physically possible to hack into the systems mentioned is a legitimate point. It's entirely possible that the people pushing this bill really think that anything with a chip in it can be hacked and actually believe the scenarios proposed, but that doesn't mean they're right.
Google would be an interesting combination of 1984 and an ideal libertarian state. On one hand they're always watching everything you do, and on the other they only use it for advertising and besides that let you do what you want.
All is legal in the eyes of Google, but all is in the eyes of Google.
Because the sites the ICE takes down are possibly illegal. Probably. Maybe. Law enforcement thinks so, anyway, and that should be good enough for anyone.
iTunes has its own program you can find and buy stuff on. The only way to get to the Pirate Bay is through a web browser. It makes sense that Google would show the website that it is used to find over the website that people can find on their own.
Hotel luggage storage areas tend to be small enough for mortals to examine without trouble. If a hotel's storage area was the size of, say, Massachusetts, I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
And then you go off on this tangent about a hotel being filled to the brim with counterfeit money and none of the customers ever using their rooms. I have no idea where you're getting this idea from, since "is used by phishers" and "is dedicated solely to phishing" are as far apart as a city that contains drug dealers is from a city in which you can't turn your back on anyone or they'll run up behind you and fill you with heroin. Yes, in the second case I'd think that the people running the city had something to do with it, but we haven't seen any evidence that this website's phishers are anything but the natural result of a website that helps people to collect information other people give them.
I'd like to poke at this "until a solution can be found" business.
This website is based around user submissions. Letting people quickly and easily create forms to fill out is their business model. Finding a good general solution to the occasional phisher would require each submission to be reviewed manually. That isn't feasible given their traffic volume. I suppose it could also be possible for a computer to clear each submission, provided that Artificial General Intelligence is invented soon, but that doesn't seem like a safe assumption. So as reviewing everything their customers do isn't an option, the remaining solution is whack-a-mole. You know, the thing they could've done in the first place instead of shutting the site down.
This raises a good point. Voting for someone is almost never a sweeping endorsement of "we trust this person to make all the right decisions under all circumstances"; even for the perfectly informed and rational voter it's more like a cost-benefit analysis for who disagrees with us the least. Those things were all good, and that's why Obama was voted in. Copyright law wasn't an important issue, so it didn't enter into most people's calculations. People didn't vote for him to increase IP law, they voted for him to decrease unemployment.
No, protests and the public speaking out are democracy. The democratic process is that lobbyists give representatives money and the representatives give lobbyists laws, and the public is only allowed to speak every other November.
"back the way things should be" is a contradiction in terms. The past is the past, and it should stay there where it belongs. If an industry, no matter how important, relies on limiting something that technology no longer limits, then it should cease to exist and make way for a system that takes advantage of the opportunities progress has provided. An "enlightened" government does not protect the legacies of the previous era from the effects of the current one. An enlightened government tells the scribes to get their own printing presses or stop bitching. An enlightened government then tells the printers that they should start selling their books on Kindle or their problems are their own. And when something better than the current system is created, an enlightened government will allow this to wither and die too. That is how things should be.
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If the latter, probably everyone who wanted to get the DVD but hadn't gotten around to it. Maybe a few other people. I didn't even know that show existed and now I want to help support the pirates.
If the former, tough for the company. If they want people to pay for their stuff they should sell stuff worth paying for. If my choices are getting a good product for free or buying a broken one and then using the good one anyway, there isn't much reason to do the extra step unless you want to reward a company that sells crappy knockoffs of its own shows.
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All is legal in the eyes of Google, but all is in the eyes of Google.
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And then you go off on this tangent about a hotel being filled to the brim with counterfeit money and none of the customers ever using their rooms. I have no idea where you're getting this idea from, since "is used by phishers" and "is dedicated solely to phishing" are as far apart as a city that contains drug dealers is from a city in which you can't turn your back on anyone or they'll run up behind you and fill you with heroin. Yes, in the second case I'd think that the people running the city had something to do with it, but we haven't seen any evidence that this website's phishers are anything but the natural result of a website that helps people to collect information other people give them.
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This website is based around user submissions. Letting people quickly and easily create forms to fill out is their business model. Finding a good general solution to the occasional phisher would require each submission to be reviewed manually. That isn't feasible given their traffic volume. I suppose it could also be possible for a computer to clear each submission, provided that Artificial General Intelligence is invented soon, but that doesn't seem like a safe assumption. So as reviewing everything their customers do isn't an option, the remaining solution is whack-a-mole. You know, the thing they could've done in the first place instead of shutting the site down.
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