It got a patent, ergo, it is a triumph of the human spirit.
The patent on "Speak haired homunculus with oversized shoes holding a gun incorrectly, pointing it at large armed man in toga" has saved us from the dangers of large-armed men in togas, including children. You don't hate children, do you?
Which usually requires a US address, so first buy a US house, or if you're a cheapskate (and you probably are or you wouldn't be pirating you filthy thieving mongrel), a condo.
"The Internet, I told them, wasn't much more than a gigantic Xerox machine (albeit with inhuman "memory")"
Oh wow. The largest computer network which allows people to work and collaborate together all over the world (I'm currently in Canada on a webex with someone in Guatemala and someone else in India and we're working on something for a company in Florida), and has sparked things like the "Arab Spring" is a... Xerox machine?
That basically screams "I'm too stubborn to listen to anything new." It also screams "fire me from my media job right now, as I'm killing your business".
Well then let me explain it to you. It's called the economy. It's a zero sum game, where if someone else wins someone else must be losing. And that someone else is Scott Turow. He's a gentle spirited, fresh faced lad, with hope in his heart, a twinkle in his eye and a dream for a brighter tomorrow. Meanwhile, Amazon is made up of heartless machines who pave over meadows and harvest babies for server parts.
They're evil, they're making money, and Scott Turow wants so- err, I mean, Scott Turow deserves some.
"ECAD also argues that the "transmitter" and the "relay" are completely different forms of use and as such, do not represent "double recovery." This is, roughly translated, complete horseshit."
Boy is it. A relay has a fairly specific meaning: it relays things. For example your cable/DSL modem is relaying data to and from your computer. Take it away and the connection is broken.
Embedding a video does not cause the embedding site to relay anything. The embedding site holds a link to the vid (a pointer), the vid data never touches the embedding site's servers. The relay concept applied here is not just a stretch, it's flat out wrong. Good luck to Caligraffiti.
I agree, stop being such pussies and implement the treaty already!
All this forethought and consideration is for cheese-eating liberals from Conneticut, and it shows what yellow bellied sissies you all are. How do you know ACTA will horribly undercut personal freedoms in favour of gross over-expansion of enforcement rights and secondary liability unless you try it? What's wrong, you chicken?
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It got a patent, ergo, it is a triumph of the human spirit.
The patent on "Speak haired homunculus with oversized shoes holding a gun incorrectly, pointing it at large armed man in toga" has saved us from the dangers of large-armed men in togas, including children. You don't hate children, do you?
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Have something to add or just here to throw ad homs? Thought so.
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Strange and pointless... LIKE A FOX!!!
The initial message will be "we only wanna control these, not then entire domain system."
It will invariably morph into "we already control .music, .movies, and .games, we should be able to control the rest too".
This is a play for control over the DNS of the world, make no mistake.
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Which usually requires a US address, so first buy a US house, or if you're a cheapskate (and you probably are or you wouldn't be pirating you filthy thieving mongrel), a condo.
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"Gugliemo Marconi, the creator of an evil way to steal our vocal properties and funnel them overseas for, like, ad revenue or something! EVIL!!!!"
FTFY
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Grave Danger I Sense
Innovation leads to Love, Love leads to Suffering, Suffering leads to Hatred and that is the path to the Darkside.
Just proved copying evil, Leigh has.
-Yoda
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No, it isn't. RTFA.
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My fav
Oh wow. The largest computer network which allows people to work and collaborate together all over the world (I'm currently in Canada on a webex with someone in Guatemala and someone else in India and we're working on something for a company in Florida), and has sparked things like the "Arab Spring" is a... Xerox machine?
That basically screams "I'm too stubborn to listen to anything new." It also screams "fire me from my media job right now, as I'm killing your business".
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Heavens to Betsy!
Besides who will buy all this crack I have if the kids are all busy reading?
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They're evil, they're making money, and Scott Turow wants so- err, I mean, Scott Turow deserves some.
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Reductio'd, but the absurdum is already there
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Boy is it. A relay has a fairly specific meaning: it relays things. For example your cable/DSL modem is relaying data to and from your computer. Take it away and the connection is broken.
Embedding a video does not cause the embedding site to relay anything. The embedding site holds a link to the vid (a pointer), the vid data never touches the embedding site's servers. The relay concept applied here is not just a stretch, it's flat out wrong. Good luck to Caligraffiti.
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I agree, stop being such pussies and implement the treaty already!
All this forethought and consideration is for cheese-eating liberals from Conneticut, and it shows what yellow bellied sissies you all are. How do you know ACTA will horribly undercut personal freedoms in favour of gross over-expansion of enforcement rights and secondary liability unless you try it? What's wrong, you chicken?
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