People on the street are protesting against ACTA. We can also claim that since there are no people on the street protest FOR ACTA then 100% of people are against ACTA.
The sight of 10,000 people marching through Warsaw and other cities is a big sign that people are unhappy.
The current goal is to get ACTA into Congress. The President's signature on ACTA is invalid when he is not allowed to change things that Congress control like Copyright law.
If he is allowed to get away with this one then he will be writing many laws disguised as trade agreements to bypass Congress.
Should ACTA get into Congress then we can fight it there.
I have been doing a lot of reading up on this. I know it was not just protesters in Warsaw who took part but also protesters in other major Polish cities. Unfortunately I no longer have the list of cities to hand to be able to name them all.
Reports are over 10,000 people took part. These protests were said to have arranged these meet-ups on FaceBook. There was also a rumour that such posts in Poland were being censored.
Now they are planning a Polish website blackout day for the end of this month. If you think Poland is doing well you should see what Brazil did.
File-sharing is a part of the new market but then so is Indie film making which can use file-sharing for distribution.
So the point is even if there was no old market then movies can still be made, and quite successfully, on the new market.
In fact one thing I would have loved to have seen, had they not sold old, would be to make Paranormal Activity 5 on the Indie market. This would be to use Kickstarter to amass the budget, make and edit the movie, offer it for sale like $5 download and $7 DVD, then to welcome file-sharing. Old market distribution could be employed to fill the shops as well.
Then millions be made.
Instead we wait for someone else to have a genius idea and Indie movie making desire.
I will also be glad to get your Hollywood fame freaks off their millions (and drink and drugs) and to pay them a normal working wage. Them like every other person working on the movie can then take a fair cut of the profits.
Still the old market lives on and quite successfully. So pomp up your anorexic movie stars and fund them into royalty status to be worshipped by the dweebs.
Well if he spent $9000 on making the movie and $111,000 on the post-production then something seems clearly wrong in the post-production part.
Maybe he needs to find Indie post-production.
I say this because the first Paranormal Activity movie was made for about $20,000 complete. So Newlyweds even beat their harsh filming budget but then lost it by 6x on post-production.
Indie movie making is sure to improve in time and they could even be funded through Kickstarter.
Yes and the real reason for this attack is that Mega was the biggest and most successful. This is their "cut the head off the chicken" policy.
Then they also usually like to run with "shoot first and find out if they are guilty later". Innocent and guilty make little difference when you can f**k them over and trash their place in the market whatever the court verdict.
Unfortunately both these points (and more) they once did to my own business. Innocent and never even arrested but still f**ked over.
You're just jealous when Kim Dotcom can go to bed with 2 or 3 models at a time.
Well the saying goes if you want to find a liar then find a politician. Then the days of the Administration upholding the law are long gone when they now only abuse the law to their advantage.
I still remember when Obama promised us all he would respect the rule of law. We may recall that his predecessor Bush violated the law to such an extent that he exceeded every President before him combined. That was his little lawful notes that said "this plan does not violate the US Constitution and Bill of Rights IN MY OPINION". Even if people claimed they did violate the law then Bush overruled them.
Yes the RIAA is a trade association of record labels which makes my comparison quite valid when the RIAA represent their interests.
If you want to narrow it down then try UMG. And I mean not the nice friendly innocent UMG but their bedfellows of that bad nasty UMG who took down that Mega Song video.
As to the RIAA then I would be totally shocked to believe anyone could think they were not involved. The RIAA infect Congress like a plague. The RIAA even write their own international trade agreements. Then the Administration has been lobbied hard by them and Joe Biden is their messiah.
Joe Biden did cause ICE to attack domains in their "Operation in Our Sites". The RIAA have certainly infected the DoJ and DHS/ICE when the RIAA is to blame for that DaJaz1 mess.
All that has happened here is the change from DHS/DoJ to FBI/DoJ and that was simply because the DHS was not powerful enough to take down Mega. You can rest assured through that the MPAA and RIAA were still hanging around.
Even this charges sheet does not like a professional FBI job but it certainly looks worded by the MPAA/RIAA. True there is no exact report yet but it is easy to guess what is going on there.
So my point stands why should be thousands of parts behind the RIAA be able to take down lawful independent music channels?
If you want to know how well planned this one was then here is an example.
When they came to arrest Bram van der Kolk in New Zealand those damned Americans handed the New Zealand Police a photograph of the WRONG PERSON.
I think that says a lot in their very deep and detailed examination of all members involved when they are left going "Now what one was Bram van der Kolk again?"
Mega running a criminal enterprise has yet to be proved.
Kim Dotcom was a millionaire before he started MegaUpload and his other sites were quite cheap compared to the beast. So it is all very subjective.
Well let me ask you this. Why should the DoJ in the service of the RIAA be able to take down a "lawful" rival to the RIAA as two of Mega's music sites were?
I may not be familiar with the exact law but I understand how Racketeering works. Namely an unlawful business model backed up by threats of violence.
Yes your street gangs mention may well be valid but MegaUpload removed millions of links as part of their act of complying with DMCA "safe harbour" law.
Actually in this case I would agree with CreativeAmerica that MegaUpload cannot be touched... at least in that way... under existing laws.
The DoJ accuse Mega of Racketeering. Unless you want to slid MegaUpload in amongst a list including the Mafia and the Triad then that claim is obviously false.
Then we have their Money Laundering claim. So what are the examples given for this criminal act? Paying their server costs and rewards programme. So again another falsehood unless every business paying their website hosting charges is doing money laundering as well.
Make no mistake that it was these two key lies which allowed the FBI to take Mega down. Lying about the law does not make that implementation of the law valid.
Their only real claims are all copyright related. So let me ask people this. Would all these countries have allowed a multi-million dollar company to be destroyed for mere copyright infringement? That is double as hard seeing that MegaUpload have never been convicted of Copyright Infringement in Civil Court. No they lied to them and said Mega were the new Ninja Triad with drugs, guns and shit load of violence.
Our end sum then is... Lie + Lie + Weak = No law to take down MegaUpload.
CreativeAmerica are correct. The Mega attack was pure unlawful bullshit.
For a long time we have been at the end of the "whipping stick" and simply defending ourself as best we can. Hiding has worked best there.
What happened with SOPA is that we got so mad that we took the whipping stick away from them. This turned out to be quite a surprise when we have just realised our true strength.
Obviously it is not a good idea to hand the means of our punishment back to the people who would flay us to an inch of our lives... had the old woman named Congress let them.
So now we are prancing around swooshing this stick. Point it here and gab it there. Getting a feel and building up courage.
We all know what needs to be done. If we are to be left alone to a peaceful life then we have to turn this whipping stick against those who once attacked us and hurt us.
And when that counter attack finally begins it will be brutal. An event they will remember for decades to come.
If he went that route he would have to hop into bed with Hilary Clinton. I can't say they are quite that friendly even if Joe once did Hilary's speech when she was feeling quite poorly.
The MPAA are well known for ignoring anything and everything that does not agree with them. So on blackout day millions of voting Americans vanished from the United States if seen through the eyes of the MPAA.
I fully agree with Jimmy Wales when I have said several times before that Chris Dodd should be fired. He is a man who cannot do his job as they SOPA issue highlights. Then to be more successful in the future they need to replace him with someone who can understand technology and the Internet.
Or does everyone who loves the Internet hate copyright enforcement?
Re: Re: Re: "Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops"
See the movie Unthinkable.
If the stakes are extremely high how far are you willing to go? Ignore human rights laws? Torture? Torturing and killing their partner? Torturing and killing their children?
And what does that then make you? All they claimed you were.
They already do this in the UK. Refuse to hand over your password and they can put you into prison for years. Innocent or guilty makes little difference.
Here is one example...
A 19-year old from Lancashire has been sentenced to 16 weeks in a young offenders institution for refusing to give police the password to an encrypted file on his computer. Oliver Drage, from Naze Lane, Freckleton, Lancashire was arrested in May as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse images. His computer was seized.
Talk about incriminating yourself or jailed if you don't.
The best defence if you encrypt your HDD is to say this partition is just random data because you just erased your HDD (using some random data tool) and so there is nothing to decrypt. There is no way they can prove the data is encrypted through examining it.
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People on the street are protesting against ACTA. We can also claim that since there are no people on the street protest FOR ACTA then 100% of people are against ACTA.
The sight of 10,000 people marching through Warsaw and other cities is a big sign that people are unhappy.
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Re:
The current goal is to get ACTA into Congress. The President's signature on ACTA is invalid when he is not allowed to change things that Congress control like Copyright law.
If he is allowed to get away with this one then he will be writing many laws disguised as trade agreements to bypass Congress.
Should ACTA get into Congress then we can fight it there.
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Poles
Reports are over 10,000 people took part. These protests were said to have arranged these meet-ups on FaceBook. There was also a rumour that such posts in Poland were being censored.
Now they are planning a Polish website blackout day for the end of this month. If you think Poland is doing well you should see what Brazil did.
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File-sharing is a part of the new market but then so is Indie film making which can use file-sharing for distribution.
So the point is even if there was no old market then movies can still be made, and quite successfully, on the new market.
In fact one thing I would have loved to have seen, had they not sold old, would be to make Paranormal Activity 5 on the Indie market. This would be to use Kickstarter to amass the budget, make and edit the movie, offer it for sale like $5 download and $7 DVD, then to welcome file-sharing. Old market distribution could be employed to fill the shops as well.
Then millions be made.
Instead we wait for someone else to have a genius idea and Indie movie making desire.
I will also be glad to get your Hollywood fame freaks off their millions (and drink and drugs) and to pay them a normal working wage. Them like every other person working on the movie can then take a fair cut of the profits.
Still the old market lives on and quite successfully. So pomp up your anorexic movie stars and fund them into royalty status to be worshipped by the dweebs.
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Indie
Maybe he needs to find Indie post-production.
I say this because the first Paranormal Activity movie was made for about $20,000 complete. So Newlyweds even beat their harsh filming budget but then lost it by 6x on post-production.
Indie movie making is sure to improve in time and they could even be funded through Kickstarter.
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Re: Re: Re: Bizarre
Then they also usually like to run with "shoot first and find out if they are guilty later". Innocent and guilty make little difference when you can f**k them over and trash their place in the market whatever the court verdict.
Unfortunately both these points (and more) they once did to my own business. Innocent and never even arrested but still f**ked over.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bizarre
Well the saying goes if you want to find a liar then find a politician. Then the days of the Administration upholding the law are long gone when they now only abuse the law to their advantage.
I still remember when Obama promised us all he would respect the rule of law. We may recall that his predecessor Bush violated the law to such an extent that he exceeded every President before him combined. That was his little lawful notes that said "this plan does not violate the US Constitution and Bill of Rights IN MY OPINION". Even if people claimed they did violate the law then Bush overruled them.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bizarre
If you want to narrow it down then try UMG. And I mean not the nice friendly innocent UMG but their bedfellows of that bad nasty UMG who took down that Mega Song video.
As to the RIAA then I would be totally shocked to believe anyone could think they were not involved. The RIAA infect Congress like a plague. The RIAA even write their own international trade agreements. Then the Administration has been lobbied hard by them and Joe Biden is their messiah.
Joe Biden did cause ICE to attack domains in their "Operation in Our Sites". The RIAA have certainly infected the DoJ and DHS/ICE when the RIAA is to blame for that DaJaz1 mess.
All that has happened here is the change from DHS/DoJ to FBI/DoJ and that was simply because the DHS was not powerful enough to take down Mega. You can rest assured through that the MPAA and RIAA were still hanging around.
Even this charges sheet does not like a professional FBI job but it certainly looks worded by the MPAA/RIAA. True there is no exact report yet but it is easy to guess what is going on there.
So my point stands why should be thousands of parts behind the RIAA be able to take down lawful independent music channels?
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Re: Re: Re: Bizarre
When they came to arrest Bram van der Kolk in New Zealand those damned Americans handed the New Zealand Police a photograph of the WRONG PERSON.
I think that says a lot in their very deep and detailed examination of all members involved when they are left going "Now what one was Bram van der Kolk again?"
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Bizarre
Kim Dotcom was a millionaire before he started MegaUpload and his other sites were quite cheap compared to the beast. So it is all very subjective.
Well let me ask you this. Why should the DoJ in the service of the RIAA be able to take down a "lawful" rival to the RIAA as two of Mega's music sites were?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Bizarre
Again it would be hard to see how MegaUpload would fit seeing that the Internet Piracy problem existed years before their company did.
One thing that has been ignored so far is to recognize a business's desire to comply with the law even if they are doing a weak job of it.
MegaUpload is a Hong Kong business and usually is not subject to US law. So they only joined the DMCA scheme when it became important to them.
Being a DMCA "safe harbour" company and in complying with millions of take-down requests is a very good sign in their desire to stay lawful.
So any faults are best dealt with through a fine and a "you must do better" note.
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Re: Re: Bizarre
Yes your street gangs mention may well be valid but MegaUpload removed millions of links as part of their act of complying with DMCA "safe harbour" law.
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Re: Re: Bizarre
The problem is of course that the "dirty deed" has already been done and it was the lie which brought them to court.
I believe once these lies are officially uncovered then Mega will begin to make much gain and the return of most sites excluding the main MegaUpload.
You are correct though that the Administration can often run on lies and deceit. They should keep in mind Watergate.
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Bizarre
The DoJ accuse Mega of Racketeering. Unless you want to slid MegaUpload in amongst a list including the Mafia and the Triad then that claim is obviously false.
Then we have their Money Laundering claim. So what are the examples given for this criminal act? Paying their server costs and rewards programme. So again another falsehood unless every business paying their website hosting charges is doing money laundering as well.
Make no mistake that it was these two key lies which allowed the FBI to take Mega down. Lying about the law does not make that implementation of the law valid.
Their only real claims are all copyright related. So let me ask people this. Would all these countries have allowed a multi-million dollar company to be destroyed for mere copyright infringement? That is double as hard seeing that MegaUpload have never been convicted of Copyright Infringement in Civil Court. No they lied to them and said Mega were the new Ninja Triad with drugs, guns and shit load of violence.
Our end sum then is... Lie + Lie + Weak = No law to take down MegaUpload.
CreativeAmerica are correct. The Mega attack was pure unlawful bullshit.
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That led to a whole host of pizza jokes.
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Re: The straw that broke...
For a long time we have been at the end of the "whipping stick" and simply defending ourself as best we can. Hiding has worked best there.
What happened with SOPA is that we got so mad that we took the whipping stick away from them. This turned out to be quite a surprise when we have just realised our true strength.
Obviously it is not a good idea to hand the means of our punishment back to the people who would flay us to an inch of our lives... had the old woman named Congress let them.
So now we are prancing around swooshing this stick. Point it here and gab it there. Getting a feel and building up courage.
We all know what needs to be done. If we are to be left alone to a peaceful life then we have to turn this whipping stick against those who once attacked us and hurt us.
And when that counter attack finally begins it will be brutal. An event they will remember for decades to come.
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Re:
If he went that route he would have to hop into bed with Hilary Clinton. I can't say they are quite that friendly even if Joe once did Hilary's speech when she was feeling quite poorly.
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I fully agree with Jimmy Wales when I have said several times before that Chris Dodd should be fired. He is a man who cannot do his job as they SOPA issue highlights. Then to be more successful in the future they need to replace him with someone who can understand technology and the Internet.
Or does everyone who loves the Internet hate copyright enforcement?
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Re: Re: Re: "Judge Says Americans Can Be Forced To Decrypt Laptops"
If the stakes are extremely high how far are you willing to go? Ignore human rights laws? Torture? Torturing and killing their partner? Torturing and killing their children?
And what does that then make you? All they claimed you were.
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Key to Self Incrimination
Here is one example...
A 19-year old from Lancashire has been sentenced to 16 weeks in a young offenders institution for refusing to give police the password to an encrypted file on his computer. Oliver Drage, from Naze Lane, Freckleton, Lancashire was arrested in May as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse images. His computer was seized.
Talk about incriminating yourself or jailed if you don't.
The best defence if you encrypt your HDD is to say this partition is just random data because you just erased your HDD (using some random data tool) and so there is nothing to decrypt. There is no way they can prove the data is encrypted through examining it.
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