Scenario 1: Troll makes first comment in a thread and derails it with long tree of replies.
Scenario 2: Troll-fighter makes first comment in a thread and derails it with long tree of troll replies and sarcastic troll imitators.
I fail to see the difference. If you oppose trolls, and you're commenting first, it's best to comment about something that doesn't refer trolls or trolling. Otherwise, it's just the comment section version of the TSA.
The DOJ is receiving a reminder that if justice is not found in the courts it will be founds in the streets. I think we can all agree that it is better found in the courts, but that requires that the courts and the courts' officers renew their commitment to make justice their first priority. If they do that, then the other stuff will go away by itself.
3. Submit an ebook that is nothing but keywords sure to set off automatic security scanners, like people used to do with their sigs back when Usenet was the big thing.
"Welsh says that responsibility for accuracy falls where it always has: with publications, and with individual journalists."
True enough. They are responsible for the behavior of their bots.
But contrast this with statements by people who don't want the responsibility that comes when their torrent software delivers music to the IP police, because they say they didn't know it would do that.
I keep hearing the concept that lawyers shouldn't have financial interest in the awards. But I also know that there are often contingent fees. Also, in-house attorneys can represent their employers. Can someone explain the difference?
It does not admit guilt, but neither does it add anything from their point of view to the body of evidence and now the judge will make his ruling based on the evidence at hand.
And this is why ReDigi lost. Other markets for digital products have ways to control authenticity, either through encryption/trust (Bitcoin) or by keeping the objects on their servers (MTGO, Second Life). ReDigi has none of that, so it was a very tenuous business model in the first place. I'm surprised anyone funded it.
The argument I hear a lot is that torrenting is not willful because people set it up naively and don't understand they are now serving files to other people. I find this argument rather tenuous. It's true there are many, many naive users in the wild, but people should be responsible for what they are doing, whether they realize it or not. Second, torrenters are constantly bombarded with messages like "Don't be a leech", so I have to think a great many of them do know what they are doing.
How is ReDigi able to keep you from reselling something you've already backed up without becoming some form of self-inflicted DRM that we all hate so much?
I'm sure you're a great guy in person, but that's not why I come to TechDirt. Lately in some of your articles I find myself wondering why there is so much of Tim Geigner in them. This one has too much first person. Others have a surprising amount of cursing, or just too much passion. Your position as the author begins to eclipse the subject matter. You have a lot of interesting things to say and I agree with most of them but I think a more impersonal writing style would make your points shine better.
I totally agree. Kickstarter is for starting projects that have significant public value, not for begging to finish projects. I would pay for a Kickstarter to finance a fair use test case, not for throwing money into the maximalists' greedy maw.
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Scenario 2: Troll-fighter makes first comment in a thread and derails it with long tree of troll replies and sarcastic troll imitators.
I fail to see the difference. If you oppose trolls, and you're commenting first, it's best to comment about something that doesn't refer trolls or trolling. Otherwise, it's just the comment section version of the TSA.
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That is what turns me off. Who wants to play that game?
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It never ceases to amaze me that people who hate taxes, because government is a waste, love the same thing if it's by a business.
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1. Write an ebook in English but "encrypt" it with ROT13.
2. Submit an ebook of Celebrity Ciphers.
3. Submit an ebook that is nothing but keywords sure to set off automatic security scanners, like people used to do with their sigs back when Usenet was the big thing.
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True enough. They are responsible for the behavior of their bots.
But contrast this with statements by people who don't want the responsibility that comes when their torrent software delivers music to the IP police, because they say they didn't know it would do that.
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I'm sure you're a great guy in person, but that's not why I come to TechDirt. Lately in some of your articles I find myself wondering why there is so much of Tim Geigner in them. This one has too much first person. Others have a surprising amount of cursing, or just too much passion. Your position as the author begins to eclipse the subject matter. You have a lot of interesting things to say and I agree with most of them but I think a more impersonal writing style would make your points shine better.
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You can disagree with the people who didn't like the video, but it's not all that hard to surmise why they didn't like it.
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