I'm confused though. I thought takedown notices required company to takedown (i.e. make unavailable) content, why did flickr delete the records?
Flickr should have (in general) a suspend function that should be used for DMCA takedowns, imo. Unless there's a legal requirement to destroy content I'm not aware of?
What this indicates to me is that the feds are changing their theme for fear marketing.
The amorphous concepts of "terrorism" and "cybercrime", being both orthogonal (one is a motivation and the other is a method) and overlapping (e.g. Al-Qaeda hackers), belies the bull poopy on display.
The statement "cybercrime will soon surpass terrorism as the biggest threat in America" is so riddled with misleading implications it's stunning people didn't laugh in his face.
It implies that the threats has not only been quantified somehow (whatever biggest means), but that they have projections! How does one quantify these threats? Is there a scale ranging from "small child with a balloon" up to "Galactus feeling peckish"?
Would love to see more than Dir. of FBI wringing his hands in front of a bunch of panting consultants before I give this even an iota of credence.
Yes you've totally convinced me as to why taxpayers and everyone else should patrol the net for ambiguous copyright violations. That's the best argument ever, "It's too hard for rights holders".
The point is that yelling about what's right doesn't solve the problem, and no one wins. The fact that you can't (or couldn't, dunno if it's still the case) get GoT season 1 on iTunes is pure dumb, and drives people to piracy, whether or not it's right.
What's "right" is in fact off topic to reducing content infringement.
I've never heard anyone complaining that it's not easy to get what they want, quite the opposite, in fact. The complaints come in response to overbearing legislative efforts with huge collateral damage for non-infringers, and/or disproportionate damage for infringers. Again, the morality of content infringement is not relavent, especially in the former.
I think we can all agree that content infringement is wrong and that no one cares. Let's move on.
"A tour de force for filmmaker Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues gives the Ramayana its animated due with a visually vibrant, dazzlingly imaginative triumph."
That's just movie critic talk for bottom feeder. Plus, she clearly just pirated Hinduism for her movie, probably downloaded Hinduism from the pirate bay or something.
I agree, the Masnickian Constitution, drafted by his forefathers in the 1800s clearly states in the first amendment:
Masnick shall make no comment rating respecting an establishment of obvious trolling, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of morons to make strawmen, or of the shills to posit false dichotomies; or the right of the people peaceably to conflate a website with the government, and to petition the Masnick for a redress of grievances.
It would increase the morality of ICE. POssibly also its morale.
Clearly Agent #3 has the worst job because he's taking down sites no one wants taken down for "secondary infringement" (a civil offense), while his colleagues fight, you know, actual crime.
Just so I'm clear, the default position is censorship?
The government's mission should be towards truth and accuracy, not "control notwithstanding objections".
This highlights the problems with these systems, wherein the default is to try to lockdown information. Fortunately, most of these systems are inept and easily circumvented. I doubt it's stopped much access from Germany, and in general has not stopped kids from getting dirty and/or violent images.
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Takedown vs. Destroy
Flickr should have (in general) a suspend function that should be used for DMCA takedowns, imo. Unless there's a legal requirement to destroy content I'm not aware of?
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Think networked, the rest of the world does.
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Or he could do what he's done!
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A change in the winds of fear
The amorphous concepts of "terrorism" and "cybercrime", being both orthogonal (one is a motivation and the other is a method) and overlapping (e.g. Al-Qaeda hackers), belies the bull poopy on display.
The statement "cybercrime will soon surpass terrorism as the biggest threat in America" is so riddled with misleading implications it's stunning people didn't laugh in his face.
It implies that the threats has not only been quantified somehow (whatever biggest means), but that they have projections! How does one quantify these threats? Is there a scale ranging from "small child with a balloon" up to "Galactus feeling peckish"?
Would love to see more than Dir. of FBI wringing his hands in front of a bunch of panting consultants before I give this even an iota of credence.
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Now that that's settled, who's for milkshakes?
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Off topic, yes, but not how you meant.
What's "right" is in fact off topic to reducing content infringement.
I've never heard anyone complaining that it's not easy to get what they want, quite the opposite, in fact. The complaints come in response to overbearing legislative efforts with huge collateral damage for non-infringers, and/or disproportionate damage for infringers. Again, the morality of content infringement is not relavent, especially in the former.
I think we can all agree that content infringement is wrong and that no one cares. Let's move on.
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"A tour de force for filmmaker Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues gives the Ramayana its animated due with a visually vibrant, dazzlingly imaginative triumph."
That's just movie critic talk for bottom feeder. Plus, she clearly just pirated Hinduism for her movie, probably downloaded Hinduism from the pirate bay or something.
Also, her work being declared 24th best animated movie ever, so what? I mean 24th! 24th doesn't win you the world series, does it bro? Amirite?
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Clearly Agent #3 has the worst job because he's taking down sites no one wants taken down for "secondary infringement" (a civil offense), while his colleagues fight, you know, actual crime.
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The government's mission should be towards truth and accuracy, not "control notwithstanding objections".
This highlights the problems with these systems, wherein the default is to try to lockdown information. Fortunately, most of these systems are inept and easily circumvented. I doubt it's stopped much access from Germany, and in general has not stopped kids from getting dirty and/or violent images.
All systems like this do is waste people's money.
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