One thing I don't get is why they are allowing them to steam-roll these laws or agreements?
So here they are just passing ACTA into law and now they are already birthing "son of ACTA". Does anyone else find that there is a stage missing called "watch how ACTA operates and after a few years make a review to then decide what needs to be changed in ACTA#2"
All they are like doing is getting an icecream, wanting a large icecream, then once they have their large icecream wanting a jumbo icecream. But even with all that they have yet to taste the icecream.
Well it may be too late to stop ACTA (the fish) but we will not allow TPP to pass.
Clearly no person on the copyright side even acknowledges that the 99% actually exist. They instead only see the 1% which is why Google is the closest they will ever get to reality.
There should be a word for that situation but it is too late here to apply my usual immense brain power.
The sad part of all this is that they are also blissfully unaware of a little word called "Democracy". Members of Congress may be more in-tune there simply because getting it wrong can cost them their job.
Well I think these days they are starting to compete with piracy when low-and-behold even the UK now has NetFlix and at £6.99 a month with one month free it is nice value.
They will be competing against LoveFilm's movie streaming service and I will say I sure as Hell hope they DO NOT COMPETE.
Real competition under the monopoly market only increases costs while making Hollywood rich. Then if competition is done too long... then a monopoly forms and one will die. So respectful cooperation works much better in this flawed market.
Music piracy has now much declined simply because there are now a good range of official supply to choose from. It is hardly hard for people to spend $0.99 on that song they heard.
We are also happy to say that the monopoly of the RIAA has been killed when they barely make up half the market sales with the Indie artists making up the rest.
All would be happy in the World if not for the RIAA with their SOPA law and their many attacks on Indie music supply like DaJaz1, OnSmash, MegaBox and MegaClick?. All done to try and keep Indie artists under the RIAA cartel umbrella so they can take their 80% cut.
Obviously we should not allow a monopoly to crush a free and vibrant market.
The only politics most people care about are the social values of wages, benefits, taxes, schools, transport, hospitals and wars.
The average person does not even care enough to add "environmental protection" to that list. They may one day when they choke on the smog and their kids get cancer.
Now this SOPA/PIPA debate is an interesting one when what people also hate is losing their "freedom". This is also not a big one though when many of their freedoms slip away each month with not many knowing or caring.
However in this case people love the Internet and the freedom it offers and an attack on the infrastructure is an attack on them.
Well if you want people to fight copyright then politics is not the way to go. To fight copyright we only need to give them file sharing when what with millions enjoying and very happy then to take this away is another loss of "freedom"
Copyright cannot win there until they match the quality when then people will be consigned to the fact that a subscription is not unlike Government tax and a fact of life.
This all goes to explain why politics can play the dirty game of lying to the public with terms like "we must protect the children" to trigger an emotional response. This is the same reason why the MPAA and RIAA always call us "thieves"
Educational programmes have little value. If some political matter becomes important then people will hear, get concerned and tell their friends. Word of mouth is the best method. This explains why over only a short space of time hundreds turned to thousands that then goaded millions.
While it is true those same millions can be goaded for election purposes we usually don't have the need. I doubt though that Lamar Smith will last long.
Last of all I find it ironic you could not understand my comments about US Politics. Since most of the World's big issues start in Congress then why are you asking people to learn about politics but you are not? I am also not a US citizen but I read up on this subject because I found it important.
The problem with the MPAA and RIAA is that they ignore us. We are just sheeple to be goaded into buying their products and if we somehow avoid this purchasing ideal then that only needs more laws to plug the hole.
Even now they totally ignore what happened in this SOPA/PIPA failure and why. Instead of recognizing the public mass revolt they put this blackout day and boycotting down to "dirty tricks" from leaders like Google. They directly say "please don't do this again when it is unreasonable to the Internet and negotiations"
It may be a nice idea to sit down to tea and cakes with the MPAA and RIAA but this is physically impossible. Our core values are in total opposites. Black and white. Ying and Yang. Heads and tails.
So the only place to meet them is on the battlefield in open Warfare. It due to all the shit they give us in corruption, bullying, lies and nasty laws which explains why we now mobilize against them.
Negotiation is simply not possible. These are the people who believe that the copyright term should be eternal but then add on eternity minus one day when the US Constitution bans eternity when that allows no Public Domain. Yes right before the Universe ends they will give you one day.
You may have noticed from this SOPA/PIPA debate that none of them understood the Internet and they freely stated that. If the MPAA wanted to compromise they would fire Chris Dodd and put in charge someone who understood the Internet.
So how does this all play out against Mega? The MPAA/RIAA are arrogant people who value total enforcement and do not understand technology. That offers a lot of ground for mistakes to be made in the law.
I myself come from a different focus when I welcome people'x freedom from the controls and abuse of copyright. I hate zoning and artificial delays aimed to boost profit. I hate the monopolies they form and the lack of free market and competition.
I want people to live free in their homes to do as they please. I want them not to be censored or restricted. I want them to have choice over when how and where they consume media and in what format.
I know that public demand forms the market that shapes the world and the MPAA and RIAA have no one but themselves to blame for piracy. The innovators outstripped them by miles and instead of catching up they fought against progress and fought against what the public wanted. A plan they would lose.
I myself a UK citizen discovered file-sharing due to becoming a fan of a TV series. When I interacted with other fans I noticed a problem when fans in the US were seeing these episodes months before I did. It helps little to join a popular topic if you have not seen what they refer to. It only took about 6 months to see how I could readdress this balance through the download of rather poor quality copies which much improved over time.
I long resisted music and movie downloads but my enjoyment of TV episodes did expand into other series. Then I played a hand in distribution on IRC when they had problems and needed extra volunteers. I learned a lot then and soon became leader of this small group which would have served a few million TV episodes. After 2 years I gave up when I was always left doing the work when with people who are not paid you just cannot count on them to do regular work.
A rare encounter with a bigger distribution network looking for couriers during those 2 years did make me download my first ever movie. Unfortunately for the MPAA my random download of a mystery title turned out to be a movie I totally loved. I was hooked and this well demonstrated to me how through sharing I can encounter much more media which both increases my enjoyment and my desire to buy.
So here I am years later well knowing that the general public are not corrupt immoral thieves (another MPAA/RIAA major flaw). They still buy what is worthy and that is why this fight is not one of profit but one of control.
I have no malice towards content creation. Indeed if serious damage was being done then regulation is correct. However since the market is very healthy then the public gain from file-sharing outweighs the MPAA and RIAA's demand for absolute control and maximum profit.
During all this I do not believe I did anything wrong even if I did infringe shit loads of copyright.
You are really asking the impossible. Why should people switch from their jobs, friends, paying the bills, feeding to kids to study up on extremely boring politics and laws?
A related example is with my Pinay partner. I am someone who loves space, science and technology. Part of that interest is exoplanets in other star systems. The interesting part is topics of possible alien life. Now my partner cares zero for exoplanets and aliens when this topic would bore her to death. So I always say the only time she would get interested is when an alien spacecraft lands in front of her house!
Just like major politics this plays no part of her daily life and there is just no way to convince her.
Even in politics they fair little better and their eyes gloss over so quickly at pages and pages of insane law text.
Then they cannot even organize their way out of a hole. Like everyone knows that the corruption/lobbying in Congress needs to be reformed but the truth is Congress is too corrupt to do it themselves and in all the years since the United States first formed the individual States themselves have never once successfully called a Convention to fix corruption and other government problems when they don't know their ass from their elbow and can't organize the two into the right place.
Yes the people are exactly the problem but you can't genocide us all to replace us with super humans who actually care enough to get the job done.
1. Our end immediate goal should be to write a new law to pass through Congress that should allow some more gentle copyright reforms. One point could be to have them agree to only handle copyright law changes based on factual data when that would allow us some breathing space to organize a bigger attack.
2. We do need a leader. We need someone who knows what they are doing when most of us are clueless. This is only to spearhead our fightback when each sub-group can organize their own ideas. Getting into Congress to draft up a new proposed law seems a key point. The MPAA and RIAA can do this while getting zero people elected and so can we.
3. The Internet cannot keep organizing mass protests with blackouts and boycotts every time we need to fight. Sure we can do that for critical issues but the general public do not like losing their services and this can be counter-productive in the long term.
4. All the time Congress is lawfully corrupt then we do need to play that game as well to balance the fight with the Entertainment Industry. For this reason a partnership with the Tech Industry is critical and to always promote a free, fair and uncensored Internet. Our goal should never be just about copyright reform but to reform many areas where the public have lost their freedoms.
The Tech Industry does gain one extra advantage when we can also rally all the businesses who have good reason to hate copyright enforcement. The many victims who have been hurt and abused by the monopoly. This means we can increase the lobbying power of the Tech Industry to a new higher level which benefits their own needs to be met.
5. To achieve a major copyright reform will certainly need to be a massive international undertaking. Much of copyright has been set through international treaties. There is no way we can reduce the copyright span to 30 or so years unless every other country who signed the original treaties agrees to do likewise.
The best we can currently achieve in the US alone is to reduce the copyright span from life plus 70 years to life plus 50 years. This is obviously no where near good enough but it is a start.
This blackout day was a very good thing but always keep in mind one thing about the public. These 99% just want to get on with their lives and not to have to worry about politics. They want politicians to do their job and simply not to mess everything up. So the public tend to only scream out when they have done big mistakes that harm their lives.
So what does that say for the longer term of needing to rally them to convince politicians to pass our laws and to fight laws we do not like? This is why we certainly need lobbying power as a backup when the public lack the interest.
Blackout day worked when we were all sick and tired of what they were doing and we simply said enough is enough you shall not cross this line. Hundreds turned to thousands who rallied the millions.
Reverse the question. Why would the Government want unique genetic details about people? Certainly people who have never been arrested or convicted of a crime?
What about if they examine your DNA to conclude you have a 37% chance of being a rapist, 60% chance of being a thief, 98% chance of dead before 40?
How about they calculate you could live beyond 100 and boost your taxes to compensate for your extra long retirement?
All it takes is one tiny strand of DNA. I would not be surprised if they rape your DNA from you at birth.
I will be glad when Europe implements DNSSEC. Then my local ISPs can ditch the NewzBin2 block. Not that I have ever used NewzBin2, or even have an issue by-passing this block, but I will be damned if I let my connection be censored.
It light of the nature of DNSSEC is it unlikely that the Court would still require a block when that would trash the security of DNSSEC.
We stand no hope getting ACTA stopped without Civil War when that is one bill that has rejected all public debate and then was sneaked into Europe disguised as a fish.
I do not mind genetic samples used in scientific or medical research.
My problem is I could not ever trust anyone with such unique data on me. God only help us if Governments, Police and Businesses know your genetic profile.
Well I did not plan this and it is a start. Look on the bright side when asking people to do this boycott for 1 month is not too disruptive to their lives.
I am doubtful that people would catch up by much when they would have just spent their money in other ways. Instead of the cinema they visit some tourist attraction. Instead of a DVD/BluRay/CD gift for a family member they buy another gift.
I forgot to add on my BLACK MARCH mention of NO INTERNET DOWNLOADS. Living on Indie movies there may prove harsh.
Anyway if this idea gets promoted then millions of dollars they will lose and if they attack us again we can plan the next bigger boycott to December to trash their Xmas sales.
Between the 1st and 31st of March a media boycott is planned with no DVD/BluRay purchases, no music purchases, no cinema trips, no PPV and more. This does not apply to independent artist media.
Promoting this plan would help.
Then then they can see what we think of their Mega shutdown when their balance sheet shows the loss of millions of dollars.
Remember how easily the GoDaddy boycott worked to quickly convince them to change their SOPA stance? Well if this BLACK MARCH boycott is successful they would freak out over millions of dollars in lost sales.
First there would need to be an on-line media database that anyone could access stating the nature of media (including copyright term) and digital fingerprinting. This digital fingerprinting needs to be carefully done to avoid fair use conflict.
Copyright would also need to become global beyond the current national when the Internet has no borders.
Websites would then be required to check media upload against the digital fingerprinting. For example Mega already did this to avoid repeated upload to save space.
The upload of copyrighted media for personal storage should be allowed unless shared... on the wrong service.
Should a match be found then a much more detailed comparison would need to be done to avoid mistakes. Then the infringing media can be deleted. However I believe it best if upon a match a digital note is sent to the owner asking if they would prefer to make money from their supply instead.
And all that is done automatically through a central database which is all owners need to maintain. Needing to search the Internet for infringement would be much reduced with no more DMCA take down notices.
The only problem, beyond those refusing to play ball, is when media is re-encoded to a point the digital fingerprinting fails. Then owners only need to find out these copies and claim ownership as well. All sites then spot that change and mass deletion follows.
False claims should carry harsh punishments. Media grab is a nasty business.
We should also consider inserting a digital media status record into the file which would much help in many ways. People could see Copyright, Public Domain or Creative Commons when they play the file. To avoid tampering it would need to be hash checked. Not the best solution when to crack the system only needs to understand the encryption method for the hash. However that can be used no problem for information purposes only.
Anonymous well knows that DDoS is unlawful in most countries and can put them in prison for about a year. So do not doubt their bravery when they go nuclear on the FBI website knowing the resources they have to find them and punish them.
For a long time Anonymous cut out doing DDoS against websites when the gain was not worth the punishment. This Mega matter through was certainly important enough to launch their most successful attack to date.
And should they get busted their only defence is "denial" and if that fails then they have the honour of becoming a political prisoner.
Well I am impressed that they did say a lot of good things there beyond the minor misconceptions.
Unfortunately near the end they did mess up...
"We hope a new tone can be set that does not include website attacks"
The DoJ and FBI did start that one in their service of the MPAA and RIAA.
Them wanting to bring justice to Mega is one thing, and we do not oppose the Government upholding the law, but to do so through deleting 4% of the Internet including millions of Public Domain and Creative Commons titles is a total violation of the free, fair and open Internet that we believe in... and our right to share.
They mention the Library of Congress. Well tell me how people would feel if we burned down the Library of Congress just because it was "assumed" that the management were conduction unlawful acts?
The FBI in their big mistake overlooked that they were not just seizing hardware here.
I should add that the MPAA and RIAA are a bit upset here when Anonymous, LulzSec and many hackers are currently causing large disruption to hundreds of their servers. If you want to moan then remember you started this.
"blacklists"
I presume they mean the likes of GoDaddy and the boycott of SOPA/PIPA supporters. Is it not our right to use boycott as a means of democratic protest?
"blackouts"
Again more lawful protest. It seems they are objecting to our fundamental rights to fight back against proposed laws.
I am proud of the 6000 sites that did blackout even of most people would not have spotted more than 5 of those during the blackout unless they searched. Even history does not record the vast majority of small sites by only noting the bigger ones.
They should remember why this happened... in that our voice was being ignored until we began screaming like crazy people.
"and lies"
Here is hypercritical irony in just one word.
The MPAA and RIAA are well known to be major liars including their economic reports used to back up these bills.
I will be honest and say us unapproved leaders of this revolt did twist the truth in some cases. The public did need powerful concepts to rally them but what we did claim was not untrue either.
Should they now want a lie-less future then sure let us look at the real economics in play and to fix areas where real financial damage is seen to be done. We have no desire to harm media creation but we also want our independent distribution channels and to "share" when there is no harm in doing so.
"We believe an Internet that does not allow outright stealing"
And here is always your core problem. Copyright Infringement is not stealing. Us file sharers are happy to admit that we infringe copyright but my own 400+ title DVD library clearly highlights that I do not "steal"
"has to be the Internet of the future or all the promises it holds will be unrealized"
Here is some irony for you. The Tech Industry of the Internet could enforce copyright protection to levels beyond their wildest dreams. But we simply will not undertake such a goal until our own demands are met.
1. A major reduction in the term of copyright and 30 years sounds a good start. It would also help to simplify the process when the complexity they have already added makes enforcement much harder.
2. To establish and promote a viable Public Domain as a resource of ideas and free entertainment. Those who seek Copyright Protection must also welcome the addition to the Public Domain once the term has expired.
3. To make non-commercial file sharing lawful all the time that economic damage is not being done. This is a great free promotion and advertising resource that can help to boost sales. Should harm be noticed then the "minimum" action should be taken to resolve this problem.
File-sharing sites once lawful should reside as non-profit organizations to avoid commercial exploitation.
Should the MPAA and RIAA submit to these three key points then we will grant them their strictly enforced copyright to sell as they please. No one could then make money on their creation without their approval.
If they reject this offer then the War will continue and they should be aware that the opposition against them increases in leaps and bounds. What they most should fear is that we are now getting organized to fight them on every level and on every proposal.
When the playing field has been levelled then who do you think politicians will listen to? A monopolies thirst for greed and control? Or the public's desire for freedom and harmless fun?
It was very clear during this SOPA/PIPA revolt that mainstream services were ignoring this as best they could. Then the likes of CNN and Fox News were saying in not so many words "We cannot accurately report this news when our owners are SOPA supporters"
The mainstream news services that the majority of the population listen to did ignore the 6000 websites and 8 to 15 million people who revolted.
To now turned around to say these same "censors" were not heard is remarkable. I can only say "Thank God for the Internet" the one place where you can actually read news not corrupted by corporate media whim.
I have been reading that and they seem to be doing it all wrong. Why wait for Congress to approve a Convention that is designed to by-pass their control? That cannot be how the US Constitution is worded.
What needs to be done is this...
1. Contact the Government of all States and point out all the issues they have wanted to have a Convention on. Call for a open topic Convention statement to be sent to Congress all during a month like March 2013.
2. Should Congress receive the 2/3rds required then all States should send a representative to a meeting place during September 2013. You do not need Congress's approval t do this. You may want to host this in Canada.
3. These representatives can then propose and debate how the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the nature of Congress, and the Administration can be changed. These ideas can then be put to a vote to obtain the required majority.
4. To further increase the legality of by-passing Congress it is recommended that the end proposal is put to the population to decide where the required number of States must approve the proposal for this to become law.
5. Congress is then informed of the changes. Should they refuse to accept this then all elections should be suspended and no bills from the unlawful Congress should be turned into law. Then either you can have the Army expel these traitors from Congress, wait until they give up, or build Congress #2 and bomb Congress #1 into rubble.
Keep in mind that Chris Dodd was a Senator not long ago and under political rules he is banned from contacting members of Congress for the purpose of lobbying and advise for 2 years.
Lobbying may be lawful but there are still rules to follow.
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So here they are just passing ACTA into law and now they are already birthing "son of ACTA". Does anyone else find that there is a stage missing called "watch how ACTA operates and after a few years make a review to then decide what needs to be changed in ACTA#2"
All they are like doing is getting an icecream, wanting a large icecream, then once they have their large icecream wanting a jumbo icecream. But even with all that they have yet to taste the icecream.
Well it may be too late to stop ACTA (the fish) but we will not allow TPP to pass.
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The 1%
Clearly no person on the copyright side even acknowledges that the 99% actually exist. They instead only see the 1% which is why Google is the closest they will ever get to reality.
There should be a word for that situation but it is too late here to apply my usual immense brain power.
The sad part of all this is that they are also blissfully unaware of a little word called "Democracy". Members of Congress may be more in-tune there simply because getting it wrong can cost them their job.
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NetFlix
They will be competing against LoveFilm's movie streaming service and I will say I sure as Hell hope they DO NOT COMPETE.
Real competition under the monopoly market only increases costs while making Hollywood rich. Then if competition is done too long... then a monopoly forms and one will die. So respectful cooperation works much better in this flawed market.
Reforms obviously need to be done there as well.
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Musik
We are also happy to say that the monopoly of the RIAA has been killed when they barely make up half the market sales with the Indie artists making up the rest.
All would be happy in the World if not for the RIAA with their SOPA law and their many attacks on Indie music supply like DaJaz1, OnSmash, MegaBox and MegaClick?. All done to try and keep Indie artists under the RIAA cartel umbrella so they can take their 80% cut.
Obviously we should not allow a monopoly to crush a free and vibrant market.
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Re: Re: Re: The Core Problem
The average person does not even care enough to add "environmental protection" to that list. They may one day when they choke on the smog and their kids get cancer.
Now this SOPA/PIPA debate is an interesting one when what people also hate is losing their "freedom". This is also not a big one though when many of their freedoms slip away each month with not many knowing or caring.
However in this case people love the Internet and the freedom it offers and an attack on the infrastructure is an attack on them.
Well if you want people to fight copyright then politics is not the way to go. To fight copyright we only need to give them file sharing when what with millions enjoying and very happy then to take this away is another loss of "freedom"
Copyright cannot win there until they match the quality when then people will be consigned to the fact that a subscription is not unlike Government tax and a fact of life.
This all goes to explain why politics can play the dirty game of lying to the public with terms like "we must protect the children" to trigger an emotional response. This is the same reason why the MPAA and RIAA always call us "thieves"
Educational programmes have little value. If some political matter becomes important then people will hear, get concerned and tell their friends. Word of mouth is the best method. This explains why over only a short space of time hundreds turned to thousands that then goaded millions.
While it is true those same millions can be goaded for election purposes we usually don't have the need. I doubt though that Lamar Smith will last long.
Last of all I find it ironic you could not understand my comments about US Politics. Since most of the World's big issues start in Congress then why are you asking people to learn about politics but you are not? I am also not a US citizen but I read up on this subject because I found it important.
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Re:
Even now they totally ignore what happened in this SOPA/PIPA failure and why. Instead of recognizing the public mass revolt they put this blackout day and boycotting down to "dirty tricks" from leaders like Google. They directly say "please don't do this again when it is unreasonable to the Internet and negotiations"
It may be a nice idea to sit down to tea and cakes with the MPAA and RIAA but this is physically impossible. Our core values are in total opposites. Black and white. Ying and Yang. Heads and tails.
So the only place to meet them is on the battlefield in open Warfare. It due to all the shit they give us in corruption, bullying, lies and nasty laws which explains why we now mobilize against them.
Negotiation is simply not possible. These are the people who believe that the copyright term should be eternal but then add on eternity minus one day when the US Constitution bans eternity when that allows no Public Domain. Yes right before the Universe ends they will give you one day.
You may have noticed from this SOPA/PIPA debate that none of them understood the Internet and they freely stated that. If the MPAA wanted to compromise they would fire Chris Dodd and put in charge someone who understood the Internet.
So how does this all play out against Mega? The MPAA/RIAA are arrogant people who value total enforcement and do not understand technology. That offers a lot of ground for mistakes to be made in the law.
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Re: This is our voice
I myself come from a different focus when I welcome people'x freedom from the controls and abuse of copyright. I hate zoning and artificial delays aimed to boost profit. I hate the monopolies they form and the lack of free market and competition.
I want people to live free in their homes to do as they please. I want them not to be censored or restricted. I want them to have choice over when how and where they consume media and in what format.
I know that public demand forms the market that shapes the world and the MPAA and RIAA have no one but themselves to blame for piracy. The innovators outstripped them by miles and instead of catching up they fought against progress and fought against what the public wanted. A plan they would lose.
I myself a UK citizen discovered file-sharing due to becoming a fan of a TV series. When I interacted with other fans I noticed a problem when fans in the US were seeing these episodes months before I did. It helps little to join a popular topic if you have not seen what they refer to. It only took about 6 months to see how I could readdress this balance through the download of rather poor quality copies which much improved over time.
I long resisted music and movie downloads but my enjoyment of TV episodes did expand into other series. Then I played a hand in distribution on IRC when they had problems and needed extra volunteers. I learned a lot then and soon became leader of this small group which would have served a few million TV episodes. After 2 years I gave up when I was always left doing the work when with people who are not paid you just cannot count on them to do regular work.
A rare encounter with a bigger distribution network looking for couriers during those 2 years did make me download my first ever movie. Unfortunately for the MPAA my random download of a mystery title turned out to be a movie I totally loved. I was hooked and this well demonstrated to me how through sharing I can encounter much more media which both increases my enjoyment and my desire to buy.
So here I am years later well knowing that the general public are not corrupt immoral thieves (another MPAA/RIAA major flaw). They still buy what is worthy and that is why this fight is not one of profit but one of control.
I have no malice towards content creation. Indeed if serious damage was being done then regulation is correct. However since the market is very healthy then the public gain from file-sharing outweighs the MPAA and RIAA's demand for absolute control and maximum profit.
During all this I do not believe I did anything wrong even if I did infringe shit loads of copyright.
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Re: The Core Problem
You are really asking the impossible. Why should people switch from their jobs, friends, paying the bills, feeding to kids to study up on extremely boring politics and laws?
A related example is with my Pinay partner. I am someone who loves space, science and technology. Part of that interest is exoplanets in other star systems. The interesting part is topics of possible alien life. Now my partner cares zero for exoplanets and aliens when this topic would bore her to death. So I always say the only time she would get interested is when an alien spacecraft lands in front of her house!
Just like major politics this plays no part of her daily life and there is just no way to convince her.
Even in politics they fair little better and their eyes gloss over so quickly at pages and pages of insane law text.
Then they cannot even organize their way out of a hole. Like everyone knows that the corruption/lobbying in Congress needs to be reformed but the truth is Congress is too corrupt to do it themselves and in all the years since the United States first formed the individual States themselves have never once successfully called a Convention to fix corruption and other government problems when they don't know their ass from their elbow and can't organize the two into the right place.
Yes the people are exactly the problem but you can't genocide us all to replace us with super humans who actually care enough to get the job done.
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Thoughts
1. Our end immediate goal should be to write a new law to pass through Congress that should allow some more gentle copyright reforms. One point could be to have them agree to only handle copyright law changes based on factual data when that would allow us some breathing space to organize a bigger attack.
2. We do need a leader. We need someone who knows what they are doing when most of us are clueless. This is only to spearhead our fightback when each sub-group can organize their own ideas. Getting into Congress to draft up a new proposed law seems a key point. The MPAA and RIAA can do this while getting zero people elected and so can we.
3. The Internet cannot keep organizing mass protests with blackouts and boycotts every time we need to fight. Sure we can do that for critical issues but the general public do not like losing their services and this can be counter-productive in the long term.
4. All the time Congress is lawfully corrupt then we do need to play that game as well to balance the fight with the Entertainment Industry. For this reason a partnership with the Tech Industry is critical and to always promote a free, fair and uncensored Internet. Our goal should never be just about copyright reform but to reform many areas where the public have lost their freedoms.
The Tech Industry does gain one extra advantage when we can also rally all the businesses who have good reason to hate copyright enforcement. The many victims who have been hurt and abused by the monopoly. This means we can increase the lobbying power of the Tech Industry to a new higher level which benefits their own needs to be met.
5. To achieve a major copyright reform will certainly need to be a massive international undertaking. Much of copyright has been set through international treaties. There is no way we can reduce the copyright span to 30 or so years unless every other country who signed the original treaties agrees to do likewise.
The best we can currently achieve in the US alone is to reduce the copyright span from life plus 70 years to life plus 50 years. This is obviously no where near good enough but it is a start.
This blackout day was a very good thing but always keep in mind one thing about the public. These 99% just want to get on with their lives and not to have to worry about politics. They want politicians to do their job and simply not to mess everything up. So the public tend to only scream out when they have done big mistakes that harm their lives.
So what does that say for the longer term of needing to rally them to convince politicians to pass our laws and to fight laws we do not like? This is why we certainly need lobbying power as a backup when the public lack the interest.
Blackout day worked when we were all sick and tired of what they were doing and we simply said enough is enough you shall not cross this line. Hundreds turned to thousands who rallied the millions.
On the post: Adding Your DNA To A Biobank Is A Noble Move -- But Is It A Wise One?
Re: Re: DNA RNA
What about if they examine your DNA to conclude you have a 37% chance of being a rapist, 60% chance of being a thief, 98% chance of dead before 40?
How about they calculate you could live beyond 100 and boost your taxes to compensate for your extra long retirement?
All it takes is one tiny strand of DNA. I would not be surprised if they rape your DNA from you at birth.
On the post: Blocking The Net 'Not The European Option' -- EU Commissioner Reding
DNSSEC
It light of the nature of DNSSEC is it unlikely that the Court would still require a block when that would trash the security of DNSSEC.
We stand no hope getting ACTA stopped without Civil War when that is one bill that has rejected all public debate and then was sneaked into Europe disguised as a fish.
On the post: Adding Your DNA To A Biobank Is A Noble Move -- But Is It A Wise One?
DNA RNA
My problem is I could not ever trust anyone with such unique data on me. God only help us if Governments, Police and Businesses know your genetic profile.
On the post: Jonathan Coulton Destroys The Rationale Behind The Megaupload Seizure With A Single Tweet; Follows Up With Epic Blog Post
Re: Re: BLACK MARCH
I am doubtful that people would catch up by much when they would have just spent their money in other ways. Instead of the cinema they visit some tourist attraction. Instead of a DVD/BluRay/CD gift for a family member they buy another gift.
I forgot to add on my BLACK MARCH mention of NO INTERNET DOWNLOADS. Living on Indie movies there may prove harsh.
Anyway if this idea gets promoted then millions of dollars they will lose and if they attack us again we can plan the next bigger boycott to December to trash their Xmas sales.
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BLACK MARCH
Between the 1st and 31st of March a media boycott is planned with no DVD/BluRay purchases, no music purchases, no cinema trips, no PPV and more. This does not apply to independent artist media.
Promoting this plan would help.
Then then they can see what we think of their Mega shutdown when their balance sheet shows the loss of millions of dollars.
Remember how easily the GoDaddy boycott worked to quickly convince them to change their SOPA stance? Well if this BLACK MARCH boycott is successful they would freak out over millions of dollars in lost sales.
On the post: Hollywood Unions: Now That You Lying Hacking Thieves Have Won, Can We Set A New Conciliatory Tone?
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Copyright would also need to become global beyond the current national when the Internet has no borders.
Websites would then be required to check media upload against the digital fingerprinting. For example Mega already did this to avoid repeated upload to save space.
The upload of copyrighted media for personal storage should be allowed unless shared... on the wrong service.
Should a match be found then a much more detailed comparison would need to be done to avoid mistakes. Then the infringing media can be deleted. However I believe it best if upon a match a digital note is sent to the owner asking if they would prefer to make money from their supply instead.
And all that is done automatically through a central database which is all owners need to maintain. Needing to search the Internet for infringement would be much reduced with no more DMCA take down notices.
The only problem, beyond those refusing to play ball, is when media is re-encoded to a point the digital fingerprinting fails. Then owners only need to find out these copies and claim ownership as well. All sites then spot that change and mass deletion follows.
False claims should carry harsh punishments. Media grab is a nasty business.
We should also consider inserting a digital media status record into the file which would much help in many ways. People could see Copyright, Public Domain or Creative Commons when they play the file. To avoid tampering it would need to be hash checked. Not the best solution when to crack the system only needs to understand the encryption method for the hash. However that can be used no problem for information purposes only.
Control only works through cooperation.
On the post: Hollywood Unions: Now That You Lying Hacking Thieves Have Won, Can We Set A New Conciliatory Tone?
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For a long time Anonymous cut out doing DDoS against websites when the gain was not worth the punishment. This Mega matter through was certainly important enough to launch their most successful attack to date.
And should they get busted their only defence is "denial" and if that fails then they have the honour of becoming a political prisoner.
On the post: Hollywood Unions: Now That You Lying Hacking Thieves Have Won, Can We Set A New Conciliatory Tone?
Unfortunately near the end they did mess up...
"We hope a new tone can be set that does not include website attacks"
The DoJ and FBI did start that one in their service of the MPAA and RIAA.
Them wanting to bring justice to Mega is one thing, and we do not oppose the Government upholding the law, but to do so through deleting 4% of the Internet including millions of Public Domain and Creative Commons titles is a total violation of the free, fair and open Internet that we believe in... and our right to share.
They mention the Library of Congress. Well tell me how people would feel if we burned down the Library of Congress just because it was "assumed" that the management were conduction unlawful acts?
The FBI in their big mistake overlooked that they were not just seizing hardware here.
I should add that the MPAA and RIAA are a bit upset here when Anonymous, LulzSec and many hackers are currently causing large disruption to hundreds of their servers. If you want to moan then remember you started this.
"blacklists"
I presume they mean the likes of GoDaddy and the boycott of SOPA/PIPA supporters. Is it not our right to use boycott as a means of democratic protest?
"blackouts"
Again more lawful protest. It seems they are objecting to our fundamental rights to fight back against proposed laws.
I am proud of the 6000 sites that did blackout even of most people would not have spotted more than 5 of those during the blackout unless they searched. Even history does not record the vast majority of small sites by only noting the bigger ones.
They should remember why this happened... in that our voice was being ignored until we began screaming like crazy people.
"and lies"
Here is hypercritical irony in just one word.
The MPAA and RIAA are well known to be major liars including their economic reports used to back up these bills.
I will be honest and say us unapproved leaders of this revolt did twist the truth in some cases. The public did need powerful concepts to rally them but what we did claim was not untrue either.
Should they now want a lie-less future then sure let us look at the real economics in play and to fix areas where real financial damage is seen to be done. We have no desire to harm media creation but we also want our independent distribution channels and to "share" when there is no harm in doing so.
"We believe an Internet that does not allow outright stealing"
And here is always your core problem. Copyright Infringement is not stealing. Us file sharers are happy to admit that we infringe copyright but my own 400+ title DVD library clearly highlights that I do not "steal"
"has to be the Internet of the future or all the promises it holds will be unrealized"
Here is some irony for you. The Tech Industry of the Internet could enforce copyright protection to levels beyond their wildest dreams. But we simply will not undertake such a goal until our own demands are met.
1. A major reduction in the term of copyright and 30 years sounds a good start. It would also help to simplify the process when the complexity they have already added makes enforcement much harder.
2. To establish and promote a viable Public Domain as a resource of ideas and free entertainment. Those who seek Copyright Protection must also welcome the addition to the Public Domain once the term has expired.
3. To make non-commercial file sharing lawful all the time that economic damage is not being done. This is a great free promotion and advertising resource that can help to boost sales. Should harm be noticed then the "minimum" action should be taken to resolve this problem.
File-sharing sites once lawful should reside as non-profit organizations to avoid commercial exploitation.
Should the MPAA and RIAA submit to these three key points then we will grant them their strictly enforced copyright to sell as they please. No one could then make money on their creation without their approval.
If they reject this offer then the War will continue and they should be aware that the opposition against them increases in leaps and bounds. What they most should fear is that we are now getting organized to fight them on every level and on every proposal.
When the playing field has been levelled then who do you think politicians will listen to? A monopolies thirst for greed and control? Or the public's desire for freedom and harmless fun?
On the post: Major Media Owning SOPA/PIPA Supporters Whine That They Had No Way To Have Their Message Heard
It was very clear during this SOPA/PIPA revolt that mainstream services were ignoring this as best they could. Then the likes of CNN and Fox News were saying in not so many words "We cannot accurately report this news when our owners are SOPA supporters"
The mainstream news services that the majority of the population listen to did ignore the 6000 websites and 8 to 15 million people who revolted.
To now turned around to say these same "censors" were not heard is remarkable. I can only say "Thank God for the Internet" the one place where you can actually read news not corrupted by corporate media whim.
Oh how they fear us... but ignore us.
On the post: Public Petitions The White House To Investigate Chris Dodd & The MPAA For Possible Bribery
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What needs to be done is this...
1. Contact the Government of all States and point out all the issues they have wanted to have a Convention on. Call for a open topic Convention statement to be sent to Congress all during a month like March 2013.
2. Should Congress receive the 2/3rds required then all States should send a representative to a meeting place during September 2013. You do not need Congress's approval t do this. You may want to host this in Canada.
3. These representatives can then propose and debate how the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the nature of Congress, and the Administration can be changed. These ideas can then be put to a vote to obtain the required majority.
4. To further increase the legality of by-passing Congress it is recommended that the end proposal is put to the population to decide where the required number of States must approve the proposal for this to become law.
5. Congress is then informed of the changes. Should they refuse to accept this then all elections should be suspended and no bills from the unlawful Congress should be turned into law. Then either you can have the Army expel these traitors from Congress, wait until they give up, or build Congress #2 and bomb Congress #1 into rubble.
6. Convention complete. Long live Democracy.
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Lobbying may be lawful but there are still rules to follow.
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