I don't know WHY people are willing to put up with that kind of B.S. online when you KNOW DAMN WELL that they wouldn't put up with it if McDonald's or Walmart tried ANYTHING similar to what is happening with Youtube.
... The entire agricultural industry and oil industries don't make 1 trillion dollars in a year, probably combined, and you're telling me that the Copyfraud Alliance does?
Re: But your implicit alternative would leave no REAL claims.
Except that the "Bad Actors" as you put it are the people who keep sending out so many DMCA notices so often.
So, if we go after the "Bad Actors", you're saying that Google and other REAL content creators, the ones you rail against constantly, would be left alone to really create.
On the post: The Ongoing War On Computing; Legacy Players Trying To Control The Uncontrollable
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Wanna try again?
On the post: The Ongoing War On Computing; Legacy Players Trying To Control The Uncontrollable
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On the post: Political Candidate Continues To Abuse YouTube's Copyright System To Silence Criticism
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On the post: As White House Makes Final Push On TPP, Congress Slams On The Brakes
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It is a constitutional issue, Congress is supposed to be doing the negotiating for treaties, not the USTR.
On the post: It's Not Such A Wonderful Public Domain, As Paramount Plans To Block 'It's A Wonderful Life' Sequel
On the post: Political Candidate Continues To Abuse YouTube's Copyright System To Silence Criticism
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I don't know WHY people are willing to put up with that kind of B.S. online when you KNOW DAMN WELL that they wouldn't put up with it if McDonald's or Walmart tried ANYTHING similar to what is happening with Youtube.
On the post: Copyright Lobbyists And The $1 Trillion Fallacy
One trillion?
One Trillion?
... The entire agricultural industry and oil industries don't make 1 trillion dollars in a year, probably combined, and you're telling me that the Copyfraud Alliance does?
...Whut?
On the post: Political Candidate Continues To Abuse YouTube's Copyright System To Silence Criticism
Huh...
On the post: DailyDirt: Good Parenting
Might I suggest...
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-parenting-turns-you-into-dumbass/
The guy speaks from life lessons, and, really, I think that most of his articles SHOULD be things that everyone should read at least once or twice.
Hell, give 'em to High School students to read, they might learn a thing or three...
Not to mention the teachers.
On the post: Moby Not Just Giving Away His New Album For Free On BitTorrent, He's Okay With You Profiting From It
Re: No, Itunes isn't "giving away works for free"...
On the post: Wordpress Goes Legal: Sues Over Two Egregiously Bogus DMCA Notices That Were Designed To Censor
Re: But your implicit alternative would leave no REAL claims.
So, if we go after the "Bad Actors", you're saying that Google and other REAL content creators, the ones you rail against constantly, would be left alone to really create.
On the post: Massive Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Have Been Hijacking Huge Amounts Of Internet Traffic And Almost No One Noticed
You know...
Could this be the reason?
On the post: Tell The Government That It Needs To Get A Warrant If It Wants To Read Your Email
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On the post: DailyDirt: The U.S. Postal Service
Sunday Mail?!
Why?
Because I'm always checking my mail box to see if I got mail.
On the post: Copyright Maximalist Talking Points On Leaked TPP Draft
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What's your excuse for running to mommy all the time?
On the post: Feds: Even Though We've Been Ordered To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act, We're Not Going To Do That
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On the post: Congress May Not Be So Eager To Simply Hand Over Its Own Authority To The Obama Administration To Approve TPP
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I don't fucking care.
Besides, SOPA would have, by law, put liability on websites and ISPs to monitor their users so they didn't link to "potentially infringing content".
SOPA-lite can't do a goddammed thing.
On the post: USTR Lies: Says TPP Is No Different Than US Law
Re: Re: Re: Re: @ AC: MPAA has little to do with TPP: that's just Mike's mis-casting.
On the post: Bloomberg Points Out That White House's Near Total Lack Of Transparency May Doom TPP
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Funny, because from where I and many others are sitting, Techdirt is pretty damn accurate in what they report and actually get stuff done.
On the post: Sports Journalist Gets Trolled On Twitter, Tattles To Troll's Parents
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(did I do it right? XP)
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