What?!?! The experts exchange article you link to says nothing of the sort.
"Microsoft, eBay, Google, GoDaddy, Yahoo and Amazon ... tens of thousands of dollars to none other than the authors and co-sponsors of SOPA and PIPA."
Tens of thousands?!!? Wow, that's like enough for a car! A new one, like maybe a hyundai or something! From six huge tech companies, tens of thousands of dollars!!! In terms of lobbying money, that's peanuts, gimme a break.
The article discusses that they may be regretting any campaign contributions they made to sopa/pipa sponsors, and does not even come close to implying, let alone supporting the notion that Google "funded SOPA".
Many hard disks and disc readers have their own built in buffers too. One wonders if these would require licenses.
Buffering is a standard part of reading or writing files in most programming languages as well (java.io.BufferedInputStream and java.io.BufferedOutputStream for e.g.). Something as simple as moving a file requires buffering.
This is a bit like legislating the value of pi. Not quite as egregiously stupid, but closer than we should ever get.
The only tweak I'd make to your analogy is to add that the marginal cost of producing a flax-seed oiled chocolate squid cake is nil.
So the counter argument is "but people are getting it for free because they can".
The problem with the counter argument is that it assumes some meaningful portion of the people who got it for free would have paid, and that society as a whole benefits from turning a country into a police state so that you can prevent people from getting squid cakes for free, which in and of itself doesn't even guarantee purchase of the squid cakes.
If making unsupported statements = stupidity then your comment is stupid
It's that simple. If you make arguments unsupported by data, then you look like a jackass.
And this will really chaffe the knickers of some copyright maximalists around here: denying spurious and circular logic of the Big Content companies effectively encumbers their ability to pass shite laws. Why? Big Content invests in circulating studies with bad or unpublished methodology, no methodology, and gross statistical errors, at least in most cases. They invest with profits that they get in spite of claims that their business is contracting and in this case "invest" means fund the creation of non sense self-serving "studies" when they should be focused or fixing their business models.
But I don't expect any of the souless sycophant grafters like you to ever grasp this argument. To you, Chris Dodd's “The entire film industry of Spain, Egypt and Sweden are gone.” comment is the highest form of factual, logical assertion ever achieved. To deny shills the ability to spread misinformation (idiotic statements proven patently false and yet constantly repeated) was the greatest attack on the on freedom (to corrupt legislation to prop up an obsolete business model) ever made. Yup. Chris Dodd's argument was better than those of Lawrence Lessig, Trent Reznor and Vint Cerf combined. Why every minute of the day, his magnificent corruption of the legislative process was attempting to lock down one of the only growth sectors keeping the american economy afloat. Yup. And who cares if some dumb people lose their life savings due to DNS hijacks made possible through the legislation, as long as Chris Dodd is returned to his rightful spot whispering into the ears of bought and paid for congress members. All Hail Chris Dodd, King of All Graft.
Mike, this is just another one of your transparent attempts to support blatant piracy, theft and plank walking.
Only google, thepiratebay, Chief Piracy Apologist Rags Techdirt and Ars Technica (evidenced by the fact they both have "Tech" in their names) and Kim Dotcom would want a fact based debate about ACTA.
You've finally revealed your true stripes for all to see.
The TSA's defence amounted to "Agent didn't know what it was, so he blocked it". It's a valid defense given their strategy. Unfortunately their strategy is moronic. It's stopgap measures meant to stop the last threat averted through dumb luck rather than investigative work.
"Richard Reid hid a bomb in his shoe, make 'em take off their shoes! Some idiots had some harebrained impractical half-baked plan (which never would have worked) to mix liquids into a bomb based on a Die Hard movie, no more liquids! Some guy tried to hide a bomb in his junk, but just turned himself into a eunuch through our dumb luck, get some nekkid scanners!"
It's a reactive, whack-a-mole approach and it's trivially easy for any terrorist smarter than Gomer Pile to circumvent.
TSA should be run by terrorism experts and detectives, instead it's seemingly run by mall cops.
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"Microsoft, eBay, Google, GoDaddy, Yahoo and Amazon ... tens of thousands of dollars to none other than the authors and co-sponsors of SOPA and PIPA."
Tens of thousands?!!? Wow, that's like enough for a car! A new one, like maybe a hyundai or something! From six huge tech companies, tens of thousands of dollars!!! In terms of lobbying money, that's peanuts, gimme a break.
The article discusses that they may be regretting any campaign contributions they made to sopa/pipa sponsors, and does not even come close to implying, let alone supporting the notion that Google "funded SOPA".
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Draft a Reply?
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Buffering is a standard part of reading or writing files in most programming languages as well (java.io.BufferedInputStream and java.io.BufferedOutputStream for e.g.). Something as simple as moving a file requires buffering.
This is a bit like legislating the value of pi. Not quite as egregiously stupid, but closer than we should ever get.
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Also probably because
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Re: Re: Mike your logical fallacy
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Mike your logical fallacy
The Pirate LALALALALALALALAICANTHEARYOU, no such thing.
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So the counter argument is "but people are getting it for free because they can".
The problem with the counter argument is that it assumes some meaningful portion of the people who got it for free would have paid, and that society as a whole benefits from turning a country into a police state so that you can prevent people from getting squid cakes for free, which in and of itself doesn't even guarantee purchase of the squid cakes.
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If making unsupported statements = stupidity then your comment is stupid
And this will really chaffe the knickers of some copyright maximalists around here: denying spurious and circular logic of the Big Content companies effectively encumbers their ability to pass shite laws. Why? Big Content invests in circulating studies with bad or unpublished methodology, no methodology, and gross statistical errors, at least in most cases. They invest with profits that they get in spite of claims that their business is contracting and in this case "invest" means fund the creation of non sense self-serving "studies" when they should be focused or fixing their business models.
But I don't expect any of the souless sycophant grafters like you to ever grasp this argument. To you, Chris Dodd's “The entire film industry of Spain, Egypt and Sweden are gone.” comment is the highest form of factual, logical assertion ever achieved. To deny shills the ability to spread misinformation (idiotic statements proven patently false and yet constantly repeated) was the greatest attack on the on freedom (to corrupt legislation to prop up an obsolete business model) ever made. Yup. Chris Dodd's argument was better than those of Lawrence Lessig, Trent Reznor and Vint Cerf combined. Why every minute of the day, his magnificent corruption of the legislative process was attempting to lock down one of the only growth sectors keeping the american economy afloat. Yup. And who cares if some dumb people lose their life savings due to DNS hijacks made possible through the legislation, as long as Chris Dodd is returned to his rightful spot whispering into the ears of bought and paid for congress members. All Hail Chris Dodd, King of All Graft.
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Re: Fact based? Hah
... oh wait, you were serious?
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Piracy Supporters Mantra
Only google, thepiratebay, Chief Piracy Apologist Rags Techdirt and Ars Technica (evidenced by the fact they both have "Tech" in their names) and Kim Dotcom would want a fact based debate about ACTA.
You've finally revealed your true stripes for all to see.
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Keep on Wailin' on 'em
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OH MY GOD, SOMETHING NEW!!!
"Richard Reid hid a bomb in his shoe, make 'em take off their shoes! Some idiots had some harebrained impractical half-baked plan (which never would have worked) to mix liquids into a bomb based on a Die Hard movie, no more liquids! Some guy tried to hide a bomb in his junk, but just turned himself into a eunuch through our dumb luck, get some nekkid scanners!"
It's a reactive, whack-a-mole approach and it's trivially easy for any terrorist smarter than Gomer Pile to circumvent.
TSA should be run by terrorism experts and detectives, instead it's seemingly run by mall cops.
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