I read what you posted over there on CopyHype. There's nothing that indicates anything different than what I've said. They aren't seizing anything that stops them from doing business. NOTHING. The domain name provides no more evidence than what could have been gathered without seizing the name. As ChurchHatesTucker mentioned below, they have done nothing but take the dealer's name out of the directory listing - without turning off the phone number.
So, go ahead, seize the domain. It does NOTHING, other than make the owner spend another $7.
I should also say that seizing the name does *not* stop the ongoing crime. It just stops it under that name. But so what? The server is still up and running, and if I'm a server op, people know how to get in touch with me. You better kill my twitter, my facebook, my IRC on some random network, etc. Because all they have to do is put the new name up (not really - just use the IP address!) and they are back in business.
This is like seizing a drug dealer's phone number. And nothing else.
That's not true at all. First, the police are your first "adversarial hearing". If you can show that your tags aren't expired (by way of a registration, or similar object) then you will likely be allowed to go on your merry way. Second, I find it highly unlikely that your car will get towed just for expired tags. It might get towed for something like expired tags, DUI, and a pound of cocaine inside.
Now if you want to try and equate this to some "police action" where they may instantaneously seize the car, then I would say that it could be something like one has been under police scrutiny for drug trafficking, they set up a sting operation, and the owner drives the vehicle with drugs in the car to the sting. Then, they would seize the vehicle for evidential purposes.
But guess what... There's no evidence in a domain name. None.
This phrasing has always bothered me, because downloading a movie isn't really free. At least not from an economic standpoint. You have to find the thing you are looking for (time). You have to be willing to download from that source (trust). You may or may not get a finished file that works correctly or has good quality (more time). And so on ...
All it takes is being a member of a really good private torrent site, and you're golden. Also, knowing the names of a few really good release groups helps. A couple of sites I know do their own internal releases, and they are usually ahead of first sale date by about two weeks on majors. Honestly, if you're a member of these sites, you'll see a movie before it hits your local Blockbuster or Redbox, and certainly before Netflix can stream it. It will take you the same amount of time as you would on Netflix (or wandering around in Blockbuster) or less.
The biggest problem with making the decision to NOT vaccinate is that it doesn't just put *your* child at risk, but it puts me, my parents, and my children at risk. It is a weakening of the herd's immunities - not just your child's.
As the father of three children, with a father that is a PhD in biology, a lawyer mother that ultimately died from cancer, a mother-in-law that is an oncology nurse, and a sister-in-law that has an autistic child that she accredits to vaccination... Believe me, there was lots of debate and discussion about what to do when it came to vaccination - not just between my wife and I, but with the rest of my family. My wife and I chose, based on those discussions, that *we* would put *our* child at risk for the sake of your children, our herd.
I watched my children grow up. I watched my nephew grow up. There were a number of significant changes that took place during the time of my nephew's life when he was diagnosed as "autistic". A divorce, vaccinations, preschool changes, greater social interaction with peers, blah blah blah. Maybe any or some or all of those things triggered a change, maybe not. He's "high functioning", but he's "autistic". She blames vaccines. I'd say he's different than most kids, but hell, I grew up with kids like him, and they weren't labelled "autistic". They got tags like "slow learners", and stayed back grades. Maybe they finished high school. Some didn't. As my grandfather always said, "the world needs ditch diggers, too." Many would take that as a derogatory statement. The way it is meant is that we can't all be rock stars, or doctors, or receptionists. Some of us don't have the certain skill sets. Does that make us "autistic"? Crikey, I would likely be labelled autistic these days - there's certainly skill sets I'm missing.
I started this really about herd immunity. I don't need to link to articles, simply because a google of "herd immunity" will get you just about everything you need to know. A key thing to note when looking through the returns though is knowing the source of what you're reading. If the person isn't a doctor, and cherry picks sound bites without linking to support their argument, I'd likely not trust them.
All I ask is that you put your neighbors (the many) ahead of your child (the few) for the sake of humanity. But maybe that's the problem these days... We only care about ourselves.
Interesting. So, what you're saying is that they are all part of the same infringement? Sounds like... They should share the fine for that singular infringement... So on a peerlist of 50K, the $5K fine works out to a dime? Sounds good to me. I'm in.
And no. You can't combine them all. It's not fair to do so, since there are LOTS of different things that can govern. An open wireless access point (I keep mine open, as do most of my neighbors in our small neighborhood, so we can all work from all over, while hanging out, and keeping an eye on the kids), a hacked access point, a kid that downloaded unbeknownst to their clueless parent, etc. You can't assume that someone knows exactly whats flowing across their gateway. And why would you bring people up in YOUR local court, rather than theirs, except for the fact that your not licensed to practice in every state?
There's so many things wrong with these copyright troll groups like this idiot and USCG, that I'm glad this new industry is failing miserably. If Warner Brothers wants to sue me? Great. Charge me in my local court (which is where the infringement occurred). File ONE suit for each of my infringements (because, as you pointed out, each seed is a different instance!). Once their cost of entry is so high, they will start to figure something else out. Like, make deals with Netflix, of which I am a proud member.
Tell you what... You get Warner to release new movies on Netflix as streams the day they release the DVD, and I'll even pay MORE. I can see it now - Netflix tiers. Each "movie house" is an extra buck. For $20/month, I could have 12 movie houses. For 5 more, I could have each of the big TV stations - so I could watch TV shows streamed rather than have cable. Then, I could get rid of cable TV, that I get 5000 channels, 4975 of which I don't EVER watch.
People post themselves all over the place, go check out Reddit's GoneWild section - there's some 35K followers, and a large number of contributors, all of their own amateur stuff.
So is the porn industry playing canary? Maybe, in some ways, but, maybe, they're falling behind those that are grasping these new models: we see amazing videos (movies, really) created for a couple hundred bucks posted on YouTube and Vimeo. We see teams crowdsourcing and releasing their products on torrent sites (PioneerOne, anyone?). The same is occurring for the music industry.
Again - it's either change business model, or die.
And if any group has a capacity to CwF+RtB... It's the porn industry... Especially in the CwF department... Ba dum bum!
Without being able to see what Lowcountry912 posted, we can't make a judgement call.
However, DP has this to say on their site about Fair Use:
Nonetheless, our work is illegally reproduced everyday on websites across the country. The federal Copyright Act protects our right and our readers' rights to make fair use of copyrighted content. We have no issue with people who quote a small amount of a Post story so as to comment on it, perhaps even criticize us. That's the essence of free speech in a vigorous democracy.
But fair use of our content restricts those who want to reference it to reproduce no more than a headline and up to a couple of paragraphs or a summary of the story. (We also request users provide a link to the entire work on our website). The fair use rule generally does not entitle users to display the whole story or photograph on their website. To do so is a violation of our copyright and we will use all legal remedies available to address these infringements.
Jeeez louise! OK, I know that this isn't a blog about design or anything... but...
I clicked the link for the article... And while I like the concept of that site - I hate it. WTF is up with a post area that fits all of like 5 lines in it?? I mean, I get that it's in the video... But... Either don't have the post, or put it into a usable area. They may be big thinkers, but they don't put those thoughts into a usable space.
I guess my question is, why are leasing companies and airlines whining? There's something fishy there, and the question wasn't answered in the article.
What wikileaks et al are doing is terrorism, nothing more and nothing less. It is the minority attempting to impose change on the majority, by any means they see fit, regardless of the damages made to accomplish it.
Who are you to say that WikiLeaks and Anonymous (who is NOT 4chan) is the minority? We, as voters, have entrusted our government to do what is right, however, they have kept us in the dark for so long, and fed us so much bullshit, that we truly are mushrooms. We struggle now, with what's right and wrong. And the crap that we've done, and condoned, as a country (yes, I'm a born and raised American) is utter crap. In many instances, we could be considered terrorists. But, because we're America, that makes us "right".
Minority? No. I don't think so - I think most Americans (except those that watch Fox News for anything other than pure entertainment) would rather know what's going on - what our government is doing in our names.
And, your centralized vs. distributed comment is pretty close to right - only you left out the part where we in the US have run distributed efforts for years - Afghani freedom fighters, Iran-Contra, etc. We (the US) aren't above it. And we've done it in your name, just as much mine. Personally, I'd like to know what we're doing in my name.
Many might say that EveryDNS and EasyDNS fed off of each other's customer mistakes... "Hey Joe! Where do you have your DNS stuff handled?" "I dunno, Jim, EasyDNS, EveryDNS, something like that!"
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So, go ahead, seize the domain. It does NOTHING, other than make the owner spend another $7.
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This is like seizing a drug dealer's phone number. And nothing else.
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Now if you want to try and equate this to some "police action" where they may instantaneously seize the car, then I would say that it could be something like one has been under police scrutiny for drug trafficking, they set up a sting operation, and the owner drives the vehicle with drugs in the car to the sting. Then, they would seize the vehicle for evidential purposes.
But guess what... There's no evidence in a domain name. None.
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You say slot machine, I say voting machine...
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But... What about the herd?
As the father of three children, with a father that is a PhD in biology, a lawyer mother that ultimately died from cancer, a mother-in-law that is an oncology nurse, and a sister-in-law that has an autistic child that she accredits to vaccination... Believe me, there was lots of debate and discussion about what to do when it came to vaccination - not just between my wife and I, but with the rest of my family. My wife and I chose, based on those discussions, that *we* would put *our* child at risk for the sake of your children, our herd.
I watched my children grow up. I watched my nephew grow up. There were a number of significant changes that took place during the time of my nephew's life when he was diagnosed as "autistic". A divorce, vaccinations, preschool changes, greater social interaction with peers, blah blah blah. Maybe any or some or all of those things triggered a change, maybe not. He's "high functioning", but he's "autistic". She blames vaccines. I'd say he's different than most kids, but hell, I grew up with kids like him, and they weren't labelled "autistic". They got tags like "slow learners", and stayed back grades. Maybe they finished high school. Some didn't. As my grandfather always said, "the world needs ditch diggers, too." Many would take that as a derogatory statement. The way it is meant is that we can't all be rock stars, or doctors, or receptionists. Some of us don't have the certain skill sets. Does that make us "autistic"? Crikey, I would likely be labelled autistic these days - there's certainly skill sets I'm missing.
I started this really about herd immunity. I don't need to link to articles, simply because a google of "herd immunity" will get you just about everything you need to know. A key thing to note when looking through the returns though is knowing the source of what you're reading. If the person isn't a doctor, and cherry picks sound bites without linking to support their argument, I'd likely not trust them.
All I ask is that you put your neighbors (the many) ahead of your child (the few) for the sake of humanity. But maybe that's the problem these days... We only care about ourselves.
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And no. You can't combine them all. It's not fair to do so, since there are LOTS of different things that can govern. An open wireless access point (I keep mine open, as do most of my neighbors in our small neighborhood, so we can all work from all over, while hanging out, and keeping an eye on the kids), a hacked access point, a kid that downloaded unbeknownst to their clueless parent, etc. You can't assume that someone knows exactly whats flowing across their gateway. And why would you bring people up in YOUR local court, rather than theirs, except for the fact that your not licensed to practice in every state?
There's so many things wrong with these copyright troll groups like this idiot and USCG, that I'm glad this new industry is failing miserably. If Warner Brothers wants to sue me? Great. Charge me in my local court (which is where the infringement occurred). File ONE suit for each of my infringements (because, as you pointed out, each seed is a different instance!). Once their cost of entry is so high, they will start to figure something else out. Like, make deals with Netflix, of which I am a proud member.
Tell you what... You get Warner to release new movies on Netflix as streams the day they release the DVD, and I'll even pay MORE. I can see it now - Netflix tiers. Each "movie house" is an extra buck. For $20/month, I could have 12 movie houses. For 5 more, I could have each of the big TV stations - so I could watch TV shows streamed rather than have cable. Then, I could get rid of cable TV, that I get 5000 channels, 4975 of which I don't EVER watch.
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People post themselves all over the place, go check out Reddit's GoneWild section - there's some 35K followers, and a large number of contributors, all of their own amateur stuff.
So is the porn industry playing canary? Maybe, in some ways, but, maybe, they're falling behind those that are grasping these new models: we see amazing videos (movies, really) created for a couple hundred bucks posted on YouTube and Vimeo. We see teams crowdsourcing and releasing their products on torrent sites (PioneerOne, anyone?). The same is occurring for the music industry.
Again - it's either change business model, or die.
And if any group has a capacity to CwF+RtB... It's the porn industry... Especially in the CwF department... Ba dum bum!
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Without being able to see what Lowcountry912 posted, we can't make a judgement call.
However, DP has this to say on their site about Fair Use:
They're even kind enough to tack on their terms of use to the bottom of a copy. That there's some FANCY javascript...
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The article...
I clicked the link for the article... And while I like the concept of that site - I hate it. WTF is up with a post area that fits all of like 5 lines in it?? I mean, I get that it's in the video... But... Either don't have the post, or put it into a usable area. They may be big thinkers, but they don't put those thoughts into a usable space.
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What wikileaks et al are doing is terrorism, nothing more and nothing less. It is the minority attempting to impose change on the majority, by any means they see fit, regardless of the damages made to accomplish it.
Who are you to say that WikiLeaks and Anonymous (who is NOT 4chan) is the minority? We, as voters, have entrusted our government to do what is right, however, they have kept us in the dark for so long, and fed us so much bullshit, that we truly are mushrooms. We struggle now, with what's right and wrong. And the crap that we've done, and condoned, as a country (yes, I'm a born and raised American) is utter crap. In many instances, we could be considered terrorists. But, because we're America, that makes us "right".
Minority? No. I don't think so - I think most Americans (except those that watch Fox News for anything other than pure entertainment) would rather know what's going on - what our government is doing in our names.
And, your centralized vs. distributed comment is pretty close to right - only you left out the part where we in the US have run distributed efforts for years - Afghani freedom fighters, Iran-Contra, etc. We (the US) aren't above it. And we've done it in your name, just as much mine. Personally, I'd like to know what we're doing in my name.
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So... With the good... Comes the bad.
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