Don't get me wrong, people should be mad at them, too, but when it comes down to with who to be mad at, I assign more blame to the people who put the country up for sale to the highest bigger, than the people who placed bids.
You forget that "the public" agreed to those incredibly one-sided and poorly thought out law changes. Specifically, "the public's" representatives were there, and agreed to it all.
If you're mad at anyone, I'd suggest starting with the people who agreed to a bad deal on your behalf.
Re: Copyright is a grant of limited property rights for limited time.
What does this have to do with MegaUpload at all?
As has been said over and over again, copyright does not give the creator any rights. None. Not one. All copyright does is take away the rights from other people.
Actually, it's probably safe to simply throw away the letter, regardless. They're certainly not going to spend a bunch of money to collect less money than they spend.
Let's imagine that you set up a legit business in the front hall of a brothel, a crackhouse or an illegal casino.
Let's imagine you know how the internet works, and you stop making up stupid analogies that don't work.
But on the Internet, Big Piracy, Big Search and Big Hardware love to support organizations like Pirate Bay and so they support apologists like this who continue to come up with sophistic schemes to try to pretend that someone is somehow being censored or having their civil rights violated. Wrong.
No, bobby, *not* wrong. Was there speech? Yes. What it illegal speech? No. Is it being blocked by the government? Yes.
It is censorship. I'd just simply love to read why you think this isn't censorship. Love, love love. Please tell us. It will be doublespeak gold.
Property isn't a bundle of rights, property is easily explained as a bundle of rights.
And, "property. (14c) 1. The right to possess, use, and enjoy a determinate thing (either a tract of land or a chattel); the right of ownership . — Also termed bundle of rights. [Cases: Constitutional Law 277; Property 1.] 2. Any external thing over which the rights of possession, use, and enjoyment are exercised . [Cases: Property 1.]"
Property is a bundle of rights attached to a specific thing, whether that thing is a parcel of land, a chattel, a share in a business organization, an invention, or an artistic expression affixed to a medium.
You're making that up. No where is a "bundle of rights" referred to as property. Copyright is a government granted *right* (not property) to prevent people from doing something with a creative work that they physically have the ability to do. (Make copies, etc.)
I have the right (not property) to resell a pencil. Those two things are permanently linked-- I cannot just sell off the right to sell the pencil, while keeping the pencil. I also cannot sell off the pencil while keeping the right to resell it. If it were property, as you so desparately wish it to be, then it could be divorced from the medium it is connected to.
There is property, there are rights; hell, there are even property rights, but property isn't rights.
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I feel like you're trying to hard to stick to the result you want to arrive at.
Don't worry, I'm sure you were an excellent follower. I'm sure it will serve you well in the civilian sector. The world needs more people who shut up and do as they're told.
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Try aiming that knowledge at yourself, and see what you learn.
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Winning!
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Blame the politicians.
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If you're mad at anyone, I'd suggest starting with the people who agreed to a bad deal on your behalf.
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Re: Copyright is a grant of limited property rights for limited time.
As has been said over and over again, copyright does not give the creator any rights. None. Not one. All copyright does is take away the rights from other people.
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Hm..
They must be very important companies.
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Even they can't be that dumb.
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No more (bad) analogies: How is shutting down PromoBay, which is completely within the law, NOT censorship?
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Re: How is this handled for everyone else?
Let's imagine that you set up a legit business in the front hall of a brothel, a crackhouse or an illegal casino.
Let's imagine you know how the internet works, and you stop making up stupid analogies that don't work.
But on the Internet, Big Piracy, Big Search and Big Hardware love to support organizations like Pirate Bay and so they support apologists like this who continue to come up with sophistic schemes to try to pretend that someone is somehow being censored or having their civil rights violated. Wrong.
No, bobby, *not* wrong. Was there speech? Yes. What it illegal speech? No. Is it being blocked by the government? Yes.
It is censorship. I'd just simply love to read why you think this isn't censorship. Love, love love. Please tell us. It will be doublespeak gold.
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Re: Re: "The terrorist threat to this country is real."
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Thrust that double-edged sword.
Plot twist: Universal is the porn company.
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Dali
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Ahem..
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Hm.. sneaky.
Property isn't a bundle of rights, property is easily explained as a bundle of rights.
And, "property. (14c) 1. The right to possess, use, and enjoy a determinate thing (either a tract of land or a chattel); the right of ownership . — Also termed bundle of rights. [Cases: Constitutional Law 277; Property 1.] 2. Any external thing over which the rights of possession, use, and enjoyment are exercised . [Cases: Property 1.]"
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AJ.
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Ironic
I'd say she gave very poor business advice.
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You're making that up. No where is a "bundle of rights" referred to as property. Copyright is a government granted *right* (not property) to prevent people from doing something with a creative work that they physically have the ability to do. (Make copies, etc.)
I have the right (not property) to resell a pencil. Those two things are permanently linked-- I cannot just sell off the right to sell the pencil, while keeping the pencil. I also cannot sell off the pencil while keeping the right to resell it. If it were property, as you so desparately wish it to be, then it could be divorced from the medium it is connected to.
There is property, there are rights; hell, there are even property rights, but property isn't rights.
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Don't worry, I'm sure you were an excellent follower. I'm sure it will serve you well in the civilian sector. The world needs more people who shut up and do as they're told.
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