Of course, the market already offers a natural remedy for this- Pyrex stops being associated with borosilicate glass and starts being associated with shitty glass cookware.
Does that mean if I lived in Europe I could call up my ISP or phone company and say "hey, I want to be forgotten so I demand you erase any and all logs you have of my activity."?
The majority of content of "plenty of cable networks" is either syndicated shows from broadcast TV or shows who's producers eventually want syndication deals on broadcast TV.
The other day I actually came up with an idea to prevent copyfraud: "Three strikes" should go both ways: if one gets three claims on the same copyrighted material refuted, then the copyright it revoked and that material enters the public domain.
I should anonymously write a stack of takedown letters against pretty much every popular website out there and toss 'em in a mailbox the day the bill passes.
What they should do is, not shut down, but redesign their landing pages for a day- do things like put censor bars on the logos and have information about SOPA.
Right now Amazon's homepage has an ad for the Kindle, eBay's pushing their daily deals, and AOL's full of news stories. Heck, even Google uses the space below their famous search box from time to time to spread awareness about things such as cancer research.
"It’s sort of like Facebook, only instead of friends and family, you have a humongous powerful group of international corporations hanging on your every datum. "
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What's needed is a private right of action.
On the post: The NFL Issues Takedown For Chrysler Super Bowl Commercial
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On the post: Shattering pyrex To Show A Massive Weakness In Trademark Law
On the post: Why Can't Europe Just Forget The Ridiculous Idea Of A 'Right To Be Forgotten'
Well if I have a right to be forgotton
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On the post: Justices Finally Notice Naked Statues In The Supreme Court While Arguing Why Nudity Should Be Censored
On the post: Candidates Starting To Turn SOPA Into A Campaign Issue: Karen Kwiatkowski Goes After Bob Goodlatte
Re: I was about to send Kwiatkowski some money until I looked at some other issues
Hell, she probably won't keep the SOPA one either.
On the post: Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works
On the post: Microsoft Reminds Everyone: You Do Not Own Your Software
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Also by the way every major desktop environment has to be redesigned to run only with a touchscreen sorry about that.
On the post: Microsoft Reminds Everyone: You Do Not Own Your Software
Re: Back. It. Up.
And by the cloud, I mean a file server sitting in my bedroom named cloud.
On the post: How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website
On the post: Senator Briefly Brings Fake Driver's License App To The Public Eye Before Having It 'Taken 'Round Back And Shot'
On an iDevice!?
On the post: Software Developer Connects With Fans At The Altar
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/107100
On the post: Facebook, Twitter, eBay & Other Big Internet Companies Come Out Against SOPA
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Right now Amazon's homepage has an ad for the Kindle, eBay's pushing their daily deals, and AOL's full of news stories. Heck, even Google uses the space below their famous search box from time to time to spread awareness about things such as cancer research.
On the post: Why PROTECT IP/SOPA Is The Exact Wrong Approach To Dealing With Infringement Online
Is it just me?
On the post: Hollywood Front Group Rounds Up 4,000 Letters Sent To Congress, Pretending It's 100,000
On the post: Hollywood's Kinder, Gentler DRM: UltraViolet, Getting Slammed In Reviews
So it's exactly like Facebook then?
On the post: RIAA Law Lets Law Enforcement Ignore 4th Amendment, Search Private Property With No Warrants
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On the post: US Government Refuses To Say Who's On The Intelligence Oversight Board
If a plumber said that he'd fix my sink if I paid him, and he just made it worse, I'd want a refund.
On the post: NY State Senators Say We've Got Too Much Free Speech; Introduce Bill To Fix That
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