Re: We almost have the technology to help the record industry
To actually make this something that could happen, you get rid of the 'implant in ear at birth' and just move to 'legally required chip in cell phone'. Not that far of a stretch anymore.
So they captured all the equipment of the tor exit node...
I wonder if they bothered to go after the site hosting the material, or is that just too much work.
Nearly every report I see about child porn they are confiscating equipment and arresting some individual person for getting/having the material. I never see 'child porn production facility shut down when police...'.
Almost makes a person think they don't care about the kids, but just want to have an easy target that can generate headlines.
I have to take issue with these statements, at least in part.
"But as with any vigilante force, the odds of doing the wrong thing (or doing the right thing wrongly) increase greatly."
Increase greatly over what? Over a single person acting, sure I'll grant that, but I think the odds of such an outcome are significantly smaller than that of a large structured organization such as a government. We've seen over and over again the way large structured organization lose their 'humanity' and allow people to do very bad things, that they wouldn't otherwise do, because it's what they were told to do by their superiors. I'm not saying Anonymous is immune to this, but I believe they are much less prone to such things.
"And as with any other ad hoc group, the baser tendencies of the "hivemind" are often indulged. "
Once again I think the risk is much large in large structured organizations. Large organizations tend to develop a 'culture' and deviance from that culture is much harder than in a loosely associated group.
Just to show how absolutely clueless, and at this point it has to be purposeful, these people are I'd like to share a quote.
This is from the moderator (not one of the industry panelists) of the eG8 Plenary IV (the same one John Perry Barlow was in).
"I read an interesting article some days ago saying that bittorrent, the famous illegitimate piracy movie site, was being now overthrown by Netflix, that the traffic on Netflix, which promotes legitimate content, was being bigger than the pirated content on bittorrent."
Now I've stripped how the various Ah's and um's, and I'll ignore the somewhat bad grammar (the guy is French), but that statement is so wrong it can't even be intelligently responded to.
Is it really the case that not enough people actually care? Are there so few people who want actual news reporting that no network will step up to the plate?
I know we have a myriad of web based news operations that do good reporting, but they still don't represent the sheer scale of the major news networks.
There's certainly no lack of material to keep a real news network going. Is that they are so afraid of losing access that they won't bite the hand that feeds?
As an individual I put in a conservative estimate of $50,000. This comes from several sources.
First, is the tax cost. This covers time of representative spend dealing with IP related lobbying, enforcement activities, propaganda creations, and various other items. This is probably not that much, maybe $5,000.
Second is the time cost. Dealing with non-interoperable devices, working around technical limitations, researching how to accomplish what should be basic tasks, and helping friends and family with those items. Here I'm probably averaging about 100 hours a year that I shouldn't have to deal with. 100 hours x $100/hour = $10,000
Finally we have lost opportunity and lost efficiency cost. Given my position in the tech field and the massive drain of liability, legal intrusions, and chilling effects in the tech industry I would very conservatively put an estimate of $35,000 here for me personally.
What none of this takes in to account is the actual loss of life from various legal hindrances to technical (including medical) advances. Here I'm lumping in various forms of IP, but hell they lump in completely unrelated fake drugs so I don't feel bad.
It had a grasshopper running around singing 'Oh the world owes me a livin'. He kept laughing at the ant who was working to prepare for winter.
Then winter came and the grasshopper was out in the cold and came knocking on the ants door.
If I remember the ant told the grasshopper to piss off, the grasshopper broke as much stuff as he could before he died in the cold snow, and the ant had to pay for repairs and to get the body removed in the spring.
Ah, good old Disney cartoons. No parallel to this of course.
Seems that way. I wonder what they have these days for cheap, long running recorders.
They're commonly called "Smart phones" or "cell phones" and I hear their pretty popular these days.
Seriously though any smart phone has good audio/video recording apps available and for basic cell phones there are numbers in most locations that allow you to call in for a recording.
After a bit more thought this post really pisses me off. This kind of attitude is poisonous.
You're basically saying: Who the hell thinks they have the right to walk around and enjoy their constitutional rights whenever they feel like?!?! They should get advanced written permission and allow at least seven days for police notification before they try crap like that!
At the beginning of it one of the officers says 'Nobody knows the answer on this...' as the police officers are trying to figure out if the guy broke any laws.
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It's simple CYA
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torrent == crime
tor == crime
Any other tools we should add to the list?
or maybe it's just
*tor* == crime
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Re: We almost have the technology to help the record industry
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I wonder if they bothered to go after the site hosting the material, or is that just too much work.
Nearly every report I see about child porn they are confiscating equipment and arresting some individual person for getting/having the material. I never see 'child porn production facility shut down when police...'.
Almost makes a person think they don't care about the kids, but just want to have an easy target that can generate headlines.
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http://www.damninteresting.com/unskilled-and-unaware-of-it
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"But as with any vigilante force, the odds of doing the wrong thing (or doing the right thing wrongly) increase greatly."
Increase greatly over what? Over a single person acting, sure I'll grant that, but I think the odds of such an outcome are significantly smaller than that of a large structured organization such as a government. We've seen over and over again the way large structured organization lose their 'humanity' and allow people to do very bad things, that they wouldn't otherwise do, because it's what they were told to do by their superiors. I'm not saying Anonymous is immune to this, but I believe they are much less prone to such things.
"And as with any other ad hoc group, the baser tendencies of the "hivemind" are often indulged. "
Once again I think the risk is much large in large structured organizations. Large organizations tend to develop a 'culture' and deviance from that culture is much harder than in a loosely associated group.
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Re: What about other countries?
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The report changes nothing
This is from the moderator (not one of the industry panelists) of the eG8 Plenary IV (the same one John Perry Barlow was in).
"I read an interesting article some days ago saying that bittorrent, the famous illegitimate piracy movie site, was being now overthrown by Netflix, that the traffic on Netflix, which promotes legitimate content, was being bigger than the pirated content on bittorrent."
Now I've stripped how the various Ah's and um's, and I'll ignore the somewhat bad grammar (the guy is French), but that statement is so wrong it can't even be intelligently responded to.
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Must have contracted that out.
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I know we have a myriad of web based news operations that do good reporting, but they still don't represent the sheer scale of the major news networks.
There's certainly no lack of material to keep a real news network going. Is that they are so afraid of losing access that they won't bite the hand that feeds?
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My submission
First, is the tax cost. This covers time of representative spend dealing with IP related lobbying, enforcement activities, propaganda creations, and various other items. This is probably not that much, maybe $5,000.
Second is the time cost. Dealing with non-interoperable devices, working around technical limitations, researching how to accomplish what should be basic tasks, and helping friends and family with those items. Here I'm probably averaging about 100 hours a year that I shouldn't have to deal with. 100 hours x $100/hour = $10,000
Finally we have lost opportunity and lost efficiency cost. Given my position in the tech field and the massive drain of liability, legal intrusions, and chilling effects in the tech industry I would very conservatively put an estimate of $35,000 here for me personally.
What none of this takes in to account is the actual loss of life from various legal hindrances to technical (including medical) advances. Here I'm lumping in various forms of IP, but hell they lump in completely unrelated fake drugs so I don't feel bad.
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It had a grasshopper running around singing 'Oh the world owes me a livin'. He kept laughing at the ant who was working to prepare for winter.
Then winter came and the grasshopper was out in the cold and came knocking on the ants door.
If I remember the ant told the grasshopper to piss off, the grasshopper broke as much stuff as he could before he died in the cold snow, and the ant had to pay for repairs and to get the body removed in the spring.
Ah, good old Disney cartoons. No parallel to this of course.
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Re: Stake My Claim
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The biggest battery draws on a smart phone are the screen and the various radios (GPS, Data/Phone).
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They're commonly called "Smart phones" or "cell phones" and I hear their pretty popular these days.
Seriously though any smart phone has good audio/video recording apps available and for basic cell phones there are numbers in most locations that allow you to call in for a recording.
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You're basically saying: Who the hell thinks they have the right to walk around and enjoy their constitutional rights whenever they feel like?!?! They should get advanced written permission and allow at least seven days for police notification before they try crap like that!
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And the cop repeatedly saying "I don't know you" would maybe indicate that he didn't know him.
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At the beginning of it one of the officers says 'Nobody knows the answer on this...' as the police officers are trying to figure out if the guy broke any laws.
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