Zacqary Adam Green (profile), 27 Sep 2010 @ 1:23pm
Because outlawing software that terrorists use is clearly going to make it go away.
This isn't like a situation where making certain firearms illegal actually lowers the amount of people who end up acquiring them. This is zeroes and ones we're talking about. Making certain combinations of zeroes and ones illegal will have literally no effect on their availability, especially to criminals and terrorists.
Zacqary Adam Green (profile), 13 Sep 2010 @ 10:44am
Even assuming that this story isn't true, that still doesn't mean that broadcasting, to the entire Internet, the fact that you aren't home, along with the location of where said home that you aren't in is, is a particularly good idea.
Zacqary Adam Green (profile), 12 Aug 2010 @ 7:12pm
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Zacqary Adam Green (profile), 6 Aug 2010 @ 11:41am
Assuming that what CBS did with the photo is accurate, and that they actually were using it unlicensed with no attribution in an entirely different context, then this is probably the least stupid copyright lawsuit I've heard about in a long time.
Still stupid, but at least it's not palpably ludicrous.
I was always under the impression that showing butts was fine after a certain hour, but boobs, balls, dongs, and vaginas were off limits. Kind of like how it's perfectly okay to say "damn," "ass," and "crap," but not "shit" or "fuck." (And I could've sworn that it was once okay to say "asshole" and "god damn," but now for some reason you can only say "ass[bleep]" or "[bleep] damn." Because those are the offensive parts of the phrases, apparently.)
I guess I was mistaken in figuring that the censorship rules were more arbitrary than draconian.
Zacqary Adam Green (profile), 5 Aug 2010 @ 11:42am
It's a shame that the recording industry and its lawyers want to turn this into an us vs. them situation.
They've succeeded, though. It's just that it's literally us vs. them, not us vs. the actual talented people who are actually responsible for creating anything of value.
Zacqary Adam Green (profile), 30 Jul 2010 @ 12:49pm
To be fair, Kyrgyzstan is smaller than the US, so it's probably easier to get fast Internet connections to a greater percentage of their country than it is here.
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This isn't like a situation where making certain firearms illegal actually lowers the amount of people who end up acquiring them. This is zeroes and ones we're talking about. Making certain combinations of zeroes and ones illegal will have literally no effect on their availability, especially to criminals and terrorists.
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On the one hand, I'm all for anything that makes it more difficult for advertising to annoy us by existing.
On the other hand, I'm against the unnecessary limitation of the personal freedoms of minors.
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But then Occam's razor suggests that such an explanation is far too complex, so maybe he's just a patent troll.
But then we're assuming malice, which comes into conflict with Hanlon's razor.
My head hurts. Probably because it's full of razors.
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That said, the definitions still ring true despite outliers on both sides. Apple's on the West Coast, for example.
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It's a real shame, because I like the guy otherwise.
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Oh, wait, that would be infringing.
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I guess I was mistaken in figuring that the censorship rules were more arbitrary than draconian.
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But that would require a large media conglomerate to risk having to defend the merits of fair use.
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Still, though, this is kinda sad.
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Viacom's a large, lumbering, triassic corporation. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
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