Oh, I'm pretty sure they know exactly how their bill works, good for them, bad for us. Their bets are placed on making it look like they know what their doing and hoping the public doesn't figure out how much they are being screwed over.
Penny Arcade's Extra Credit gives a great description of Anonymous in one of their episodes. The gist of the explanation is that while Anonymous is leaderless and "anyone" can become a member, doesn't mean you're actually part of Anonymous just by saying you are. The thing that really makes Anonymous what it is, are it's ideals, albeit they are broad and shifting ideals at times.
These underlying ideals you'll find are similar to most any other vanilla civil rights movement, with a few exceptions, you will see: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information, an Unregulated Internet, protests are not held for the financial benefit of its members, and mischief for the lolz.
If you take this all into account, they would be considered just a rather rowdy protest movement that from time to time causes some property damage, except on the internet. But, because they are on the Internet, a scary and foreign place for our policy makers, they are seen as a "national security threat" rather than just a nuisance.
It's an older episode, that is mainly concerned about Anonymous's involvement in the PlayStation Network hack, but the explanation given in the first half of the episode is applicable none the less.
So, the proffessor can't right an unbiased piece on Anonymous because he is a supporter of "the commons", but then someone who is not a supporter of the commons would then also be disqualified for writing an unbiased piece on Anonymous for that very reason as well.
Therefore by your logic anyone who writes a piece on Anonymous would have to be completely devoid of any opinion on anything remotely related to Anonymous such as "the commons", where would one find such a person? under a rock?
If I ever learned anything in school about writing arguments, it is that there is always a bias in every source. The trick is to determine that bias and then reconcile it within your argument.
What if there was some other form of incentive for content creators that did not include giving the rights holder a monopoly on that content, would you be more open to the idea? To actually find that alternative is for those more savvy than I.
people would still create, but would there be the same amount of creation without some form of incentive? That's the problem I guess. It's hard to tell when there's no contemporary example of a first world country without copyright, or is there?
That sounds like part of it at least. Anyway it sounds like they want to go through private companies to get information they couldn't normally get legally. Though certain companies have been shown to share private data with the government irregardless anyway.
If you wanted to argue with Mike only and not us "Flunkies" as you call us, wouldn't it have been better to email Mike directly rather than post in the comments here? Unless your purpose was indeed to troll, or perhaps to inflate your e-peen?
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These underlying ideals you'll find are similar to most any other vanilla civil rights movement, with a few exceptions, you will see: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information, an Unregulated Internet, protests are not held for the financial benefit of its members, and mischief for the lolz.
If you take this all into account, they would be considered just a rather rowdy protest movement that from time to time causes some property damage, except on the internet. But, because they are on the Internet, a scary and foreign place for our policy makers, they are seen as a "national security threat" rather than just a nuisance.
The Extra Credit episode in particular found here:
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/anonymous
It's an older episode, that is mainly concerned about Anonymous's involvement in the PlayStation Network hack, but the explanation given in the first half of the episode is applicable none the less.
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Therefore by your logic anyone who writes a piece on Anonymous would have to be completely devoid of any opinion on anything remotely related to Anonymous such as "the commons", where would one find such a person? under a rock?
If I ever learned anything in school about writing arguments, it is that there is always a bias in every source. The trick is to determine that bias and then reconcile it within your argument.
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