Huh? How on earth does somebody editing a (Public Relations? / Training?) video to poke fun at and criticize a corporation and its anti-consumer policies “unreasonable searches and seizures” by the government? I think a stronger case could be made for the DCMA takedown process to be a 4th amendment violation than a parody video.
"What the judge is suggestion is to place an even heavier burden on the rights holders to be 100% certain in all cases, which would effectively widen fair use dramatically by making anything marginal, anything that would be decided in court, anything at all as "not 100% certain", and then not worth issuing a DMCA about, which in turn means giving up that area of discussion."
Whoa! Did Hell just freeze over or did I enter a parallel universe?
I basically agree with RJR on every point in that comment.
Public Citizen has been doing great work.
Non-Profits with a higher profile are getting the lion's share of funding.
Some good organizations that are not constantly pestering people are having a hard time.
High profile organizations usually already have many donors. (Although that does not mean thy don't need more)
Donate direct to organizations rather than doing so when someone calls. (Both because of the telemarketer fund raising companies taking a huge cut of donations and also because of social engineering / phishing scams)
The Reason we can't go back to a straight tariff & excise tax based system is it would make to much sense. It would reduce government bureaucracy and if properly balanced simultaneously increase available revenue to the government (by reducing spending on said bureaucracy) wile reducing individual tax burden. The reason no politician would ever go for it was already stated. It would reduce government bureaucracy!
I am a Verizon Customer (FIOS). I Switched from Comcast because of the metering issue and I wanted the higher bandwidth. Now to be fair I am not a person who does much in the way of file sharing but I do have a lot of P2P traffic that passes through my network for other reasons (all quite legal I might add) and I hope that they don't start pulling the network shaping and throttling that I was dealing with from Comcast.
To quote myself from a different thread... 'I can't even begin to process the amount of stupid you just spewed.'
"routers measure bandwidth very accurately. That's where the metered data will come from. Overhead bandwidth is removed from calculations, so the only data that is truely metered is the data the customer is actually using."
Yes, Routers that measure bandwidth can be accurate, and that is what the ISP should be basing there measurement from but you have to trust the ISP to be honest about it. HA! As far as removing overhead from the figures. FAT CHANCE! Firstly as I understand it (and I could be wrong here) it would be difficult to do because one TCP packet looks a lot like another so the would have to use deep packet inspection to tell the difference, and if you can you honestly tell me you WANT your ISP spying on you that way you are even dumber than I thought. Secondly and possibly more importantly the more data you use the more likely you are to go over the cap , and the more the can charge you so it is in there interest to maximize that usage, so there is no way they would deduct "overhead". In fact I would be unsurprised to discover that the “Network Traffic Shaping” is causing plenty of dropped packets and lost connections, driving the numbers even higher.
"So yes, Users with 5 family members, including that one 15 year old kid who torrents porn 24/7 will be angry. "
Did you really have to go there?
"Including those who are too stupid to secure their wireless routers."
So ignorance of best practices in network security should be penalized? I know a lot of smart people who need to be fined then, besides some people intentionally leave an open access point. I myself have one. Granted it is firewalled, isolated from the rest of my network and bandwidth limited (to prevent negative impact on MY use. I am not an ISP) However if one of my neighbors wants to use that connection under those restrictions they are free to do so. That is what it is there for. My ISP is not so shortsighted as to cap my usage.
"other than that, Most people will save money."
How do you figure? Nobody's rates are going down. On the contrary they have been steadily increasing while the cost to PROVIDE the connection for the ISP has been going down. The ony people saving money will be the ISP itself.
"The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral trade agreement for establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement..." (Read a Wiki, Grow a Brain.)
I can't even begin to process the amount of stupid you just spewed. Even though this story is not about the US, basic human rights and freedoms are universal (like Privacy). As far as "overblown fears of 'abuse'" if the system was not already abused on a regular basis it would not be a problem. Please grow a brain before commenting further.
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Ba‘al Zebûb is indeed enjoying a Popsicle
... And I agree with all of the above
Is that one of the signs of the apocalypse?
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Re: Double Edge Sword
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ROFLMAO
HahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHaha
HahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHahaHaha
ok I've had my laugh
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Re: full of shit.
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Re: Market, and whats posible
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Re: Re: I don't get it . . .
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Re: Re: Nope, try again
GOOD! That is the way is should be.
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Re: It Is A Problem / Re: Not a problem
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I basically agree with RJR on every point in that comment.
Public Citizen has been doing great work.
Non-Profits with a higher profile are getting the lion's share of funding.
Some good organizations that are not constantly pestering people are having a hard time.
High profile organizations usually already have many donors. (Although that does not mean thy don't need more)
Donate direct to organizations rather than doing so when someone calls. (Both because of the telemarketer fund raising companies taking a huge cut of donations and also because of social engineering / phishing scams)
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Re: Re: Just Wondering
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I Hope Not
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I don't Even know where to Start on this one....
So Much Stupid so little time.
On the post: As ISPs Look To Charge Per Byte... How Accurate Are Their Meters?
Re: Accurate
"routers measure bandwidth very accurately. That's where the metered data will come from. Overhead bandwidth is removed from calculations, so the only data that is truely metered is the data the customer is actually using."
Yes, Routers that measure bandwidth can be accurate, and that is what the ISP should be basing there measurement from but you have to trust the ISP to be honest about it. HA! As far as removing overhead from the figures. FAT CHANCE! Firstly as I understand it (and I could be wrong here) it would be difficult to do because one TCP packet looks a lot like another so the would have to use deep packet inspection to tell the difference, and if you can you honestly tell me you WANT your ISP spying on you that way you are even dumber than I thought. Secondly and possibly more importantly the more data you use the more likely you are to go over the cap , and the more the can charge you so it is in there interest to maximize that usage, so there is no way they would deduct "overhead". In fact I would be unsurprised to discover that the “Network Traffic Shaping” is causing plenty of dropped packets and lost connections, driving the numbers even higher.
"So yes, Users with 5 family members, including that one 15 year old kid who torrents porn 24/7 will be angry. "
Did you really have to go there?
"Including those who are too stupid to secure their wireless routers."
So ignorance of best practices in network security should be penalized? I know a lot of smart people who need to be fined then, besides some people intentionally leave an open access point. I myself have one. Granted it is firewalled, isolated from the rest of my network and bandwidth limited (to prevent negative impact on MY use. I am not an ISP) However if one of my neighbors wants to use that connection under those restrictions they are free to do so. That is what it is there for. My ISP is not so shortsighted as to cap my usage.
"other than that, Most people will save money."
How do you figure? Nobody's rates are going down. On the contrary they have been steadily increasing while the cost to PROVIDE the connection for the ISP has been going down. The ony people saving money will be the ISP itself.
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Re: Software patents?
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Re: (A/C)
"The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral trade agreement for establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement..." (Read a Wiki, Grow a Brain.)
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