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The reasoning on the Netflix side of things is that they want to build in more social features into the service. They want to allow people to post links on their Facebook walls or Twitter feed about the films and shows they are watching. They can't build this functionality because the law doesn't allow them to do.
The concerns over the bill are probably a bit over blown as people are sharing that kind of information right now regardless. They are just not doing it in a Netflix sanctioned way.
My understanding is that it will be an opt-in feature and people's rental history will be kept private if they opt-out of the feature.
I don't see how that is a conflict. They can still make their movie. Kickstarter is a method to help people get started quicker at making their art. Most people who have Kickstarter campaigns have already done the majority of the work and are simply looking for that extra capital to finish it off. Others haven't started and just want to get going a little quicker than they normally would.
There is no person standing in the path and demanding a toll to continue forward.
Well, when your sole source of revenue is selling copies of your film, then yeah you are going to run into problems breaking even or making a profit. However, if they branch out their sources of revenue to include real scarcities, then it is far easier to break even and make a profit.
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Sorry. Didn't know you were an apprentice to a master plumber. I will try to remember that nxt time we get into a plumbing metaphor. Still, you missed my point.
Or it is because of obscene signature amounts. To get a new political party recognized in Oklahoma you need 10% of the votes cast in the last general election. This year that is over 50,000. Two years before it was 75,000.
To get a question on the ballot, depending on what type it is, it can be from 8% to 15%.
On top of the actual amount is the time restraint. One must get all the required signatures in a fairly short period of time. In Oklahoma's case it is 6 months. Next we have the issue of what makes a valid signature. One must clearly print their name, sign their name, fill out the exact address (not a PO box) and date it. Additionally, all signatures have to be grouped by county. If you sign on a page that is not your county, your signature is not valid.
So with all these restrictions and hurdles one must get 1.5x to 2x the number actually required to make sure they get the needed amount. You need a lot of people gathering. While volunteers will work for some of the larger political movements, smaller ones have a need to get paid petitioners.
Paid petition gathers are nothing new. They have been used for quite a few things. Here in Oklahoma, they are used to gather petition signatures for new political parties and to get questions added to the ballot. They come in handy when you have a strict deadline to get a minimum number of signatures. Often times, voluntary gathering doesn't work.
However in this case it merely shows that there is no real grass roots support for SOPA.
The funny thing is (as was pointed out in the article) that the anti-SOPA petitions were gathered for free and ammassed are whole freaking lot more than the pro-SOPA petitions.
Do you know the first thing the plumber will do when he gets to your flooding basement is? He will pull out his sump pump and start draining the basement in order to get to the leak. So what is your point again?
The momentum is being used in a variety of areas. We have groups working to rewrite copyright laws to be saner and more inline with the Constitution and reality. We have groups trying to fight ACTA and the TPP. We have groups that are trying to out all the pro-SOPA, pro-NDAA politicians in office. We have groups trying to get reasonable exemptions applied to the DMCA. Just because we have one article today talking about one of these issues does not mean that the rest are being ignored.
I mentioned this in the last article on the EFF's exemption efforts.
The evil pirates you deride so much are not waiting for laws to give them permission to rip their DVDs. Why is that hard to grasp? If they are doing what they want anyway regardless of what the law says, how will opening up the law to allow fair uses make things worse? Answer: It won't.
People already jailbreak their phones, their game consoles and other personal electronics. The law isn't stopping them. Adding this exemption will only protect those that are doing so for fair uses. It will not protect people who actually infringe copyrights.
This is one of the many many efforts by the EFF to bring sanity back o copyright law. They are not dropping everything to focus on these exemptions. What makes you think that this is the only thing the EFF is doing?
The EFF has a policy of picking its battles. It probably realizes that a blanket exemption for ripping DVDs is impossible in the current system and is instead focusing on a more narrow exemption. I think that is probably the wise thing to do.
However, there are other groups seeking the exact exemption you request, such as Public Knowledge.
being a low-down dirty theiving cheapskate jackhole does
Yeah, but we have been trying forever to get the movie industry to change with no luck. I guess some "low-down dirty theiving cheapskate jackholes" will never change.
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Re: Re: OT: Will Congress Take Privacy Out of Your Netflix Queue?
The concerns over the bill are probably a bit over blown as people are sharing that kind of information right now regardless. They are just not doing it in a Netflix sanctioned way.
My understanding is that it will be an opt-in feature and people's rental history will be kept private if they opt-out of the feature.
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There is no person standing in the path and demanding a toll to continue forward.
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To get a question on the ballot, depending on what type it is, it can be from 8% to 15%.
On top of the actual amount is the time restraint. One must get all the required signatures in a fairly short period of time. In Oklahoma's case it is 6 months. Next we have the issue of what makes a valid signature. One must clearly print their name, sign their name, fill out the exact address (not a PO box) and date it. Additionally, all signatures have to be grouped by county. If you sign on a page that is not your county, your signature is not valid.
So with all these restrictions and hurdles one must get 1.5x to 2x the number actually required to make sure they get the needed amount. You need a lot of people gathering. While volunteers will work for some of the larger political movements, smaller ones have a need to get paid petitioners.
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However in this case it merely shows that there is no real grass roots support for SOPA.
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The evil pirates you deride so much are not waiting for laws to give them permission to rip their DVDs. Why is that hard to grasp? If they are doing what they want anyway regardless of what the law says, how will opening up the law to allow fair uses make things worse? Answer: It won't.
People already jailbreak their phones, their game consoles and other personal electronics. The law isn't stopping them. Adding this exemption will only protect those that are doing so for fair uses. It will not protect people who actually infringe copyrights.
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However, there are other groups seeking the exact exemption you request, such as Public Knowledge.
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Yeah, but we have been trying forever to get the movie industry to change with no luck. I guess some "low-down dirty theiving cheapskate jackholes" will never change.
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