Because he knows, just like YOU know even though you refuse to admit it, that this law will be abused immediately upon going into effect. Note the word "will", not might, not could, not may. If this law passes, it absolutely WILL be abused to limit free speech.
I don't feel like looking up the citation, but it seems that I recall the TSA admitting that the backscatter scan would not have revealed the 'bomb' that the underwear bomber was carrying.
I'm going to drop down to your level for a moment: You're an idiot.
Having gotten that off my chest, did you know that World of Warcraft uses P2P systems (specifically BT) to distribute the updates for the application? This can happen as often as every Tuesday. I'll venture a guess that there are probably one or two college-age people playing WoW. Why should they have to deal with whatever idiocy will come of a university reporting "suspicious" web traffic?!? And this is just one example of quite legal, mainstream usage of P2P.
Re: How obvious ?? seems not enough for anyone to think of it !!
"""For example, you know as well as I do, that they have not patented "Wifi for mobile phones" NO, they patented a SPECIFIC METHOD to do something."""
And therein lies a huge problem. I don't give a rat's ass what your methodology is, you should not be allowed to patent it! At best, you should be allowed to patent a very explicit and specific implementation that is non-obvious and new.
Re: So, according to Techdirt what is "acceptable evidence"?
"""What kind of another evidence can be presented?"""
A full confession extracted by none other than the Spanish Inquisition!
(Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency...)
"""Ripping off music takes away one of the only sources of revenue bands had and now that's gone. People now don't have the time to create or tour because they're scrambling to find a job to feed themselves."""
You do realize that artists make/made little or no money from actual "record" sales anyway, right? That your corporate masters rob them blind at every step, including double and triple payback on those million dollar contracts that they tout so loudly?
Interestingly enough, our corporation uses Websense for all of it's blocking needs as well, and the images were not blocked for me. I'm guessing that each customer probably gets a "basic" blocked package (whitehouse.com anyone?) plus their own customized/requested blocks.
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Re: Re: So let's tally it up....
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Re: Freedom Free Loaders
Incredible satire. You win an interweb.
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Re: Abdulmutallab
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WTF? When did they start printing the Internet???
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Re: COICA
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/16/195258/Internet-Blacklist-Back-In-Congress
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I fully support this initiative. Begin work at once.
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Re: DRM doesn't work -- UNLESS you control the hardware.
DRM Protected Content Storage (using 2.3mb of memory!)
Process: com.sec.android.providers.drm
From what I gather, Netflix is claiming there is "not enough".
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Having gotten that off my chest, did you know that World of Warcraft uses P2P systems (specifically BT) to distribute the updates for the application? This can happen as often as every Tuesday. I'll venture a guess that there are probably one or two college-age people playing WoW. Why should they have to deal with whatever idiocy will come of a university reporting "suspicious" web traffic?!? And this is just one example of quite legal, mainstream usage of P2P.
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Re: How obvious ?? seems not enough for anyone to think of it !!
And therein lies a huge problem. I don't give a rat's ass what your methodology is, you should not be allowed to patent it! At best, you should be allowed to patent a very explicit and specific implementation that is non-obvious and new.
In conclusion: Method patents are ridiculous.
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Re: Re: Who???
On the post: Challenging BPI's Claims That IP Addresses Alone Are Accepted By Courts As Proof Of Infringement
Re: So, according to Techdirt what is "acceptable evidence"?
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Re: Wait! My Toner!
DUH! Turrists are!
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You do realize that artists make/made little or no money from actual "record" sales anyway, right? That your corporate masters rob them blind at every step, including double and triple payback on those million dollar contracts that they tout so loudly?
On the post: The Revolution Will Be Distributed: Wikileaks, Anonymous And How Little The Old Guard Realizes What's Going On
Re: The future won't be distributed.
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