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I live in the reality where a hidden comment that can be revealed with one click is not one that had been censored. As I said, learn the actual meaning of the word.
Because when you're trying to convince a largely ignorant general public and easily bought politicians that copyright infringement is a crime far worse than it actually is you need paint them a simplistic picture of the "bad guys". It's about as accurate as calling a jaywalker a rapist.
Nobody should ever be imprisoned for creating a business that some customers used to commit acts that can't even be proven to have a net negative affect on society.
The funniest thing about religions is how the followers are all so convinced their religion is totally different to all the others and the only right religion. Mass delusion indeed.
"If you'd learned to use mirrors, you'd know that you're always checking mirrors, cycling through them one after another, and even when you're not looking at them, you're still using your peripheral vision to note movement or changes happening in them. Doing that, there are no void areas."
This is a patently false statement. There are areas behind you car that are not in the mirrors' field of view. This is a simple fact, not a judgement or opinion. Every car has them, some worse than others.
"I also know where my bumpers are and where the traffic is and where traffic could possibly appear from. Once you get that overall picture it's easy to keep it updated."
What's that got to do with reversing cameras. Nobody is talking about the use of mirrors in traffic.
"I don't need to add forty-thousand dollars to the price of the vehicle for an in-car CCTV system which attempts badly to replace that."
First, nobody does because they don't cost anywhere near that. Second, nobody said anything about replacing mirrors. Cameras augment mirrors by showing more than mirrors can see. Your argument is obviously weak if you need to exaggerate costs and misstate the opposing argument.
There's nothing arrogant about what I said, it's just a statement of the obvious. Note that I said for reversing. Your mirror's only job is to show you what's behind you, and when reversing a camera shows you more of the area where things you could hit will be. It sees things the mirror simply cannot. It's hard to think of any way you could claim that's not better, but have at it.
"Remember, this is the same guy who wants a CCTV he can watch on his dashboard instead of learning how to use a rearview mirror."
Ironically, you sound a bit like the horseless carriage critics Mason was talking about... Reversing cameras are far superior to mirrors for reversing. This is not up for debate.
Based on your claims, you'd think countries that had legalized prostitution would be absolutely awash with prostitution-related kidnapping, human trafficking, blackmail, immigration extortion, and drug use. And yet they're not.
I do love how many, many years after they were invented you still don't understand what an opinion blog is. Apparently you struggle with the blindingly obvious too.
"Either way, as we've said before, it would be trivially easy for campaigns to just clear musical choices with artists first to avoid these dustups. Even if they're not legally required to do so, it's the easiest solution."
Asking "permission" doesn't actually solve anything though, because the artist can't prevent legal use of their music. If a politician feels that a particular song reflects the way they feel or the image they want to project, they're free to pay their money and play it to their heart's content.
Artists might not like it, and they're free to express that opinion, but the same copyright laws that they claim are indispensable for artistic creation allow their music to be used this way. Live by the copyright sword, die by the copyright sword.
That's not to say using an artist's music against their wishes is a smart political or PR move. It's not, it's dumb. It's just not illegal.
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If France had the same gun controls as the US it stands to reason the gun-related death numbers might be similar too. That would result in an extra 5000-odd deaths in France every year. Do you think that's an acceptable price to pay to save a few dozen people in one terrorist act?
"... the entertainment industries, through their usual bribery and corruption channels in Congress, got copyright infringement reclassified as a criminal offense, rather than a civil offense..."
Only large-scale commercial copyright infringement is a criminal offense.
You can't expect to introduction disproportionate punishment against DMCA abusers while at the same time trying to scale back disproportionate punishment for copyright infringement.
If you're revamping the comments, it'd be great to get some formatting buttons for things like bold, italics, URL's quoting, etc. Plus maybe a five minute editing window to fix those dumb typos...
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Bored troll or clueless fool, it doesn't actually matter which. This claim still makes everything you say on the topic absolutely worthless.
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This is a patently false statement. There are areas behind you car that are not in the mirrors' field of view. This is a simple fact, not a judgement or opinion. Every car has them, some worse than others.
"I also know where my bumpers are and where the traffic is and where traffic could possibly appear from. Once you get that overall picture it's easy to keep it updated."
What's that got to do with reversing cameras. Nobody is talking about the use of mirrors in traffic.
"I don't need to add forty-thousand dollars to the price of the vehicle for an in-car CCTV system which attempts badly to replace that."
First, nobody does because they don't cost anywhere near that. Second, nobody said anything about replacing mirrors. Cameras augment mirrors by showing more than mirrors can see. Your argument is obviously weak if you need to exaggerate costs and misstate the opposing argument.
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There's nothing arrogant about what I said, it's just a statement of the obvious. Note that I said for reversing. Your mirror's only job is to show you what's behind you, and when reversing a camera shows you more of the area where things you could hit will be. It sees things the mirror simply cannot. It's hard to think of any way you could claim that's not better, but have at it.
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It is, thanks to Section 1201 of the DMCA.
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Ironically, you sound a bit like the horseless carriage critics Mason was talking about... Reversing cameras are far superior to mirrors for reversing. This is not up for debate.
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Providing a service that some customers clearly want (and can be switched off by those who don't) makes perfect business sense.
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Asking "permission" doesn't actually solve anything though, because the artist can't prevent legal use of their music. If a politician feels that a particular song reflects the way they feel or the image they want to project, they're free to pay their money and play it to their heart's content.
Artists might not like it, and they're free to express that opinion, but the same copyright laws that they claim are indispensable for artistic creation allow their music to be used this way. Live by the copyright sword, die by the copyright sword.
That's not to say using an artist's music against their wishes is a smart political or PR move. It's not, it's dumb. It's just not illegal.
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Only large-scale commercial copyright infringement is a criminal offense.
You can't expect to introduction disproportionate punishment against DMCA abusers while at the same time trying to scale back disproportionate punishment for copyright infringement.
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