You don't have to look far around the Internet to see how much DMCA law has been misused and abuse by such pro-copyright groups. Used to censor what they do not like. Then that whole deal about companies falsely claiming ownership to public domain works.
These are simply not people you can trust and I directly know they have been lying to us for years.
Yes the RIAA's problem is that musicians these days are quite capable of making music at home and then selling it on the Internet. Considering how many times musicians have been screwed by the record labels then where in all this should fall this bunch of RIAA "box shifters" taking their cut?
Move out of the way RIAA when the future is passing you by.
And no we won't give you a massive SOPA bomb to devastate the lawful online music business like you recently did with Dajaz1. Take down a lawful site for over a year and not even a "sorry".
With all due respect then I am quite aware of the many issues involved. Many other countries have the same drug problems, and the same guns, but they do not have the same high murder rate.
In the United States around 13,000 people die each year from gun crime. If the US had the same firearms murder rate as Germany, or the Scandinavian countries, the comparable death toll by firearms would be roughly 1,000 instead of 13,000. If it had the same firearms murder rate as the UK or Canada, it would be about 2,000 instead of about 13,000.
Since the end of WWII, completely excluding suicides, something well in excess of half a million more Americans have been killed by firearms than would have been the case if America had a firearms murder rate even as low as Canada (there are more than a dozen countries that have a lower murder rate than Canada, so that isn't a particularly high standard to meet). The actual number is almost certainly closer to 3/4 million.
That is more people than have been killed in any of America's wars, including the Civil War. In the last 100 years, it is not all that far from the total of all Americans killed in all of America's wars put together.
This is excluding all the suicides that could have been prevented. This is excluding all the people who were shot but have recovered... physically at least.
America's political belief over guns is a vastly greater menace to your fellow countrymen than is your government; than is any terrorist group; than is any foreign military threat.
I am not Jack Thompon, neither the Actor nor Activist.
Well you sure have a crazy culture. You jail more people than the rest of the World combined.
Then exactly how does it feel when someone can pull a gun on you at any time? Forget to bring your wallet to a robbery and dead you are. Or how about attending a shooting spree at your local mall? Parents day at your kids school can soon become a massacre.
I should give up already when American love their guns. You need them to save you from the bad guys. Oddly enough most cases highlight the bad guys shoot first.
So you murder your family, friends and neighbours at a rate greater than the deaths from all American Wars combined. Then death from terrorism is only a small smudge next to your annual gun deaths.
An odd place with some large racial tensions. Well here is but one more example. The year is almost over so that is a few thousand more gun deaths added to your list.
Then here I am being able to visit my local mall knowing a gun shooting is near on impossible. We in the UK are quite lacking in guns and the gun culture.
I read it and see what happened. Yes the judge made clear not to tweet but he did anyway. Since he did not follow the judge's instruction then it was believed he would not follow the judge's other instructions. It was stated that the contents of the tweets were not a problem.
There was also the issue with the juror who preferred sleeping. Well not everyone can withstand technical discussions it seems.
This murder case is a pretty nasty one. Robbery aimed. So he demanded a cell phone from his 'friends' which they did not have, demanded money also no, wanted the victim's clothes and then he shot him dead just because.
Cheap life indeed when if not for $10 or some ancient cell phone this victim could still be alive. You can only wonder the life of this murderer to understand how he saw such actions as acceptable.
I would put it down to American gun culture. Bang, bang, shoot them dead... just like on TV.
Yes this court is clearly wrong for ordering a retail when this person tweeted nothing about this case. Well that is unless you consider "court coffee" a major aspect of the trial.
I think this person in the jury actually did well to not reveal facts about the trial. Modern technology is part of our lives and if they are unhappy with this event then good luck finding people who do not use the Internet or Cell Phone.
It would be much better if the court provided a booklet about what you can and cannot do. Then if they want to make public statements they then only need to declare when and where.
Being polite sure wins you a lot more respect. These people are your market, fans and buyers. Running around screaming "evil thieves" and wanting to stamp them out like ants is not a way to make friends.
So as we see they can even take down the entire *distributed* media simply by asking nicely and offering a good reason. Such situations helps you to remember they are all just people here looking to enjoy themselves in a fair way.
One phrase to keep in mind though is "If you are not pirated then you are a nobody"
WRONG. A torrent with enough fast peers can easily fill your bandwidth.
distributed
Obvious.
and depends on tons of people to make the item available
WRONG. It only needs your one seed. Rent a seed box if you want. People who download can often help to seed or at least hit the 1:1 ratio.
and keep making it available
WRONG AGAIN. As long as you have your one seed it never dies. The good part of BitTorrent is the more people downloading means the more people uploading so it achieves a good supply balance.
otherwise you have no distribution
You clearly don't know about Torrents.
It's only legit advantage is that the costs are very low
Correct but that is not the only advantage. Are you aware that Facebook use the BitTorrent protocol to update their many servers? So many changes all over the place and BitTorrent is the fastest, least costly, most efficient method there is for them to keep everyone updated.
because once you have seeded a file out to a bunch of people, it's their bandwidth and not yours that is getting used up.
Yes or your own internal servers like Facebook do.
They are wide spread
Yes.
hard to track
WRONG. Copyright sharks like ACS:Law made a very efficient business out of tracking torrents and they exploited over $1 million from the public.
Now such efficient tracking comes to US court cases.
hard to trace
WRONG. Any search engine will find what you seek.
and it is very hard to figure out who first seeded a file without a fair bit of research (and some luck)
WRONG AGAIN. Anyone serious in protecting their media can just do a frequent search for when their product hits BT, quickly join the swarm, then note down the IP of the only seed with 100%
This evidence can soon obtain a court order discovering the real life side and shutting it down. Of course by then it is too late but they can punish who did it.
The FBI also did very well finding the original seed of The Xmen: Wolverine workprint. A shame they never found the studio leak.
If you were sharing a pirated movie, Torrents are excellent!
That it is. :-)
There is much more to BT than infringement. There is the whole Creative Commons industry, many products are now made for BT distribution, then anything made by the US Government is public domain and freely available on BT.
Consider it like YouTube as when they started they did some serious infringement but as they grew so did their lawful media share.
So ICE censoring Torrent-Finder are blocking the American public from finding the lawful content their tax dollars funded.
What would you be searching for if you were browse to a site named torrentfinder? What could that possibly be?
Torrents is a transfer protocol. It defines how data is moved from A to B. There is no thing as an unlawful transfer protocol and neither does it infer any morality or ethics.
Like a piece of virtual wire...
So again what is wrong with the name Torrent Finder?
I also should add that I think ICE and the DOJ are playing games with them in their usual smoke and mirrors. If they want their Torrent-Finder domain back then ICE/DOJ have 90 days to take them to court to try and get a permanent seizure order.
They stands much better chance in front of a Judge than the stupid demands they are making on them. A fair point when they demands they make are not what the law requires of a search engine.
Don't believe in justice here when these people are all paid up corrupt bitches of the copyright industry. Harassment is their goal and not justice. Keep mad, never fearful.
The day Google can come up with a way to not link to copyrighted material is the day it is fair to ask Torrent-Finder to do the same. Google has always been a good place to find your infringing MP3s from my findings.
They seriously need reminding that a search engine only returns what people search for. You can't blame a third person (oh the Devil/Search Engine/Drugs/Tooth Fairy made me do it) if people want unlawful instead of lawful content.
I would just turn around and say the Government should have removed all infringing material from the Net and since they have FAILED to do their job then it is not Torrent-Finder's fault its search engine contains infringing content.
Or maybe we should blame ISPs for allowing all this to happen and demand they cease immediately by terminating all Internet connections. Thus copyright infringement solved in one foul swoop... or would it?
"no copyright intended" may be a stupid declaration when infringing another person's creation but this also reflects their "free sharing" culture belief of do as you like as long as you do not use it to make money.
It is of course helpful to ask an artist's approval before hashing their work and it also helps to credit them. It would also be much more lawful had they plundered the Creative Commons market for their sources.
I don't believe that existing artists should be hard on them when right here are the next generation of musicians, writers, designers, editors and much more where to harshly punish them would destroy their future and turn them into a bunch of taxi drivers instead.
I actually love seeing this copyright abuse when a free sharing culture is our future and as seen this only fuels creation. I do not believe such a law change is a product of the current generation but it sure will be the social golden egg of the next generation. All these pro-sharing people will one day flood all markets including politics and they will certainly ask why what they have long enjoyed doing should be unlawful?
We should remember who Will.I.Am's boss is. The same organization he recently annoyed by promoting MegaUpload. It is not hard to see how they put the thumbscrews on him in lure of optional punishment or reward.
It is true to say these people gave their signed consent and it is also clear their opinions with their claims of "I Love MegaUpload". Such promotional work is not unusual in this business and they would not have consented were it banned.
The creation of the Mega Song was certainly a surprise but that changes things none when their endorsement message is still contained. They may have badly chopped and diced the original videos but this is no different to had they run these full promotional videos by adding their own subtle and owned music track in the background.
So I still cannot see that MegaUpload has done anything wrong when all content is what they are authorised to use. Their only flaw was not making clear to these musicians their full plan to start with and that is hardly a crime.
We should keep in mind the big issue here. These UMG artists endorsed MegaUpload the same "rouge site" who is the sworn enemy of the RIAA/MPAA including their UMG boss. One would have hoped they were "very aware" of what they were doing instead of a surprise "poo hits the electric fan" time.
If ICE believe in secret government then it begs the question... What else are they hiding? This may be more than just some injustice for some seized domains.
So why exactly is the United States a war zone and why do they want to detain indefinitely the usually nice and friendly US citizens?
I can only feel that if such legislation says such strange things only to be massively supported by Congress then they already have an exact detainee in mind that they are writing this very bill for.
It almost sounds like they have Osama Bin Laden hidden away there somewhere or someone else of such high standing.
I sure hope Congress does take a close look at what kind of operation the DOJ and ICE are running. Denying a defendants right to justice and due process though secret and uncooperative government is not how things should be.
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You don't have to look far around the Internet to see how much DMCA law has been misused and abuse by such pro-copyright groups. Used to censor what they do not like. Then that whole deal about companies falsely claiming ownership to public domain works.
These are simply not people you can trust and I directly know they have been lying to us for years.
Yes the RIAA's problem is that musicians these days are quite capable of making music at home and then selling it on the Internet. Considering how many times musicians have been screwed by the record labels then where in all this should fall this bunch of RIAA "box shifters" taking their cut?
Move out of the way RIAA when the future is passing you by.
And no we won't give you a massive SOPA bomb to devastate the lawful online music business like you recently did with Dajaz1. Take down a lawful site for over a year and not even a "sorry".
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Re: Guns
In the United States around 13,000 people die each year from gun crime. If the US had the same firearms murder rate as Germany, or the Scandinavian countries, the comparable death toll by firearms would be roughly 1,000 instead of 13,000. If it had the same firearms murder rate as the UK or Canada, it would be about 2,000 instead of about 13,000.
Since the end of WWII, completely excluding suicides, something well in excess of half a million more Americans have been killed by firearms than would have been the case if America had a firearms murder rate even as low as Canada (there are more than a dozen countries that have a lower murder rate than Canada, so that isn't a particularly high standard to meet). The actual number is almost certainly closer to 3/4 million.
That is more people than have been killed in any of America's wars, including the Civil War. In the last 100 years, it is not all that far from the total of all Americans killed in all of America's wars put together.
This is excluding all the suicides that could have been prevented. This is excluding all the people who were shot but have recovered... physically at least.
America's political belief over guns is a vastly greater menace to your fellow countrymen than is your government; than is any terrorist group; than is any foreign military threat.
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DMCA law gave them cruise missiles. Over half target a business rival. One third were invalid attacks.
Now SOPA will give them nuclear weapons and you can watch part of the Internet get obliterated before your eyes.
Then what better then for lazy copyright owners to put the pending WWIII all on computer control.
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Well you sure have a crazy culture. You jail more people than the rest of the World combined.
Then exactly how does it feel when someone can pull a gun on you at any time? Forget to bring your wallet to a robbery and dead you are. Or how about attending a shooting spree at your local mall? Parents day at your kids school can soon become a massacre.
I should give up already when American love their guns. You need them to save you from the bad guys. Oddly enough most cases highlight the bad guys shoot first.
So you murder your family, friends and neighbours at a rate greater than the deaths from all American Wars combined. Then death from terrorism is only a small smudge next to your annual gun deaths.
An odd place with some large racial tensions. Well here is but one more example. The year is almost over so that is a few thousand more gun deaths added to your list.
Then here I am being able to visit my local mall knowing a gun shooting is near on impossible. We in the UK are quite lacking in guns and the gun culture.
On the post: Tweeting Juror Leads To Retrial For Guy Convicted Of Murder
There was also the issue with the juror who preferred sleeping. Well not everyone can withstand technical discussions it seems.
This murder case is a pretty nasty one. Robbery aimed. So he demanded a cell phone from his 'friends' which they did not have, demanded money also no, wanted the victim's clothes and then he shot him dead just because.
Cheap life indeed when if not for $10 or some ancient cell phone this victim could still be alive. You can only wonder the life of this murderer to understand how he saw such actions as acceptable.
I would put it down to American gun culture. Bang, bang, shoot them dead... just like on TV.
On the post: Tweeting Juror Leads To Retrial For Guy Convicted Of Murder
I think this person in the jury actually did well to not reveal facts about the trial. Modern technology is part of our lives and if they are unhappy with this event then good luck finding people who do not use the Internet or Cell Phone.
It would be much better if the court provided a booklet about what you can and cannot do. Then if they want to make public statements they then only need to declare when and where.
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Humans
So as we see they can even take down the entire *distributed* media simply by asking nicely and offering a good reason. Such situations helps you to remember they are all just people here looking to enjoy themselves in a fair way.
One phrase to keep in mind though is "If you are not pirated then you are a nobody"
On the post: Justice Department Hanging Onto Torrent-Finder Because It Doesn't Like How Search Engines Work
flawed
WRONG. A torrent with enough fast peers can easily fill your bandwidth.
distributed
Obvious.
and depends on tons of people to make the item available
WRONG. It only needs your one seed. Rent a seed box if you want. People who download can often help to seed or at least hit the 1:1 ratio.
and keep making it available
WRONG AGAIN. As long as you have your one seed it never dies. The good part of BitTorrent is the more people downloading means the more people uploading so it achieves a good supply balance.
otherwise you have no distribution
You clearly don't know about Torrents.
It's only legit advantage is that the costs are very low
Correct but that is not the only advantage. Are you aware that Facebook use the BitTorrent protocol to update their many servers? So many changes all over the place and BitTorrent is the fastest, least costly, most efficient method there is for them to keep everyone updated.
because once you have seeded a file out to a bunch of people, it's their bandwidth and not yours that is getting used up.
Yes or your own internal servers like Facebook do.
They are wide spread
Yes.
hard to track
WRONG. Copyright sharks like ACS:Law made a very efficient business out of tracking torrents and they exploited over $1 million from the public.
Now such efficient tracking comes to US court cases.
hard to trace
WRONG. Any search engine will find what you seek.
and it is very hard to figure out who first seeded a file without a fair bit of research (and some luck)
WRONG AGAIN. Anyone serious in protecting their media can just do a frequent search for when their product hits BT, quickly join the swarm, then note down the IP of the only seed with 100%
This evidence can soon obtain a court order discovering the real life side and shutting it down. Of course by then it is too late but they can punish who did it.
The FBI also did very well finding the original seed of The Xmen: Wolverine workprint. A shame they never found the studio leak.
If you were sharing a pirated movie, Torrents are excellent!
That it is. :-)
There is much more to BT than infringement. There is the whole Creative Commons industry, many products are now made for BT distribution, then anything made by the US Government is public domain and freely available on BT.
Consider it like YouTube as when they started they did some serious infringement but as they grew so did their lawful media share.
So ICE censoring Torrent-Finder are blocking the American public from finding the lawful content their tax dollars funded.
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Due Process
Why do I have the feeling that is not how the FBI uses this technology and it is more akin to eBay shopping?
On the post: Justice Department Hanging Onto Torrent-Finder Because It Doesn't Like How Search Engines Work
Torrents is a transfer protocol. It defines how data is moved from A to B. There is no thing as an unlawful transfer protocol and neither does it infer any morality or ethics.
Like a piece of virtual wire...
So again what is wrong with the name Torrent Finder?
On the post: Justice Department Hanging Onto Torrent-Finder Because It Doesn't Like How Search Engines Work
Concern
They stands much better chance in front of a Judge than the stupid demands they are making on them. A fair point when they demands they make are not what the law requires of a search engine.
Don't believe in justice here when these people are all paid up corrupt bitches of the copyright industry. Harassment is their goal and not justice. Keep mad, never fearful.
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Idiots
They seriously need reminding that a search engine only returns what people search for. You can't blame a third person (oh the Devil/Search Engine/Drugs/Tooth Fairy made me do it) if people want unlawful instead of lawful content.
I would just turn around and say the Government should have removed all infringing material from the Net and since they have FAILED to do their job then it is not Torrent-Finder's fault its search engine contains infringing content.
Or maybe we should blame ISPs for allowing all this to happen and demand they cease immediately by terminating all Internet connections. Thus copyright infringement solved in one foul swoop... or would it?
On the post: No Copyright Intended: The Coming Generation Who Intrinsically Assumes Remix & Sharing Makes Sense
The World Turns
It is of course helpful to ask an artist's approval before hashing their work and it also helps to credit them. It would also be much more lawful had they plundered the Creative Commons market for their sources.
I don't believe that existing artists should be hard on them when right here are the next generation of musicians, writers, designers, editors and much more where to harshly punish them would destroy their future and turn them into a bunch of taxi drivers instead.
I actually love seeing this copyright abuse when a free sharing culture is our future and as seen this only fuels creation. I do not believe such a law change is a product of the current generation but it sure will be the social golden egg of the next generation. All these pro-sharing people will one day flood all markets including politics and they will certainly ask why what they have long enjoyed doing should be unlawful?
Keep copyright for only when money is involved.
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Re: Puzzled
You know he's dead, right?
So they claim and history is wrote by the winners. Well you can name anyone you like that makes Congress turn the US in a war zone just to detain.
On the post: Megaupload Sues Universal Over Questionable Video Takedown, As Will.i.am Says He Sent Takedown Too
No Surprise Here
It is true to say these people gave their signed consent and it is also clear their opinions with their claims of "I Love MegaUpload". Such promotional work is not unusual in this business and they would not have consented were it banned.
The creation of the Mega Song was certainly a surprise but that changes things none when their endorsement message is still contained. They may have badly chopped and diced the original videos but this is no different to had they run these full promotional videos by adding their own subtle and owned music track in the background.
So I still cannot see that MegaUpload has done anything wrong when all content is what they are authorised to use. Their only flaw was not making clear to these musicians their full plan to start with and that is hardly a crime.
We should keep in mind the big issue here. These UMG artists endorsed MegaUpload the same "rouge site" who is the sworn enemy of the RIAA/MPAA including their UMG boss. One would have hoped they were "very aware" of what they were doing instead of a surprise "poo hits the electric fan" time.
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OBVIOUS
POOOOOOOOOOWER GRAAAAAAAAB.
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Scary
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Puzzled
I can only feel that if such legislation says such strange things only to be massively supported by Congress then they already have an exact detainee in mind that they are writing this very bill for.
It almost sounds like they have Osama Bin Laden hidden away there somewhere or someone else of such high standing.
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A pebble
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Rude
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