I would argue that "exigent circumstances" should be limited to the prevention of expected or believed bodily harm.
Hear a gunshot? Okay
Hear somebody screaming for help? Okay
Hear movement in a house? Better get a damn warrant or have a defensible reason to believe that bodily harm has or is about to take place.
It's truly sad to live through the decline of a once great nation. I have no faith that we'll be able to pull ourselves out of this current direction in time. I don't know what the end will look like, or how long it will take to get there, but it seems to be coming.
Of course he's an exception. This kind of model can ONLY work for people who are, or who know somebody who is, named Jonathan! This isn't a REAL business model because it doesn't let me sit around and rake in cash for doing nothing!
Now if you'll excuse me I have some code monkey to listen to.
If you can be held liable for what is at the end of a link...
If you can be silenced from a simple accusation...
If domains can be redirect from a simple accusation...
If gatekeepers are allowed to choose what bits you are allowed to receive...
then the internet is broken. All of these things have been proposed and pushed, and some of them are now reality.
As much as I'd like to put a sinister spin on all this. I really think the recording industries position is one of active ignorance coupled with complete apathy toward the fate of the internet (or anything/body else for that matter).
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I read your argument there, but I can't see anything that would require a federal power rather than a state power to do the regulating. In face state powers should be better at it with better local knowledge.
I'm getting really tired of this BS that we give up our constitutional rights whenever we cross the border/buy a plane ticket/fricken' breath.
The entire point of the constitution is that the limits on the government (and therefore the rights of the people) cannot be altered by the government period!
cue idiots spouting off about jail and criminals blah blah blah, but actual thinking people understand what I mean.
A citizen cannot give up their rights through any legal action, ever. They can choose to forgo those right if they want, but that's not what this is, this is clear unquestionable oppression.
Wow, do we really have to go back and cover artist after artist after artists that has made this work?
We've already covered the 'but that only works if their big' followed by the 'but that only works if their small' followed by the 'well, maybe that works if their really big or really small, but not for the general artist' and every time we've seen example after example after example of artists all over the place making it work and work well.
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This reminds me a bit of a youtube video I saw, where a small kid was picking on and taunting a larger kid. The larger kid just sat there and took it for a bit but then...
ooh, I could see this working out very interestingly.
Have an option that allows your music to be shared with others and allows you to partake in what others have shared (if you don't opt in you still can use the service with just what you have). No single 'copy' will be allowed to be played by more than one person at a time. You might even be able to set it up such that if I want to listen to the music that is mine, but all the licenses are being used it would cut off somebody without their own copy. That might be enough incentive for people to continue to add music/movies/...
Me, my wife, my two kids, and my mother-in-law (all living in the same house) all share the same music collection. I don't buy 5 copies of each song.
I wonder what BMI thinks of that?
I wonder what they'll think when I start uploading the music to multiple cloud services if/when we each get a cloud locker. (I'm thinking we might want different cloud lockers so our playlists and such are separate).
Personally I think if they don't like it they can go screw themselves.
But then, of course, any rewrite would actually be written by the legacy industries and handed over to our congresscritters to screw things up even more...
Are you kidding? This is great! The politicians certainly aren't somehow creating the technology, but they are seeing where the technology is headed and setting up the legal framework to allow it going forward.
This generally isn't needed in technological advancements, but since everything that goes on the public road system is subject to existing laws this is something that needs to be addressed.
The only thing I really hate is when somebody is having problems some software I've never used:
"I'm sorry, I don't know how this works."
"But, you know computers right?"
"Well, understanding how computers work doesn't mean I know how all software ever written works."
1) "Fine, if you didn't want to help you could have just said so."
2) "You must not be all that good at computers. If my nephew were here..."
3) "Okay, but can you just fix it?"
Thankfully all my worst horror stories date back to when I was actually tech support/computer builder for a small white box computer chain.
It's been a long time since I've had a real bad experience.
I can't count the number of times I've met somebody, told them I'm a programmer, and the next thing I hear is:
"Oh, you know computers? I'm having a problem with..."
And yes, I usually try to help.
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Re: I guess it depends on the "scrambling..."
Hear a gunshot? Okay
Hear somebody screaming for help? Okay
Hear movement in a house? Better get a damn warrant or have a defensible reason to believe that bodily harm has or is about to take place.
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Now if you'll excuse me I have some code monkey to listen to.
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If you can be silenced from a simple accusation...
If domains can be redirect from a simple accusation...
If gatekeepers are allowed to choose what bits you are allowed to receive...
then the internet is broken. All of these things have been proposed and pushed, and some of them are now reality.
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Re: Re: I certain
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Re: Tools can be used for good or bad
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The entire point of the constitution is that the limits on the government (and therefore the rights of the people) cannot be altered by the government period!
cue idiots spouting off about jail and criminals blah blah blah, but actual thinking people understand what I mean.
A citizen cannot give up their rights through any legal action, ever. They can choose to forgo those right if they want, but that's not what this is, this is clear unquestionable oppression.
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We've already covered the 'but that only works if their big' followed by the 'but that only works if their small' followed by the 'well, maybe that works if their really big or really small, but not for the general artist' and every time we've seen example after example after example of artists all over the place making it work and work well.
I'd rather you just hold your breath.
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Re: Re:
Oh, you were serious?
Ummm...
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHA roflmao...
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Re: Implication RE Internet Radio
Have an option that allows your music to be shared with others and allows you to partake in what others have shared (if you don't opt in you still can use the service with just what you have). No single 'copy' will be allowed to be played by more than one person at a time. You might even be able to set it up such that if I want to listen to the music that is mine, but all the licenses are being used it would cut off somebody without their own copy. That might be enough incentive for people to continue to add music/movies/...
Very interesting.
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Wondering
I wonder what BMI thinks of that?
I wonder what they'll think when I start uploading the music to multiple cloud services if/when we each get a cloud locker. (I'm thinking we might want different cloud lockers so our playlists and such are separate).
Personally I think if they don't like it they can go screw themselves.
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FTFY
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Re: Naive
This generally isn't needed in technological advancements, but since everything that goes on the public road system is subject to existing laws this is something that needs to be addressed.
Go Nevada!
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The only thing I really hate is when somebody is having problems some software I've never used:
"I'm sorry, I don't know how this works."
"But, you know computers right?"
"Well, understanding how computers work doesn't mean I know how all software ever written works."
1) "Fine, if you didn't want to help you could have just said so."
2) "You must not be all that good at computers. If my nephew were here..."
3) "Okay, but can you just fix it?"
Thankfully all my worst horror stories date back to when I was actually tech support/computer builder for a small white box computer chain.
It's been a long time since I've had a real bad experience.
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"Oh, you know computers? I'm having a problem with..."
And yes, I usually try to help.
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