Copyright should benefit all, and not just the artist or the copyright holder. Sadly the scales of justice in copyright's case has been pushed in the wrong direction.
Re: Re: "It'll be interesting to see if there's any noticeable impact on purchases in France."
He's saying that the copyright maximalists don't care that the sales won't increase if they can hunt down these nasty pirates. In fact, (s)he says that the content providers will even be happy that no one is watching it without paying.
Both are flat out laughably wrong, but there you see the copytrolls' reality distortion field.
One sentence that mentions Mike being pleasantly surprised to find himself on the list, in an article filled with links to other completely relevant websites, constitutes as shameless self-promotion? It's good to know that your Reality Distortion Field is working.
I do wonder about wear and tear of the wheel. I mean, when it's in the neutral position (ie. go forward) it doesn't seem like it would rotate much, so it'd drag over the road, thus wear the rubber out a lot faster on that spot.
I find it disturbing when a corporate entity can demand a public entity to turn something on, that the public entity wants to turn off. Who is really in charge there?
Actually it's more disturbing to me that this gets outsourced.
But then again I'm living in The Netherlands, where the police is in charge of the GATSOs and the speedtraps and the red light cameras and not the vendors of said cameras.
I'm so glad that none of the providers in Europe have this kind of power. Yes, they will complain to their customers if they use the tethering, and ask you to buy a more expensive plan or risk a month (or more) of low-bandwidth, but they don't remove the feature from the handset.
Nowhere in the entire life of this blog has Mike Masnick encouraged "copyright theft".
Besides all of that, what in blue blazes is copyright theft? Is that someone asserting copyright on stuff they have no copyright over? Like what Caters is doing with the pictures taken by the monkeys?
Well done Verizon, giving your customers yet another reason to root their Android phones, the software is either in the market, and if they've nixed that too, a custom rom is easy enough installed.
Ok, so it's not a law, it's a pre-law. And I'm sure if pushed could be found unconstitutional, but who has the money to push these things in front of a judge against the MAFIAA cartel?
Your comment about dial-up highlights another problem with the US, the lack of free market. The land where they say that free market is everything doesn't actually have a free market. Otherwise the ISPs wouldn't even dream of pissing off a large part of their customers.
What would happen if these ISPs get the message from the MAFIAA cartel that almost their entire IP-block is found to be infringing, would they cut them off, and thus condemning their own company? No customers, no income. No income, no company.
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Copyright should benefit all, and not just the artist or the copyright holder. Sadly the scales of justice in copyright's case has been pushed in the wrong direction.
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300 million dollar? For security theatre?
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Re: Re: "It'll be interesting to see if there's any noticeable impact on purchases in France."
Both are flat out laughably wrong, but there you see the copytrolls' reality distortion field.
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- Building seedboxes: NOT illegal.
- Renting out seedboxes: NOT illegal.
What valid reasons? What intent to infringe?
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Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
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Actually it's more disturbing to me that this gets outsourced.
But then again I'm living in The Netherlands, where the police is in charge of the GATSOs and the speedtraps and the red light cameras and not the vendors of said cameras.
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Nowhere in the entire life of this blog has Mike Masnick encouraged "copyright theft".
Besides all of that, what in blue blazes is copyright theft? Is that someone asserting copyright on stuff they have no copyright over? Like what Caters is doing with the pictures taken by the monkeys?
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Ok, so it's not a law, it's a pre-law. And I'm sure if pushed could be found unconstitutional, but who has the money to push these things in front of a judge against the MAFIAA cartel?
Your comment about dial-up highlights another problem with the US, the lack of free market. The land where they say that free market is everything doesn't actually have a free market. Otherwise the ISPs wouldn't even dream of pissing off a large part of their customers.
What would happen if these ISPs get the message from the MAFIAA cartel that almost their entire IP-block is found to be infringing, would they cut them off, and thus condemning their own company? No customers, no income. No income, no company.
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I expect China to "own" the Internet soon.
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