Sure, during the campaign, Trump repeatedly urged the roughing up of protesters. You know, back when he was still expected to "act more presidential" once the primaries were over.
And sure, a month ago he encouraged police to rough up suspects and not worry about injuring them. And followed it up by declaring that Nazis are "just a side." And now he's sending more military equipment to the police.
That may seem bad, but I for one take the optimistic view: The President of the United States is a stupid, childish nutjob whose insecurity won't let him allow anything Obama did to stand. This is about rolling back another of Obama's executive orders.
Gray Television filed a lawsuit against the pair, alleging fraud, conspiracy, and copyright infringement.
WAIT! What about RICO? (Checks the lawsuit...)
They then demonstrated “activities that really anybody can do to promote strength,” like slamming tennis rackets against each other until they broke. They boasted that in their live shows the tennis rackets are on fire when they do the demonstration.
Microsoft would require your Xbox to check in every 24 hours or the console would brick itself.
No.
The 24 hour requirement is the one mentioned in the story. If you didn't connect once every 24 hours, you wouldn't be able to play games offline.
You'd be able to play again once connected. The console was never going to "brick itself", unless you mean "until reconnected."
Even WITH the DRM in place, the "five and eight hours" outage in the story would have meant that you could still play offline games. In this case removing the DRM made no difference.
Note: Lest someone call me partisan, I'm going by traditional definitions:
"The US has two main political parties - the Evil Party (Republicans), and the Stupid Party (Democrats). Occasionally they will band together and do something both evil and stupid. This is called bi-partisanship."
When all the trolls have to go on in order to target their extortionist settlement letters is an IP address, they can't possibly know much about who is on the other side of that IP address.
I disagree. They don't need an identity; they only need to know "is a senior."
If I visit the Best Buy site, I'll immediately see Best Buy ads here on Techdirt. That data is no doubt sold, without my identity but WITH my IP address and interests. You could use it to identify seniors.
Or just set up a seniors-related site. No real content needed. Just spam out a message about it to a few million random people, and probably only seniors will click on it. Harvest their IP addresses from your web logs and sell them to IP trolls.
So I doubt it would be any problem for an IP troll to purchase lists of IP addresses with a high probability of belonging to seniors.
I know a senior who received similar copyright accusations under Canada's "notice on notice" regime. He hadn't heard of Bit torrent, let alone the shows in the claims. He had no malware, and no Wi-Fi. He's in a large senior's home complex, and that may also have made it easier to target seniors' IP addresses.
We're still in the era of major Bitcoin and Ethereum thefts being common, with exchange hacks making tens and hundreds of $millions disappear and the Bitcoin owners being out of luck. As the saying goes, when you put yourself beyond the reach of the law, you put yourself beyond the protection of the law.
And that's beyond all the fraud and ransomware and dark web purchasing happening with Bitcoin. Which is making it hard for investors to convert their Bitcoin back to cash. Which you would need to do, since we're not even remotely in an era when you can make your day-to-day purchases - or most major purchases - with Bitcoin.
My admittedly vague understanding is that the IPV4 router that connects you to the internet has just the one IP address on the public side, helping to anonymise a user on the local network. It also stops your local devices from being directly addressable from the public side unless you specifically forward ports to them.
But IPV6 gives all devices their own IP address addressable from the public side. By default your IPV6 address can include your MAC address, exposing the type of hardware you're using and making tracking and identifying you even easier. (Thankfully, the major OSs have privacy extensions enabled by default to prevent much of this.)
The US, the EU, Canada, the City of London Police.... they and most every other legal system are trying to enforce their decisions beyond their borders. That doesn't mean it'll work.
It only takes one service in a more libertarian country - or one non-centralized service - to ruin their plans.
Whatever plan Trump comes up with to stop "ISIS recruiting" (criticism of Trump), he can only enforce it within the US.
Sure, he can crack down on US-based multinationals like Facebook and Twitter, but that will only push people to non-US-based services. "The more you tighten your grip..."
No, but eventually you *will* have to cross into US territory.
It's no secret that you're subject to a possible investigation (even with no accusation) once you arrive at the border. So even if you erase your device ahead of time, they could accuse you of interfering with their investigation. See the links in my post further up.
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I stand corrected.
I also have a recommendation for Trump's final words as President:
"The Aristocrats!"
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Sure, during the campaign, Trump repeatedly urged the roughing up of protesters. You know, back when he was still expected to "act more presidential" once the primaries were over.
And sure, a month ago he encouraged police to rough up suspects and not worry about injuring them. And followed it up by declaring that Nazis are "just a side." And now he's sending more military equipment to the police.
That may seem bad, but I for one take the optimistic view: The President of the United States is a stupid, childish nutjob whose insecurity won't let him allow anything Obama did to stand. This is about rolling back another of Obama's executive orders.
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Someone didn't learn from Halliburton
It also wouldn't hurt to open a new headquarters in Dubai and move your current CEO there.
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Re: Media bias does matter.
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Re: Ignorance
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WAIT! What about RICO? (Checks the lawsuit...)
It IS racketeering!
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Not a single retry?
Citation...?
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That sound suspiciously like a sovereign citizen claim. The kind that keeps being made but never ever holds up in court.
In any contract, probably not. But in this case (a copyright violation claim) contracts weren't involved.
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Your internet would have to be down for 24 hours before you couldn't play offline games.
That would still be a deal-breaker for me. I just don't see any need to invent claims that it would have been even worse.
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Re: Remember when they were down for a day?
No.
The 24 hour requirement is the one mentioned in the story. If you didn't connect once every 24 hours, you wouldn't be able to play games offline.
You'd be able to play again once connected. The console was never going to "brick itself", unless you mean "until reconnected."
Even WITH the DRM in place, the "five and eight hours" outage in the story would have meant that you could still play offline games. In this case removing the DRM made no difference.
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Yes, but that would simply flag Republicans.
Note: Lest someone call me partisan, I'm going by traditional definitions:
This may be inaccurate during the Trump era.
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Re: Doesn't use the Prenda tragedy
Charles Ponzi may not have been the first to use the scheme, but he popularized it. Prenda has done the same.
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I disagree. They don't need an identity; they only need to know "is a senior."
If I visit the Best Buy site, I'll immediately see Best Buy ads here on Techdirt. That data is no doubt sold, without my identity but WITH my IP address and interests. You could use it to identify seniors.
Or just set up a seniors-related site. No real content needed. Just spam out a message about it to a few million random people, and probably only seniors will click on it. Harvest their IP addresses from your web logs and sell them to IP trolls.
So I doubt it would be any problem for an IP troll to purchase lists of IP addresses with a high probability of belonging to seniors.
I know a senior who received similar copyright accusations under Canada's "notice on notice" regime. He hadn't heard of Bit torrent, let alone the shows in the claims. He had no malware, and no Wi-Fi. He's in a large senior's home complex, and that may also have made it easier to target seniors' IP addresses.
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That may eventually be realistic, but not yet.
We're still in the era of major Bitcoin and Ethereum thefts being common, with exchange hacks making tens and hundreds of $millions disappear and the Bitcoin owners being out of luck. As the saying goes, when you put yourself beyond the reach of the law, you put yourself beyond the protection of the law.
And that's beyond all the fraud and ransomware and dark web purchasing happening with Bitcoin. Which is making it hard for investors to convert their Bitcoin back to cash. Which you would need to do, since we're not even remotely in an era when you can make your day-to-day purchases - or most major purchases - with Bitcoin.
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My admittedly vague understanding is that the IPV4 router that connects you to the internet has just the one IP address on the public side, helping to anonymise a user on the local network. It also stops your local devices from being directly addressable from the public side unless you specifically forward ports to them.
But IPV6 gives all devices their own IP address addressable from the public side. By default your IPV6 address can include your MAC address, exposing the type of hardware you're using and making tracking and identifying you even easier. (Thankfully, the major OSs have privacy extensions enabled by default to prevent much of this.)
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It only takes one service in a more libertarian country - or one non-centralized service - to ruin their plans.
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Sure, he can crack down on US-based multinationals like Facebook and Twitter, but that will only push people to non-US-based services. "The more you tighten your grip..."
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It's no secret that you're subject to a possible investigation (even with no accusation) once you arrive at the border. So even if you erase your device ahead of time, they could accuse you of interfering with their investigation. See the links in my post further up.
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