I know you're a troll, but enough is enough, pal. Are you suggesting that there are no apologists for the MPAA, that visit this site? Is this your first visit here? Come off it already.
We're all *so* very impressed with your mastery of the trolling arts, you're the best troll evah. Now move along, nothing to see here.
Re: his comments were about bittorrents not about torrent freak.
Darryl is that you? Very little caps, no carriage return after every sentence, and html formatting?? I accidentally read your post not knowing it was you.
However, I still don't understand your point. Are you saying that torrent freak has a user named torrent finder? Because the judge didn't do anything to a user, it was a domain that was siezed.
Also, if you feel so sure that an IP address links to a person, tell me your external ip adress. We'll put that theory to the test. :)
You're falling into the same trap they do. You can't prove every download is a so-called "lost sale". Have you never turned down something until you learned it was free? Just because someone downloads something for free doesn't mean they would pay money for it.
Furthermore, it is impossible using bit torrent technology to tell with any amount of certainty how many people download a file.
In short, you can't *prove* any actual damages at all.
Eh, you're probably right. My droid 1 handles TD just fine, but typing is somewhat of a hassle-- especially editing text. Mobile platforms seem to work much better for that type of thing.
They do have links to imdb though. So if I decide to pirate a movie I've never heard of because of imdb, that makes imdb contributing to infringement, right?
Will the defence get to dispute the claims made by the prosecution? So when they start double dipping the dollars or ignoring the increased benefits someone can call them on it? IANAL, so I don't know how these things work.
PS- Can we please have a TD mobile site? Pleeeease?
I'm not sure what your point is, my Cowardly friend. Are you suggesting that locking a man from Africa in a cell for 3 months straight will have different results than locking a man from America? The people in those "cushy, comfortable countries" have educated people who have studied the effects of isolation on *humans*. They call it torture.
Be aware, I'm not saying that being in prison is torture-- I will grant you that prisons in the US are much better living conditions than many places in the world. Hell, here in Massachusetts we spent a good deal of money outfitting our prisons with flatscreen TVs. (For reasons I can't understand-- at the time *I* didn't own a flatscreen TV)
I suspect the reason you do not feel it is torture is because you aren't capable of imagining constant isolation, which is much different that "a little 'me' time". Please read the Wikipedia article on Solitary Confinement, including the references to the studies at the bottom, and educate yourself.
Who said anything about infringing? I'm saying that it can be right to break the law. Some systems cannot be fixed from within, hence the need to go outside the system to fix it. This country was founded because people were being over taxed and under represented. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar? And they had to go outside the system to fix it. Are you suggesting they should have just obeyed the law, too?
And I generally think many people on techdirt have little regard for society as a whole
It must be nice to live in a world where everything is black and white. In the real world, our president has to be told he can't violate the constitution while trying to spy on citizens. In the real world, corporations are treated better than citizens, with more rights and less taxes. In the real world politicians can be bought and traded like baseball cards and laws are made to benefit special interest groups with little to no regard to how it might affect society as a whole.
If there was every a time on this planet where a person could trust his government to have his best interests in mind, it certainly has come and gone. How does the saying go?
There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order
Well, after reading the Espionage Act we clearly have lost the soap box. As I hinted before, this country's politicians are corrupt. If elections actually are in our control (which I am beginning to believe they aren't) then the choices we have are between two evils. We are now on the "jury box" using our power as citizens to strike down bad laws by nullifying them or outright ignoring them. I would rather not need that last box, thankyouverymuch.
If you can't get them changed, then too bad. It's part of our social contract that we have a duty to follow the law whether we agree with it or not.
This is the most retarded sentence you've posted in a while, though, to be honest, I rarely read what you post these days, so maybe you've said something dumber and I missed it. So, would this have been you advice for slavery, too? "Sorry guys, we gave it a good shot but they wouldn't budge. Back to the fields with ya, best of luck!"
The "social contract" is void if they don't keep their end of the bargain.
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But you may be right. He probably should have used the term "shill" instead, amirite?
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We're all *so* very impressed with your mastery of the trolling arts, you're the best troll evah. Now move along, nothing to see here.
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Re: his comments were about bittorrents not about torrent freak.
However, I still don't understand your point. Are you saying that torrent freak has a user named torrent finder? Because the judge didn't do anything to a user, it was a domain that was siezed.
Also, if you feel so sure that an IP address links to a person, tell me your external ip adress. We'll put that theory to the test. :)
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Furthermore, it is impossible using bit torrent technology to tell with any amount of certainty how many people download a file.
In short, you can't *prove* any actual damages at all.
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Sorry about threadjacking, btw. I'm done now. :)
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Holy hell, I'm needy.
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Backfire
PS- Can we please have a TD mobile site? Pleeeease?
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Be aware, I'm not saying that being in prison is torture-- I will grant you that prisons in the US are much better living conditions than many places in the world. Hell, here in Massachusetts we spent a good deal of money outfitting our prisons with flatscreen TVs. (For reasons I can't understand-- at the time *I* didn't own a flatscreen TV)
I suspect the reason you do not feel it is torture is because you aren't capable of imagining constant isolation, which is much different that "a little 'me' time". Please read the Wikipedia article on Solitary Confinement, including the references to the studies at the bottom, and educate yourself.
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Pledge
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It must be nice to live in a world where everything is black and white. In the real world, our president has to be told he can't violate the constitution while trying to spy on citizens. In the real world, corporations are treated better than citizens, with more rights and less taxes. In the real world politicians can be bought and traded like baseball cards and laws are made to benefit special interest groups with little to no regard to how it might affect society as a whole.
If there was every a time on this planet where a person could trust his government to have his best interests in mind, it certainly has come and gone. How does the saying go? Well, after reading the Espionage Act we clearly have lost the soap box. As I hinted before, this country's politicians are corrupt. If elections actually are in our control (which I am beginning to believe they aren't) then the choices we have are between two evils. We are now on the "jury box" using our power as citizens to strike down bad laws by nullifying them or outright ignoring them. I would rather not need that last box, thankyouverymuch.
If you can't get them changed, then too bad. It's part of our social contract that we have a duty to follow the law whether we agree with it or not.
This is the most retarded sentence you've posted in a while, though, to be honest, I rarely read what you post these days, so maybe you've said something dumber and I missed it. So, would this have been you advice for slavery, too? "Sorry guys, we gave it a good shot but they wouldn't budge. Back to the fields with ya, best of luck!"
The "social contract" is void if they don't keep their end of the bargain.
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The "proper channel" for whistleblowing, by definition, is *outside* the organization you are whistleblowing. Generally (and typically) the media.
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Then again, Poe's Law is a law for a reason.
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