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This. The analogy to robosigning is apt. Banks can't even keep accurate records of what real estate they hold liens to and foreclosed on properties where the owners paid paid off all their debts or even had not relationship to the bank. If they can't even do that how is anyone going to keep tabs on all this intellectual property?
TechDirt would have to prove damages. The cost of calculating and proving those damages is probably well in excess of the actual damages. And, proving *knowing* misprepresentation is nearly impossible. Therefore, there is no practical consequence.
If there is no penalty for a bogus DMCA takedown notice, maybe some "anonymous hacker group" should set up an automated process to spider the web and send a takedown notice for every page! That could be a very significant political statement that would get a lot of attention.
post-industrial north ... awash in its dreams of knowledge economies and human capital
This phrase was particularly well-turned. All the fighting over IP is just a symptom of the decline in actually making things. The "service economy" is a joke. If I cut your hair today and you shine my shoes, tomorrow we're both broke. The "knowledge economy" is even more abstracted from the base of added value through manufacturing. Since we don't make things anymore, our aggregate net worth is declining, and all we can do is fight amongst ourselves for what's left and distract ourselves with entertainment. And this is just the beginning...
I would stop pushing the "uncanny valley" terminology re advertising. It's just targeted advertising, not at all the same thing as the AI meaning, aside from a similar sort of discomfort. It detracts from your valid points.
I had problems all day yesterday using Comcast's DNS but my home Verizon DNS went right through. But what is the IP address of TechDirt? I may as well start squirreling these things away now before it's too late.
I despise Fox/Murdoch as much as the next person and surely blame them for playing a large part of the Fall of Civilization, but still I can't fault them for wanting to have editorial control over their product.
This policy is probably the result of one or two reporters going too far somehow. Since managements these days don't like to actually manage people ("See here, Joe, this tweet of yours..."), they just respond with a policy ("No tweeting!").
Apparently I and 20 other people had the same idea but I'll say it my way anyway:
It sure is like the Wild Wild West, if you mean big ranchers and mine operators and railroads running the show, buying the sheriff, owning the territorial legislatures, stealing land and cattle, oppressing the immigrants, lynching whoever they want, and peeing right in the middle of the stream!
A commercial provider of an electronic communication service shall retain for a period of at least one year a log of the temporarily assigned network addresses the provider assigns to a subscriber to or customer of such service that enables the identification of the corresponding customer or subscriber information under subsection (c)(2) of this section.
Is this what you meant by massive data retention? It seems reasonable to me that people shouldn't be allowed to hide behind dynamic IP addresses. Of course I would assume anyone really looking for kidporn uses anonymizers. But just in case law enforcement gets its hands on an actual server or is able to snoop on their connections I'd want them to be able to backtrace as many IPs addys as they can.
But when you say "massive data retention" I'm thinking logging of every URI, deep packet inspection, etc. Did I miss something?
I've often had the tendency to read everything on this blog as written by Mike. Perhaps the byline could be larger or more conspicuous. Perhaps the different authors could have individual and consistent avatars.
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Re: It wasn't a mistake at all: it's part of the business plan
See: Larry Lessig on Perpetual Copyright
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Sock puppets FTW!
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This phrase was particularly well-turned. All the fighting over IP is just a symptom of the decline in actually making things. The "service economy" is a joke. If I cut your hair today and you shine my shoes, tomorrow we're both broke. The "knowledge economy" is even more abstracted from the base of added value through manufacturing. Since we don't make things anymore, our aggregate net worth is declining, and all we can do is fight amongst ourselves for what's left and distract ourselves with entertainment. And this is just the beginning...
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This policy is probably the result of one or two reporters going too far somehow. Since managements these days don't like to actually manage people ("See here, Joe, this tweet of yours..."), they just respond with a policy ("No tweeting!").
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It sure is like the Wild Wild West, if you mean big ranchers and mine operators and railroads running the show, buying the sheriff, owning the territorial legislatures, stealing land and cattle, oppressing the immigrants, lynching whoever they want, and peeing right in the middle of the stream!
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Is this what you meant by massive data retention? It seems reasonable to me that people shouldn't be allowed to hide behind dynamic IP addresses. Of course I would assume anyone really looking for kidporn uses anonymizers. But just in case law enforcement gets its hands on an actual server or is able to snoop on their connections I'd want them to be able to backtrace as many IPs addys as they can.
But when you say "massive data retention" I'm thinking logging of every URI, deep packet inspection, etc. Did I miss something?
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