Just so. Consider the other internet. The one that used X.25 instead of TCP/IP.
In 1990 I used Canada's X.25 DataPac network to log into remote systems. There were similar systems in other countries - Tymnet, Telenet, TRANSPAC, AUSTPAC, etc. By 1995 I was on CompuServe, ordering airplane tickets through Sabre, and manufacturers were asking us to check stock and order parts using IBM's and GE's X.25 networks. There was lot's of interconnection between these networks, so you send email and whatnot between them.
But not enough interconnection. Not enough neutrality. Each wanted to be its own kingdom, with the subjects loyal only to them. A business would need to sign up to multiple X.25 services to deal with multiple vendors. (One vendor required us to sign up for both GE's GEIS and IBM Advantis - one for parts lookup and the other to order the parts.)
A WWW would have been technically possible on it, but never allowed.
And so when the wonderfully neutral modern internet came to town in 1996, everyone dropped their X.25 services.
His November 2015 "criminal charges" against Techdirt provoked the most wonderful forum comments. Possibly the only mail-in comment to get Funniest Comment of the Week honors.
The problem is their own streaming solutions is not the answer. Why would anyone pay CBS $6 a month? Almost as much as Netflix for what?
Late in the cassette and CD era there was usually one only song per album worth paying for. The rest was filler. iTunes gave an alternative, and the gravy train stopped.
Netflix became the video equivalent with a massive library of content from everyone, at least in the US. That's what they're attacking. They're trying to destroy streaming video by forcing it into the "single hit plus filler" model. Removing content from Netflix and sending it to a dozen lesser services.
I stopped reading the article because use ESPN's problem attracts neither interest nor sympathy. Perhaps it would help to shorten the article into a listicle.
Of course that might not work for ESPN, because a listicle requires options.
He'd also probably have to hire an engineer to accompany the lawyer, to determine whether the technology patent was violated. And pay the engineer not just for that, but for the time needed to get up to speed on the patent's new technology.
There would also be a delay for a copy of the patent to be produced, then mailed across the country by train.
The music industry had those bogus charges. Built into the price of a DVD was a 10% "breakage fee" that went back not to vinyl records, but to shellac and slate records. A decade ago it was included into downloads.
Late in the cassette and CD era there was usually one only song per album worth paying for. The rest was filler. iTunes fixed that. Netflix became the video equivalent, at least in the US, but...
It seems the cable companies and movie studios are trying to destroy streaming video by forcing it into the "single hit plus filler" model.
Here in Canada the last year of the Colbert Report was moved to an expensive specialty channel with nothing worthwhile to offer. CBS's new Star Trek series will only on a CBS streaming service in the US, and only on a specialty channel in Canada. Etc. Etc. To buy any song you have to pay for an album full of filler.
It's also worth mentioning that Edison is the grandfather of movie piracy.
The 1902 French silent film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) was pioneering and influential and an internationally popular success. Edison fraudulently obtained a copy, duplicated it many times over, and started showing it in theatres all over America. With the original credits removed.
Given exclusivity deals, the more accurate description is "you're so broke and can't afford cable AND Netflix AND Spotify AND Amazon AND HBO Go AND CBS All Access?"
> The drop in morality will affect you who giggle now: by time you retire and think deserve to live in ease, millenials born today will steal your property and life so casually as you steal movies and music now. You'll be old SOON, assuming don't over-dose or die of cirrhosis first, a burden to and dependent upon younger people. You won't be able to rely even on your own offspring.
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (attributed)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyranize their teachers. - Socrates
An Assyrian clay tablet dating to around 2800 B.C. bears the inscription: “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.” - Smithsonian.com
Just how old are you, to remember that "old-fashioned morality?"
I'd imagine those on the far left would be upset that one of their branches of "the ministry of truth" is eating its self from the inside out.
Nah. It's everyone, including those on the right. The exceptions are those who believe that truth has a left-wing bias, and those who have drank the Trump-branded "verified facts are fake news" Kool-Aid.
For us normal people who are apolitical, who the fuck cares?
...Says the one desperately trying to make it political.
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Funny how you left out the preceding sentence: "Glenn Greenwald has a long post at The Intercept detailing the misguided attacks on the ACLU as a result of its defense of the white nationalist protesters."
The ACLU is the embodiment of the "radical left" for many on the right. And here it is defending the freedom of speech rights of white nationalists on the right.
You've replaced straw-man arguments with cherry-picking, but you're still trying to claim a double-standard where none exists.
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No, I am pointing out clear hypocrisy, which abounds at this site and especially with persons like you.
And yet in your example - the bakery vs. GoDaddy - you're unable to give a valid example of any such hypocrisy.
Again, if a same-sex couple walked into the bakery and demanded cakes decorated with personal attacks on anyone - let alone murder victims - then the bakery could have refused service. Just like GoDaddy.
I am making the case that all businesses can and should be able to refuse service for any reason that offends their screwy politics and wacky religious beliefs unless it directly physically/economically harms someone,
That's different, but a valid argument. I disagree with you on it, of course. We've had enough of the "blacks must move to the back of the bus" rules.
Many communities are served by only one bus system. Only one phone system. Only one high-speed internet system. Only one grocer, bank, insurance office, eye doctor or many other privately run essential services. They should not be able to refuse service based on the CEO's personal phobias and bigotry.
you are the one saying, well except for the Groups I specifically think should be protected from "emotional" harm
I'm arguing for equal treatment. You're making stuff up.
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The bakery is open to the public. They're not allowed to discriminate based on race, gender or sexual preference. The same goes for GoDaddy. (Nor did GoDaddy discriminate based on Nazi ideology. Obviously the record shows this.)
But if a same-sex couple walked into the bakery and demanded cakes decorated with personal attacks on anyone - let alone murder victims - then the bakery could have refused service. Just like GoDaddy. It's highly unlikely that anyone here would disagree. They might even cheer.
You're trying to claim a double-standard where none exists.
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Your claim is "For example, I bet that no one cares that GoDaddy revoked a nazi site domain registration, but cheered the shutdown of a bakery when they refused to serve at a gay wedding."
Except that this isn't what happened. They revoked the site for publishing personal attacks on the woman murdered at the Nazi rally in an attempt to justify the murder.
GoDaddy was willing to host the Nazi site and all their ideology. It's the personal attacks on a specific person that violated their terms of service.
American readers may not be familiar with Clarkson's co-hosts often calling him an orangutan. And so they might flag my post as abusive, possibly negating any LOL votes.
Patents have been around since ancient Greece. The English patent system, evolving from early medieval times, was the legal foundation for the Industrial Revolution.
One more time: NO-ONE HERE IS OPPOSING PATENTS. THEY'RE OPPOSING PATENT ABUSE.
THAT is what America leads the world in. THAT is what's driving efforts for an open platform. Any good thing implemented in bloody awful way is going to lead to opposition.
It's not like you - as an inventor - can invent something and reap the rewards any more. Trolls will patent every conceivable use of your invention - ESPECIALLY the obvious ones - and then charge YOU to use it. There are tens of thousands of patents on image compression alone. Create something truly new in the camera or smartphone or web browsing field, and image compression is just one of the things you'll be sued over.
And so patents are trading cards for large corporations. You need a massive portfolio of patents to play. When Samsung tosses BS patent claims at Apple, Apple has wealth of BS patent claims that they can toss at Samsung products.
That doesn't even cover the endless overbroad patents, where someone obtains a patent on something very specific, and declares it to be a patent on ALL internet commerce.
THAT is why America has so many patents. And now China has been taught how to play the game.
The folks boarding the Titanic's lifeboats weren't anti-ship. They weren't making a statement about row boats being better than ocean liners. But then no-one was standing up on the deck screaming straw-man arguments that this was the case.
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Re: Net Neutrality Is Not New
Just so. Consider the other internet. The one that used X.25 instead of TCP/IP.
In 1990 I used Canada's X.25 DataPac network to log into remote systems. There were similar systems in other countries - Tymnet, Telenet, TRANSPAC, AUSTPAC, etc. By 1995 I was on CompuServe, ordering airplane tickets through Sabre, and manufacturers were asking us to check stock and order parts using IBM's and GE's X.25 networks. There was lot's of interconnection between these networks, so you send email and whatnot between them.
But not enough interconnection. Not enough neutrality. Each wanted to be its own kingdom, with the subjects loyal only to them. A business would need to sign up to multiple X.25 services to deal with multiple vendors. (One vendor required us to sign up for both GE's GEIS and IBM Advantis - one for parts lookup and the other to order the parts.)
A WWW would have been technically possible on it, but never allowed.
And so when the wonderfully neutral modern internet came to town in 1996, everyone dropped their X.25 services.
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I was thinking of Reputation Management Bro Patrick Zarrelli.
His November 2015 "criminal charges" against Techdirt provoked the most wonderful forum comments. Possibly the only mail-in comment to get Funniest Comment of the Week honors.
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Re: Re: THE reason I cut the cord was ESPN
Late in the cassette and CD era there was usually one only song per album worth paying for. The rest was filler. iTunes gave an alternative, and the gravy train stopped.
Netflix became the video equivalent with a massive library of content from everyone, at least in the US. That's what they're attacking. They're trying to destroy streaming video by forcing it into the "single hit plus filler" model. Removing content from Netflix and sending it to a dozen lesser services.
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Here in Canada a man who defends himself is probably in the lower half of the income range and can't afford a proper legal defence.
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Sorry, Karl...
Of course that might not work for ESPN, because a listicle requires options.
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There would also be a delay for a copy of the patent to be produced, then mailed across the country by train.
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Late in the cassette and CD era there was usually one only song per album worth paying for. The rest was filler. iTunes fixed that. Netflix became the video equivalent, at least in the US, but...
It seems the cable companies and movie studios are trying to destroy streaming video by forcing it into the "single hit plus filler" model.
Here in Canada the last year of the Colbert Report was moved to an expensive specialty channel with nothing worthwhile to offer. CBS's new Star Trek series will only on a CBS streaming service in the US, and only on a specialty channel in Canada. Etc. Etc. To buy any song you have to pay for an album full of filler.
And we know how that turned out with music.
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In a few more years that'll likely affect movie piracy cases.
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It's also worth mentioning that Edison is the grandfather of movie piracy.
The 1902 French silent film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) was pioneering and influential and an internationally popular success. Edison fraudulently obtained a copy, duplicated it many times over, and started showing it in theatres all over America. With the original credits removed.
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Re:
On the post: The MPAA Narrative About Piracy Flips To Danger From Pirate Sites Now That It Has Lost The Moral Argument
Re: "Lost the moral battle", eh?
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (attributed)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyranize their teachers.
- Socrates
An Assyrian clay tablet dating to around 2800 B.C. bears the inscription: “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”
- Smithsonian.com
Just how old are you, to remember that "old-fashioned morality?"
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The MPAA's argument against piracy is now identical my argument against turning my adblocker off when a site demands it.
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Re: OMG^2! Some over-ambitious Linux weenie wrote a lousy script! Do away with all DMCA takedowns and all copyright!
As an aside, this affront has taken me aback.
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Nah. It's everyone, including those on the right. The exceptions are those who believe that truth has a left-wing bias, and those who have drank the Trump-branded "verified facts are fake news" Kool-Aid.
...Says the one desperately trying to make it political.
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The ACLU is the embodiment of the "radical left" for many on the right. And here it is defending the freedom of speech rights of white nationalists on the right.
You've replaced straw-man arguments with cherry-picking, but you're still trying to claim a double-standard where none exists.
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And yet in your example - the bakery vs. GoDaddy - you're unable to give a valid example of any such hypocrisy.
Again, if a same-sex couple walked into the bakery and demanded cakes decorated with personal attacks on anyone - let alone murder victims - then the bakery could have refused service. Just like GoDaddy.
That's different, but a valid argument. I disagree with you on it, of course. We've had enough of the "blacks must move to the back of the bus" rules.
Many communities are served by only one bus system. Only one phone system. Only one high-speed internet system. Only one grocer, bank, insurance office, eye doctor or many other privately run essential services. They should not be able to refuse service based on the CEO's personal phobias and bigotry.
I'm arguing for equal treatment. You're making stuff up.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "You know what, just hand over the computers. All of them."
But if a same-sex couple walked into the bakery and demanded cakes decorated with personal attacks on anyone - let alone murder victims - then the bakery could have refused service. Just like GoDaddy. It's highly unlikely that anyone here would disagree. They might even cheer.
You're trying to claim a double-standard where none exists.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "You know what, just hand over the computers. All of them."
Your claim is "For example, I bet that no one cares that GoDaddy revoked a nazi site domain registration, but cheered the shutdown of a bakery when they refused to serve at a gay wedding."
Except that this isn't what happened. They revoked the site for publishing personal attacks on the woman murdered at the Nazi rally in an attempt to justify the murder.
GoDaddy was willing to host the Nazi site and all their ideology. It's the personal attacks on a specific person that violated their terms of service.
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Either that or I'm just not funny.
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Re: American History
Patents have been around since ancient Greece. The English patent system, evolving from early medieval times, was the legal foundation for the Industrial Revolution.
One more time: NO-ONE HERE IS OPPOSING PATENTS. THEY'RE OPPOSING PATENT ABUSE.
THAT is what America leads the world in. THAT is what's driving efforts for an open platform. Any good thing implemented in bloody awful way is going to lead to opposition.
It's not like you - as an inventor - can invent something and reap the rewards any more. Trolls will patent every conceivable use of your invention - ESPECIALLY the obvious ones - and then charge YOU to use it. There are tens of thousands of patents on image compression alone. Create something truly new in the camera or smartphone or web browsing field, and image compression is just one of the things you'll be sued over.
And so patents are trading cards for large corporations. You need a massive portfolio of patents to play. When Samsung tosses BS patent claims at Apple, Apple has wealth of BS patent claims that they can toss at Samsung products.
That doesn't even cover the endless overbroad patents, where someone obtains a patent on something very specific, and declares it to be a patent on ALL internet commerce.
THAT is why America has so many patents. And now China has been taught how to play the game.
The folks boarding the Titanic's lifeboats weren't anti-ship. They weren't making a statement about row boats being better than ocean liners. But then no-one was standing up on the deck screaming straw-man arguments that this was the case.
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