If the US were to do the same as Egypt, it'd have a lot more ramifications for the rest of the world. As a lot of the services mentioned (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc) are hosted in the USA.
If the US government were to install and use such a "killswitch", I'd say the majority of people affected would be outside the USA. And then the US government would have a battle on two fronts, inside and outside of the border.
The times I clicked on a Youtube link only to get the same message "not available in your country" is quite numerous as well.
Recently even on a video in the 'BBC Worldwide' channel. Worldwide! And yet not available in my country (The Netherlands).
Try buying me a copy of the Disney movie Song of the South... Or the old Tron movie. Where can I get that one?
Or many of the other archived artists, a lot of records are crumbling to dust, while there still is a market for them online. It's not about the latest and greatest stuff, it's more about the back-catalog. The older stuff, that's not available anywhere, anymore.
Want it now, want to pay for it, but can't pay for it because it's not available anywhere anymore. That kind of stuff.
Or the contentpushers like the RIAA labels who seem to think they are entitled to our money at every turn.
You want the Beatles on record, sure go ahead, but don't make tapes, that's illegal, you'd better buy the tapes as well for in the car!
Oh you want them on cd now, better buy them again!
Oh you want them in digital form? Better wait a gazillion years while we work out who owns what rights and who wants to share a bit of the pie, and then you can buy them again, because downloading them for free is a crime!
Copyright infringement != theft. Equating copyright infringement to stealing makes you look stupid.
The only thing that's coming out of the big labels is the idea that us lowly consumers are just walking wallets that they can pick from.
I tend to remain calm, not get uppity or rude. It's usually the copyright apologists that go ahead and start insulting us. They will call us hypocrite thieves, whereas the hypocrites are usually on the opposite end, where we have seen many examples of people defending copyright on one occasion only to be caught red handed infringing on it on the next occasion.
There is nothing hypocritical about my position,
I have paid for content on many different occasions, usually directly to the artist, and when I really enjoy the content.
For one thing, I'm a paying member to this site, I'm not pirating his content, by reading it for free.
I'm a paying listener of a number of podcasts producers, stuff they put out for free, and yet I pay them.
I've bought movies after I watched it for free first. (Most notably the most recent Terry Pratchett movie Going Postal, after that I bought both Going Postal AND The Colour of Magic, so 2 sales for 1 download)
Am I a hypocrite? I don't think so. I put my money where my mouth is.
The fact that the price may go down, doesn't mean it doesn't have worth, or that you can't make money with free. There are a plethora of business models to choose from to make money while also harnessing the power of free.
And, it's the general lack of respect towards the customers over the past few decades, that fires most of these actions. CD prices were promised to go down, instead they went up. Customers were continuously given the shaft, with high prices, DRM, region locking, inferior filler content, unwillingness to evolve with the market and other such things.
Suddenly the legitimate customers were thieves: "You wouldn't steal a car". Insult on insult on insult. And you wonder why people are fighting back?
My time as a volunteer would be valuable yes. But I can't put a price on it. You can't say, I worked x amount of hours on it, and my hourly rate would've been xyz, if you're doing something voluntarily.
So how much money would you add to the tally of $300, if the people worked on the project for free, because they loved to do it?
And I'm thinking they already had the software on their computers, either from school or such, so that doesn't count towards the cost.
BTW, why ARE we discussing how understated the costs are on these kinds of movies.
Bottom line is, you don't need a trillion dollar budget to make a decent movie. SFX don't need to cost that much, I mean my jaw hit the floor when they showed Mel's special ability, the only seemingly wobbly thing was the floating arrow. THAT's the disruptor in this case.
I too wonder why there aren't more people having donation bins on their websites. If people want to send someone money, they should make it easier, and not harder.
I know this article is about the Australian politicians. And I know that the Dutch government isn't happy with these releases, because they were contemplating a new mission to Afghanistan. But they also know that by trying to cover this up, they just make things worse.
You wanna know what's funny?
In the US the mass media wants to silence WikiLeaks, here in NL they are fighting over the scoops that can be got from the files.
Two of the major news outlets, one funded by taxpayers (NOS) and one commercial (RTL), are fighting to be the first to release the material.
Apparently, the NOS contacted WikiLeaks and asked for access to the files, while RTL worked together with a few other news agencies and got them through a foreign partner (Aftenposten).
And those files are related to the previous Afghan mission the Dutch forces had.
Can't the US media see the giant treasure chest of utter scoops that's being thrown in their laps? Oh wait, no it's not about the message anymore there. There is no substance only controversy in US mass media. Saying bad stuff about the gubberment and standing up against them is treason.
As long as you continue to anonymously misrepresent Wikileaks' actions, despite the many corrections people have given you, you don't have to expect any kind of respect from the people here.
Where does it say he tweeted about his trip while in customs?
The fact that the customs officers pointed his tweet out, proved that the detainment wasn't random.
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If the US government were to install and use such a "killswitch", I'd say the majority of people affected would be outside the USA. And then the US government would have a battle on two fronts, inside and outside of the border.
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Recently even on a video in the 'BBC Worldwide' channel. Worldwide! And yet not available in my country (The Netherlands).
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Or many of the other archived artists, a lot of records are crumbling to dust, while there still is a market for them online. It's not about the latest and greatest stuff, it's more about the back-catalog. The older stuff, that's not available anywhere, anymore.
Want it now, want to pay for it, but can't pay for it because it's not available anywhere anymore. That kind of stuff.
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You want the Beatles on record, sure go ahead, but don't make tapes, that's illegal, you'd better buy the tapes as well for in the car!
Oh you want them on cd now, better buy them again!
Oh you want them in digital form? Better wait a gazillion years while we work out who owns what rights and who wants to share a bit of the pie, and then you can buy them again, because downloading them for free is a crime!
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The only thing that's coming out of the big labels is the idea that us lowly consumers are just walking wallets that they can pick from.
I tend to remain calm, not get uppity or rude. It's usually the copyright apologists that go ahead and start insulting us. They will call us hypocrite thieves, whereas the hypocrites are usually on the opposite end, where we have seen many examples of people defending copyright on one occasion only to be caught red handed infringing on it on the next occasion.
There is nothing hypocritical about my position,
I have paid for content on many different occasions, usually directly to the artist, and when I really enjoy the content.
For one thing, I'm a paying member to this site, I'm not pirating his content, by reading it for free.
I'm a paying listener of a number of podcasts producers, stuff they put out for free, and yet I pay them.
I've bought movies after I watched it for free first. (Most notably the most recent Terry Pratchett movie Going Postal, after that I bought both Going Postal AND The Colour of Magic, so 2 sales for 1 download)
Am I a hypocrite? I don't think so. I put my money where my mouth is.
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And, it's the general lack of respect towards the customers over the past few decades, that fires most of these actions. CD prices were promised to go down, instead they went up. Customers were continuously given the shaft, with high prices, DRM, region locking, inferior filler content, unwillingness to evolve with the market and other such things.
Suddenly the legitimate customers were thieves: "You wouldn't steal a car". Insult on insult on insult. And you wonder why people are fighting back?
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So how much money would you add to the tally of $300, if the people worked on the project for free, because they loved to do it?
And I'm thinking they already had the software on their computers, either from school or such, so that doesn't count towards the cost.
BTW, why ARE we discussing how understated the costs are on these kinds of movies.
Bottom line is, you don't need a trillion dollar budget to make a decent movie. SFX don't need to cost that much, I mean my jaw hit the floor when they showed Mel's special ability, the only seemingly wobbly thing was the floating arrow. THAT's the disruptor in this case.
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In the US the mass media wants to silence WikiLeaks, here in NL they are fighting over the scoops that can be got from the files.
Two of the major news outlets, one funded by taxpayers (NOS) and one commercial (RTL), are fighting to be the first to release the material.
Apparently, the NOS contacted WikiLeaks and asked for access to the files, while RTL worked together with a few other news agencies and got them through a foreign partner (Aftenposten).
And those files are related to the previous Afghan mission the Dutch forces had.
Can't the US media see the giant treasure chest of utter scoops that's being thrown in their laps? Oh wait, no it's not about the message anymore there. There is no substance only controversy in US mass media. Saying bad stuff about the gubberment and standing up against them is treason.
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About the hacker meetups
http://www.2600.com/meetings/
If you're interested, go there and join the conversation.
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Where does it say he tweeted about his trip while in customs?
The fact that the customs officers pointed his tweet out, proved that the detainment wasn't random.
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