Copyright, like sexual fidelity and superstitious faith, is an obsolete concept from way back when we didn't know EVOLUTION. Even thinking about trying to enforce copyright in a world that has computers is like trying to forbid being wet on the surface of a planet that's 70% water.
Copyright reform already happened. We call that THE INTERNET. Policy and laws are irrelevant to REALITY. They're fictions collectively held to be true. Collective solipsism, as meaningless and worthless as believing in an anthropomorphic personal God-creator, or the Easter Bunny. It's not real just because children believe in it when lied to by authority figures. Laws are not more real than that, they're just believed in by so-called adults. Who then go about trying to enforce them even if they're as absurd as trying to ban the tides from the beaches!
There are two rules worth living by : 1/No harm 2/No theft. EVERYTHING else is obfuscation.
While we've mostly been focused on what's happening at the political and policy levels around here, the technology can make a lot of that meaningless.
Yeah, TOOLS that EXIST have that tendency to affect REALITY more efficiently than the wasteful enforcement of arbitrary rules by a self-granted monopoly on coercive violence.
Didn't you notice that the same story happened twice? That could very well mean that the ill-fitting that recycled plothole-filled storyline is simply standard practice at the Federal Government's Parallel Construction Creative Department.
Everything the DOJ/FBI does is security theater. They imagine plots and LARP them out, entrapping unlucky malcontents as scapegoats representing the last hyped-up non-threat. When was the last time they actually did something really useful? The last dangerous criminal enterprise in the U.S. of A. currently IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. And their law enforcement agents are street thugs, every last one of them, even if some -the happy fools- don't realize it yet.
Well it's time someone got to it. The internet has failed to deliver a surveillance-resistant net that can actually be used by a standard user so far.
Something could conceivably be hacked up by now, like by using a web-facing gateway to .bit addresses to sites hosted in node.js servers distributedly.
Of course I expect the IETF to get that standard not only designed, but actually implemented in every net-using device.
"Best before" means "this is guaranteed to not differ sensibly in taste or quality, within this period". It does not mean "bad after this date" indeed.
I've once found 70-years-old chocolate that was perfectly fine to use. Just a little whitened, thus, better to use for cooking or hot cocoa than eating directly.
Honey does bear use-by dates, for some demented reason. Honey has been found in 2000 years old roman-era galleons, still perfectly conserved. Go figure why the health authorities demand an use-by date on a product that keeps basically for ever.
Why only Mosques? That's religious discrimination. The wacky guys with the crosses are every bit as deluded as those who chant their fairy tales in Arab.
With their hilarious colander-level security, unaccountability, impossibility to audit - how many of the 1,000 remaining sysadmins HAVE stolen data to sell to China or Iran?
This world is headed towards total transparency. Some day, you WILL have everyone's total life at your fingertips.
And everyone will have yours.
Reality is open. Laws are beneath meaningless. If you CAN deploy enough sensors, you CAN know everything. No matter what fiction you believe in, no matter how many others believe in it with you : that is reality, and reality can be measured.
That is a GOOD thing. Trust-free society. Everyone's karma projected right on their faces by technology.
It will be the mirror of humanity. It will scream in its face "THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE".
and, storing the encrypted message in a Namecoin, to be decrypted by the recipient with PGP or something
and, layers of SSH encrypted tunnels from fully Libre systems
Syndie
i2p
The one thing we don't have is a fucking bridge from any of those systems to and from that "name@domain.ext" scheme that everyone in the world is using for ALL of the Serious Business.
1. Surveillance is not going away. Ever.
2. The overwhelming majority of everyone has NO access to the data.
3. So, just publish the data. Problem solved.
No-one sane can say that their privacy is worth more than everyone else's combined.
It would mean a leap for humanity about as important as the invention of WRITING. It would be the mirror held before Humanity's face, screaming in its face "THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE".
Really? She believed in that? Who does, no-one. Laws don't do shit. Either they're common sense (don't steal), or don't work. (Don't carry an ice cream cone in your pocket in Kansas Airport, don't copy ideas, all variants of "don't offend", don't grab American communications, don't put things in you that make you feel good).
Rapidshare AG has always bent over backwards to make authorities happy, so what. The Internet will have to get used to use Mediafire instead.
First there was Rapidshare, then Megaupload, then Rapidshare again. Then Mega appeared. Then, a rock-fuckingly stupid german court tells RS to make their service unusable. We the Internet, respond with a resounding silence because we're too busy getting our files from the forty other services lined up to get raided as soon as authorities are done with the more visible ones...
... and after those we still have TOR, FreeNet, i2p, bittorrent, VPNs, namecoin, that JS/WebRTC file server, so, how about "fuck the laws forever, lulz, no data ever bit anyone anyway".
What's "impossible"?
Copyright reform already happened. We call that THE INTERNET.
Policy and laws are irrelevant to REALITY. They're fictions collectively held to be true. Collective solipsism, as meaningless and worthless as believing in an anthropomorphic personal God-creator, or the Easter Bunny. It's not real just because children believe in it when lied to by authority figures. Laws are not more real than that, they're just believed in by so-called adults. Who then go about trying to enforce them even if they're as absurd as trying to ban the tides from the beaches!
There are two rules worth living by : 1/No harm 2/No theft. EVERYTHING else is obfuscation.
The inexorably advancing all-crushing wall of ice
Meaningness
Yeah, TOOLS that EXIST have that tendency to affect REALITY more efficiently than the wasteful enforcement of arbitrary rules by a self-granted monopoly on coercive violence.
In The News : Idiots Still Believe In Sexual Fidelity
PLEASE.
Re: Hollywood imagination
Didn't you notice that the same story happened twice? That could very well mean that the ill-fitting that recycled plothole-filled storyline is simply standard practice at the Federal Government's Parallel Construction Creative Department.
Everything the DOJ/FBI does is security theater. They imagine plots and LARP them out, entrapping unlucky malcontents as scapegoats representing the last hyped-up non-threat. When was the last time they actually did something really useful? The last dangerous criminal enterprise in the U.S. of A. currently IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. And their law enforcement agents are street thugs, every last one of them, even if some -the happy fools- don't realize it yet.
Wonderful.
Something could conceivably be hacked up by now, like by using a web-facing gateway to .bit addresses to sites hosted in node.js servers distributedly.
Of course I expect the IETF to get that standard not only designed, but actually implemented in every net-using device.
Important lessons indeed
"Don't trust an alarm"
"Interacting with authorities results in direct personal harm"
What is it they're training for exactly? The future is going to HURT.
No.
It's not the end of civilization, it's only the end of liberty for those who don't have access to the data.
New Leak!
The ones about the (DUMBUSERS).
Re: Food Waste
I've once found 70-years-old chocolate that was perfectly fine to use. Just a little whitened, thus, better to use for cooking or hot cocoa than eating directly.
Honey does bear use-by dates, for some demented reason. Honey has been found in 2000 years old roman-era galleons, still perfectly conserved. Go figure why the health authorities demand an use-by date on a product that keeps basically for ever.
Discrimination
How many were there who did the bad thing?
Re:
It's all falling into place
This world is headed towards total transparency. Some day, you WILL have everyone's total life at your fingertips.
And everyone will have yours.
Reality is open. Laws are beneath meaningless. If you CAN deploy enough sensors, you CAN know everything. No matter what fiction you believe in, no matter how many others believe in it with you : that is reality, and reality can be measured.
That is a GOOD thing. Trust-free society. Everyone's karma projected right on their faces by technology.
It will be the mirror of humanity. It will scream in its face "THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE".
I can't wait.
What legality?
Like hackers do. Not asking permission, and GETTING SHIT DONE.
Bitmessage
and, storing the encrypted message in a Namecoin, to be decrypted by the recipient with PGP or something
and, layers of SSH encrypted tunnels from fully Libre systems
Syndie
i2p
The one thing we don't have is a fucking bridge from any of those systems to and from that "name@domain.ext" scheme that everyone in the world is using for ALL of the Serious Business.
What's so funny? They're right.
2. The overwhelming majority of everyone has NO access to the data.
3. So, just publish the data. Problem solved.
No-one sane can say that their privacy is worth more than everyone else's combined.
It would mean a leap for humanity about as important as the invention of WRITING. It would be the mirror held before Humanity's face, screaming in its face "THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE".
"Rule of law"
Get over it.
Blocking TOR
lol
How to kill a service
First there was Rapidshare, then Megaupload, then Rapidshare again. Then Mega appeared. Then, a rock-fuckingly stupid german court tells RS to make their service unusable. We the Internet, respond with a resounding silence because we're too busy getting our files from the forty other services lined up to get raided as soon as authorities are done with the more visible ones...
... and after those we still have TOR, FreeNet, i2p, bittorrent, VPNs, namecoin, that JS/WebRTC file server, so, how about "fuck the laws forever, lulz, no data ever bit anyone anyway".
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