Texas literally just passed a law basically doing the same thing. Such insanity! It's expected, given Brazil's president, but wow, I never thought I would see it happen in the U.S.
Yeah, my internet access at work is great as well! Pretty sure you are literally being like the Wizard of Oz and lying your ass off otherwise. BTW this isn't a particular party thing it's more of a "the FCC is terrible" type of thing.
Having a choice do go to the movie theater or stay home and watch the same movie on VOD is at least a single step in the right direction. I'm really sort of on the fence though - I hesitate at a 20 dollar price for a VOD new release movie at home but then when you consider how much it costs for a trip to the movie theater as a family it's way expensive overall.
What are you talking about?! Those things are great! Not really. I have one, it's terrible. I have been waiting for someone to figure out how to root the Fire phone - now it looks like I might just be stuck with my bad decision. :(
Henley just needs to take it easy and stop living life in the fast lane. He's rendering himself irrelevant and I don't guess that's a bad thing in this case.
I'm pretty sure that Amazon makes everyone use their DRM regardless of whether you want to or not as part of it's terms and conditions for selling e-books.
The sheer irony of the RIAA statement caused me to blackout for a minute. Who do they think they are kidding?! The deck is stacked against them?! Wow. That takes balls to say given their history.
Or maybe all of the major isp's could address it in a more meaningful way through investment by upgrading their aging networks to all Fiber.
The differences in areas with fiber buildouts are telling. You see 2 major things that you won't see in your typical broadband monopoly/duopoly market: Competition and No Caps or Throttling.
If someone is using a major search engine to search for sites that will give them free stuff using generic terms such as "Free Movies" or "Piracy Sites" they are neither savvy nor serious about it and will most likely obtain some nice free viruses, Trojans and spy ware for their trouble rather than free movies or music.
I don't think that these entities and persons pushing for these new laws even understand how futile, stupid and counterproductive their techniques are. I also think that they vastly underestimate the abilities, skills and intelligence of those that they are fighting against - not to mention their true intentions and motivations for what they do.
The attitude that this behavior can somehow be curtailed in some significant fashion or even stamped out entirely is a ludicrous and impossible pipe dream. They have turned it into a zero sum game of all or nothing and everyone is worse off because of it.
Now in Texas
Texas literally just passed a law basically doing the same thing. Such insanity! It's expected, given Brazil's president, but wow, I never thought I would see it happen in the U.S.
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-signs-law-protecting-texans-from-wrongful-social-me dia-censorship
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Yeah, my internet access at work is great as well! Pretty sure you are literally being like the Wizard of Oz and lying your ass off otherwise. BTW this isn't a particular party thing it's more of a "the FCC is terrible" type of thing.
Have a good day.
No surprise
Remember you guys, it's about profit, not what's best for us. It will always be about profits over anything else.
Go out or stay home
Having a choice do go to the movie theater or stay home and watch the same movie on VOD is at least a single step in the right direction. I'm really sort of on the fence though - I hesitate at a 20 dollar price for a VOD new release movie at home but then when you consider how much it costs for a trip to the movie theater as a family it's way expensive overall.
Progress!! I guess. :)
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They can't be that dumb right? Really? Censoring articles with DMCA take down requests?
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The differences in areas with fiber buildouts are telling. You see 2 major things that you won't see in your typical broadband monopoly/duopoly market: Competition and No Caps or Throttling.
Let's be honest
I don't think that these entities and persons pushing for these new laws even understand how futile, stupid and counterproductive their techniques are. I also think that they vastly underestimate the abilities, skills and intelligence of those that they are fighting against - not to mention their true intentions and motivations for what they do.
The attitude that this behavior can somehow be curtailed in some significant fashion or even stamped out entirely is a ludicrous and impossible pipe dream. They have turned it into a zero sum game of all or nothing and everyone is worse off because of it.
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