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   Framing *IS* LInking *IS* Piracy... so Use a Google Serach result

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 2nd, 2011 @ 10:32pm

   
   

   Better yet they should just link a Google search result...
   That lawsuit would be fun to watch.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 2nd, 2011 @ 11:08pm

   
   

   I would think a more effective means of doing this would be to merely iframe the results of a Google search...
   
   Attempting to calculate outcome...
   Decompiling the mind of a government official...
   Result:
   
   while (self.attention_span < goldfish.attention_span)
   {
    government.ban(Google);
    try
    {
     self.use(Google);
    }
    catch (search_engine x)
    {
     government.unban(x);
    }
   }

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   mike allen (profile), Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 12:23am

   
   

   I consider it bad manners not to link to a full story / article. But of course you cant educate idiots. and ALL politicians are idiots, though I sometimes wonder who has least intelligence politicians or lawyers or MAFIAA.

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   G Thompson (profile), Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 12:41am

   
   

   I think of it this way.
   
   Who is led by the all mighty re-election dollar without knowing anything == Politicians
   
   Who states they gains the most from banning piracy. == MAFIAA
   
   Who gains the most money, experience and claims they they are only doing what is in best interest of clients == Lawyers
   
   Therefore on a sliding scale of idiocy I'd say Lawyers were most intelligent, followed by Mafiaa, then coming in a dead last are politicians.
   
   QED

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 12:53am

   
   

   Get a life.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 1:07am

   
   

   I very much agree with mike allen's statement of a link provided to the source of a comment or editorial. Especially when the source provided is for the purpose of making comment at some other place. Folks that might read your thoughts based on the text of some other source want to know particularly that it is not a 'made up article' merely for the sake of commenting but rather something found on the net used for the base fodder.
   
   Any time I use such a method, always, without exception, I provide a source link, show no hyperlinks that might be within the source text, and very rarely even post an image. As habit, the reader is reminded that those items are within the original source and encouragement is provided to see that same source.
   
   Without links, that habit proves hard to continue.

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   Richard (profile), Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 1:36am

   
   

   Nah - you got it wrong.
   
   Politicians are being re-elected.
   
   Lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank.
   
   MAFIAA are paying for it all and geeting nothing of real value in return. MAFIAA are definitely top of the stupidity league.

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   The eejit (profile), Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 3:47am

   
   

   I had one, then the MAFIAA stole it.

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   not really buddy

   

   smoalne, Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 5:13am

   
   

   if you know what a referenced directory is in *nix then you'll understand how linking isn't infringement. The site merely indexes sites holding the copyrighted material and stores them by url - making a reference to something that's illegal isn't illegal in itself right ? I mean actions speak louder than words, and thinking about something isn't bad at all.

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 6:49am

    
    

    In a related story, the leader proved that black was white and white was black, and was killed on a zebra crossing.
    
    Thanks to Monty Python.

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    Jay (profile), Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 7:02am

    
    

    Uhm... the source is the Piraty party's Czech site. I sure as certain don't speak Czech, so TF's review is valued more.

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    Re: an alternative

    

    mirradric, Aug 3rd, 2011 @ 9:43pm

    
    

    while ( (self.time_wasted < goldfish.attenion_span || self.contribution(ban_google) > self.price ) && !government.isbanned(Google))
    {
    try
    {
    // ban can throw a public outcry exception is outcry level above threshold
    government.ban(Google);
    try
    {
    self.use(Google);
    }
    catch(search_engine x)
    {
    // just throw. no need to check threshold
    throw new public_outcry(x.target);
    }
    }
    catch (public_outcry po)
    {
    government.unban(po.target)
    }
    }

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    chris, Aug 4th, 2011 @ 3:28am

    
    

    Linking to copyrighted material is infringement? Do they realise that means basically every link on the internet, and therefore every site is infringing?

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