Well, they already claim hypothetical damages. Is hypothetical infringement any different?
Getting rid of the DRM provision in the DMCA would be analogous to repealing prohibition. Despite the illegality of it, people are still doing it regardless and massively so. It's irrational to wax apocalyptic about allowing circumvention when it's already pervasive. Chicken Little would be shocked by such alarmist statements.
I was about to make a very similar comment. It is exactly what they are doing. They also don't want to "dilute" the market with more offerings than their customers are willing to spend money on.
Nobody "died over the flag."
You'd be wrong about that. In the war of 1812, men defending fort McHenry from a British attack put themselves in the path of cannons that were trying to knock down the American flag. Their corpses were all that kept that flag from touching the ground, and those were the events that became the lyrics for the Star Spangled Banner.
That said, dying over a flag is a foolish gesture. Someone dying to defend principles and liberty are a different thing entirely. To take offense at the abuse of a flag is just silly. The flag is not sacred, but people are. Anyone who abuses a flag should not be ostracized for the flag. Instead, they should be reprimanded the same as anyone who would vandalize a building. Conversely, anyone that abuses a flag out of grievance with the government it represents should actually be called a patriot. That's what patriotism is, telling the government that they are infringing your fundamental rights.
You can't use lots of upstream if you don't have it. That's no different than saying nobody wants to speed when every car is locked at a top speed of 5mph. There's cloud storage, personal streaming video channels, bit-torrent, home cloud server, using your home network as a VPN when using public wifi, working remotely, hosting a WAN party, and so on. Let's not forget that several people could be using that upstream bandwidth at the same time.
25/3 isn't good enough. It should be 25/25 minimum. Asynchronous internet access is ignoring the fact that people are just as much creators of content as they are consumers of content. The slow upstream speed is just a ploy to keep people dependent on legacy services like cable and landline phone.
It's simple. It wasn't published when he handed it over. I don't know if that is actually what happened, but that is a reasonable explanation.
"Fact: A huge loss for society and culture is when people don't pay creatives for their labor and thus they are forced to do non-creative things to make money in order to live."
I think your online dictionary had a database error and gave the definition of the word "opinion" in place of the word "fact".
How about we blame the economic system instead? Because of money, people can't simply do what they love, regardless that it provides societal value, because they have to sacrifice their time to occupations that earn money. Even if they can earn money doing art, they have to concede to market demands. They often can't do the art they truly desire to make, but have to make art that consumers want. That's a tragedy in itself.
The point being, it's easy to cast blame.
Or, you could just have a dozen, or more, f2p games on your phone. By the time you hit your wait-gate in each of them, the first one is ready to go again.
If this keeps happening, people are going to start arming themselves against the police.
It should be changed to "warrant-less" or "without probable cause" (probable cause being clear and present threats to public safety, such as a crime in progress, reckless behavior, or visible contraband), adding consequences if an officer performs a search that violates such requirements. Evidence of this could be provided by way of mandatory video and audio recording devices on their person while in their official capacity. If no probable cause can be found, the officer will be subject to penalties to their wages or forced into unpaid leaves of absence. Repeated incidents will be grounds for an internal affairs investigation and the potential termination of the violating officer/agent.
I call that a good start.
Just abolish copyright. That's it. No more piracy.
If the police ask you to do something, they know that you are doing nothing illegal. If you were actually violating the law, they wouldn't ask. Police don't ask you to stop violating the law. They stop it right then and there.
Also, if they don't know what statute you're violating, then you're probably not violating anything.
+1 to that.
Or, the telecoms should be required to set a minimum; a speed they must provide to everyone to ensure that the network has enough capacity. At off-peak times, users can go beyond that speed as network activity permits. During peak usage, all users would be throttled to their minimum level of service.
Example:
20 Mbps minimum speed, spikes to up 100 Mbps on off-peak hours.
I was thinking along the lines of a lucrative job offer when he finishes his term in the FCC. You don't have to pad someone's pocket in order to bribe them. Recall the FCC commissioner that took a job with Comcast after approving the NBC/Comcast merger.
Re: Manik
That is your choice to make, but your comment adds nothing to the discussion.