It'd be safer to say "publisher OR developer". It'd be nice to think that development studios have our best interests in mind, but they have as much incentive to do the same things their publishers do. If they can avoid taking the heat, all the better.
You bring up a very good, very worrying, point. "No used game restrictions" and "no connection required" could fall into the same trap that OtherOS did.
"Having someone Tweet "YOU'VE BEEN SERVED" with a link to a PDF isn't that much different than having papers shoved into your hands at a crowded mall."
Not really, it's like giving someone a key to a deposit box with the papers in it. If you never actually posses the papers, even if you were aware that you had the capability to get them, it wouldn't be legit.
"Youtube can't do much to prevent this abuse. It has to err on the side of the rights holders, even if the rights holders don't actually hold the rights."
That's an excuse. All it has to do is allow rightsholders to file a DMCA claim, you know, the one that has legal ramifications for falsifying. If Google wasn't such a fucking loser when it comes to standing up to ContentID and DMCA abuse, that's the only way things would be handled.
I'm assuming there's some sort of legal guidelines of how banks can or cannot do things like this. Why is PP free to do what it pleases whenever it feels like for whatever reason?
The KKK and ilk are MUCH different than the extremists that are problematic today. They are taken care of by shifts of behavior and beliefs in society. These folks go by, dare I say, sacred ideals and most likely will never change.
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Rock and a hard place, this next generation will be.
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It'd be safer to say "publisher OR developer". It'd be nice to think that development studios have our best interests in mind, but they have as much incentive to do the same things their publishers do. If they can avoid taking the heat, all the better.
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You bring up a very good, very worrying, point. "No used game restrictions" and "no connection required" could fall into the same trap that OtherOS did.
He's got it all wrong.
It's Dan Brown that causes violence. I feel pretty violent towards him right now.
Re: Can we get a hate tax too?
How about we just get rid of tax-exemption from churches? They all spout political views now.
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Outrageous salaries for do-nothing execs do more economic harm than anything else.
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Nice to know that anyone arguing against this practice is promoting tax evasion.
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"Having someone Tweet "YOU'VE BEEN SERVED" with a link to a PDF isn't that much different than having papers shoved into your hands at a crowded mall."
Not really, it's like giving someone a key to a deposit box with the papers in it. If you never actually posses the papers, even if you were aware that you had the capability to get them, it wouldn't be legit.
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Considering I never agreed to this system when I signed up for service, my ISP is breaking it's contract with me.
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I was unaware that this system was a law.
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"Youtube can't do much to prevent this abuse. It has to err on the side of the rights holders, even if the rights holders don't actually hold the rights."
That's an excuse. All it has to do is allow rightsholders to file a DMCA claim, you know, the one that has legal ramifications for falsifying. If Google wasn't such a fucking loser when it comes to standing up to ContentID and DMCA abuse, that's the only way things would be handled.
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Then that ruling needs to be changed.
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A gun is a deadly weapon, nothing more, nothing less. It is in the public's interest to know who has them.
Sense in the Courtroom
Thankfully, they threw out that stupid religious argument.
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You're not really that stupid, are you?
Legality...
I'm assuming there's some sort of legal guidelines of how banks can or cannot do things like this. Why is PP free to do what it pleases whenever it feels like for whatever reason?
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No matter the site, there will be trolls on anything related to MLP.
Seeing this subject here worried me...
But other than the one troll above, people here aren't assholes about MLP as they are most everywhere else. Thank you for being above that, Techdirt!
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The KKK and ilk are MUCH different than the extremists that are problematic today. They are taken care of by shifts of behavior and beliefs in society. These folks go by, dare I say, sacred ideals and most likely will never change.
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Radical groups will ALWAYS find something to brainwash people to their side.
Also, I'm wondering what you are basing your assumption of his nationality on other than a knee-jerk reaction.