Compare that to organizations like GEMA that have tried refusing to recognize Creative Commons licenses, and operations like ASCAP, who insist that Creative Commons is threat to musicians, rather than a useful tool.
I don't know what the collection societies are so upset about. They enjoy their normal royalty rates on free music.
The police should be thankful for YouTube. After all, they always complain about the "few bad apples" that ruin police reputations for the rest of them.
Why don't they appreciate YouTube and citizen journalists holding the "bad apples" to account?
I'm going to go ahead and say that the US government, and the American people who implicitly or explicitly support it, do not get to say anything about violent video games until the US has been War Sober for at least 10 years.
Got it? US: Can you go 10 years without being involved in a war or other violent military action?
If more people got as upset about ACTUAL killing as they did about SIMULATED killing, the world would be a much better place.
This is similar to the arguments against copyright maximalism, in that nobody can respect the law because everyone could be classified as a sex offendor. Innocent people have their lives ruined, rather than just the people we traditionally think of as being pedophiles.
And even for the pedophiles in the traditional sense of the word, is it really wise to absolutely guarantee zero chance of reintegration??
Exactly. So long as I know that, in my mind, innocent people can be put on that list it's hard to take it seriously. Ordinary people, just like you and I, caught up in a moral panic that ruins the rest of their lives.
Underage youth takes pictures of herself and sends to also underage boyfriend? She's a sex offendor (even though they could just have sex legally). http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9020190
Keep a dream log book of disturbing dreams you have featuring children in bad ways, as part of a means to overcome this problem? Sex offendor.
[I made that one up as an extension to existing cases.]
I don't know if universal health is really the best example for your argument. Canada is not a fascist state, and yet we have decided as a nation that we don't want to leave the poor without health care.
There are much better reasons to criticize American leadership than Obama advocating for universal healthcare. Picking this issue over the other more obvious choices says more about you than the Obama administration.
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If only Bing would just copy Google's search results, life would be so much easier.
Oh wait:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/02/google-catches-bing-copying-microsoft-s ays-so-what/
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Mike's got 99 problems but Ron Wyden ain't one.
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so much lol
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In Which I Debate A Media Mogul Who Insists It's Crazy To Give Content Away For Free
At first I read that as "media muggle," as in a Harry Potter muggle.
I like that better. Those who don't understand "free" are muggles.
Kind of ironic, though, when you consider J.K. Rowling's views.
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Compare that to organizations like GEMA that have tried refusing to recognize Creative Commons licenses, and operations like ASCAP, who insist that Creative Commons is threat to musicians, rather than a useful tool.
I don't know what the collection societies are so upset about. They enjoy their normal royalty rates on free music.
20 percent of $0 is....$0.
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This smells suspiciously like Microsoft legitimizing Anonymous' tactics.
But something tells me nobody from Microsoft will be facing 15 years in prison.
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Apparently Morton sees method in his madness, though, much like how shamans see method in their rain dances:
Rain dances are probably more effective than this. At least rain dances don't make it less likely to rain.
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How about fraud or identity theft? Just because the kid was making any money off it doesn't mean it's not damaging.
If I made a Mike Masnick profile and convinced a ton of people that I'm you, you'd probably have a case against me.
(I'm not talking about parody accounts that are obviously fake.)
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The police should be thankful for YouTube. After all, they always complain about the "few bad apples" that ruin police reputations for the rest of them.
Why don't they appreciate YouTube and citizen journalists holding the "bad apples" to account?
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I'm going to go ahead and say that the US government, and the American people who implicitly or explicitly support it, do not get to say anything about violent video games until the US has been War Sober for at least 10 years.
Got it? US: Can you go 10 years without being involved in a war or other violent military action?
If more people got as upset about ACTUAL killing as they did about SIMULATED killing, the world would be a much better place.
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"FBI seizes AT&T because someone uses their phone system to call in a bomb threat."
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"attention is increasingly turning to what many legal experts consider to be the most stringent restrictions ever"
Congratulations UK, you are less free than China.
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If we compare this to the techdirt coverage of the Lori Drew case...
As you said, he had problems well beyond some court ruling. A suicidal person is hardly a reason unto itself to change the law.
That said the law should be changed for many other reasons. This is not one of them.
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This is similar to the arguments against copyright maximalism, in that nobody can respect the law because everyone could be classified as a sex offendor. Innocent people have their lives ruined, rather than just the people we traditionally think of as being pedophiles.
And even for the pedophiles in the traditional sense of the word, is it really wise to absolutely guarantee zero chance of reintegration??
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Exactly. So long as I know that, in my mind, innocent people can be put on that list it's hard to take it seriously. Ordinary people, just like you and I, caught up in a moral panic that ruins the rest of their lives.
Underage youth takes pictures of herself and sends to also underage boyfriend? She's a sex offendor (even though they could just have sex legally).
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9020190
Underage youth receives pictures of also underage girlfriend? He's a sex offendor (even though they could just have sex legally).
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9020190
Draw a picture that could be interpretted as a minor in a sexual manner? Watch porn featuring an adult actor who looks young? Sex offendor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003
http://atheism.about.com/b/2006/05/25/w hats-wrong-with-virtual-child-pornography-book-notes-free-for-all.htm
- That same article also talks of a man who is a sex offendor for grabbing the arm of a 14 year old girl, to lecture her for running in front of his car (an argument the courts accepted as true).
Keep a dream log book of disturbing dreams you have featuring children in bad ways, as part of a means to overcome this problem? Sex offendor.
[I made that one up as an extension to existing cases.]
Someone sends you an explicit photo featuring children? Sex offendor.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/05/1511258/accidental-download-sending-22-year-old-ma n-to-prison
Take some pictures of your children in the bath tub? Sex offendor.
http://current.com/community/90986809_parents-sue-wal-mart-after-children-taken-away-over -bath-time-photos.htm
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Exactly. The GPL uses copyright to create a safe haven FROM the negative impact of copyright. No copyright, no GPL necessary.
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I don't know if universal health is really the best example for your argument. Canada is not a fascist state, and yet we have decided as a nation that we don't want to leave the poor without health care.
There are much better reasons to criticize American leadership than Obama advocating for universal healthcare. Picking this issue over the other more obvious choices says more about you than the Obama administration.
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In much of Canada, mandatory arbitration is considered unconscionable and thus unenforceable.
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Maybe we should see some laws preventing individuals from renovating their house.
Also, I'm pretty sure the Android can do most of those things. Is rooting illegal?
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What's wrong with going to a studio?