Actually, I find it very hilarious, and snide, and think that the only way it could be any better is by having a dude holding up two middle fingers and saying "F U Lamar!"... But I don't think that would fly.
What would your more highly developed ventromedial frontal lobe produce?
Look, we members of the SMDA (Sock Manufacturers and Darners Association) need to feed our children. You need to understand that you can't wear just ANY sock with ANY shoe that you wish. When you buy a new pair of shoes, you must buy a new pair of socks specifically for those shoes. If you want to wear those socks with a different pair of shoes, you'll need to go buy a similar pair of socks. Socks may only be worn with the shoes that they are purchased for.
If we catch you sharing socks with someone else, or copying SMDA socks, we'll take you to court.
Beyond the voting, there's a lot of stuff that can be gleaned from the servers... In TF2, you could get some positive karma as a medic from healing a teammate while taking fire yourself. Or you could get it as a sniper for taking out an opponent getting ready to nail an engie while building. Reward TEAM players.
I run a sizeable (but now essentially useless) Unreal Tournament website (yes, some of us still play!), and we always found ways to award team players - defenders of flag carriers, as an example, so I know a thing or two about dealing with assholes in games, as well as great team players. Watch some recording of GOOD team players - and you'll see them help teammates that they don't know and have never played with before. It's cool, it's fun for both people, and should be rewarded.
Wanna be an asshat in game, the Goonswarm? Awesome. Since you're preventing people from enjoying a game, you're gonna pay full retail for the game, plus full retail for the voice pack. You've got 8000 karma from helping your teammates in TF2? You rock! You can convert that to a 50% off coupon.
Actually, that's a really shitty analogy. Megaupload wasn't a pawn shop. It was a storage place.
You can get a big storage unit, or a small unit. I can give a copy of the key to MY lock to anyone I choose. They can go get stuff out of it. They can give me a key to their lock. And while there may have been plenty of stolen items in the storage unit next to mine... I used mine for my own purposes - storing extra furniture, some old PCs, and a sweet ass '70 Hemi 'cuda. Douchenozzle government came in and seized the whole place, simply because the moron next to me was growing weed and storing stolen goods in his unit. I can't get my car back (worth way more than the weed and the stolen goods), and there seems to be no process for doing so.
How is that a problem? They are very nearly all crony capitalists - with the exception of an extremely limited number (like Bernie Sanders). You should have no problem voting that ticket - just put a check mark damn near anywhere.
As a small-time admin myself, I would probably attempt to (in)validate the claim. If I found that the claim was in fact correct, I would notify the site owner, while removing only the infringing content. Only as a VERY LAST RESORT (i.e., I could not determine a way to remove the infringing content from the filesystem), would I shut down the site.
But that's just me, and I don't have that many sites that I host.
Because those searches that are uneventful don't really do anything for the security of flights anyway. And what about the continuous tests of the system where the TSA fails? And the un-controlled settings of the backscatter machines, the unknown health issues, etc.?
Where do you decide that the false security and the costs thereof outweigh what the organization ACTUALLY does for us? There's no metrics, nothing. The whole thing is a sham. ANd you bought it. Hook, line, and sinker.
Jesus. The TSA needs to just go away. They aren't making us safer. Just making us more into sheep that "accept" the new police state being crammed down our throats.
You're on drugs. My eyes can see huge differences just on the two images side-by-side above all the way back to 20 feet on my 23" monitor.
And transformative it IS. Because moving something into another medium is transformation. Otherwise, paintings and drawings of pictures would be illegal.
The statute says that "property" used to commit criminal copyright infringement can be seized. It doesn't limit the type of property that may be seized to the types you've listed. When Congress wants to limit a statute's applicability, it knows how to draft it as such.
The problem is, hosting a LINK is NOT committing infringement. If it is... Then where is the seizure of google.com? Seems to me I can find plenty of links to illegally download Lady Gaga from there.
Oh, I know why. Because if ICE seized that domain, they'd find their ass in a sling so fast it would make their head spin. And ICE knows this. So instead, they go after smaller operators, those that are likely to not have governmental connections, powerful lobbies, big banks, and bigger lawyer teams.
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Actually, I find it very hilarious, and snide, and think that the only way it could be any better is by having a dude holding up two middle fingers and saying "F U Lamar!"... But I don't think that would fly.
What would your more highly developed ventromedial frontal lobe produce?
The extension of the socks/shoes analogy...
Look, we members of the SMDA (Sock Manufacturers and Darners Association) need to feed our children. You need to understand that you can't wear just ANY sock with ANY shoe that you wish. When you buy a new pair of shoes, you must buy a new pair of socks specifically for those shoes. If you want to wear those socks with a different pair of shoes, you'll need to go buy a similar pair of socks. Socks may only be worn with the shoes that they are purchased for.
If we catch you sharing socks with someone else, or copying SMDA socks, we'll take you to court.
Let them know...
I suggest we all let them know what we think of their sleaziness here: Contact Form
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Beyond the voting, there's a lot of stuff that can be gleaned from the servers... In TF2, you could get some positive karma as a medic from healing a teammate while taking fire yourself. Or you could get it as a sniper for taking out an opponent getting ready to nail an engie while building. Reward TEAM players.
I run a sizeable (but now essentially useless) Unreal Tournament website (yes, some of us still play!), and we always found ways to award team players - defenders of flag carriers, as an example, so I know a thing or two about dealing with assholes in games, as well as great team players. Watch some recording of GOOD team players - and you'll see them help teammates that they don't know and have never played with before. It's cool, it's fun for both people, and should be rewarded.
Wanna be an asshat in game, the Goonswarm? Awesome. Since you're preventing people from enjoying a game, you're gonna pay full retail for the game, plus full retail for the voice pack. You've got 8000 karma from helping your teammates in TF2? You rock! You can convert that to a 50% off coupon.
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Actually, you should be able to use this magnet link without even going to TPB. Fuckin' magnets - how do they work?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Mech v. Authorship?
That was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
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Actually, that's a really shitty analogy. Megaupload wasn't a pawn shop. It was a storage place.
You can get a big storage unit, or a small unit. I can give a copy of the key to MY lock to anyone I choose. They can go get stuff out of it. They can give me a key to their lock. And while there may have been plenty of stolen items in the storage unit next to mine... I used mine for my own purposes - storing extra furniture, some old PCs, and a sweet ass '70 Hemi 'cuda. Douchenozzle government came in and seized the whole place, simply because the moron next to me was growing weed and storing stolen goods in his unit. I can't get my car back (worth way more than the weed and the stolen goods), and there seems to be no process for doing so.
Re: I Transfered
Right there with you - moved 17 off of them myself.
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How is that a problem? They are very nearly all crony capitalists - with the exception of an extremely limited number (like Bernie Sanders). You should have no problem voting that ticket - just put a check mark damn near anywhere.
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As a small-time admin myself, I would probably attempt to (in)validate the claim. If I found that the claim was in fact correct, I would notify the site owner, while removing only the infringing content. Only as a VERY LAST RESORT (i.e., I could not determine a way to remove the infringing content from the filesystem), would I shut down the site.
But that's just me, and I don't have that many sites that I host.
Re: A way to improve your site
There is. But only if you join at the "TechDirt Paywall" level.
OK, maybe not. But that's how I would implement it.
I see money in the future of...
Seedboxes. Time to start renting some servers in Sweden and leasing portions out as seedboxes.
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Actually, it's not. It is, however, religious intolerance.
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Uh huh. I wonder what Tim McVeigh was. Oh yeah. He WASN'T Muslim, you moron.
You are part of what's wrong with Amur'ca.
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Because those searches that are uneventful don't really do anything for the security of flights anyway. And what about the continuous tests of the system where the TSA fails? And the un-controlled settings of the backscatter machines, the unknown health issues, etc.?
Where do you decide that the false security and the costs thereof outweigh what the organization ACTUALLY does for us? There's no metrics, nothing. The whole thing is a sham. ANd you bought it. Hook, line, and sinker.
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Jesus. The TSA needs to just go away. They aren't making us safer. Just making us more into sheep that "accept" the new police state being crammed down our throats.
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You're on drugs. My eyes can see huge differences just on the two images side-by-side above all the way back to 20 feet on my 23" monitor.
And transformative it IS. Because moving something into another medium is transformation. Otherwise, paintings and drawings of pictures would be illegal.
Dolt.
Re: The TSA
(meaning, by the way, fuck everything about the TSA, not them figuring out that what they are doing is stupid, albeit slowly).
The TSA
FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS.
That is all.
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The statute says that "property" used to commit criminal copyright infringement can be seized. It doesn't limit the type of property that may be seized to the types you've listed. When Congress wants to limit a statute's applicability, it knows how to draft it as such.
The problem is, hosting a LINK is NOT committing infringement. If it is... Then where is the seizure of google.com? Seems to me I can find plenty of links to illegally download Lady Gaga from there.
Oh, I know why. Because if ICE seized that domain, they'd find their ass in a sling so fast it would make their head spin. And ICE knows this. So instead, they go after smaller operators, those that are likely to not have governmental connections, powerful lobbies, big banks, and bigger lawyer teams.