I have known people who just want maximum access to any and all media where they achieve this by pirating, hacking or buying what they can. They would want an all you can eat service at a fair price... but still want more.
Others just like the convenience, speed and quality of file sharing where once downloaded this new media slots in to their own personal media on demand system.
Then others prefer a try before they buy system. Their shelves of DVD, Blurays and CDs are already full with purchased media they rate as an AWESOME collection because they avoid crap media by sampling it first.
There are other reasons such as never wanting to fund the MAFIAA due to all the social harm they cause but I can offer one rare insight into piracy. This is that people are not immoral and corrupt where they know rights from wrongs and where if you talk to them they can offer very understandable motives even if you may not agree with their view.
At the end the day people's morals have been proved when pirates, with access to unlimited FREE media, are the BIGGEST SPENDERS on media.
The Internet is under attack on a global front where no matter in which country they strike we should always stand shoulder to shoulder with our brothers and sisters to strike down such bad legislation.
We cannot allow the Internet to be harmed by those organization aiming to make a land-grab for control.
Good words indeed. It is also good to hear more from James Firth from Slightly Right of Centre when he is more knowledgeable about the Digital Economy Act than any other journalist that I have seen.
There is no question now that the DEA in an official yet unspoken coma going nowhere quickly. They have already wasted around £5.8 million, many of the copyright side already saw it as the wrong answer early on, those that do want to use it insist on most of the scheme being funded by public tax funds, they stand to annoy hundreds of thousands of people, not to forget some innocent people being punished, Hadopi proves no economic gain where it could actually be harmful to media sales, the LSE report said the DEA offered 'the wrong balance', OFCOM prove that pirates spend more on media because they are more engaged, not to forget better educated with better paid jobs.
So there is simply no good news here where the only answer now is to shut down and to repeal the DEA before more millions are wasted.
I have always said the DEA was doomed where that is now without doubt.
Damned system lost most of my posting so let me type it all again...
Yes we are deep in prohibition where the Government actively fights against the mass will of the population. Their attempts to maintain control become ever more desperate as the World changes around them.
The truth about streaming can be seen in the RojaDirecta case when after 3 strikes they are still not out. The DoJ losing against them in US Court sure removes the "willful" aspect in any US business that follows RojaDirecta's lawful streaming example.
So now they try anything to censor and to contain people sharing media. They obviously cannot win against public demand for long.
The World is soon to change. Most people realise that Copyright has gone too far where it needs to be curtailed to prevent such abuses. Evidence shows that sharing is not economically harmful so why try to stop people's chosen freedom to enjoy entertainment?
That was very nicely stated which covered all the main points we have mentioned. Had I been giving that speech I would have said much the same but a whole lot angrier along with a few choice rude words for those responsible.
About time someone said that where him and his mother are sure to make headlines.
Yes we are deep in prohibition where the Government actively fights against the mass will of the population. Their attempts to maintain control become ever more desperate as the World changes around them.
I am sure even the MPAA are laughing at her. "Wow what a stupid woman" they all think.
Sure enough this case will soon crash and burn the moment it is pointed out in Court that Copyright Infringement is not actually Theft. As a result trial in state Court is therefore denied being a Federal law.
Still the MPAA would be happy when their goal is to destroy where this case well highlights how well their propaganda works to fool the weak minded.
California may well need a new Attorney General when Kamala Harris clearly does not know her laws. Her and VP Joe Biden now have something in common... lack of brain cells.
Keep in mind that Google played a large part in the downfall of SOPA being the only Tech company who could buy a seat at the table. Clearly back then they all of them blamed Google and not the 13 million public who voiced their protest.
So to avoid further disruption to their future anti-Internet proposed laws it is time for them to neuter or to kill Google.
DCMA take-down notices have shot through the roof since then when millions of links get censored monthly. In this modern World of punishing lawful linkage then both sides of the infringement fence are happy to declare Google as the King of Piracy even if for very different reasons.
So today the Copyright Cartels flex their power over the Administration by having an Attorney General attack Google with much more due.
All part of the downfall of Google who sits and takes it like some masochist. Most ironic in all this is that other search engines are much less censored
When soldiers are ordered to butcher innocent villagers then they should refuse to obey. When Government officials violate the US Constitution and Bill of Rights as a matter of routine then they should be expose.
Simply following orders is never an excuse. To stay silent in a corrupt system makes you a part of that corruption.
I am quite sure though that he has violated national security laws, confidentiality agreements and a whole lot more to reveal these documents. Quite a brave man who simply wants the United States to be a better place.
Now we get to see how much Congress has sunk into this shit hole of Fourth Amendment violations.
We can all hope that Congress calls Edward Snowden before them in the Capital in a fully open meeting to question him about the abuses of the intelligence services.
Should they do so in a closed meeting then they want answers themselves while working on a pubic cover up.
Then should they not take up this opportunity then he would only be a traitor to them and who they would soon let Obama bury.
It is not about paranoia but about privacy and the ability to live your life in an anonymous way not tracked all the time by the Government.
The Fourth Amendment bans unreasonable search and seizures which means that the Government has no right to violate the privacy of your life until you are suspected of committing a crime.
The Government under fear of terrorism, or monsters in the dark, cannot remove these rights. Those who sacrifice privacy to obtain security soon end up with neither.
Also Congress is like a factory churning out new laws all the time in an unstoppable endless stream. No one on this planet can know all the laws totalling millions of pages. It is without question that people violate the laws as part of their daily life.
Just be thankful that the Government has no reason to abuse or to victimise you but that cannot be said for everyone.
This Facebook news reminded me of an event that I moaned about months ago as I will now recall.
A large part of Facebook is obviously game play. Now lets say a popular person has 100 friends and starts up a new game where they discover the fact that on average 3 to 5 of their friends are already playing where they invite the 90+ others to gain 1 or 2 more.
So there you are with your 4 to 7 game neighbours where you soon discover the fact that after 2 days of game play you can't advance the game more because you need 8, 10, 15, 20 and even as high as 30 neighbours. No matter how much you harass your friends you can't do this not to mention the neighbours you have are not very good anyway.
You resolve this problem by finding out the game chat page and all those people in the same situation screaming out ADD ME and wanting hard working neighbours.
Those that go this route can be BANNED BY FACEBOOK. No shit when add the wrong game friend and Facebook won't even let you see your home page without agreeing to their terms that states very clearly "You can only add friends that you PERSONALLY know"
Wait! What? Not even my mother can dictate who my friends are but Facebook can? For a first offence Facebook bans you adding new friends for 2 days.
As I am sure Facebook is aware of the game situation then "personally known" I am sure would kill almost every Facebook game there. I have gone this far and can go no further.
Then today we may now see the real reason. The NSA would indeed want everyone to be in the personal know. They want US users who connect to Middle East users to be part of a terrorist cell. Here is this US user having Arabic rants posted to his wall but he speaks no Arabic! Clear terrorist cell wastes days of NSA work only to find out that the one sole true link is that they water each other's crops!
Game play adds in much random linkage. The NSA do not like this hence the "people you personally know" rule.
The main problem is two fold in that they don't consider metadata to be protected by the Fourth Amendment and second is that the FISA Court is one for rubbing stamping the inclusion of everyone.
This extra server would also not be there to limit their access to data. This would be not unlike how MegaUpload handled the media cartels of full access to delete whatever they wanted. No delete on Facebook (normally) but indeed full access to rip metadata and details of connections. Facebook can then get on to business while ignoring this Governmental "rape box"
All I read about this is damage control. Such claims of having the NSA root though all their data can be economically very damaging for the tech companies involved.
The US Administration likes to have a plan for every eventually so here they are running their mandated damage avoidance plan in a scheme that is extremely carefully worded to remain legally truthful without revealing anything about the real truth.
You may notice that nowhere in their denial do they demand that the FBI/NSA should explain themselves. So just imagine the worst option possible and remain extremely skeptical.
Remember that Congress passed a law in about 2008 which grants all these companies immunity from prosecution by their users for "breaking the law" with the US Administration.
Well had I been President the US Administration would soon get butchered under abuse the law and lose your job. Maybe even violate the US Constitution or Bill of Rights in a serious way and get exiled.
Like in this case I would be so "I don't care shit about your technicalities when you DON'T SPY ON ALL PEOPLE".
Still the FBI/CIA could just deal with me like they did with JFK.
Repeal the Patriot Act and disband the NSA of course.
The Government only then needs to do two things. Keep a close eye on known terrorist groups then have a hotline where people can report anything suspicious that can be investigated.
Re: Had a think about it
Things are a lot more complex than that.
I have known people who just want maximum access to any and all media where they achieve this by pirating, hacking or buying what they can. They would want an all you can eat service at a fair price... but still want more.
Others just like the convenience, speed and quality of file sharing where once downloaded this new media slots in to their own personal media on demand system.
Then others prefer a try before they buy system. Their shelves of DVD, Blurays and CDs are already full with purchased media they rate as an AWESOME collection because they avoid crap media by sampling it first.
There are other reasons such as never wanting to fund the MAFIAA due to all the social harm they cause but I can offer one rare insight into piracy. This is that people are not immoral and corrupt where they know rights from wrongs and where if you talk to them they can offer very understandable motives even if you may not agree with their view.
At the end the day people's morals have been proved when pirates, with access to unlimited FREE media, are the BIGGEST SPENDERS on media.
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Good news indeed.
The Internet is under attack on a global front where no matter in which country they strike we should always stand shoulder to shoulder with our brothers and sisters to strike down such bad legislation.
We cannot allow the Internet to be harmed by those organization aiming to make a land-grab for control.
Doomed
Good words indeed. It is also good to hear more from James Firth from Slightly Right of Centre when he is more knowledgeable about the Digital Economy Act than any other journalist that I have seen.
There is no question now that the DEA in an official yet unspoken coma going nowhere quickly. They have already wasted around £5.8 million, many of the copyright side already saw it as the wrong answer early on, those that do want to use it insist on most of the scheme being funded by public tax funds, they stand to annoy hundreds of thousands of people, not to forget some innocent people being punished, Hadopi proves no economic gain where it could actually be harmful to media sales, the LSE report said the DEA offered 'the wrong balance', OFCOM prove that pirates spend more on media because they are more engaged, not to forget better educated with better paid jobs.
So there is simply no good news here where the only answer now is to shut down and to repeal the DEA before more millions are wasted.
I have always said the DEA was doomed where that is now without doubt.
Re: Re: And so it ends...
Damned system lost most of my posting so let me type it all again...
Yes we are deep in prohibition where the Government actively fights against the mass will of the population. Their attempts to maintain control become ever more desperate as the World changes around them.
The truth about streaming can be seen in the RojaDirecta case when after 3 strikes they are still not out. The DoJ losing against them in US Court sure removes the "willful" aspect in any US business that follows RojaDirecta's lawful streaming example.
So now they try anything to censor and to contain people sharing media. They obviously cannot win against public demand for long.
The World is soon to change. Most people realise that Copyright has gone too far where it needs to be curtailed to prevent such abuses. Evidence shows that sharing is not economically harmful so why try to stop people's chosen freedom to enjoy entertainment?
Nice
That was very nicely stated which covered all the main points we have mentioned. Had I been giving that speech I would have said much the same but a whole lot angrier along with a few choice rude words for those responsible.
About time someone said that where him and his mother are sure to make headlines.
Re: And so it ends...
Yes we are deep in prohibition where the Government actively fights against the mass will of the population. Their attempts to maintain control become ever more desperate as the World changes around them.
The truth about streaming can be seen in the
Feeble
I am sure even the MPAA are laughing at her. "Wow what a stupid woman" they all think.
Sure enough this case will soon crash and burn the moment it is pointed out in Court that Copyright Infringement is not actually Theft. As a result trial in state Court is therefore denied being a Federal law.
Still the MPAA would be happy when their goal is to destroy where this case well highlights how well their propaganda works to fool the weak minded.
California may well need a new Attorney General when Kamala Harris clearly does not know her laws. Her and VP Joe Biden now have something in common... lack of brain cells.
Caution
Keep in mind that Google played a large part in the downfall of SOPA being the only Tech company who could buy a seat at the table. Clearly back then they all of them blamed Google and not the 13 million public who voiced their protest.
So to avoid further disruption to their future anti-Internet proposed laws it is time for them to neuter or to kill Google.
DCMA take-down notices have shot through the roof since then when millions of links get censored monthly. In this modern World of punishing lawful linkage then both sides of the infringement fence are happy to declare Google as the King of Piracy even if for very different reasons.
So today the Copyright Cartels flex their power over the Administration by having an Attorney General attack Google with much more due.
All part of the downfall of Google who sits and takes it like some masochist. Most ironic in all this is that other search engines are much less censored
Re: troubling
When soldiers are ordered to butcher innocent villagers then they should refuse to obey. When Government officials violate the US Constitution and Bill of Rights as a matter of routine then they should be expose.
Simply following orders is never an excuse. To stay silent in a corrupt system makes you a part of that corruption.
I am quite sure though that he has violated national security laws, confidentiality agreements and a whole lot more to reveal these documents. Quite a brave man who simply wants the United States to be a better place.
Degrees of shame
Now we get to see how much Congress has sunk into this shit hole of Fourth Amendment violations.
We can all hope that Congress calls Edward Snowden before them in the Capital in a fully open meeting to question him about the abuses of the intelligence services.
Should they do so in a closed meeting then they want answers themselves while working on a pubic cover up.
Then should they not take up this opportunity then he would only be a traitor to them and who they would soon let Obama bury.
Re: Re: Re:
It is not about paranoia but about privacy and the ability to live your life in an anonymous way not tracked all the time by the Government.
The Fourth Amendment bans unreasonable search and seizures which means that the Government has no right to violate the privacy of your life until you are suspected of committing a crime.
The Government under fear of terrorism, or monsters in the dark, cannot remove these rights. Those who sacrifice privacy to obtain security soon end up with neither.
Also Congress is like a factory churning out new laws all the time in an unstoppable endless stream. No one on this planet can know all the laws totalling millions of pages. It is without question that people violate the laws as part of their daily life.
Just be thankful that the Government has no reason to abuse or to victimise you but that cannot be said for everyone.
A Theory
This Facebook news reminded me of an event that I moaned about months ago as I will now recall.
A large part of Facebook is obviously game play. Now lets say a popular person has 100 friends and starts up a new game where they discover the fact that on average 3 to 5 of their friends are already playing where they invite the 90+ others to gain 1 or 2 more.
So there you are with your 4 to 7 game neighbours where you soon discover the fact that after 2 days of game play you can't advance the game more because you need 8, 10, 15, 20 and even as high as 30 neighbours. No matter how much you harass your friends you can't do this not to mention the neighbours you have are not very good anyway.
You resolve this problem by finding out the game chat page and all those people in the same situation screaming out ADD ME and wanting hard working neighbours.
Those that go this route can be BANNED BY FACEBOOK. No shit when add the wrong game friend and Facebook won't even let you see your home page without agreeing to their terms that states very clearly "You can only add friends that you PERSONALLY know"
Wait! What? Not even my mother can dictate who my friends are but Facebook can? For a first offence Facebook bans you adding new friends for 2 days.
As I am sure Facebook is aware of the game situation then "personally known" I am sure would kill almost every Facebook game there. I have gone this far and can go no further.
Then today we may now see the real reason. The NSA would indeed want everyone to be in the personal know. They want US users who connect to Middle East users to be part of a terrorist cell. Here is this US user having Arabic rants posted to his wall but he speaks no Arabic! Clear terrorist cell wastes days of NSA work only to find out that the one sole true link is that they water each other's crops!
Game play adds in much random linkage. The NSA do not like this hence the "people you personally know" rule.
Re: Re:
The only people who can bring this one to account is the Internet and the US Public.
You cannot trust any of the three branches of Government when these are the people who created and gained from these schemes.
I am also doubtful you can trust the mainstream US news services who could simply place this under national security.
Not so nice
The main problem is two fold in that they don't consider metadata to be protected by the Fourth Amendment and second is that the FISA Court is one for rubbing stamping the inclusion of everyone.
This extra server would also not be there to limit their access to data. This would be not unlike how MegaUpload handled the media cartels of full access to delete whatever they wanted. No delete on Facebook (normally) but indeed full access to rip metadata and details of connections. Facebook can then get on to business while ignoring this Governmental "rape box"
Damage
All I read about this is damage control. Such claims of having the NSA root though all their data can be economically very damaging for the tech companies involved.
The US Administration likes to have a plan for every eventually so here they are running their mandated damage avoidance plan in a scheme that is extremely carefully worded to remain legally truthful without revealing anything about the real truth.
You may notice that nowhere in their denial do they demand that the FBI/NSA should explain themselves. So just imagine the worst option possible and remain extremely skeptical.
Re: This is why our economy sucks
I have been saying that one for years myself when use any US service and you can be tracked.
Hopefully this will be a wake-up call where people abandon silicon valley companies in droves.
Re: Re: So, turnz owt I wuz rite about dat, as I habs been abowt ebbryfing else.
Google can say anything they want.
Remember that Congress passed a law in about 2008 which grants all these companies immunity from prosecution by their users for "breaking the law" with the US Administration.
Re: Oh Shit
I would more congratulate Twitter and other top communication companies who refused to allow backdoor access for the US Administration and others.
Re: Skills To Get The Job Differ From Skills To Successfully Perform
Well had I been President the US Administration would soon get butchered under abuse the law and lose your job. Maybe even violate the US Constitution or Bill of Rights in a serious way and get exiled.
Like in this case I would be so "I don't care shit about your technicalities when you DON'T SPY ON ALL PEOPLE".
Still the FBI/CIA could just deal with me like they did with JFK.
Do about it?
Repeal the Patriot Act and disband the NSA of course.
The Government only then needs to do two things. Keep a close eye on known terrorist groups then have a hotline where people can report anything suspicious that can be investigated.
Very targeted you will find.