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• On the post: Study Shows Anti-Piracy Ads Often Made People Pirate More

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2022 @ 01:37pm

  No such thing as bad publicity

  I'm not surprised, since the best solutions make me forget that piracy is an option. In this case, the industry starting running ads for it!

• On the post: Verizon Gives OAN The Axe, Upsetting The Six People Who Still Watch The Channel

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2022 @ 05:21pm

  Show Verizon you mean business

  Maybe this will make Congress so mad that they'll confirm an FCC commissioner. That'll show them - go get 'em fellas!

• On the post: One Way To Lose Judicial Immunity: Perform Impromptu Warrantless Searches Of People’s Houses

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2022 @ 10:33am

  Judge Derpp

  Judge Derpp.

• On the post: The Pile On Blaming Video Games For Texas Shooting Begins

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2022 @ 06:39pm

  You'd think that folks who are worried about having real guns be taken away wouldn't be so quick to call for taking away virtual ones, but here we are, having watched it happen for three decades...

• On the post: Netflix’s Effort To Thwart Password Sharing Is Already A Bit Of A Mess

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2022 @ 07:51am

  That seems like a reasonable guess about how that might work, and if they provided an explanation like that, it might help. As it stands, it's pretty close to "you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide." So weird that people aren't cool with that...

• On the post: Netflix’s Effort To Thwart Password Sharing Is Already A Bit Of A Mess

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2022 @ 07:29am

  Might be better for my bottom line

  Getting flagged for password sharing when I'm not and getting dinged with a new fee would be a pretty big middle finger, so it got me thinking: what will I might miss about Netflix if that happens and I want to rage quit? And that got me thinking: why am I paying for Netflix now?

• On the post: New Washington Law Requires Home Sellers Disclose Lack Of Broadband Access

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2022 @ 04:59pm

  Targets of the law

  Can we have law that holds ISPs liable for misstating broadband coverage?

  Legislature: No

  Ok... can we have a law that requires consumers to disclose broadband availability to each other, and holds real estate sellers liable for misstating broadband coverage?

  Legislature: This is fine

  Kinda shows who they're afraid of, huh?

• On the post: South Korean ISP Somehow Thinks Netflix Owes It Money Because Squid Game Is Popular

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2021 @ 01:58pm

  Video conferencing

  Do they somehow not have video conferencing in South Korea? If having everyone watch prerecorded video that can tolerate some buffering brings their ISPs' networks down, it's gonna blow their minds when remote workers fire up a flurry of real time videos feeds at roughly the same time at the start of the work day...

• On the post: Supreme Court Asked To Firmly Establish A First Amendment Right To Record Police Officers

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2021 @ 10:04pm

  Is there a valid case for deleting videos?

  One thing that continues to confuse me in cases like this: why would officers ever think that deleting a video is the right thing to do?

  If making the video is not a crime, and the content of the video isn't illegal, it's nothing more than destroying someone else's data. Would a reasonable officer really think it's ok to confiscate a device and arbitrarily delete content on it?

  Perhaps they tried to delete it because they thought (correctly or not) that some aspect of either making or possessing the recording was a crime. But, if so, wouldn't that be deliberate destruction of evidence? Reasonable officers know that destroying evidence isn't ok - that's a big part of what exigent circumstances are all about.

  I too would like to hear this argued before the Supreme Court - clearly I'm missing something...

• On the post: Washington Post Runs Bizarrely Ignorant Opinion Piece Claiming Florida's Content Moderation Law Is Constitutional

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2021 @ 10:57am

  The question

  "The question of compelled speech is also unconvincing"

  Social media companies don't want to host this stuff, but the government is telling them they have to.

  I guess the "question" is: how is that not compelled speech?

• On the post: Another Section 230 Reform Bill: Dangerous Algorithms Bill Threatens Speech

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2020 @ 09:33pm

  Dangerous Algorithms

  Been spendin' most their lives,
  Livin' in the tweeter's paradise

• On the post: Indiana Cities File Doomed Lawsuit Against Disney, Netflix, Demand 5% of Gross Revenues

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2020 @ 09:24am

  Declaration

  Unless these cities have a contract/agreement with these streaming companies, it sounds like they're just loudly and publicly declaring that these companies should give them money.

  I guess I've never tried that myself to see if it works. Maybe later, preferably when my neighbor isn't using the garden hose

• On the post: Facial Recognition Software Finally Gets Around To Getting An Innocent Person Arrested

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2020 @ 01:06pm

  Training and Experience

  Shouldn't the officers' "training and Experience" told them that shoplifters often commit more that one crime? That would've lead them to check on thefts from other retailers to try to establish a pattern. Wouldn't they have known that the thieves frequently sell or trade stolen merchandise? That might have meant that they would have tried to track down the stolen goods to see where they came from.

  This just seems like lazy investigative work, and it feels negligent too, since an innocent person payed a price

• On the post: Uh Oh: FBI Serves Search Warrant On Senator Richard Burr, Seizes His Phone

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 14 May, 2020 @ 10:29am

  Encryption

  He promptly unlocked his phone and removed the passcode upon upon being asked for it by law enforcement I trust?

• On the post: SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2020 @ 04:28pm

  Re: Martial Law

  Instead, may I suggest that we start naming certain bodily functions after the people responsible for filling this? Think it over while I take a quick Chu...

• On the post: Attempt To Put Every Musical Melody Into The Public Domain Demonstrates Craziness Of Modern Copyright

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2020 @ 04:45pm

  Monkeys and typewriters

  Certain folks are going to be mad about how this affects the monkey and typewriter industries...

• On the post: Cy Vance Is So Sure Encryption Is Pure Evil He Thinks Over-The-Air Software Updates Are Just Encryption Backdoors Apple Won't Tell Him About

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2020 @ 10:34am

  Uploads

  When he brings up software updates - is he asking phone makers to add a feature that uploads all of your data from your encrypted phone to a remote server? I think that's already a thing...

  Maybe it's just too much work for him to learn about it and figure out how it works for law enforcement.

• On the post: George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue Is In The Public Domain And Gerswhin's Nephew Is Worried Someone Might Turn It Into Hip Hop

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2020 @ 05:36pm

  Re:

  So, I just pulled up "Summertime" on YouTube and started beatboxing to it. I don't want to alarm anyone, but it just... worked. YouTube didn't crash, my phone didn't catch on fire, nothing. I was assured that copyright could prevent this. Maybe I have powers.

• On the post: Insanity (AKA Copyright Statutory Damages) Rules: Cox Hit With $1 Billion (With A B) Jury Verdict For Failing To Magically Stop Piracy

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2019 @ 11:42am

  Damages

  Even Equifax wasn't on the hook for a billion dollars. I don't know which 10,017 works were shared, but apparently they're worth more than our social security numbers and credit card numbers

• On the post: Retrospective: As Sony Clearly Wins This Generation's Console Wars, Let's Recall How It All Began

  

  dan8mx ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2019 @ 04:40pm

  30 Years

  Thirty year war?

  (Although in fairness, the last four years have definitely felt more like sixteen)