"The government" has "no legitimate interest" in forgotten and abandoned checking accounts either, but the law is if you abandon a checking account that has money in it, after a fixed and known number of years, the balance reverts to the local state government.
The law exists in large part to remove the temptation of the banks to "lose" the account holder information and then take the money for themselves.
This seems the same sort of thing to me.
If the mechanical licensing process cannot identify and pay the copyright owner after 7 years, the money (and all interest that it has earned) reverts to, say, a split between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts.
If the NMPA fights that, that is direct proof on it's face of their malicious duplicity and intent to steal.
Strapping them down to gurneys and punching them in the face until they pass out, and then tasering them until their hearts stop, sounds fair and just to me.
If one begs for mercy, they can have a short drop with piano wire.
if Redflex (the red light camera company) had actually installed and operated their red light cameras such that decreasing accidents was the #1 goal, and making money from fines was #2, their cameras would now be installed on every major intersection in the US, they would be making billions of dollars, and would have a great statistic about how many lives they've saved that they could feel proud of.
But instead they put revenue as the #1 goal, and actually performing the service promised at #2. Now they are just making a handful of millions, their revenue is shrinking, and there is an excellent statistical case that they been killing people.
If I was an investor, I would be calling for the heads of their executive staff.
The *only* use case for the government to have the SSL/TLS master private keys is so they can eavesdrop on the resulting communication without even bothering with a warrant or subpoena.
Why would the Obama Justice department want to spy on your Google Searches in such a way that they don't want to send a subpoena to Google? Hmm?!
The only question of real import is: WHY HAVN'T WE HUNG THESE PEOPLE YET?
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"The government" has "no legitimate interest" in forgotten and abandoned checking accounts either, but the law is if you abandon a checking account that has money in it, after a fixed and known number of years, the balance reverts to the local state government. The law exists in large part to remove the temptation of the banks to "lose" the account holder information and then take the money for themselves. This seems the same sort of thing to me. If the mechanical licensing process cannot identify and pay the copyright owner after 7 years, the money (and all interest that it has earned) reverts to, say, a split between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. If the NMPA fights that, that is direct proof on it's face of their malicious duplicity and intent to steal.
I don't disagree with Techdirt editor often, but this time I do.
I'm sick to rage of political deplatforming, and I absolutely zero charity to extend to anyone who supports it.
I want this to pass. With teeth.
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In this particular case, "public domain" does not mean "not covered by copyrights or patents". It means "not a trade secret".
Neat trick, making both sides commit to what is not a trade secret
There is a neat trick here, too.
Once both sides have done this, neither one and nobody else gets to claim anything in these presentations as one of the "trade secrets".
Mormons
Nothing makes me as ashamed of the religion I was raised in as those two.
They are Mormons.
Kill them all.
Strapping them down to gurneys and punching them in the face until they pass out, and then tasering them until their hearts stop, sounds fair and just to me.
If one begs for mercy, they can have a short drop with piano wire.
An example of a stupid business decision
if Redflex (the red light camera company) had actually installed and operated their red light cameras such that decreasing accidents was the #1 goal, and making money from fines was #2, their cameras would now be installed on every major intersection in the US, they would be making billions of dollars, and would have a great statistic about how many lives they've saved that they could feel proud of.
But instead they put revenue as the #1 goal, and actually performing the service promised at #2. Now they are just making a handful of millions, their revenue is shrinking, and there is an excellent statistical case that they been killing people.
If I was an investor, I would be calling for the heads of their executive staff.
Why do they even need this?
The *only* use case for the government to have the SSL/TLS master private keys is so they can eavesdrop on the resulting communication without even bothering with a warrant or subpoena.
Why would the Obama Justice department want to spy on your Google Searches in such a way that they don't want to send a subpoena to Google? Hmm?!
The only question of real import is: WHY HAVN'T WE HUNG THESE PEOPLE YET?
Go read "In The Pipeline"
This was analyzed and firmly debunked over at the blog "In The Pipeline".