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  • On the post: Turns Out The One 'Good' Change In CFAA Reform… May Actually Be Bad Too

    Jay ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2013 @ 08:15pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The point here...

    " Whose fault is that? Do you vote? Do you campaign for your candidate? Do you donate money to your candidate's campaign? Do you run for office yourself? Have you ever visited your representative's district office? Written a letter? Made a phone call?"

    Yes to all. Your stunt with SOPA made me want to get involved with politics and ensure people like you won't be in charge of what our government does.

    " They're in Congressional offices every day."

    Right, but why aren't they allowed onto the same policy circles as the industries that should be regulated?

    Oh, right... You don't want them to be... Fancy that.

    " As near as I can tell,?you?don't do shit; other than snivel into the Techdirt echo chamber."

    Heh, I don't spend all day on TD and there is plenty to do that ensures you won't win. But keep trying the derisive tactics. I'm sure those will work eventually.

    " The truth is that the game is already over, and you never set foot on the field."

    Nah, that game isn't over until the public wins. Game on.

  • On the post: Turns Out The One 'Good' Change In CFAA Reform… May Actually Be Bad Too

    Jay ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2013 @ 03:53pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: The point here...

    " addition to having an elected official representing them,"

    Nope. Congressional approval is at 9% because people know that Congress doesn't represent them or their interests. Of they did, you would have more discussions and debate about these issues and more laws to protect the public, not criminalize them.

    " there are a number of so-called, public interest groups raising many of the same issues Masnick and others are sniveling about.?"

    Those same public interests that are shut out of discussions on copyright because you want more maximalism? Ok...

    " Don't come here crying about your view not being heard, it is.?"

    And I'll make sure that Aaron's law is passed over what you want. Get used to it.

  • On the post: Turns Out The One 'Good' Change In CFAA Reform… May Actually Be Bad Too

    Jay ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2013 @ 12:54pm

    Re: Re: The point here...

    Did you miss how the movie and music industry want these people to not protect their access to culture and information?

  • On the post: Turns Out The One 'Good' Change In CFAA Reform… May Actually Be Bad Too

    Jay ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2013 @ 10:08am

    The point here...

    So we know the "trick" here is to create a massive bill that has everything that the industries want with no dialogue from the public. Make it so that it's so unbearable that the bill with what they really want is the one that gets passed.

    But the rub in copyright is that this mercantilist attitude has already hit a massive extreme in terms of their control. What they learned quickly was that DNS is a no-no in terms of breaking the internet and how it would operate on a massive scale while still not preventing piracy.

    This takes away that layer but they're bound to continue to pursue these options. In this, we see the dirtiest word in politics... "Compromise"

    With compromise, the US became a Constitution. We allowed slavery (ie cheap labor) while professing that "all men are created equal".

    The US allowed copyright monopolies on certain items. Now the system is a corporate maximalist's dream job in destroying basic human rights by allowing corporations to snoop into your private life just to see if you paid for a movie.

    We've allowed an aristocratic republic to form over the democratic ideals we enjoyed for more than 2 centuries. And now, corporations want to reinstitute the very same type of monarchy that the American Revolution was fought against... Kind of sad that we've lost our democracy while corporations continue to push politicians away from what the public wants.

  • On the post: Crazy Idea Of The Month: Allowing Patents On Mathematics

    Jay ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2013 @ 06:52am

    I can see out now...

    Just to point out the idiocy here, the very reason for the calculus wars was the fact that Newton was an a-hole. He didn't like that someone else was smarter than him to create calculus and used his position to constantly berate anyone that agreed with his competition.

    But if he could have patented math for the calculus equations he kept in his drawer, I'm sure he would have. He would have also claimed that only he knew how derivatives worked.

    Honestly, Newton isn't getting any richer off his discoveries. Why should anyone else get rich off of patenting math?

  • On the post: Sega Offers Half-Hearted Non-Apology For Massive Youtube Takedown; Promises Not To Do It Again (With Caveats)

    Jay ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2013 @ 12:52pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: How will this work in once PS4 launches?

    Bleh... Zelda is the same story over and over...

    Further, I've failed to catch on to how lazy Nintendo storytelling truly is. The only real storyteller was Shigesato Itoi and he's "retired", allowing the public to work on Mother 4.

    The best thing you could do is honestly not buy any of the gaming consoles for these reasons:

    Sony is horrible against tinkerers (remember their lawsuit against Geohot?)

    Microsoft wants to end digital gaming by not allowing any used games to be played on their console (dumb move btw)

    Nintendo has a weird relationship with social gaming by just pretending it doesn't exist. Oh, and copyright laws.

    I just honestly prefer the PC but that's my own reason for enjoying an open system that is much better than consoles can offer now without being a PC.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Learning A Foreign Language

    Jay ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2013 @ 06:13pm

    Ok, Japanese is not the hardest language for westerners.

    That would be Arabic. Although Japanese is really difficult as well, I'll admit. It takes a lot to learn both languages and having at least four years of Japanese, I can say that it is rather difficult to even read the news when you barely know enough kanji from the papers.

  • On the post: Copyright Lobby: The Public Has 'No Place In Policy Discussions'

    Jay ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2013 @ 10:49am

    Re: Let's not forget outsourcing...

    ... Can you post that link? I'm reapply interested in that...

  • On the post: Sega Offers Half-Hearted Non-Apology For Massive Youtube Takedown; Promises Not To Do It Again (With Caveats)

    Jay ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2013 @ 10:44am

    Re: Re: How will this work in once PS4 launches?

    Why do you want a game console anyway? At present, the best option is a PC or Linux computer. The update of graphics or sharing pales compared to whatyou can do with Steam and Raspberry Pi.

  • On the post: Jim Harper's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Jay ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2013 @ 01:53pm

    " It's not that all members of Congress are gomers. They and their staffs are very smart, very dedicated people. But they haven't got the knowledge to organize a society as large, diverse, and open as ours.Mike says at the end that we need better politicians. There are better, but the system that runs society better than we could ourselves? It does not exist."

    So how exactly do we get smarter politicians if the people aren't represented by them in the first place?

    We have gerrymandered districts, bribery of politicians, a perpetual crunch of money raising, and few times for pols to listen to constituents. I can't feel that it's horribly naive to ignore how people need to be active in politics and have avoice that is not present in our current system.

  • On the post: Leaked! MPAA Talking Points On Copyright Reform: Copyright Is Awesome For Everyone!

    Jay ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2013 @ 12:10pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    I'm sorry, were you at the Constitutional Convention? The Founders were not there and the Framers were different people altogether.

    Further, copyright want a big issue because it was small, only covering a few books and maps while not covering everything under the sun. Also, the big issue of the day was slavery.

    So how does your blanket support for what the Framers were doing square away with the fact that very few people thought that a lot of things in the 1700s needed copyright?

  • On the post: Leaked! MPAA Talking Points On Copyright Reform: Copyright Is Awesome For Everyone!

    Jay ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2013 @ 12:05pm

    .Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    So follow that logic...

    How has copyright promoted progress by taking down material and speech?

  • On the post: Digital Camera Review Taken Down By A Botched DMCA Notice That Makes Claims Of Trademark Infringement

    Jay ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2013 @ 01:56pm

    Now I know what camera not to buy...

  • On the post: Rep. Gohmert's Record For Stunning Technological Ignorance Is Broken By… Rep. Gohmert

    Jay ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 01:48pm

    Re: He's from Texas...

    ahem

    Let's lay off the Texas jokes a bit? Some of us are trying to fix it but we run onto a problem of propaganda and ignorance over good government.

  • On the post: Live Video: Cory Doctorow Talking With Techdirt About Pirate Cinema, Copyright Law & More

    Jay ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 11:10am

    Re: Defining the internet?

    The internet is not a global plaza... It's a global democracy. That's a key issue in how to describe this phenomenon.

    Look at the amount of disruption that the internet unlocks. You cab learn about history, discover new entertainment, or decide to run a digital store with little overhead if need be.

    You can travel to Italy, learn Latin, or work to archive the internet.

    It's one of the most terrifying things for secret governments and one of the must enlightening things for those that believe in new ways of moving the world progressively forward.

    And it all starts with access to this vast community of people with varying views.

  • On the post: MIT And Aaron Swartz's Lawyers Argue Over Releasing Evidence

    Jay ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2013 @ 12:13pm

    One thing is certain...

    Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...

    How this has blown up in the face of the government is considerable and having Aaron's girlfriend/fiancee leading the charge against government overreach is very poignant in a way...

    I just find it amazing how she has made these people in positions of power look foolish with nothing more than words and showing how their actions were misleading and used to destroy Aaron's life.

    That is a heat I would never want to have to take...

  • On the post: Rep. Gohmert Wants A Law That Allows Victims To Destroy The Computers Of People Who Hacked Them

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2013 @ 09:25am

    Re: Re: Gohmert the unbearable

    ... Do you have any idea how much unnecessary pain and suffering that would cause?

  • On the post: Rep. Gohmert Wants A Law That Allows Victims To Destroy The Computers Of People Who Hacked Them

    Jay ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2013 @ 06:31am

    Gohmert the unbearable

    Let's see...

    This is the same guy that wants to lock up journalists, shut down the government, stop the government from spending money on its citizens, keep taxes lowered ok the richest people, believes in gerrymandered districts over democratic rights of the people, denies climate change based on his bribes from the oil industry, and his overall morality is atrocious when it's based on being a self-centered power hungry mad man who treats the public like serfs and peasants instead of people with valid concerns.

    Have I missed anything or does anyone else see the problem with these people in office supporting the worst representation of American culture?

  • On the post: More Details On Copyright Register Maria Pallante's Call For Comprehensive, 'Forward-Thinking, But Flexible' Copyright Reform

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 03:37pm

    Re: Re: Re: Keep out of the Safe Harbors

    No. We had a lot of technology support with SOPA. The public had to appeal out with public interest groups such as KEI & EFF. We need more people to shout down the mercantilist ways of Hollywood and recognize that they don't represent the interests of the rest of the world. They don't have a good distribution model, their movies are repeats, people are producing and making money without them, and they are locking up our culture for their private profit.

    The way to change that is to fight them directly and in the courts for people's fair use rights which they've scuttled with their insistence on DMCA takedowns, statutory damages, and destroying lives of people that try to archive or make information available.

    It's going to be a hard fought battle and it has to be fought on multiple fronts. Until better alternatives come up, these are the options available.

  • On the post: Join The Conversation On Keeping International Agreements From Restricting Internet Freedom

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 12:04pm

    Re: Re: Governments aren't unwilling to censor, Mike.

    He's right. Google in '07 linked up with the NSA and won't disclose that relationship.

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