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  • On the post: Details Show MIT Employees Gleefully Helped With Prosecution And Persecution Of Aaron Swartz

    Jay ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 09:06am

    Re:

    How do you break into an open network?

  • On the post: New Leaks Show NSA, GCHQ Infiltrating Private German Companies

    Jay ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 03:10pm

    Old sayings...

    Well, with friends like this...

  • On the post: Piracy Continues Killing The Movie Business To New Record Highs

    Jay ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2014 @ 03:32pm

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    Amateur and hobby film making does not replace the $1-6 million film that has been decimated.

    The decimated box office returns of Avengers and Harry Potter which the industry doesn't want to share...

    How is that the pirate's fault?

    Comparing some guy with a $1000 prosumer grade camera and a bunch of friends shooting on weekends in the neighborhood to a $1 million + film is a joke.

    They made some good movies

    More proof

    People make documentaries too

    The point is that movie making has been given to the masses and even a $50 movie can command a larger audience than when the gatekeeper model worked. There's plenty of options and they don't have to go through Hollywood to do it.

  • On the post: Anne Rice Battles Mean Anonymous Amazon Trolls, Ignores Fact Many Anonymous Users Add Great Value

    Jay ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2014 @ 09:40pm

    ばか。。。

    Dear Anne Rice...

    If you truly believe that anonymity will kill trollish behavior, kindly look into a sports or political thread.

    I can assure you that both are far more vitriolic than someone telling you to stop drinking blood like a parasite.

    Yours sincerely,
    Jay.

  • On the post: A Lesson in Stupid Moral Panics: The History Of Dungeons And Dragons Bans

    Jay ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2014 @ 11:03am

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    Through d&d, me and my friends got the chance to discuss the political backgrounds of our enemies, engage in the overthrow of dictators, fight or sign peace treaties with other nations, change our way of thinking based on an alignment of our choosing, and conform or bend rules to suit our purposes.

    You learned how to talk to people, male plans, analyze and criticize, or find loopholes and contradictions in how rules worked.

    And we were doing this before learning that those skills applied in the real world.

    That is the power of a game.

  • On the post: YouTube Finally Admits It Totally Screwed Up Rolling Out ContentID To Multi-Channel Networks; Trying To Improve Tools

    Jay ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 08:32pm

    RARE?!

    Finally, we are always on the lookout for abuse. Misuse of Content ID is extremely rare, but when it does happen we take it very seriously and investigate every claim.

    Your $50 million dollar system is not a fingerprint. It does not understand the rights of the public. It heavily favors corporations over the people. It is a system that people don't want and you aren't making it any easier for people to believe you.

    This is a system that hounds people about making money and hampers their own creativity. You have no escrow account to help people with copyright claims nor do you even care about when it screws you up since you make money and offshore it, ignoring taxes on it, screwing over your workers and screwing over your own workers by hiring them as temps. The contract workers get low pay while the engineers get the big bucks and that's okay?

    You expect after all of the stories about how they use other people, that Google cares enough about the Content ID and their false positives?

    As it stands, this is nothing more than the copyright regime similar to ASCAP which gives them revenue for doing nothing.

    And yet, instead of actual fixes, I'm to believe that Google will actually listen to people that are upset about the CPM rate? Upset about all of the changes that they've implemented without any feedback? Upset that Google can't take two minutes between making money to really think about solutions instead of creating artificial problems?

    Ugh...

  • On the post: Obama Still Asking FISA Court To Renew Bulk Phone Collection

    Jay ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2014 @ 11:14am

    Geez...

    Go home, Obama...

    You're drunk.

  • On the post: UK Court Says Information Stored Electronically Is Not 'Property'

    Jay ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 01:36pm

    Re: Secret Documents

    Actually, take that argument even further.

    The government is the reflection of its people. So the government's records are the public's.

    What Snowden did was release public documents from their long lasting archive, just like a librarian will archive books of historic merit.

    Even though the government is embarrassed, Snowden completed the job that they would not. And that makes it all the more telling that the people are the least informed on what their government is doing.

  • On the post: UK Court Says Information Stored Electronically Is Not 'Property'

    Jay ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 01:30pm

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    Weird... We tax bitcoins more than we tax stocks...

  • On the post: Innocence Of Muslims Actress Files Contempt Charges Against Google For Not Making Movie Completely Disappear Worldwide

    Jay ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2014 @ 09:04am

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    That's what I'm wondering...

    It seems to much like a Hollywood ploy and they've run done crazy schemes in the past when it comes to changing the law for their own proposes...

  • On the post: Musician Claims $5.2 BILLION In Damages In Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple, Amazon And CDBaby

    Jay ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2014 @ 01:03pm

    *sigh*

    Nice to know that the MPAA no longer have the monopoly on bad math in copyright...

  • On the post: We've Entered The Age Of 'Fiber To The Press Release'

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2014 @ 07:13am

    Re: look at what is messing up our current situation

    How about having a publicly owned internet which communities are responsible for?

    IE, exactly what mcinsand was taking about.

  • On the post: Bogus Comparison Between Detroit In 1990 And Silicon Valley In 2012

    Jay ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2014 @ 01:35pm

    Speaking of Detroit...

    Look at Detroit today, when the car companies left for China after their bailout, and tell me how a population of 2 million in the 70s went to 700K today, then talk to me about "job creation..."

  • On the post: Double Fine Unchains Game IP, Fans Work To Make The Game For Them

    Jay ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2014 @ 03:47pm

    The other side...

    The answer is that creation and collaboration are a natural part of the human psyche, and they're spurred on when the collaborating parties all treat one another like human beings. Meanwhile, Double Fine is already taking an interest in the project's success as an avenue to then release their own Bad Golf 3 game, should the project pan out. Everyone wins, all because nobody brought the legal hammer down to protect their intellectual property and managed to treat their fans like human beings.

    This undercuts Every. Last. Game company. Since the 90s. This also undercuts copyright law at its core.

    But just for those people that don't understand, let's pull up Square.

    Remember Square? How they hate their fans? That's been established for a number of years.

    How about EA?

    I can pull up a ton of companies that work against their modding community, work to make short term profits, and work against the public.

    Strong copyright is supposed to help them make more money but it turns a company against the public. You want to learn how to mod and make a game better? You have to ask permission and good luck with Square without expensive licensing.

    Hell, even Capcom has sat here and plagiarized their fanbase by doing the laziest thing possible.

    The point is that the rules don't really matter. What matters is how these publishers treat their fanbase and that's the issue here.

    Treat them like criminals and ignore them and watch the money go elsewhere. Treat them like they're your innovative fanbase and pay attention to what they want and watch the money flow.

    It's basically the Valve model and most of these companies coming from the 80s aren't adept at such a change in the digital era.

  • On the post: Warner Bros. Turns A Kickstarter Success Story Into A Flaming Mess With Proprietary Platforms And DRM

    Jay ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2014 @ 08:18am

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    On a side note, the Pirate Bay copy has excellent quality.

  • On the post: The Rebranding Of SOPA: Now Called 'Notice And Staydown'

    Jay ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2014 @ 01:35pm

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    The reason (as you would know if you actually understood these things) that the burden is on the rightsholder is because they're the only ones who can know if the work is actually infringing.

    I have to disagree with all of the evidence of infringement that has been shown to be far less distinctive than presented.

    The people that were supposed to know these things literally don't. But they've been given heavy leeway to complain and whine for their entitlements.

    We don't need that and it damages all forms of free speech to support such regimes.

    It may be time to rethink the concept of copyright.

  • On the post: The Rebranding Of SOPA: Now Called 'Notice And Staydown'

    Jay ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2014 @ 01:29pm

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    Politicians are corrupt.

    You know... I'm rather tired of blaming people as if that's going to solve the problem. This doesn't do anything to change the problems of copyright and censorship that have been occurring.

    Like all the other many many anti-competitive laws, our existing IP laws (95+ year copy protection lengths and retroactive extensions) are purely a product of corruption

    I think it's time to recognize that we have a systemic problem. It's a problem with copyright and it's only gotten worse over time.

    The corruption is copyright, not the people that have an incentive to pursue it.

    Politicians already know that these laws are bad for the public interest. The problem is that they are morally bankrupt and are looking after their own personal interests over the public interest.

    Ok, but let's flip this around... how do you get a politician to care about this in the positive if we're too busy villifying their very being?

    They don't care about stopping 'piracy' they don't want any competition at all.

    THIS is what we should be focusing on. THIS is where we fight to get these people out of power. So long as they have the ear of the politician and their wallets, they can make the rules. So fighting for competition to their regimes is what should be the focal point.

  • On the post: If You Want To Fix U.S. Broadband Competition, Start By Killing State-Level Protectionist Laws Written By Duopolists

    Jay ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2014 @ 07:15am

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    Ok, that makes sense.

  • On the post: If You Want To Fix U.S. Broadband Competition, Start By Killing State-Level Protectionist Laws Written By Duopolists

    Jay ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2014 @ 01:11pm

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    No, his argument relies on dealing with the government as if it's an enemy of the people.

    That's pretty dangerous when you set up the public as antagonistic to the government. There certainly is a pressure to having the government bend to your will, but that requires a push from the people to prevent them from only hearing to people with the most money.

  • On the post: If You Want To Fix U.S. Broadband Competition, Start By Killing State-Level Protectionist Laws Written By Duopolists

    Jay ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2014 @ 08:59am

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    " Now that the government owns and controls the entire infrastructure (since government money was used to build it,) then the government can open it up to anyone who wishes to pay to connect to and provide infrastructure support. Problem solved."

    Uhm... It was made with taxpayer dollars, yes... But it ignores how private parties are trying to keep it private to maximize revenue to themselves.

    The solution would be to take it out of the hands of the private market or ensure the public has access to it via government/worker control.

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