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  • On the post: Arkansas Politician Introduces Bill To Make It Illegal For Social Media Companies To Block Content He Likes

    Gwiz ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2018 @ 02:06pm

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    @Mark Atwood - I would like to apologize for our resident village idiot who thinks that if you don't comment on a regular basis you're astroturfing. I also believe he thinks the dust bunnies under his couch are a Google plot to take over his thoughts. Dissenting views are always welcome here as long as they are respectful. Most here believe in countering speech they disagree with their own speech, but have little tolerance for ranting fools who keep repeating the same stupid stuff over and over no matter how many times they are rebutted.

  • On the post: The FBI Is Now Looking Into Those Bogus Net Neutrality Comments

    Gwiz ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2018 @ 11:00am

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    Oh man. This is frickin' hilarious. Pure comedy gold. Blue is trying to deflect away from himself by claiming the words "Blue" and "out_of_the_blue" refers to the First/Last Words. Too funny. And by the way, I'm pretty sure it was Blue's comment up there based on the phrase "You see those only rarely because universally reviled." He tends to leave out the common expletives that most people use trying to sound superior or something. Most people would write the sentence like this: "You see those only rarely because it is universally reviled."

  • On the post: Legacy Copyright Industries Lobbying Hard For EU Copyright Directive… While Pretending That Only Google Is Lobbying

    Gwiz ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 12:38pm

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    Lol. I figured there are at least some people that didn't create, you know, small infants, people in vegetative states, music industry executives, etc.

  • On the post: Legacy Copyright Industries Lobbying Hard For EU Copyright Directive… While Pretending That Only Google Is Lobbying

    Gwiz ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 10:31am

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    It's a losing argument from losers who create nothing and who steal from those who do.
    Could you please provide a venn diagram of "those who create nothing", "those who infringe copyright" and "those who create". The way I see it, "those who create nothing" will be minuscule, "those who create" will be pretty much everyone and "those who infringe copyright" will be a small subset of both groups as long as we are talking about willful copyright infringement. If we are talking about everyday ordinary incidental copyright infringement (like using someone's else art as your Techdirt avatar) then that would encompass pretty much everyone also.

  • On the post: While Everyone's Busy, Hollywood & Record Labels Suggest Congress Bring Back SOPA

    Gwiz ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 09:03am

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    I find it very disingenuous of you to use a quote, out of context, from a very lengthy thread where Karl, I and others were discussing copyright, natural rights and property rights and how they intersect to prove.....well...I really don't know WHAT you were trying to prove. Also, I don't believe you've ever addressed your own disconnect between your pre-1900 view of "common law" property rights and the fact that copyright violates those principles by extending rights to the original owner AFTER the transfer of ownership.

  • On the post: While Everyone's Busy, Hollywood & Record Labels Suggest Congress Bring Back SOPA

    Gwiz ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 08:49am

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    Gwiz ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 08:16am

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    I see you quoted my words*, but failed to actually rebut them beyond "There can be no quarter given to those with THAT view...". That's not a cogent argument whatsoever.   *By the way, isn't it convenient that you can see what I've said in the past, unlike you, who attempts to hide behind various monikers as to not be accountable for your own words. Seems pretty cowardly to me.

  • On the post: Federal Courts Aren't ATMs, Angry Judge Reminds Copyright Troll

    Gwiz ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2018 @ 05:38pm

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    Copyright cases (criminal or civil) should have the same "starting point." The preponderance-of-evidence standard should prevail here.
    Ummm, you are comparing apples to airplanes here. The original question referred to a threat to the President in which case law enforcement would be vigorously investigating the location, and you know, have boots on the ground, asking questions and chasing leads, etc. (ie: "real police work"). Are you suggesting, that we as society, should expend those resources chasing down copyright infringement (which is mostly a civil matter between private entities) or are you suggesting that those filing infringment lawsuits should? Please clarify.

  • On the post: Federal Courts Aren't ATMs, Angry Judge Reminds Copyright Troll

    Gwiz ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2018 @ 02:29pm

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    ...because BitTorrent won't allow the goose to be killed (by secretly wiping those downloads out and assisting in prosecution)...
    In addition to what others have pointed out concerning BitTorrent being a protocol, not a service, I would like to add that attempts to "control" file sharing via BitTorrent have already been attempted. The powers that be started attacking BitTorrent tracking sites and as a result we now have completely decentralized tracking via the DHT protocols.

  • On the post: Federal Courts Aren't ATMs, Angry Judge Reminds Copyright Troll

    Gwiz ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2018 @ 02:19pm

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    Would "IP is not identity" work if someone threatened the President?
    It would give the Secret Service a place to start, but they would still have to do real police work to determine the actual person, especially if this IP address was a Tim Horton's or some other open WiFi hotspot.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    Gwiz ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2018 @ 02:08pm

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    Personally I think it's hilarious that Blue thinks being noticed for consistently being the most incorrect, incoherent and obnoxious commenter that Techdirt has ever seen is a good thing.

  • On the post: Indiana Police Chief Promoting As Many Bad Cops As He Can To Supervisory Positions

    Gwiz ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2018 @ 04:53pm

    LEO Malpractice Insurance

    This article reinforces the idea of requiring law enforcement to have professional liability insurance, in my mind.

    Doctors, who also have stressful occupations and make life and death decisions, are required to have malpractice insurance, why not cops?

    As long as this insurance was paid from the officer's pocket, it would create a win-win situation. If the insurance company (insurance companies are pretty good at risk management) deemed an officer to be high-risk, his insurance premium would increase until he couldn't afford it and he would become unemployable. It would also reduce the huge liability currently being placed on municipalities for officer misconduct.

    The one drawback I see is the risk that policing will become dictated by the insurance companies (like health insurance is). We would have to put in measures at the ground level to prevent that.

  • On the post: Indiana Police Chief Promoting As Many Bad Cops As He Can To Supervisory Positions

    Gwiz ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2018 @ 02:00pm

    Change starts at the stop...

    Is that a Freudian slip there?

  • On the post: The TV Sector's Latest Bad Idea: Ads That Play When You Press Pause

    Gwiz ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2018 @ 08:31am

    I have already noticed something similar on my Verizon Android phone. There is an really annoying app named "Peel Remote" that was a factory install on my phone that I cannot completely remove (as far as I have determined) unless I root my phone. Every couple of days it gets automatically updated from the Play Store and starts showing annoying ads on my "swipe to unlock" screen. I have to manually go into Play Store and remove the updates to make it stop.

  • On the post: The TV Sector's Latest Bad Idea: Ads That Play When You Press Pause

    Gwiz ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2018 @ 01:14pm

    I certainly hope that these ads do not have sound.

    I pause my DirecTV to answer the phone for two reasons: to keep where I left off in the show and to mute the sound. I don't want to be forced to hit two buttons before answering a call.

  • On the post: Latest On EU Copyright Directive: No One's Happy With Article 13, So Maybe Let's Drop It?

    Gwiz ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2018 @ 12:53pm

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    How does the claimant prove ownership of the work being claimed, other than being the first to upload the complete work.
    Not really sure to be truthful. I would guess the same way that it was when copyright required registration. Don't release the work until registered. In regards to the mess we've created between 1978 and now with automatic copyright I haven't a clue. I was thinking in terms of going forward into the future, really.

  • On the post: Tumblr's New 'No Sex' Rules Show The Problems Of FOSTA And EU Copyright Directive In One Easy Move

    Gwiz ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2018 @ 11:36am

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    BUT YOU COMPLAIN when what's forbidden is well within traditional limitations...
    Do you even know what year it is? Because it's not the 1950's anymore and traditions have changed drastically since then. If we go by the traditions of 40 years ago, we should all be having sex with as many people as possible and gyrating our scantily clad bodies at discotheques while snorting lines of coke off the table.  
    ...widely accepted as "not safe for work".
    That is not any sort barometer for this. What people do at work and what people do in the privacy of their own homes are completely different things.

  • On the post: Latest On EU Copyright Directive: No One's Happy With Article 13, So Maybe Let's Drop It?

    Gwiz ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2018 @ 05:24pm

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    With today's technology I don't understand WHY we don't have a national copyright repository. It could be as simple as filling out a form on a cellphone app and centralized database. Most of the excuses that were argued in the 70's for not registering copyrights have now become outdated.

  • On the post: Latest On EU Copyright Directive: No One's Happy With Article 13, So Maybe Let's Drop It?

    Gwiz ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2018 @ 05:08pm

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    Not necessarily reading comprehension failure, but definitely a lack of knowledge about what words mean:
    Fair enough. I was trying to convey that rights granted by copyright are far less important rights than our inalienable rights or the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and you did a much better job of that than me. Thank you.

  • On the post: Latest On EU Copyright Directive: No One's Happy With Article 13, So Maybe Let's Drop It?

    Gwiz ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2018 @ 12:22pm

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    The deal is that people can rely on having an EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to control copies of what they make, that's why is directly in US Constitution. And YES, it's a RIGHT, not an optional "grant" from Congress. -- It's definitely entrenched in the body of Western law as a Right even if not explicit enough for you pirates.
    Reading comprehension failure, as usual. Here is the Copyright Clause:
    Congress shall have power...To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
    This is an enumerated power given to Congress along with the guidelines on how to achieve it. The "exclusive right" that is talked about is a statutory right granted by Congress and can be changed or revoked at any time by Congress. While it's true copyright is a legal right, it is nowhere near the inalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence (which government cannot revoke) or the rights listed in the Bill of Rights (which cannot be changed without adding additional Amendments).

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