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• On the post: One Year Later, SOPA/PIPA Supporters Still Completely Ignore The Public

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2013 @ 04:41pm

  Re: From The Tough Shit Dept.

  "So you beat back SOPA and are ending up in much the same place, except the screws will continue to tighten and there's no judicial oversight. Nice work!!"
  
  There is the ability to throw class action lawsuits at the companies that have forced to do this.

• On the post: For Internet Freedom Day, Watch Aaron Swartz Explain How SOPA Was Stopped

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2013 @ 10:17am

  Re:

  With the rate of mental health issues in the world, these IP types should be really scared.
  
  Statistically speaking, one of these days, someone that was tormented the way Aaron Swartz was, will realize where the torment is coming from. They will then walk into the Oscars, ASCAP, MPAA, or RIAA and nuke the fuckers.
  
  After which, in an ideal world, this bullying by prosecutors will be made illegal. With the way US Govt works, more than likely, laws will be enacted against targeting content types instead.

• On the post: For Internet Freedom Day, Watch Aaron Swartz Explain How SOPA Was Stopped

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2013 @ 09:55am

  Re: Oh no!

  Is that a bad thing?

• On the post: Law Professor James Grimmelmann Explains How He Probably Violated The Same Laws As Aaron Swartz

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2013 @ 01:25pm

  Re:

  Stephen Heymann nice to see you could drop by.

• On the post: White House, Tiring of Death Stars And Deportation Requests, Ups 'We The People' Signature Threshold From 25,000 To 100,000

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2013 @ 01:11pm

  Re: Re:

  That lack of true response, and political BS answers is the reason for 4chan's involvement in the first place. I fully expect this to go i-nuclear and require 1,000,000 signatures by next year.

• On the post: Megaupload to DOJ: Misleading Semantics Aside, You Told Us You Were Investigating Infringing Files, So We Preserved Them

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2013 @ 10:29am

  Re:

  "Kim Dotcom is coming out of this never looking better. His image is vastly improved from when this whole case began."
  
  It is odd living in a nation run by a bunch of Forrest Gump wanna be's. If this was 10 years ago I would of asked if the DOJ was paid off by Kim Dotcom. Now I know it is just plain stupidity on the federal governments side.

• On the post: White House, Tiring of Death Stars And Deportation Requests, Ups 'We The People' Signature Threshold From 25,000 To 100,000

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2013 @ 01:09pm

  New petition idea.
  
  "Reset the threshold back to 25,000"

• On the post: How The FBI's Desire To Wiretap Every New Technology Makes Us Less Safe

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2013 @ 10:05am

  Re:

  "should we really give a damn to what they say?"
  
  What we should be asking is how soon they will be stopping their own Forrest Gump hacker plots?

• On the post: DOJ Responds To Megaupload's Accusations Of Misleading The Court… By Misleading The Court

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2013 @ 09:59am

  Re: Re:

  How often can the DOJ screw up before it become a matter that the public takes interest in?

• On the post: A Fitting Tribute For Aaron Swartz: Researchers Post Free PDFs Of Their Research Online

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2013 @ 09:54am

  Re: Re:

  We should push for world law that limits copyright to a certain number of years. Wow ... that is scary. Mickey Mouse in the public domain, in under ninety five thousand years.

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2013 @ 08:35am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "And if your overbearing speech impedes someone else's, it's no longer legal, is it?"
  
  That is a very liberal attitude, did someone disagree with your opinion?

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2013 @ 03:29am

  Re: Re:

  "hitting a fire alarm in a crowded building and causing several people to be trampled to death, and causing terror in many others is a form of TERROR ATTACK"
  
  Your argument is idiotic. Comparing blocking access and entry in to a building, and block access to the exits, are two different things.

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 10:47pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Actually, it is "How does one know that the secret interpretation of a law has been violated."

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 06:15am

  Re:

  Here are the issues with your argument. If a corporation does a DDoS attack they would get reamed by the public. Even if there was a hint that they had. That would lead to their failure in the end.
  
  Much like the current state of IP, patent, copyright law you would see people sniffing around and doing the "hate you, and you are going to fail" thing. It will only get worse as time goes by.

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 06:08am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I made the mistake of clicking submit instead of cancel.

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 06:05am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Dude got one for you ...
  
  http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/29/using-thermodynamics-100-year-old-technology-to-break-the-20-per-mwh-barrier/
  
  I thought you might get a kick out of it.

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 06:01am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You, yourself are being disingenuous by stating
  
  "1000 people trying to get into walmart at black friday opening is not the same as 1000 people showing up and blocking the door so no one else can get in"
  
  While there is intent on the later, and there is no intent on the former. What you have in reality, is a situation where, you are trying to relate door blockage to government controlling speech.
  
  The simple fact is that peoples speech is far more important than that of the governments or the governments ability to block free speech.

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 05:17am

  Re: Re: The solution to bad speech

  Muzzling government speech, and muzzling citizen speech, are two different issues. Shutting down a government site that spouts rhetoric, is different than shutting down a site that does random, currently unacceptable speech.
  
  You are black, you are white, you are something different in the eyes of someone else. For governments to say this is different than for an individual. People should remember this or repeat the horrors of the past.

• On the post: Time Warner's 'Conversation' Website Ditches All Comments; The Conversation Is Just Them To You

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 01:22am

  Re: Re: Not much to say.

  Truth be told I would be better off in my area with DSL. One third the cost and I only download upgrades and some Youtube videos.
  
  Someone should create a site. Am I better off with DSL? .com

• On the post: Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2013 @ 01:16am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Shouting so loud, that no one can hear you talking is an attack? Because, truth be told that is what a DDoS attack actually is.
  
  You may as well make doorways illegal. Only a few people can fit through them at a time. A thousand people trying to fit through at the same time is exactly the same thing.

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