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• On the post: The Future Of Journalism Doesn't Have A Head Office

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2012 @ 07:07am

  Re: Re: Re: Redundant

  Marcus's article does seems a bit rushed. But you can not expect every article to be a full blown analysis of the future trends of journalism. This one simply points you in the direction of an article, and gives commentary about how the reporter doesn't see whats happening online.
  
  Blogs, social media, general news sites, RSS feeds, email, Reddit like sites, all have a role to play in the future of journalism.

• On the post: The Future Of Journalism Doesn't Have A Head Office

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2012 @ 06:57am

  Re: Re: Redundant

  You are wrong. Journalism will come in many forms. Techdirt is a single (used loosely) topic news site based around IP issues. Specialized blogs are becoming more important as time goes by. I follow about 20 single topic blogs, 5 or 6 general blogs-news sites via RSS, and get things of interesting through FaceBook and Google+.
  
  The future of news is , news you trust, the topics you want, when you want them. Mike has been balls accurate on IP issues which is why I come back. My only complaint is his titles read like they are from a tabloid.

• On the post: Obama Administration: ACTA Is Binding & Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Heads About TPP

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2012 @ 06:37am

  Re: Re:

  "How long until society collapses again?"
  
  3 months after martial law is declared in the US and the military takes to the streets. The majority of the soldiers of the US are in the age range of heavy internet users. The same age range as the SOPA-PIPA-ACTA protesters. While the majority of soldiers are not heavy social media types. Think of the wives, cousins, and siblings who are.

• On the post: Danish Trade Minister Apologizes For Using Bogus Industry Numbers To Support Pro-ACTA Argument

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2012 @ 01:41pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: They Do Not Even See the Freight Train Coming at Them

  Some of it does overlap, the majority of the agendas however do not. Big content is asking the wrong questions, making assumptions, fighting phantoms, and generally wasting the time they have left doing it. They are creating their agendas based on numbers created for lobbying firms.

• On the post: Workshop Audience Barred From 'Demonstrating' Approval Of Michael Geist's ACTA Takedown

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2012 @ 01:31pm

  Re: Nominations

  I vote Aye, and argh!
  
  Lets also send him an eye patch, a peg leg, and a parrot.

• On the post: Chris Dodd: The Internet Developed Because Of Strict Copyright Enforcement

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2012 @ 10:23am

  Mike you are a traitor!

  Please stop running articles like this!! I and the 15 million people who took up the protest against SOPA and PIPA are trying to keep this secret. ;)

• On the post: Danish Trade Minister Apologizes For Using Bogus Industry Numbers To Support Pro-ACTA Argument

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2012 @ 10:13am

  Re: Re: They Do Not Even See the Freight Train Coming at Them

  "That's what Hollywood fears. They want to be the gatekeeper to efficient distribution."
  
  The entire content industry is conflicted. You have to many organizations, with to many hands in the pie. On top of that you have the middlemen to the middlemen, the **AA's, who have their own agenda's which are different than those of the studios, distributors, and licencing agencies. Fixing a single agenda to the entire industry is impossible.
  
  To understand them you have to picture them as an old money trust fund baby having a fit, striking out at anything that will actually make them do work or change.

• On the post: UK ISPs Lose Their Challenge To The Digital Economy Act; Entertainment Industry Responds Condescendingly

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2012 @ 06:26am

  Re: Utility Companies

  Truth be told, that is what they are already doing, plunging people into educational and communications darkness.

• On the post: RIAA Still Doesn't Get It: Hopes SOPA Opposition Was A 'One-Time Experience'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 12:55pm

  "but that everybody has a responsibility to be accurate and really factual about what the legislation provides."
  
  I spit my gum out on that one. This from one of the biggest liars on the planet.

• On the post: File Sharing Moves En Masse To The Darknet; Good Luck Shutting That Down

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 12:39pm

  Re: Re: This is critical -

  Your making a ford joke aren't you?
  
  In which yes I would...

• On the post: The Details On How To Elect Futurama's Bender To Whatever Election Is Using Online Voting

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 08:13am

  Re: From the paper

  "After about 3.5 hours using the cracker?s default settings, we recovered the secondary administrator password cisco123 from a salted MD5 hash."
  
  They should have just Googled the hash it would have been quicker than waiting 3.5 hours. Google the worlds largest rainbow table.

• On the post: German Government Wants Google To Pay To Show News Snippets

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 06:57am

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  Between the greens and the pirate party you are going to see 20% over the next 2-3 years.

• On the post: File Sharing Moves En Masse To The Darknet; Good Luck Shutting That Down

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2012 @ 06:44am

  Re: Those who don't study history

  Agreed. Its funny everything is happening as you, I, and everyone here predicted. I can't wait for this encrypted distributed network to grow. The great thing is with everyone generating their own encryption keys this will be more secure than getting an SSL cert from verisign.
  
  The only possible law I can see the content types push for, would be one where you have to register every encryption key you use so you can be monitored online. Which would be unworkable on so many levels.

• On the post: Why Search Engines Can't Just 'Fix' Search Results The Way The MPAA/RIAA Want

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 11:05am

  The only solution I can think of is Magic Fairy Dust.

• On the post: UK Government Pressuring Search Engines To Censor Results In Favor Of Copyright Industries

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 11:10am

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  Lets create a petition for Google to do a week of no searching for big contents products. No music, news, movies, TV stations, etc.
  
  "We petition Google to remove all listings to any content owned by the following companies ... for the period of one week. Allowing only those links explicitly provided in advance by the content owners to appear in search terms. Proof of ownership required."

• On the post: UK Government Pressuring Search Engines To Censor Results In Favor Of Copyright Industries

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 10:59am

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  You also have the issue of totally open and uncensored distributed search engines. Which if used by a substantial portion of the internet would wipe out any chance of web censorship.

• On the post: Chipping Away At The First Amendment: New 'Trespassing' Bill Could Be Used To Criminalize Legitimate Protests

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 10:22am

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  The only people making it unsafe for politicians to walk on the streets, are the politicians themselves.

• On the post: Chipping Away At The First Amendment: New 'Trespassing' Bill Could Be Used To Criminalize Legitimate Protests

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 10:15am

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  I was thinking the same thing. There is a historic crossover point when the laws get to oppressive, protesting stops and violence begins.

• On the post: Time To Go: Why EU Commissioner De Gucht Has Disqualified Himself From Handling ACTA

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2012 @ 10:02am

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  Comparing the open source community to music doesn't work. You have content owners whose only source of income is the sales of the music. Then you have the artists who are the scarce goods. Baring 360 deals the record companies are boned.

• On the post: 'We, The Web Kids': Manifesto For An Anti-ACTA Generation

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 11:48am

  Re: Re: Re: A possible companion piece?

  Between 3D printing, robotics, better technology, and nanotechnology, in a couple years everything is going to change in a serious way. When anyone can manufacture anything at home it destroys the current system because scarcities disappear. Shipping, telecom, pharma, manufacturing, construction, etc all gone.
  
  What do we all do with ourselves then? How does the government get funded? Do we even need government, or just a set of rules and agreements? The list is to large to discuss here.

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