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• On the post: Yes, Online And Offline Rules Are Different… Because Online And Offline Are Different

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 09:22am

  Re: Re: The law of the mythless internet

  Nice!!

• On the post: Yes, Online And Offline Rules Are Different… Because Online And Offline Are Different

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 08:29am

  Re: Re: The analogy should be.

  The physicist? no.
  
  David

• On the post: NSA Power Grab: New Legislation Would Give It Broad Powers To Spy On 'Critical' Private Networks

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 08:13am

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  Their great solution makes it so much easier to take down everything. If you have 3 Million different set ups for security you have to crack each one individually. If you have one government solution everyone has to use, you only have one system to break. Its the reasons I find Iran's centrally monitored and controlled internet amusing.

• On the post: Yes, Online And Offline Rules Are Different… Because Online And Offline Are Different

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 07:39am

  The analogy should be.

  The Internet is a Phone System.
  
  As such, You wouldn't ...
  
  ...Listen in on everyone's phone calls trying to catch them doing something wrong?
  ...Prevent people from calling others?
  ...Shut down someones phone, for calling a friend three times after he got accused of a crime?
  ...Fine him over $100,000 USD for listening to a song over the phone?
  ...Shut down someones phone for a year after someone accused them of playing music for a friend?
  
  nuff said.

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

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 07:20am

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  "We" has a plan that involves prunes and tapioca pudding ...

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

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 07:19am

  I have been trying to define what is happening online for a couple years now. Douglas Wood coined the phrase the "Party Of We". This fits in under the umbrella of the concept. I really feel sorry for the politicians when this change in thinking becomes seriously visible.
  
  Its amazing that the safety of anonymity, at a distance relationships, and the ability to quickly move away from relationships that do not work, could cause such a fundamental change. A change towards consensus based social structures as opposed to hierarchical based ones.

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

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 07:03am

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  I heard it in Rick Falkvinge's voice. I read this through his site yesterday. http://falkvinge.net/

• On the post: Ireland Signs Controversial 'Irish SOPA' Into Law; Kicks Off New Censorship Regime

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2012 @ 06:40am

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  You know how it is, genius skips a generation here and there. Oh wait, no relation, yeah Irony.

• On the post: Who Cares If Piracy Is 'Wrong' If Stopping It Is Impossible And Innovating Provides Better Solutions?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 12:21pm

  Re: Re: Re: Superioso!

  If they came up with one I do not see many people using it. They would constantly change the rules, reduce the content available and generally screw things up. A couple more Hulu's and they will loose a second generation of people to infringement.

• On the post: Who Cares If Piracy Is 'Wrong' If Stopping It Is Impossible And Innovating Provides Better Solutions?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Re: Where's hollywood's superior alternative?

  As the Arab spring showed many middle east leaders, domination of a population and control are mere illusion. In a world of instant communications you have memes spreading in a way that brings things to a boil very quickly. It no longer takes years for resentment to build to the breaking point. That and the fuse is far easier to light.
  
  Good luck to them in their quest for world domination, they do not realize they have already lost.

• On the post: Who Cares If Piracy Is 'Wrong' If Stopping It Is Impossible And Innovating Provides Better Solutions?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 12:03pm

  This guy's main problem is the fact he is confusing tangible solid products for information which is a non tangible.

• On the post: Feds Continue Crackdown On Poker… By Seizing The Wrong Bodog Domain

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 09:00am

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  Linking to companies that compete with US corporations is illegal. I finally get this whole linking issue pushed forward by the content industry.

• On the post: AT&T's New Scheme To Double Charge For Data: Call It A 1-800 Number For Internet Content

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 06:44am

  Funny, I wrote this same exact sentence for a brief last year ...
  
  "executives either don't care how bad these ideas make them look, or don't realize it thanks to too many isolated meetings at headquarters packed with telco-think yes men."

• On the post: How The US Trade Rep Is Trying To Wipe Out Used Goods Sales With Secretive TPP Agreement

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 06:37am

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  You fail to see that Anonymous isn't a group it is an idea. There is no central leader or command structure. Every attempt to remove it only makes it more known. When people do research into Anonymous there is a romantic feel to it, like robin hood.
  
  Every arrest only makes this movement grow. But police are stuck and have to show they are doing something about this. They are stuck in an ever escalating feedback loop.

• On the post: Dutch Research Reveals Wide Scope For Copyright Flexibilities In EU Laws

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 29 Feb, 2012 @ 06:23am

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  If copyright continues on the path it is on, you know "to infinity and beyond", it will fail in less than 15 years. What big content saw with SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA is just a small scale demonstration compared to what I see coming for them out of social media.

• On the post: The Things You Learn When You Send A Freedom Of Information Act Request About What The Gov't Knows About You

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 09:22am

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  He would probably find out that he runs a porn site. Whose active membership include people from Anonymous, radical anti-IP types, Entertainment industry lobbyists, and Darryl.

• On the post: Kickstarter Likely To Provide More Funding Than The National Endowment For The Arts In 2012

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 09:09am

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  Aren't they at weekend at Bernie's 12 already ;)

• On the post: Commerce Department Postpones 'Africa IP Forum' After People Point Out How One-Sided It Is

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 08:55am

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  They will do it in total secret the next time ...

• On the post: Wale: I Just Want To Make Music & Give It To Fans For Free… They'll Support Me

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 08:48am

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  Voted that funny.
  
  You really do not like him-her very much.

• On the post: Elsevier Backs Down, Removes Support For Research Works Act As Elsevier Boycott Grows

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 08:42am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I do not think that it will be business as usual in politics for much longer. People are slowly coming to the realization that they can make a difference. SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, this event are all the leading edge of a change, all thanks to social media and blogs.
  
  Score another one for "the party of we".

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