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• On the post: The Rise Of The 'Professional Amateur' And The Fall Of Gated, Exclusionary 'Clubs'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 12:12pm

  Re: Yes!

  They will replace the old guard, its only a matter of time. Content companies have overhead, buildings, energy costs, salaries, loans, 100 million dollar movies, etc. All of this makes them less efficient than the profession amateurs.

• On the post: People Realizing That It Wasn't Google Lobbying That Stopped PIPA/SOPA

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 11:03am

  Re: Re: Re: Yes, it was Google-- and the people Google pays....

  I guess the definition sheet they gave to the content trolls this week was written by Chris Dood this week.

• On the post: The Rise Of The 'Professional Amateur' And The Fall Of Gated, Exclusionary 'Clubs'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 10:55am

  Re: Editors and Reviewers

  Crowd sourcing of well written and interesting material is what the internet does well. There is no need for editors and reviewers.

• On the post: The Rise Of The 'Professional Amateur' And The Fall Of Gated, Exclusionary 'Clubs'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: Milkey goodness

  It is a bell curve and the cream drifts to one side. :D

• On the post: UK Report Blames The Internet For Terrorism, Says ISPs Should Take Down Content

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 09:41am

  Re:

  Long live the new queen!!

• On the post: UK Report Blames The Internet For Terrorism, Says ISPs Should Take Down Content

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 08:36am

  Re: Parallels

  Back then, the transit times of books and news was extremely long, information spread at a very slow rate. Now we live in a time when information and news spreads at an unbelievable rate. Centuries ago for like minded individuals to come together, for a conspiracies to form, or for people to come to a consensus, it took years. Now you do not need to wait six months for a letter to reach you. It doesn't take 3 months to travel to conference to meet face to face.
  
  Due to modern communications, we are seeing an acceleration of consensus, and a shortening of the time it takes for systems to be attacked for being corrupt or overbearing. This trend is accelerating at an amazing rate.
  
  I actually posted this elsewhere also

• On the post: People Realizing That It Wasn't Google Lobbying That Stopped PIPA/SOPA

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 07:51am

  Re: Decentralization

  The author of the article stated ...
  
  "But in future matters regarding the Internet, business as usual won't be sufficient."
  
  The interesting thing no one seems to be noticing, this is far greater than an "Internet" thing. It applies to many smaller events that have been occurring and growing in size over the past several years. Lets hope they continue to frame it, in the top down reference frame for the next several years. It gives humanity breathing room to build our communications channels and loosely coupled base of opposition.

• On the post: People Realizing That It Wasn't Google Lobbying That Stopped PIPA/SOPA

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 07:33am

  Re: Re: Yes, it was Google-- and the people Google pays....

  I give him a Content Kool Aid factor of 8/10. I gave him two points for the links he provided.
  
  Total atypical behavior. Me thinks the trolls have changed their strategy. In the past few days, I have noticed them using links to as talking points they can misquote.

• On the post: More Details About Paramount's Offer To Law Schools To Teach Them About The Evils Of 'Content Theft'

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2012 @ 07:10am

  Re: Re: well...

  No matter what laws they get pushed through. Someone like me will come along, spend a couple weekends coding and destroy their next $94 million dollar lobbying effort for the Lulz.
  
  A simple way to remove the effects of SOPA would have been to combine two pieces of software. Mix the back end database and search functionality of a distributed search engine like yacy with the code to search for torrents from Ants, shareaza, or aMule. If you want to go further take onion routing and encryption from TOR, and toss them in.
  
  No DNS record to remove. No money being made, so no payment processors to intimidate. And built to help people in oppressive countries communicate freely, so no violating the SOPA section that makes it criminal to circumvent these laws.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Sneaky Little Spiders

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 05:33pm

  You so need to get out more ... :p

• On the post: USPTO Says Copies Of Academic Articles Submitted As Prior Art Are Covered By Fair Use

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 05:30pm

  Re:

  Actually they are ....
  
  http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/search/

• On the post: Who's Still Backing SOPA/PIPA… And Why?

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 04:29pm

  I apologize for the long list

  FYI any guesses on the spread?
  
  R - Rep. Lamar Smith
  R - Mark Amodei
  R - Marsha Blackburn
  R - Mary Bono Mack
  R - Steven Chabot
  R - Elton Gallegly
  R - Robert Goodlatte
  R - Peter King
  R - Thomas Marino
  R - Alan Nunnelee
  
  D - Joe Baca
  D - John Barrow
  D - Karen Bass
  D - Howard Berman
  D - Judy Chu
  D - John Conyers
  D - Jim Cooper
  D - Ted Deutch
  D - John Larson
  D - William Owens
  D - Adam Schiff
  D - Brad Sherman
  D - Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  D - Melvin Watt
  
  
  ----------------------------------
  R - Lamar Alexander
  R - John McCain
  R - John Isakson
  R - Lindsey Graham
  R - Charles Grassley
  R - Michael Enzi
  R - Thad Cochran
  R - Bob Corker
  
  D - Pat Leahy
  D - Jeff Bingaman
  D - Richard Blumenthal
  D - Barbara Boxer
  D - Sherrod Brown
  D - Benjamin Cardin
  D - Robert Casey
  D - Chris Coons
  D - Richard Durbin
  D - Dianne Feinstein
  D - Al Franken
  D - Kirsten Gillibrand
  D - Kay Hagan
  D - Tim Johnson
  D - Amy Klobuchar
  D - Herbert Kohl
  D - Mary Landrieu
  D - Joseph Lieberman
  D - Robert Menendez
  D - Bill Nelson
  D - Charles Schumer
  D - Jeanne Shaheen
  D - Tom Udall
  D - Sheldon Whitehouse

• On the post: PolitiFact Trashes Lamar Smith: Says His Claims About Economic Impact Of Piracy Are Flat Out False

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 01:12pm

  Re: Re: There is no cost to the economy

  Where do you get your facts? Lamar Smith and the LA Times say the Ogre weight in at 42 billion tons.

• On the post: We Don't Have A 'Wild West' Internet Now, But We Will If SOPA Or Similar Is Passed

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 12:06pm

  "Internet is a new frontier, a territory to conquer. But it cannot be a Wild West, a lawless place"
  
  The internet is the new phone system. What Sarkozy is really saying is there is to much freedom of speech, and it must be controlled.

• On the post: NY Times: RIAA & MPAA Exaggerate Piracy Impact Stats… But We're Going To Assume They're True Anyway

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2012 @ 08:40am

  Re:

  Are you Canadian?

• On the post: Czech Government Suspends ACTA Ratification

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 01:22pm

  Re: Re: Seems redundant

  Your writing style is like Rick F.

• On the post: Czech Government Suspends ACTA Ratification

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 01:19pm

  Re:

  You don't need a pirate party in the US. You need to get the politicians to agree to certain terms. We saw this with the Tea party types. If at every re-election event we ask politicians if they will support internet freedoms and realize we will vote for the other guy if they do not. I think they will get the hint.
  
  We just need to make the content industry so toxic that they are not listened to.

• On the post: The Real Goal Of Regulating Buffer Copies? So Hollywood Can Put A Tollbooth On Innovation

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 01:10pm

  Re: The straw that broke the camel's back

  "This buffer nonsense could be the landgrab that makes the whole copyright house of cards come crashing down."
  
  I have been feeling the same thing, deep in my bones, for over a year now. I have said that here on multiple occasions. The pendulum is going to swing in the other direction and copyright will come crashing down.
  
  Here is the other thing I have been feeling. That pay to play - crony capitalism is going to come to a screeching halt in the next few years as people have gotten so absolutely fed up with what our federal government is doing.

• On the post: The Real Goal Of Regulating Buffer Copies? So Hollywood Can Put A Tollbooth On Innovation

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 01:05pm

  Re: Finally I understand bob

  Actually the TPP IP section has been out for over a year.

• On the post: The Real Goal Of Regulating Buffer Copies? So Hollywood Can Put A Tollbooth On Innovation

  

  Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2012 @ 01:02pm

  Re: Every router would have to pay a licencing fee

  routers, yeah but think about your home PC. The nic software in your machine has a buffer, the hard drive buffer (read and write), the OS memory buffer used to cache the video before playing, and the video card driver, all have buffers, some with multiple layers.
  
  SOPA and PIPA woke up web companies and people online, this is going to wake up the hardware companies. The MPAA and the RIAA seem to be out to destroy the content industry.

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