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  • On the post: Appeals Court Not At All Impressed By Prenda's Appeal

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 04:15pm

    gif of me laughing goes here

  • On the post: Hollywood Piles On: MPAA Sues Megupload, Even Though They Already Got The Feds To Kill It

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 02:40pm

    Shame they waiting until after the other little shops tried to feed on the corpse, claiming insane losses to get themselves some "easy" money.

    Shame that half a billion put a real dent into the proceeds of their membership during that time. o_O

  • On the post: SEC Is A Due Process Nightmare: Searches Emails Without A Warrant, Refuses To Share Exculpatory Evidence

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 02:37pm

    Oh look more of our so called 'rights' being ignored by those in power... how many more of these until we decide they should no longer be there "representing" us when they do such a piss poor job of it.

  • On the post: Yet Another Copyright Troll Thinks It's Found The DMCA Subpoena Loophole That Slammed Shut Years Ago

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 02:03pm

    IIRC, and I'm old and forgetful, TF had a story in recent history where it looked like RightsCorp was not making much money from what they were doing.
    The business of rights 'enforcement' is being able to show a good balance sheet and sell out quickly.

    Nearly all of the major players in this enforcement boondoggle have been started by people with ties to the industry, who sell the new snakeoil off and cash out.

    Look at the history of DtecNet, that bastion of piracy fighting who demanded Google delist pages on HBO for having stolen content from... HBO. They spun up, acquired by another firm, acquired by yet another firm, and have the contract for 6 strikes.
    They say the pirates are stealing from them, I think they should look at the actual losses in paying for smoke and mirrors that do not solve what at its heart is a failure to adapt to what the market wants.

    But then these aren't the brightest bulbs, I've jousted online with one of the VPs... his last name is Steele (no not that one) and I wasn't kind. He denied facts I could prove and dismissed me... like that other Steele (and Stone) did. I like my odds.

  • On the post: US, Apparently With No Sense Of Irony, Preaching 'Openness' And 'Transparency' To Chinese

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 10:55am

    ?and we want the same openness and transparency and restraint from them.?

    Which means that all of the claimed hacking they have done in the US is going to at least triple so they catch up with what the US is doing.

  • On the post: Mike Rogers Still Pushing His 'Snowden Is A Russian Spy' Delusion, Citing Every Single 'Counterintelligence Official' In Support

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 09:42am

    "without providing any evidence beyond hearsay and conjecture"

    In his defense, this is how they got him to vote for a bunch of stupid shit and not ask questions about it.

  • On the post: Former CIA, NSA Boss Says Senator Feinstein Is Too Emotional To Judge CIA Torture Fairly

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 07:19am

    Girls can't understand man stuff.

    o_O

    This is the best spin these assholes have, how the fsck did they talk themselves into this much power?

  • On the post: Sony And YouTube Take Down Sintel; Blender's Open Source, Creative Commons, Crowdfunded Masterpiece

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2014 @ 05:23am

    And this is why we can't get copyright law fixed.

    They will show the stats about the X number of 'infringing' videos taken down, but never mention how many were in error. Even if it was in error there is no harm to them to lie and claim they own the content when they do not.

    They use the courts to make their target bleed money until they are willing to give them something the law doesn't require, then spin that agreement into showing how "easy" it is and everyone should do it.

    If I were to download a movie the law allows them to seek up to $150K. That is just a single copy. They can steal (yes it is stealing they remove the original to being under their control) and the punishment??? Nothing.

    Perhaps it is time to review what is happening but not just the ludicrous statements of rightsholders and look at the abuse of the public in the system and introduce inducements to encourage people who are wronged to fight back & punish those who abuse the system.

  • On the post: State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2014 @ 11:05pm

    They supported these programs, why the sudden shame?
    If you are unwilling to face the aftermath of what you have done, perhaps you did the wrong thing.

    This long term denial of bad acts committed in our name has made the fscking problem worse. The more they deny the more dangerous the world gets, when is enough enough?

    Perhaps it would be better to take our lumps and stop these actions that we call out other nations for taking. To stop terrorists the government became worse terrorists against its citizens, cooler heads need to take over before some asshole pushes a button and we have a really long winter to finally silence the talk about global warming.

  • On the post: A Little Honesty: Comcast Doesn't Give A F**k What You Think Of Its Merger

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2014 @ 11:00pm

    Maybe if we made the congress critters pay for their own service they would have a slightly better understanding of the real world.

    They live in this gilded world, so far removed from reality, and think it is how it is for everyone else. I'd love to see the veins in their foreheads throbbing as they lose days waiting for a tech to show up to fix their problems. Imagine how fast TSA would be disbanded if they had to get fondled like regular people.

  • On the post: Mobile Spyware Use In Domestic Violence Ramps Up

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2014 @ 03:01am

    Re: Re:

    The problem is when they don't make the bad a crime until well after it is happening.

    I don't think we can ignore things moving forward but we can't turn a blind eye to how it might be used for bad, otherwise we end up with things like the surveillance state the US has turned into. The people who are supposed to provide checks and balances turned a blind eye and accepted everything would just be peachy.

  • On the post: Mobile Spyware Use In Domestic Violence Ramps Up

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 04:12am

    "Less than half of domestic violence victims who felt like they were being tracked on their mobile devices didn't say anything to anyone?"

    In a society that supports the premise that 'she was asking for it', this isn't that shocking.
    Women often don't make a fuss when they have a heart attack, not wanting to 'bother' anyone.
    Do you think they want to face a group of men who are supposed to serve and protect, given the standard horror stories that clutter the media about the treatment many of them seem to get?
    We've seen rape victims threatened with prosecution (in fact IIRC there was a recent case where they were forcing a victim to testify or face huge jail time and more horrors).
    We've heard the stories of women who recant allegations against their abusers, because the system that promises to protect them often fails to do so. A TRO sounds good, but a piece of paper won't keep you from being shot, stabbed, beaten, or many other horrible things.
    Many victims think they can walk the tightrope of keeping the abuser of on an even keel easier than reporting and getting help.

    Funny how many PDs can afford tanks, but can't manage to protect people in these types of situations.

    People have always spied, the tech is just newer, better, faster now. As a society we haven't adapted to these things. We like to pretend these things don't happen, it was just an outlier, it isn't THAT common, and anything else we can delude ourselves with to pretend it isn't a real problem. We are really good at ignoring things that haven't happened to us directly.

    The problem isn't the tech, the problem is our response to victims. We need to believe them, not belittle them. We need to provide the tools to police to find these pieces of tech, and the legal system needs to consider that someone willing to go to these lengths is actually a threat that a court order isn't going to stop. Punishment might deter some from pursuing this type of evil, but the system needs to deal with those who will go forward anyways.

    But society wants to focus on the 'good' they think these things can do and ignore the all to real 'bad' it allows. Just ask DiFi how much her ass chapped after telling us being spied on was a-okay, and she figured out they spied on her too.

  • On the post: Federal Revenge Porn Bill Will Look To Criminalize Websites

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2014 @ 03:46pm

    Stupid kneejerk law passed in an election cycle, fallout to screw everyone later.
    Road to hell something something 'good' intentions.

    And that Adam guy, he is trouble.

  • On the post: Prenda Actually Wins A Round; Order To Pay Back Settlements Tossed In Minnesota

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 08:33pm

    Re:

    The others got most of it, you also managed to miss that Prenda was publishing peoples names on their website calling them guilty before the case ever got heard to increase the pressure to make them settle.
    You missed that their 'neverwrong' system "caught" at least 1 woman who did nothing wrong... and only after the media started asking questions they magically corrected that error after hounding her day and night to pay them for a 'crime' she didn't commit.
    You missed the flat out lies in their settlement letters, misrepresenting the law to ratchet up the pressure. One might question how an officer of the court is allowed to LIE about the law.

    Didn't you hear? They claim they got NO MONEY. They all worked for free.

  • On the post: Prenda Actually Wins A Round; Order To Pay Back Settlements Tossed In Minnesota

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 04:14pm

    Re:

    They would not be collecting anything in those cases if the court had been made aware of the fraudulent documents filed in the case... or maybe it still wouldn't matter.
    Lawyers would NEVER knowingly do exactly what Prenda has done time and time again in court after court, so it doesn't matter.

    See cause one might think that a sham transfer with a fake name to a corporation might give rise to the idea that the accused never got to face their accuser. This shame document made it difficult for anyone to challenge and facts in the case. How can one investigate when the ownership is hidden? How are we to know there isn't another document in a folder somewhere where 'Alan Cooper' sold off the copyrights to someone else and they kept suing while not owning the rights to do such.

    Must protect the legal system... even at the expense of the people it victimized. Which is why it is nice that even with all of the other details now known about this, the victims if they wanted to try and sue to get back their money now can't bother to argue that the case was a shame because fraudulent documents don't matter in that district.

  • On the post: Exasperation Shines Through As Google Angrily Responds To Contempt Motion Over Innocence Of Muslims

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 03:52pm

    Re: Google excuses - fighting piracy is hard work.

    You maybe might want to look at the crazed woman, money hungry lawyer, and clearly biased Judge before you hitch your wagon to their star.

    You might have a point, but trying to use this case as the poster child... not gonna help ya.

    Trust me I know shitty poster children, I am one...

  • On the post: Team Prenda Slammed Again, Found In Contempt; Judge Blasts Their Attempts To Plead Poverty

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 08:33am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Two reasons:

    But in the grand scheme of things I am a nobody.
    I am merely a nym, born to give a voice and hope to others.
    I worked with the other nobodys - born of frustration, victimization, terror, fear - to try and change what was wrong.

    I don't use the term nobody's to downplay what the community accomplished, just that we were supposed to be the powerless.

    We could throw a party, and none of us would know each other.
    We could walk past the important players in all of this, and we are just faces passing by.
    Being a nobody has let me deflect a bunch of the standard attack the messenger gimmicks.

    Remember that next time someone tells you the problem is to big for anybody to solve, sometimes it doesn't take anybody - it takes nobody to fix it.

  • On the post: Details Show MIT Employees Gleefully Helped With Prosecution And Persecution Of Aaron Swartz

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 09:17am

    Nothing to see here, we did nothing wrong....
    We sold out our stated ideals, our staff became lapdogs to the legal system, we praised them for trumping the case up.

    Yep can totally see how they arrived at their we didn't do nuffin wrong result.

  • On the post: Exasperation Shines Through As Google Angrily Responds To Contempt Motion Over Innocence Of Muslims

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 08:23am

    but but copyright and Google has money!!
    Make them give it to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    She must be a way better actress than I was giving her credit for if she can still get people to listen to her.

  • On the post: Team Prenda Slammed Again, Found In Contempt; Judge Blasts Their Attempts To Plead Poverty

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2014 @ 06:50pm

    Re: Re: Two reasons:

    how bright can they be?
    A bunch of nobody's from the internet laid waste to their ability to terrorize people and pointed people where the bodies were buried.
    Then they sued the nobodys, and made our claims get way more attention... and we weren't making it up or embellishing (well not to much, still think he is a manniguin.)

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