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• On the post: Feds Response To Rojadirecta Demonstrates How S.978 Can Be Abused To Put People In Jail

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 12:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Feh

  I want to restate this for clarity:
  
  There is a distinct parallel between criminalizing a sickness (drug addiction) and criminalizing the fundamental process of the internet (making copies).

• On the post: Feds Response To Rojadirecta Demonstrates How S.978 Can Be Abused To Put People In Jail

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 11:57am

  Re: Re: Feh

  
  
  I didn't intend to turn this into a debate on drug laws, I just wanted to compare the obvious parallel of turning a sickness (drug addiction) into a crime with turning the fundamental process of the internet (making copies) into one.

• On the post: Feds Response To Rojadirecta Demonstrates How S.978 Can Be Abused To Put People In Jail

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2011 @ 11:39am

  Feh

  
  
  I am not usually pessimistic. But I can see how the government's War on File Sharing will continue down the same path as the War on Drugs.
  
  The two are very similar in terms of ignorance of reality, twisted philosophy and general hypocrisy.
  
  The War on Drugs has cost billions of dollars, ruined millions of lives and contributed to severe erosion of Constitutional liberty and loss of respect for government and the police.
  
  It's also turned drug production and sales into a hugely profitable business and then turned that business over to terrorist cartels and warlords.
  
  Given that, it doesn't take a large stretch of the imagination to see the War on File Sharing turning into an amazing bonanza for a few special interests, further limiting the rights of "normal" citizens and pushing large portions of the tech and innovation industries onto foreign shores.
  
  What is deeply frustrating about all this is that the solution is rather simple.
  
  The entertainment industry does not have a "right" to make money from any particular technology.
  
  If they are losing the amount of money that they claim, then the simple answer is to abandon the technologies that are costing them money.
  
  Stop releasing digital content!
  
  Then it can't be pirated.
  
  Restrict all movies to theaters, all music to live performances and low-quality FM broadcasts.
  
  Problem solved.

• On the post: Google Wants Another Court To Determine If Accessing Open WiFi Is Wiretapping

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2011 @ 05:34pm

  Enough!

  
  
  It's not wireless, for Chrissakes.
  
  It's a series of airborne tubes.
  
  What is wrong with people?

• On the post: If Jay Maisel's Photograph Is Original Artwork, Then So Is The Pixelated Cover Of 'Kind Of Bloop'

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2011 @ 11:51am

  Re: Photography is not art*. Jazz is not music.

  It's inarguable that Maisel wouldn't have /anything/ to work with except for the prior efforts of Davis.
  
  See how that works?

• On the post: Microsoft Still Claiming That It Can Use The DMCA To Block Competing Xbox Accessories

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2011 @ 07:45am

  Confounding

  Given all the anti-consumer activity from both Microsoft and Sony lately, I find it hard to understand why anyone would buy anything from either of these companies.

• On the post: Peanuts Rights Holder Shuts Down Peanutweeter, Pisses Off Fans For No Reason At All

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2011 @ 09:57am

  The Real Reason

  They took it down because it would make people realize how spectacularly un-funny the original Peanuts dialog was.

• On the post: Those Who Settled With Righthaven Consider Taking Action; Righthaven Threatens Them With More Suits

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2011 @ 11:59am

  Hmm

  ?The statute of limitations,? he said, ?is three years for copyright infringement.?
  
  What is it for fraud?

• On the post: How Long Until Phone Numbers Are A Historical Relic?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2011 @ 10:30am

  Also

  Years ago, I knew at least two dozen phone numbers.
  
  Now I would be hard-pressed to recall five.
  
  But I probably know at least two dozen passwords.

• On the post: Forget Laundering Unauthorized Music Via Music Match, What About AirDrop Darknets?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2011 @ 08:41am

  AKA

  Imagine walking into a cafe, browsing someone else?s iTunes library, asking them for one of their albums, and getting it via AirDrop
  
  Isn't this known as "squirting"?

• On the post: John Perry Barlow Tells Copyright Maximalists That They've Got The Fundamentals Wrong

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 06:23am

  Also

  But that's only true if they don't hear what we say, and don't realize that we are talking about ways to make money
  
  Even more to the point: You do not have a fundamental right to make money. If you can't make money from recordings, don't make recordings.

• On the post: Feds Seize More Poker Sites

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 24 May, 2011 @ 02:03pm

  Additionally

  "Someone, somewhere, used the internet to commit a crime!"
  
  "We must outlaw the internet!"

• On the post: Please Help Us Figure Out How Much The Public Has 'Lost' Due To Overprotective Anti-Copy Laws

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 24 May, 2011 @ 10:01am

  Results

  Where (when?) can we see the reults?

• On the post: Trademarkzilla Strikes Again: Complains That Fingerzilla May Confuse People Into Thinking It's Godzilla

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2011 @ 06:07am

  Davezilla

  
  
  Back in 2002, a guy with a popular blog fought the monster and won.
  
  Curiously, all references to the incident have been scrubbed from the site, but Google remembers all

• On the post: If You Can't Understand The Difference Between Money And Content, You Have No Business Commenting On Business Models

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2011 @ 10:24am

  Keep Working on it

  I love the bank notes that are created by the Bank of Canada (BoC). In fact, I consider myself to be one of their biggest fans. Even though the BoC will try to stop me if I try to make my own copies of their bills, they should really be flattered.
  
  Thank you for your submission.
  
  Call us back when you can make copies gold or oil.

• On the post: FBI Hijacks Botnet, With Court Order… Then Issues Kill Signal To Millions Of Computers

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2011 @ 09:09am

  Unintended Consequences

  But... when dealing with something like this, where the FBI is sending execution commands to millions of PCs, you have to assume that sooner or later, something bad is going to happen.
  
  Would ... you like ... to play a ... game?

• On the post: Guy Who Claims He Owns 84% Of Facebook Refiles Lawsuit

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2011 @ 03:58pm

  Schpelling

  
  
  I could swear, "Winklevi" should be spelled "Winklevii"

• On the post: Is It Time To Form A 'Rogue' Party Instead Of A 'Pirate' Party?

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2011 @ 11:23am

  My Contribution

  Rogue Pirates in Rouge Party, the RPRP.

• On the post: ICE Redefines Detainment For Wikileaks Helper: You're Not Being Detained, You Just Can't Leave

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2011 @ 09:02am

  Redefining

  DHS - Department of Homeland Stasi

• On the post: NYTimes Threatens NYTClean Bookmarklet Maker With Bogus Trademark Claim

  

  lavi d ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2011 @ 03:06pm

  NYT Already

  .
  I NYT noticed that you NYT kept using NYT in your NYT post.
  
  How many NYT times do you NYT think you can use NYT on your site before NYT sends you an NYT cease and NYT desist, NYT trademark dilution NYT nastygram?

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