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  • On the post: Court Orders Blog Taken Completely Offline For 'Harassing' Posts

    A Guy ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2011 @ 09:50am

    If the girl wasn't a public figure, there is precedent for limiting his speech. I don't completely agree with the reasoning here though.

  • On the post: The List Of Internet Censoring Countries The MPAA Thinks Provide A Good Example For The US

    A Guy ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2011 @ 01:07am

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    I don't care what happens to rojadirecta really. The way the justice department treated them in denying due process is troubling however.

    I care that the non circumvention provision won't work and seems to outlaw protocols that make the internet work. I especially care that some in our legislature want to pass another broad new power (anti circumvention) that could be selectively applied to practically anyone who has ever used the internet.

    The tactic of outlawing everyone and then applying the law selectively is an anathema to liberty.

  • On the post: The List Of Internet Censoring Countries The MPAA Thinks Provide A Good Example For The US

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 04:35pm

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    That paper is so full of muddled logic, factual inaccuracies, wrong assumptions, logical fallacies, presenting opinion as fact, and probable outright lies (as opposed to just being wrong due to ignorance) that I literally don't even know where to start talking about it.

    Did you have a seventh grader write that for you?

  • On the post: The List Of Internet Censoring Countries The MPAA Thinks Provide A Good Example For The US

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 04:17pm

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    You think that it will stop at a few "rouge" websites? I see no evidence of that.

    I do see evidence of the government gaining new powers through scare words like "terrorism" or "rouge sites" and then abusing their new powers by using them to go after ordinary citizens.

    What recourse do the wrongly accused have against those whom do abuse the bill? All I see is a section granting immunity to those who may be accomplices to any first amendment violations.

  • On the post: The List Of Internet Censoring Countries The MPAA Thinks Provide A Good Example For The US

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 04:02pm

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    Just to be clear, the language in SOPA is too broad and will be abused. The analogy is not without merit.

  • On the post: The List Of Internet Censoring Countries The MPAA Thinks Provide A Good Example For The US

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 02:02pm

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    Seems like a good 30 second ad for the next election season though, doesn't it?

  • On the post: Senator Harry Reid Moves To Approve PROTECT IP And Begin Censoring The Internet

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 08:25am

    I called my Congressmen. I don't know if it will do any good, but I tried.

  • On the post: Cable News Finally Realizing That SOPA And PROTECT IP Are Bad News

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 08:04am

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    Sorry, my sarcasm detector seems to malfunction when I'm in a bad mood. ;)

    It doesn't help that there are some on here that seem to legitimately try to make that argument.

  • On the post: Cable News Finally Realizing That SOPA And PROTECT IP Are Bad News

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 06:53am

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    Casual copyright infringement is worse than medicine that doesn't work? You have some really fucked up values.

    Anyway, the issue with the legislation is that it's a job killer, it gives broad censorship powers to private corporations, and if its circumvention measures are implemented it will weaken our national infrastructure, leave us more open to personal, corporate, and governmental security breaches.

  • On the post: Invincible Killer Scorpions And Other DRM Hijinks

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 06:20am

    Sensible DRM

    This is actually sensible DRM. Assuming no false positives, it makes the game worse for pirates and doesn't punish everyone else.

    The net effect will be that those that don't want to or can't pay will have to wait longer as it is eventually cracked, and that is perfectly fair.

    Kudos to these companies.

  • On the post: Cable News Finally Realizing That SOPA And PROTECT IP Are Bad News

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 05:47am

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    It's exactly what I expected.

  • On the post: Cable News Finally Realizing That SOPA And PROTECT IP Are Bad News

    A Guy ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2011 @ 03:58am

    CNN did a couple things too. The first story I saw was basically a hit job that implied "everyone on the internet is a dirty pirate and they deserve SOPA." They've had a couple of small stories since then, but it largely ignores the real issues. It has been pretty disappointing.

  • On the post: Alan Greenspan: Failed To Predict Bubble Popping… And Failed In Predicting Home Taping Would Kill Music

    A Guy ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2011 @ 05:38pm

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    Thinking like that is the difference between a developer and a user, or a entrepreneur and a customer.

    Change will come either way.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    A Guy ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2011 @ 12:15pm

    Hilarious

    That was great Jay.

  • On the post: TtfnJohn's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    A Guy ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2011 @ 10:01am

    When is the final vote scheduled?

    I need to call my Representative again, and it would be embarrassing to be late. When is the vote before the full house due?

  • On the post: SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012 [Update: Or Not…]

    A Guy ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 12:37pm

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    Seems accurate to me.

    1. DPI can be circumvented via HTTPS. There's a good reason for that. Financial services and those who deal with state/trade secrets, like military contractors, don't want random people listening in. I don't want random people listening to my conversations either.

    2. Proxies allow traffic to be redirected through an intermediary. There are numerous uses for them, both legitimate and otherwise.

    3. TOR was created to foster free speech in repressive regimes. All data is encrypted and randomly distributed over its network. It was originally designed by the US government to reach out to dissidents in repressive regimes. If it allows free speech there, it will allow free speech here.

    4. SSH allows for administration of web servers and internet infrastructure, among other things. It is an encrypted protocol like HTTPS. Encrypted data prevents inspection by ISPs. If these data streams were not encrypted, any random hacker who managed to be in the right place on the network could take over the internet backbones, webpages, or practically anything else on the internet.

    5. VNC and RDP allow you to see a webpage generated on another server. It is mostly used to ensure that only authorized people are able to use non public resources. It would also allow circumvention of any ISP blocking.

    6. Every corporate, governmental, and many private networks use VPNs for privacy and network management. If they allow for privacy and network management, they allow for circumvention.

    7. If you can redirect traffic to contain a malware outbreak on your home, work, or governmental network, you can redirect traffic to allow for circumvention.

    8. DNSSEC prevents DNS hijacking by someone pretending to be your bank or employer. It would also prevent any government directed DNS hijacking, like SOPA mandates.


    If it is made law and isn't quickly declared unconstitutional, there will be a massive public backlash.

    If you know nothing about the internet, what makes you think you know how to effectively manage it?

  • On the post: SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012 [Update: Or Not…]

    A Guy ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2011 @ 06:50am

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    You forgot about a plain old offshore web page with a login page and a little custom php.

  • On the post: SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012 [Update: Or Not…]

    A Guy ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 11:15pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Unbelievable

    Hmmm...

    Idiot or troll?

    It's hard to tell. Either way, troll grade 4/10

  • On the post: SOPA Markup Runs Out Of Time; Likely Delayed Until 2012 [Update: Or Not…]

    A Guy ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 09:57pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Unbelievable

    "A service provider shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures designed to prevent access"

    It's been there all along. A reasonable interpretation of the bill is that this can be used to mandate IP blocking and dpi to prevent access.

  • On the post: Alan Greenspan: Failed To Predict Bubble Popping… And Failed In Predicting Home Taping Would Kill Music

    A Guy ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 09:36pm

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    To be fair, that is how most western democracies ran their government finances too. It wasn't all his fault. Our various legislators had a giant hand in it. Private industry did its very best to make bad investments in finances, labor, and "securities."

    This economy is such a giant cluster fuck that it took the collective idiocy of millions of people working against themselves and hoping they would cash out before the bill came due to make it happen.

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