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• On the post: Thanks Blizzard: Riot Games Forced To Let Everyone Know They're Allowed To Use Hong Kong's LoL Team's Name

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2019 @ 02:26pm

  This is Capitalism at it's finest. When money says it's profitable to bow to a "communist" regime they'll likely do it. And people worshiping this broken system are the same that foam through the mouth when people like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders try to level the playing field.

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

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2019 @ 06:13am

  So very tempting...
  CBP agent: So you write propaganda, right?
  Reporter: To the same extent that you make the country more secure, yes, absolutely.

  Reporter (narrating): we both laughed out loud and I was sent to Guantanamo.

• On the post: Why Navigation Apps, Working Properly, Can Make Traffic Flows Worse — And What To Do About It

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2019 @ 06:38am

  Re: This is what regulation is for

  That. At the very least the apps have to share data with the management and the management can give apps info about certain limitations (ie: the steep streets). You don't need to share driver details, there are other ways to share the flow data without being personal.

• On the post: Music Piracy Continues To Drop Dramatically, But The Industry Hates To Admit That Because It Ruins The Narrative

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2019 @ 05:40am

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  Which takes me back to my original comment where I didn't mention this. So yeah, I still download my stuff.

• On the post: Music Piracy Continues To Drop Dramatically, But The Industry Hates To Admit That Because It Ruins The Narrative

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2019 @ 05:39am

  Re: Re:

  I'd rather play them with my preferred player. You know, sound quality, good equalization and other perks. I've yet to see a service that lets me do this.

• On the post: Music Piracy Continues To Drop Dramatically, But The Industry Hates To Admit That Because It Ruins The Narrative

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2019 @ 05:37am

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  If I bought every single track I've ever saved on my play lists in my preferred streaming service I'd spend enough money to pay for said service at least for 20 years. So yeah. As for the fragmentation, I believe it's harder to do it in the music front for several reasons. And piracy is much, much, much easier and available for music (ie: smaller sizes, more availability, no need for dubs or subtitles etc).

• On the post: Deputy Attorney General Rosen: Companies Like Facebook Are Making Everyone Less Safe By Offering Encryption

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2019 @ 11:52am

  Re: Re:

  What he is saying is that you cannot be compelled to produce evidence against yourself. And you can hide content on safes, illegal or not. Safes are not illegal, destroying evidence if there's no legal probe on you is not a crime per se.

• On the post: Deputy Attorney General Rosen: Companies Like Facebook Are Making Everyone Less Safe By Offering Encryption

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2019 @ 11:09am

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  Actually, law enforcement job is precisely to do proper investigative work and get evidence against such people even if they take many measures to keep their communications, files and papers well hidden, locked or destroyed.

• On the post: Music Piracy Continues To Drop Dramatically, But The Industry Hates To Admit That Because It Ruins The Narrative

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2019 @ 11:04am

  It was obvious. You can get all the music you could ever listen to for a small, reasonable fee nowadays. I still download stuff because 1- the service I pay for doesn't have and 2- when I want to listen to them offline I still can't (not properly).

  It's a perfect case study of success. Now I'm eagerly waiting to see the numbers in the video streaming area and its piracy alternative for the next decade when compared to the last one. They've seen a great decline in piracy for a few years now but the trend started to halt and reverse when they fragmented the market. The result is obvious to anyone of use that has a few functioning neurons. Amusingly, people are cutting the cord and many simply won't go back so it'll be a ton of money left on the table.

• On the post: Man Spends Three Months In Jail Because A Drug Dog And A Field Test Said His Honey Was Methamphetamines

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2019 @ 08:16am

  Re: And what if the field tests were correct?

  The law here differentiates trafficking from mere possession (for personal use). Thing is, who determines how much means personal or trafficking? Turns ou it's the cops doing the semantics. In practice it means white people are users and everybody else are drug dealers. But yeah, I see your point. This whole war on drugs is a tremendous stupidity.

• On the post: Former Hotel Exec Gets Elected To Congress, Decides First Order Of Business Is To Destroy Airbnb

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2019 @ 08:20am

  From what I've read from the comments the duiscussion revolved around whether Airbnb should be held liable or not but I think the more important part here is: why the hell can a guy with obvious interests legislate over the issue? It should be plain obvious: you are from a telco you can't vote or propose bills that will mess with your competitors (ie: muni broadband). I know it's not that simple but this is an issue democracy needs to deal with.

• On the post: Hong Kong ISPs Refuse To Help China Censor The Internet

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2019 @ 07:57am

  I was following the whole thing a few days ago and there were reports with videos and pictures of the Chinese army assembling at Shenzhen and I thought things were going to get bloody. Well, bloodier than they already are if reports flying are to believe. But they didn't go full Tianmen. And the population shows no signs of giving up as well. It's probably the longest time span I've seen people keep this level of mobilization. By this level I mean fill up the streets with tons of people every single day relentlessly. It's interesting to see how things will unfold there and the results may cause cascading effects over the world for the better or the worse. On top of it, it's interesting to see companies resisting to the authoritarian wave, they usually value money over democracy. Of course I would prefer people weren't being detained or hurt but the whole thing is fascinating to watch. The world is convulsing.

• On the post: The Death Of Ownership: Educational Publishing Giant Pearson To Do Away With Print Textbooks (That Can Be Resold)

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2019 @ 07:11am

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  It can still be ripped and compiled, no?

• On the post: AT&T Loses 1 Million Video Users After Spending Billions On Mergers To Dominate Video

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2019 @ 07:03am

  You know what's still around, unchecked, hassle free and non-fragmented? Piracy.

  Keep sticking your collective feet in the mud MAFIAA.

• On the post: Popular Stream-Ripping Site Declines To Play Whac-A-Mole With YouTube

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2019 @ 07:01am

  There are still plenty of tools that will do it without any interference. This is just a total waste of resources.

• On the post: Why A 'Clever Hack' Against Nazis Shows How Upload Filters Have Made Copyright Law Even More Broken

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2019 @ 07:00am

  The problem of the tactic is that it can be used by... Anybody. I'd do even better, I'd use at every single public event held by any politician. Until they review the stupidity.

• On the post: Section 230 Works: Russian Trolls Don't Get To Sue Facebook For Being Kicked Off Facebook

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2019 @ 02:22pm

  It's kind of amusing how people can misinterpret the 1st when it's so well written. Let's review it:

  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

  It's in the first words, crystal clear: it applies to the goddamn GOVERNMENT. Why is it so hard to understand? Section 230 just makes it easier to dismiss abusive cases.

• On the post: For All Of Trump's Complaints About Social Media 'Censorship', The White House Itself Moderates Content Similarly To Social Media Sites

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2019 @ 11:59am

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  Just a comment: there's no problem in leaning towards left wing/right wing/anarchist/communist/whatever ideals. Even if you were 'leftist' (and Marx is possibly laughing over this idea) it would make no difference. For all the "oh, so much prejudice against us poor far-right folks" the US has a long history of falsehoods and persecution against the left just because the establishment didn't like the left during the cold war.

• On the post: For All Of Trump's Complaints About Social Media 'Censorship', The White House Itself Moderates Content Similarly To Social Media Sites

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2019 @ 11:45am

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  So in summary everybody (with different opinions but who are not complete morons) except idiots that think alike these "conservatives/right wingers" and build their own service don't want the racist, bigoted and overall disgusting speech from said "conservatives". But the problem, somehow is the leftist bias or whatever. Talk about oversized egos.

• On the post: Researchers Build App That Kills To Highlight Insulin Pump Exploit

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2019 @ 11:36am

  Re: SOMEtimes connectivity is a good thing for patients

  It should not accept remote input. At the very best from a device at close proximity. Anything connected may be breached at some point because there are many points of possible failure. Ie: MITM attacks.

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