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  • On the post: A Glimpse Of The Future Under SOPA: Warner Bros. Admits It Filed Many False Takedown Notices

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2011 @ 01:12pm

    Re: The "slippery slope" argument isn't in your favor, even.

    ...there's no mechanism in sight other than the guarantees of exclusive distribution...


    Do you mean like iTunes?

  • On the post: Why PROTECT IP/SOPA Is The Exact Wrong Approach To Dealing With Infringement Online

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2011 @ 04:16pm

    Re: Comunication

    ...the main problem that the content industry still can't wrap their head round is the fact that the internet is a communication medium and not a broadcast or distribution medium.


    Sorry, have to disagree. They understand quite well exactly what it is (many to many communication)..........

    and are spending millions upon millions to change it into what they want it to be (one to many broadcasting).

    THAT'S why our rights are threatened by PROTECTIP and SOPA.

  • On the post: RIAA Explains Its Interpretation Of SOPA; Which Doesn't Seem To Be Found In The Bill Itself

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2011 @ 12:58pm

    Re:

    DMCA and other laws have no real simple way for these companies to be held liable for the types of sites they sell ads or process for.


    And the world cheered at the glimmer of common sense, and the people saw that this was good.

    You may return to your regularly scheduled trolling.

    ...DMCA creating no liablity provided takedown notices are handled promptly,


    Taking down 3rd party content IS a liability.

    The ad networks and processors profit from it as well...


    like they do here: http://t.co/wflb9Fm1

    (WARNING: really very ugly material there, but free speech is free speech, right?)

  • On the post: What Happens When You Get Two Internet Haters Together? An Interview That Kills Brain Cells

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2011 @ 04:44pm

    Re:

    Then in the spirit of Johnathon Swift, may I modestly propose we kill the internet, as that frankly is the only way to 'stop piracy'.

  • On the post: US Chamber Of Commerce So Clueless It Thinks You Have To Be 'Anti-IP' To Be Against E-PARASITE Bill

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2011 @ 07:56am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Yep! I know that, it's in the works.

    Here's what I see:

    I want these accomplished professionals to continue their work in support of end-user security (that's me :) and my connection), without a guillotine above their necks that, if passed and signed, renders their work moot.

    The entertainment industry doesn't care about my security nor about the ISC's advanced work on my behalf and would prefer they stop and pour their talent into protecting those who benefit from commercial copyright law.

    Fair or unfair assessment? Though I suspect we'd agree to disagree at best.

  • On the post: US Chamber Of Commerce So Clueless It Thinks You Have To Be 'Anti-IP' To Be Against E-PARASITE Bill

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2011 @ 07:31am

    Strategic Overreaching

    Discuss amongst yourselves:

    #SOPA is horrendously and frighteningly overreaching on purpose:

    Should both #SOPA and #PROTECTIP pass in each respective chamber, the bills will come together in reconciliation so a unified bill can be presented to the president for signing.

    Said reconciliation will devolve down to the less overreaching, but still noxious and desirable to @MPAA #PROTECTIP provisions.

    Bingo!! Internet security broken, innocent until proven guilty flipped upside-down, Constitutional rights devalued. Euphoria of @MPAA and @SenatorLeahy plainly visible.

  • On the post: US Chamber Of Commerce So Clueless It Thinks You Have To Be 'Anti-IP' To Be Against E-PARASITE Bill

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2011 @ 07:12am

    Re: Re: Re:

    I mean, how do you counter the "this will break the internet"? It is an argument that is far reaching, but as exact and precise as mush in a blender. It isn't an argument, it's just a scary phrase...


    Agreed, tough to counter when the argument is supported by The Internet Systems Consortium. Let's let the ISC speak on the matter (http://t.co/Z4ElYHiA), I wonder if systems engineers really have blender mush for brains:

    Ultimately there are two ways to modify DNSSEC data. You can either strip off the signatures in which case your modified response will be ignored, or you can just drop the query and never send a response at all. The trouble with these as lawful mandates is that they're indistinguishable from what evildoers will do. There's nothing in the DNSSEC protocol to say "this is a lawful insert or modification, you should accept it

    Say your browser, when it's trying to decide whether some web site is or is not your bank's web site, sees the modifications or hears no response. It has to be able to try some other mechanism like a proxy or a VPN as a backup solution rather than just giving up (or just accepting the modification and saying "who cares?"). Using a proxy or VPN as a backup solution would, under PROTECT IP, break the law.

  • On the post: Go Daddy Supports E-PARASITE Legislation Even Though Its Own Site Is Dedicated To Theft Of Property Under Terms Of The Bill

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2011 @ 04:11pm

    Re:

    That's a bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    If Techdirt had a points/karma award system, you'd have all I could give atm.

  • On the post: PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 01:32pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Occupy wall street is a wishy-washy bunch of anti-corporate, anti-business, anti-everything noodnick


    a constructive and insightful contribution. your parents, grandparents and assorted relatives must be proud.

  • On the post: PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 01:21pm

    Re:

    Why are US citizens not up in arms (figuratively) about their government censoring their internet connections?


    they are (and are being actively and violently fought by the state).

    occupywallstreet is, at heart, about the failure of governance and government in this country.

    this is in fact a poster-child type example of this failure.

  • On the post: PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2011 @ 01:03pm

    Fight Back

    Just whipped this off to my Critter, while he's basically a waste of oxygen, I wanted to get an impression w/in his office pretty quickly.


    Rep Lamar Smith and Rep Rob Goodlatte are about to, or may have already, introduced legislation entitled The E-Parasites Act. Link:

    http://bit.ly/suRAiQ

    This Vermont voter is horrified by this legislation's constitutional infirmities, and is imploring you not to co-sponsor this legislation. And should it ever, in the face of reason (which is entirely possible, Congress no longer being a people's representative body), reach the House floor please sir vote against it.

    Sen Leahy has chosen to work on behalf of Vermont's leading Hollywood movie studios in assaulting our constitution's First and Fourth Amendments with his Protect IP legislation.

    This Vermonter is counting on you and Bernie to stand up against corporate purchased censorship.

    Continued success,

  • On the post: CreativeAmerica: When Major Hollywood Studios Set Up Bogus 'Grassroots' Campaigns

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2011 @ 04:31pm

    Re: Mike, show me "a free movie"! Meaning no one /paid/ anything to produce it.

    Son, your reasoning is backwards and mis-guided. To wit:

    The producers' (you) cost structure is not the purchasers (me) problem. That is the very basis of any freely undertaken economic transaction.

    If the producer can't make money faced with certain market-place realities, he/she/you will either stop producing or figure out how to sell into the existing marketplace.

    var producer == UnitedArtists;
    var purchaser == JoeSmith;
    if (JoeSmith != stupidAsARock) {
    //JoeSmith is not out $25 for DRM'd crap from UnitedArtists
    }

  • On the post: Entertainment Industry's Coordinated Effort To Blame Third Parties Taking Shape

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2011 @ 05:14pm

    Re: Re:

    Don't know why it failed to print the rest of the post:

    Do you mean like those loving, compassionate folks over at the KKK? oh, wait, nevermind...

    bit.ly/gU94Aw

    Hypocrisy revealed, failure as a virtue.

  • On the post: Entertainment Industry's Coordinated Effort To Blame Third Parties Taking Shape

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2011 @ 05:11pm

    Re:

    And by the way, the payment processors already maintain a vast database of entities that they won't process for.

  • On the post: Rojadirecta Argues That The Justice Department Is Making Up Laws; Has No Legal Basis To Forfeit Its Domain

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2011 @ 02:46pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    ...and consciously collecting links to infringing works...


    nope.

    u.g.c. user generated content.

  • On the post: Rojadirecta Argues That The Justice Department Is Making Up Laws; Has No Legal Basis To Forfeit Its Domain

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2011 @ 02:41pm

    Re: Re: Re: AC Disagrees

    But Rojadirecta collected links to help others commit infringement.


    nope, they're u.g.c., provided by users.

  • On the post: Former Google CIO & EMI Digital COO Guy Explains How File Sharing Is Good For Artists

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2011 @ 02:38pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    ...why not address the issues...


    address this proposition:

    "piracy" is free market intelligence (i.e. what folks want, how they want it). do you as the seller of music copies embrace what potential customers are telling you, or do you purchase legislation to turn them into criminals?

  • On the post: Monkeys Don't Do Fair Use; News Agency Tells Techdirt To Remove Photos

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 11:32am

    F5

    pulling up a chair for this one, waiting for any updates.

    you can't make this shit up!!!

  • On the post: Patents As Theft: How Oracle & Microsoft Seek To Profit From Android Despite Having Nothing To Do With It

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2011 @ 09:15am

    RICO

    RICO. discuss.....

  • On the post: Senator Jerry Moran Removes Himself As A PROTECT IP Co-Sponsor

    Robin Hoover ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2011 @ 02:49pm

    Re:

    Amen to a fellow Vermonter! (there really are not that many of us :). )

    satisfying to know that i'm not the only one up here sickened by our senior senator devoting so much energy to defending the major hollywood studios based over in burlington!

    keep up the good fight!

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