I was unaware that Van Eck Phreaking was still a serious threat to anything these days. Now, to my knowledge, the person who is intercepting the signal must be fairly close to the source. Shouldn't preventing individuals with monitoring devices from loitering around the voting area eliminate this problem?
I'm surprised that they didn't sue the Dallas Cowboys for their enormous display screen at their new stadium. Oh, wait, the East Texas court might not go for that one.
You couldn't honestly expect Jack Thompson to understand modern technology, could you?
More seriously, Jack Thompson is a Public Figure. I don't see that any of these people he's suing qualify for the "Actual Malice" standard for libel. How can this not get thrown out of court?
While he probably doesnt't have the money needed to win, I think suing them would still be the right thing to do. The coverage of the legal case would certainly increase his name recognition, the story would almost certainly hurt the reputation of the Recording Industry, and he would have a (small) chance of winning and recuperating his costs (plus a few decades of profit). And I'm sure that there are several advocacy groups such as the EFF that would sponsor him.
What's interesting is that EA will lose either way. If the case is appealed and the plaintiff wins, they have to pay out. If the case isn't, they lose some of their exclusivity.
Wouldn't repealing the immunity be considered Ex Post Facto? While I think that the retroactive immunity should not have been given, I think that legislatively repealing this immunity would be unconstitutional, however appealing it may be.
Instead of getting money by giving people patents, why doesn't the USPTO charge the full fee for any patent application it receives. That way, they still get funded (in fact, they would probably get funded more) and they don't have the financial pressure to approve wasteful patents.
The analogy to robbing an open car is inaccurate. An unlocked car is passive, and doesn't interact with its environment. Digiprotect is actively distributing their copyrighted material. Therefore, this would be like a police officer disguised as a bartender giving you a free beer. After you drink it, he arrests you.
And as for the comment about the downloader's knowledge of how a P2P item is "authorized," it doesn't matter. To my knowledge, "attempted infringement" is not a crime. And no matter what the intent, if Digiprotect has a license to distribute, that there is no infringement going on.
My bet is that The Pirate Bay owners are probably just doing this as a cash grab. Once they get the funds, they'll open up a new torrent tracker, and things will start all over again.
Jamie Thomas used kazaa to share her music, which is an entirely different type of P2P with no relationship to ISOhunt. Tenenbaum used a variety of different methods to acquire his music, none of which are proven to have been over torrents.
It could also be implied that it's illegal to download any music on a DoD computer, whereas it would only be infringing if the music was uploaded illegally. So no, it's not just playing with semantics.
Are you familiar with a lot of modern internet jargon? It started out as a way on usenet for avoiding the very censorship system you described. People couldn't post things about hacks, so they posted the about haxx0rs; they couldn't post Software became warez. People eventually got to the point where they had to use numbers to substitute in for letters, (thus 1337 was born). This system has been tried before, and it DOES NOT WORK. You cannot censor the flow of the internet, for information will simply find the path of least resistance around the blockage and resume its former course.
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I was unaware that Van Eck Phreaking was still a serious threat to anything these days. Now, to my knowledge, the person who is intercepting the signal must be fairly close to the source. Shouldn't preventing individuals with monitoring devices from loitering around the voting area eliminate this problem?
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Simple: write a new law stating that anyone who attempts to claim copyright over the national laws will be put to death.
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I'm surprised that they didn't sue the Dallas Cowboys for their enormous display screen at their new stadium. Oh, wait, the East Texas court might not go for that one.
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You couldn't honestly expect Jack Thompson to understand modern technology, could you?
More seriously, Jack Thompson is a Public Figure. I don't see that any of these people he's suing qualify for the "Actual Malice" standard for libel. How can this not get thrown out of court?
Re: Re: Re: Defense in next RIAA lawsuit (as Cyanid Pontifex)
Which would completely violate due process.
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While he probably doesnt't have the money needed to win, I think suing them would still be the right thing to do. The coverage of the legal case would certainly increase his name recognition, the story would almost certainly hurt the reputation of the Recording Industry, and he would have a (small) chance of winning and recuperating his costs (plus a few decades of profit). And I'm sure that there are several advocacy groups such as the EFF that would sponsor him.
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What's interesting is that EA will lose either way. If the case is appealed and the plaintiff wins, they have to pay out. If the case isn't, they lose some of their exclusivity.
Re: Re: Re: (as Cyanid Pontifex)
I'm not saying that the immunity itself was Ex Post Facto. I'm saying that there's a good chance that revoking the immunity would be Ex Post Facto.
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Wouldn't repealing the immunity be considered Ex Post Facto? While I think that the retroactive immunity should not have been given, I think that legislatively repealing this immunity would be unconstitutional, however appealing it may be.
Re: Limited time (as Cyanid Pontifex)
That's assuming that the video stay so on Fox. If it gets out onto the wider internet, there's no stopping it.
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Unfortunately, there are no laws about copywrong.
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Instead of getting money by giving people patents, why doesn't the USPTO charge the full fee for any patent application it receives. That way, they still get funded (in fact, they would probably get funded more) and they don't have the financial pressure to approve wasteful patents.
Re: Re: Re: Entrapement (as Cyanid Pontifex)
The analogy to robbing an open car is inaccurate. An unlocked car is passive, and doesn't interact with its environment. Digiprotect is actively distributing their copyrighted material. Therefore, this would be like a police officer disguised as a bartender giving you a free beer. After you drink it, he arrests you.
And as for the comment about the downloader's knowledge of how a P2P item is "authorized," it doesn't matter. To my knowledge, "attempted infringement" is not a crime. And no matter what the intent, if Digiprotect has a license to distribute, that there is no infringement going on.
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But then it would no longer be just a clip of the song, it would be the entire song.
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My bet is that The Pirate Bay owners are probably just doing this as a cash grab. Once they get the funds, they'll open up a new torrent tracker, and things will start all over again.
Re: Re: Re: (as Cyanid Pontifex)
Jamie Thomas used kazaa to share her music, which is an entirely different type of P2P with no relationship to ISOhunt. Tenenbaum used a variety of different methods to acquire his music, none of which are proven to have been over torrents.
Your argument fails.
Re: Re: Re: Legal (as Cyanid Pontifex)
It could also be implied that it's illegal to download any music on a DoD computer, whereas it would only be infringing if the music was uploaded illegally. So no, it's not just playing with semantics.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (as Cyanid Pontifex)
Are you familiar with a lot of modern internet jargon? It started out as a way on usenet for avoiding the very censorship system you described. People couldn't post things about hacks, so they posted the about haxx0rs; they couldn't post Software became warez. People eventually got to the point where they had to use numbers to substitute in for letters, (thus 1337 was born). This system has been tried before, and it DOES NOT WORK. You cannot censor the flow of the internet, for information will simply find the path of least resistance around the blockage and resume its former course.
Simple Plan (as Cyanid Pontifex)
If this passes, get some people with registered copyrights to send violation notices to the ISPs of every MP that votes for this bill.
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That looks pretty awesome. I really sort of want it now.