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« Last post by 40hz on February 07, 2012, 09:52 AM »Where it's all going:
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About the only complaint I have with it is there's no button or link so I can send it's developers a contribution. There's nothing on the 7zip website for that either.
-40hz (February 07, 2012, 08:47 AM)
Visit this page from time to time, just in case they change their minds and are willing to accept donations.-app103 (February 07, 2012, 09:01 AM)
This is ballsy stuff. I think the people who did this are too young to understand they can indeed go to prison.-db90h (February 07, 2012, 08:44 AM)
I might make it to about 200 posts pretty soon, but then I'll slow down a little as I ease up a bit.-TaoPhoenix (February 07, 2012, 08:28 AM)
We've got our prosecution counsel making an application in chambers, without defense knowing...
Correct my English here but is this what they call "Fear By example" ?-mahesh2k (February 06, 2012, 08:26 PM)
But I couldn't be that unlucky with SATA cables, could I?-wraith808 (February 06, 2012, 04:49 PM)
My laptop hard drive became unrecoverable before New Years and I have been using Linux 'live' CDs since then. It has been great. I continue using memory sticks and transferring data to another box where I also use 'live' CDs ...-sword (February 06, 2012, 02:51 PM)
I'm not familiar with whether / how well .deb files made for Debian will work on Ubuntu, but FWIW, the following is what I have for a recent beta for HFS:-ewemoa (February 05, 2012, 12:01 PM)
Cthulhu for president, if we're going to be damned anyway ... Let's just get it over with.-Stoic Joker (February 06, 2012, 12:51 PM)
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Among the treasure troves of recently released WikiLeaks cables, we find one whose significance has bypassed Swedish media. In short: every law proposal, every ordinance, and every governmental report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties here in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the US government and industry interests.
I can understand that the significance has been missed, because it takes a whole lot of knowledge in this domain to recognize the topics discussed. When you do, however, you realize that the cable lists orders for the Swedish Government to implement a series of measures that significantly weakens Sweden’s competitive advantage in the IT field against the US. We had concluded this was the case, but had believed things had come from a large number of different sources. That was wrong. It was all coordinated, and the Swedish Government had received a checklist to tick off. The Government is described in the cables as “fully on board”.
Since 2006, the Pirate Party has claimed that traffic data retention (trafikdatalagring), the expansion of police powers (polismetodutredningen), the law proposal that attempted to introduce Three Strikes (Renforsutredningen), the political trial against and persecution of The Pirate Bay, the new rights for the copyright industry to get subscriber data from ISPs (Ipred) — a power that even the Police don’t have — and the general wiretapping law (FRA-lagen) all have been part of a greater whole, a whole controlled by American interests. It has sounded quite a bit like Conspiracies ’R’ Us. Nutjobby. We have said that the American government is pushing for a systematic dismantlement of civil liberties in Europe and elsewhere to not risk the dominance of American industry interests, in particular in the area of copyright and patent monopolies.
But all of a sudden, there it was, in black on white. It takes the description so far that the civil servants in the Justice Department, people I have named and criticized, have been on the American Embassy and received instructions.
This will become sort of a longish article, as I intend to outline all the hard evidence in detail, but for those who want the executive summary, it is this: The Pirate Party was right on every detail. The hunt for ordinary Joes who share music and movies with one another has been behind the largest dismantlement of civil liberties in modern history, and American interests have been behind every part of it.
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September 5, 2011 - 17:17
What I’m curious about is the “why?” behind all this. Why is the US pushing so actively for the entertainment industry? There are, after all, bigger industries (moneywise) than entertainment. My thoughts are that piracy and sharing hurts the industry that is necessary to promote the “American way of life”, i.e. cultural dominance of the USA. Control of the media equals controlling the public. I tried other explanations, this is the best I can come up with so far…
Anonymous
September 6, 2011 - 23:28
The reason is simple. The US has transitioned from an industrial economy to a “service economy” and is beginning to take the next steps further. Also, by now the US corporations have destroyed many of the meatspace production sectors in the entire nation by off-shoring massive parts of their production and development capability to China, India and other low-cost countries.
Detroit no longer produces cars. Plastics, paints, etc. come from China. The electronics is “designed in California, made in China”. The list goes on.
What is left? It’s Hollywood, the music industry, medical industry, software, patents, all sorts of intellectual property. There is plenty of that!
The drive is to twist the world into accepting intellectual property as if it were something tangible. The US pushes this hard because it is the only thing they have left. The idea is not to own the methods of production, but to own the instructions for the methods of production, and make others pay for using the instructions.
A problem appears when the rule-setters don’t play by their own rules. Case Håkan Lans is a good example. However, this is an understandable course of action when seen from the previously described perspective. Patent fights with foreign companies and screwing foreign inventors over is necessary as their survival is at stake.
What is intellectual property at its heart? It has no real value – it’s just a pile of contracts. To make the gamble which the USA is doing work, there must be a global unified acceptance of these contracts. This is pushed via ACTA and other treaties. The key is this: if the world is not unified behind accepting these piles of contracts as properly valid, then what happens? The IP-heavy regime, which US focuses on, will simply fail. They can’t keep on making movies for a profit when over half of the planet pays them nothing for it. Once the IP-heavy regime fails, US will not have much more left, and they cannot print more dollars to get out of that mess, the problem is simply too big. Also, they cannot reverse the falling trend by taking back the meatspace production, unless they start now – they cannot do this because of the short-term corporate profit motive prevents such strategic investments. Therefore, once the world-wide rejection grows via the Pirate Party movements and others, a collapse will be imminent.
This is why they fight nail and tooth against all intellectual property violations. It’s a matter of survival for them.
10. General Public-Renegade (February 06, 2012, 04:17 AM)
The rest of the list becomes redundant once you notice this item.-app103 (February 06, 2012, 04:23 AM)
synchronicity (ˌsɪnkrəˈnɪsɪtɪ) —noun
(1) an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated
Still Alive
music and lyrics by Jonathan Coulton for Portal
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
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We do what we must
because we can.
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Except the ones who are dead.
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For the people who are still alive.
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Even though you broke my heart.
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Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta.
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So I'm GLaD. I got burned.
Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are still alive.
Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa...
THAT WAS A JOKE.
HAHA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this cake is great.
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Look at me still talking
when there's Science to do.
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On the people who are still alive.
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While you're dying I'll be still alive.
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(Still alive.)
Hmm..I'm just wondering...under the provisions of these laws...are threads like this one now also illegal since they're discussing ways to get around distribution restrictions?-40hz (February 03, 2012, 05:47 PM)
It doesn't matter. What matters is we don't know whether it is or it isn't. That serves the purpose.-tranglos (February 03, 2012, 06:03 PM)
If it's illegal to attempt to circumvent, it might now be considered an act of conspiracy to even suggest ways. Even if they're presented with the old "purely for educational purposes" disclaimer and warnings.
As I understand DMCA (but IANAL and I probably don't), it's illegal to attempt to circumvent technical measures. Is it a technical measure?
Other than that... I cannot delete threads on DC, but if Mouser does, as maybe he should, the story will be complete :-)
I, the good law abiding citizen, do not wish to engage in felony infringement of a song!-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2012, 05:15 PM)
@40hz - Yepp, that "Avoidance Conditioning" thing does seem to be working...-Stoic Joker (February 03, 2012, 05:26 PM)
)Europe Wants Google To Freeze Its New Privacy Policy
(@40hz thank you for recommending paidContent-PhilB66 (February 03, 2012, 08:02 AM)
"Oh, it's all good, until it's *my* stuff being shared?"-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2012, 07:34 AM)
That cuts to heart of the 'other' part of the whole copyright problem.