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Another problem with this is the fact of how many people do such just for their own use. I mean take the ripping of DVD's for use on someone's own computer for example. If they decide to arrest and lock up everyone who does that they'll have a serious problem. The jails will be so full of offenders that the real criminals (murderers, bank robbers, embezzelers, etc.) won't have anywhere to sleep.
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Interesting read... response the EFF made (pdf) during the comment period, in particular in regard to interpreting exemption 5 ("[C]ircumvention is undertaken for the purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications with computer programs on the handset or tablet."):
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Naturally, the "Joint Creators and Copyright Owners"'s response stated quite the opposite: (pdf)
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I am still scratching my head. Because the Register was unable to deliver (or receive from the EFF and the few other consumer-advocacy groups) an adequate definition of the term "Tablet", they decided that they could not extent the jailbreaking exemption from smartphones (to avoid risking unintended wide-spread effects):
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Yay Facism
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A good point by Ars:
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I agree Ars does make a good point. It's like how women in some countries are treated. They can't go to a male Dr. when they have a medical complaint, but at the same time women aren't allowed to become Dr's so...
And I am still trying to puzzle out how a blind person could be a programmer since they wouldn't be able to read the code they were trying to write that would then enable them to listen to their books. |
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Cable subscribers fell for the first time in 2011. Their response is to lobby to have OTA freqencies returned to the government for other purposes. There are two types of lobbying -- cash and votes. In this day, I can't imagine it would be difficult to convince people that cable is a fundamental human right and force cable companies to provide pro bono cable service in markets where they sell premium services or at least cap cost to provide. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Free cable for people earning less that $250,000 a year. I think I can get that on a bumper sticker. Seriously, everyone should put an antenna in their attic. In times of emergency, we tend to lose internet and cable. You cannot fix that with a generator. Satellite or antenna keeps you connected and passes the time. |
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Talk about first world problems...
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10-28-2012, 08:33 AM | #72 |
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I'm not so sure this is compatible with Fascism. Abuse of copyright law for the purposes of mass criminalization doesn't benefit the proletariat, or the national identity.
What it does benefit is coercive anarcho-capitalism, because people will start blaming the government for this, instead of looking for the puppeteer. More coercive anarcho-capitalism. Convince people that the government is to blame, and once the government has fallen the proletariat finds out exactly what it was encouraged to fight for and realizes that it was better off before the revolution. Last edited by teh603; 10-28-2012 at 08:40 AM. |
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I'm afraid I don't understand...
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In other words, the problem with hating "big government" (a phrase which is tragic in its clumsiness) is that less governing means even less representation for the ordinary voter and dangerous permissions for those whose citizen-abusing urges are only held in check by regulation and monitoring.
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What I'm not quite understanding is this: how wizwor's advocacy of lobbying for the return of cable bandwidth to the government is an embrace of crypto-capitalism. It sounds to me like an action which condemns deregulation -- not because of the involvement of the consumer, but because the result would be to reclaim once-public property (i.e., cable bandwidth). It sounds as if you're disagreeing with the libertarian spin which is often applied to consumer activism: That consumers don't need government regulation because their buying power is sufficient. But I don't think wizwor is saying that buying power is a substitute for regulation and government-agency monitoring. I think he's implying that buying power can help to create momentum for regulation in the otherwise profit-Wild West. I do see how his telling us all to buy antennas could be seen in that light, but I didn't take it that way. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 10-28-2012 at 09:38 AM. |
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