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by dissident 14y ago
I've been on the other side of the hivemind many times here and on reddit, and I can assure you, I encourage opinions that I may even disagree with or doubt. The last people I would sympathize with are the stubborn, dogmatic kind that refus
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by dissident 14y ago
I'm really surprised Russia Today links are even allowed here.
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by dissident 15y ago
The best evidence of the usefulness of PG's post are replies like yours which (hilariously) cannot refute his points. Too many people are blindly devoted to the idea of copyright. He's not exactly preaching to the choir. Please, refer me to
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by dissident 15y ago
Yes, the restrictions of the GPL would be moot if there were no copyright. Treating source code as intellectual property is exactly what spawned GPL in the first place, as it is a "hack" that exploits the nature of software licensing. Can y
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by dissident 15y ago
I'm only aware of laws that dictate the effort put into obtaining private information, not the knowledge or dissemination of it. I can't steal your phone and grab the picture, but if you give it to me under no certain terms, I can do what I
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by dissident 15y ago
> You could always give performances and charge for those! So, software as a service? It appears we've been heading that way for a while. > Joking aside, I think that IP is and should remain a messy compromise. There are no easy ans
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by dissident 15y ago
It would appear there's more to the story than I was aware. Certainly administrative subpoenas that are not based on a grand jury hearing would be susceptible to appeal?
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by dissident 15y ago
> It requires a provider to turn over to the government without a warrant: It does not require that a provider turn that over to the government without a warrant. It mandates that only the government can have access to it. Providers s
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by dissident 15y ago
Where's the reasoning for this? Frequently starting over is a problem, but code refactoring can have immense benefits. Discovering a different framework or language may suit your work better, for instance. Monkeypiling on top of old work is
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by dissident 15y ago
> I've also heard that this law requires ISPs to turn this information over without a warrant. Is this not correct? That isn't correct, you could go and read the bill if you want: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1981/text Callin
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by dissident 15y ago
> The economic benefit they provide to content creators is the financing to be able to create the content in the first place Music, video games, application/software development are all areas where this is completely false -- very minim
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by dissident 15y ago
Long read but good work. I think this is more of an open letter to content publishers; content creators haven't had any trouble solving the problems that you explained. Content has been moving copyleft (or at the very least, to more liberal
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Help EFF Bust the Dangerous Jones Patent(eff.org)
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by dissident 15y ago
I highly doubt he was being serious when he was "fear mongering". In context it was likely him using the TSA's logic against the scanners. Remember, this guy has been fighting long before this vulnerability was publicly known.
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by dissident 15y ago
It sounds like Linode's user system is different from their server management system. They probably have some administration tools for resetting VPS passwords, but don't have access to sensitive user details.
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by dissident 15y ago
> if linode was compromised either the whole infrastructure was compromised (unlikely) That's funny. I know from experience in the script kiddie part of the Internet that it was sometimes exceptionally easier to hack entire datacenters
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by dissident 15y ago
It's important to note that, at least in the U.S., the Supreme Court ruled in Reno v. ACLU that blanket censorship of online content simply because they can be illegal is unconstitutional. It is further reaffirmed in MGM v. Grokster that a
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by dissident 15y ago
Kademlia did get traction; it is the protocol for BitTorrent's use of magnet links, trackerless torrents and other features. It was not designed to act as a gossip-like overlay network for indexing content (similar to eDonkey/eMule), it w
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by dissident 15y ago
> I think that companies can release source to licensees only and I would like to see that practice enter general use. Companies already license out their source code to whoever they wish, and many already do what you suggest ("enterpri
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by dissident 15y ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around this comment. You're saying that GPL isn't restrictive enough to provide the security for businesses to open-source their work? GPL is very restrictive, more so than most other open-source licenses, which
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by dissident 15y ago
XHR is awful for large file uploads. It doesn't support sending the file object (which presumably would be processed according to RFC1867) on Firefox, but it does support that on Chrome. As a result, for cross-browser compatibility you have
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by dissident 15y ago
I actually don't care that they copied the design, but that YC actually funded people who thought that was a professional thing to do.
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by dissident 15y ago
I love this post and agree with most of it, but I'd like to point something out. > But once they do anything with enough financial scale to merit incorporation, they need to submit those organizations to the traditional rules governing
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by dissident 15y ago
I'm a completely anti-copyright, pro-piracy, pro-megaupload person, but there was due process and complete legitimacy with them taking down megaupload. Perhaps megaupload are not guilty of anything, but this entire episode was completely le
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by dissident 15y ago
I think it would be best to compose a short video that outlines all of the problems, as that's even more accessible to people. I've seen a few videos that are long, and a few videos that are inaccurate/vague, but no definitive explanation o
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by dissident 15y ago
It sure seems like in the last few days the floodgates opened against this bill from a lot of reputable organizations. What were they waiting for a month ago? Was there some report/statement published recently that convinced them?
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by dissident 15y ago
> Do you believe that if SOPA passes, it would really have drastic effects to the internet functionally? Yes. Things would have to shift around the compensate, but the real problem begins when SOPA justifies similar legislation in other
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by dissident 15y ago
You're justifying it as not having too much of a "splash" because it targets foreign websites which you claim are primarily for copyright infringement. That's just not true at all. Most foreign websites are perfectly legitimate.
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by dissident 15y ago
> I realize DNSBL is voluntary and SOPA would mandate/force, but I don't see how the effects are different. For a DNS server Bam, stop right there. DNS servers do not use DNSBL. There's your answer. DNSBL is used in circumstances like t
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by dissident 15y ago
> if everyone knew that only foreign sites (whose primary purpose is infringement) I'm sorry, but this reeks of complete ignorance. I don't think you're qualified to argue for SOPA.

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