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  • On the post: Game Critic Keeps YouTube Vids Ad-Free By Creating ContentID Feeding Frenzy

    Monday ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2016 @ 11:31am

    Haha

    Sometimes you just gotta say, "That's fucking beautiful..."

  • On the post: And Out Come The Wolves: Now Getty Images Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Google About Image Piracy

    Monday ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2016 @ 05:44pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    STOP REPLYING!!!

    You got Trolled man :)

    The reading members at large know all this shit already...

  • On the post: Brazilian Media Giant Realizes It Can Use The DMCA To Censor Criticism Of Its Coverage

    Monday ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2016 @ 11:14am

    Even a VPN doesn't help

    I used my VPN with Brazil, and you can't even view this viddy in their own country. Ah well, I can't understand Portuguese anyway...

  • On the post: And Out Come The Wolves: Now Getty Images Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Google About Image Piracy

    Monday ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2016 @ 10:58am

    Start their own Search Engine???

    If Getty Images is so extraordinarily, and uniquely qualified to distribute images, and can distinguish with certainty that they are not the problem, but suing Google is, why don't they just start their own search engine? One that specifically links the user's search terms to the very photo / image / what-have-you that the user is after?

    I mean, "Getty Images represents over 200,000 photojournalists, content creators and artists around the world... ", out of the 23.633.010.000 sites on Earth atm, surely Getty Images has enough drawing power to get the "Creators" paid.

    "And Out Come The Wolves: ... Image Piracy (Legal Issues)"

    Oohhhhhh... I get it now... that's funny :D

  • On the post: Rhode Island Attorney General Pushing For A State-Level CFAA That Will Turn Researchers, Whistleblowers Into Criminals

    Monday ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2016 @ 10:31am

    It's purely a run into the Political scene.

    Herbert Yardley's book discussing 'The Black Chamber' effectively put a stop to that in 1931, didn't he? Even though they (The Black Chamber) ceased to be in 1929. The Espionage Act of 1917 was amended blah blah blah. Yardley even got an honourable mention from the NSA.

    Daniel Ellsberg with Anthony Russo did their part, so Nixon couldn't just have either of them killed, right?

    From there it moves on over the dozens and dozens, decade after decade, until we get to our most famous whistle-blowing duo... Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Does a short-sighted Rhode Island Attorney believe he will actually make any individual with enough determination, and enough exasperation and outrage, think twice about righting some very wrong wrongs in the future?

    Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin believes he is / has the answer when there has been numerous attempts at getting to the answer for years - including a number of amendments to The Espionage Act. Kilmartin should also re-read the Military Whistleblower Protection Act. AG Kilmartin is playing fast and loose with his entry into politics.

  • On the post: FBI Says It Will Ignore Court Order If Told To Reveal Its Tor Browser Exploit, Because It Feels It's Above The Law…

    Monday ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2016 @ 10:50am

    Re:

    All the Court would need are the names authorizing the action taken to seize and then run that Child Pornography site - PlayPen - and charge a conspiracy to run a site trafficking Child Pornography.

    I'd say that this is quite different from Apple not complying with an All Writs... unless... unless they absolutely had to. That is what Apple had stated I believe.

    Hell, they may even discover that the website was up for more than just "two weeks", because it seems to me that the FBI has collected a seriously large amount of data for the prosecution to play with. And, who on Earth knows just what sickness / perversity might have transpired if indeed it was longer than the two weeks the FBI are claiming they ceased the website for.

  • On the post: Illinois Police Department Pulls Plug On Body Cameras Because Accountability Is 'A Bit Burdensome'

    Monday ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2016 @ 12:27pm

    Accountability

    Has this particular Agency been engaged in any alleged illegal, or involved in any egregious or questionable activities in the past? That would be the first area to look at.
    I also believe the decision to release Officers from the "burden" of using Body Cameras will be tested in court. Minooka PD will have to have it explained to them that it is no longer a choice you can simply opt out of. This Minooka Police Chief Justin Meyer is more than likely under the impression that his word is the last word when it comes to the issue of Body Cameras, and their deployment being a burden.

    It has to be, and I'm pretty sure it will be, tested in courts. It will definitely be questioned when their (Minooka PD) Officers have to face the gauntlet questioning by some very upset Parents, or a community, and their legal teams, and Minooka Police Department's only exculpable means of defence would have been a body camera.

    This is also testing the waters for other law enforcement agencies cross country, to say that these cameras are too much of a burden to use any longer. Minooka Police Chief Justin Meyer needs to be knocked down a peg or two and discover he is not at the top of this legal food chain, and any other Police Chief considering acting in like manner, needs to think on carefully how they want to phrase their next sentences.

    I read above, that tax payer funds should also be withheld... I like that idea. Any government funding should also be withheld if a Policing Agency knowingly withdraws from a program designed to not only guard against Bad Policing, but is designed to protect Police when it comes to bogus filings of inappropriate action, and even wrongful death.

  • On the post: FBI Allegedly Paid More Than $1 Million To Get Into Encrypted iPhone… And To Avoid Setting Legal Precedent It Didn't Like

    Monday ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2016 @ 11:50am

    Correct first assumption...

    ... in that the money should have been better spent on the Families of the victims, but it is the FBI / DOJ whom have blinders on in this case. They really needed to extricate themselves from their losing positions.

    Nevertheless, every company that the FBI / DOJ comes at from that point of asking for "the backdoor", to asking for something akin somewhere in the future, will know exactly how Law Enforcement will come at them, and what cards to play. It won't be quite so easy, and messy in the future.

  • On the post: Guy Argues That Anti-Ad Blocker Systems Violate EU Privacy Laws

    Monday ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2016 @ 11:51am

    Re:

    I believe the argument is about Ad-Blocker-Blockers' creating an Invasion of Privacy issue here. They are installing, more often than not, malicious spyware into the Browsers of Website Patrons.

    The argument then proceeds to Accountability. Can these Vendors be held legally accountable for creating vulnerabilities in a Visitor's computer / cell? Did this (quite literally) "Backdoor" result in damage or exploitation?

    Accountabilty; website vendors have to, nay, need to be held accountable for their actions. It is not a visitor or patron's responsibility or fault that a company's business plan, wherein the advertising is a dismal failure, becomes that particular consumer's fault because of a gross failure.

  • On the post: News Corp. Claims Google News Is An Antitrust Violation In Europe

    Monday ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2016 @ 12:02pm

    Really should treat the bigguns nicer...

    Google, Musk, All things WIKI, Micro$oft, Apple, and future fabulous Corporations, really, really need to be treated a little more fairly, and with alot more respect.

    WHY???

    They're the "ones" who will be footing the bills for for The Moon/Mars/Ganymede.

    Those kids' coming up now, and in the future are soooo lucky...


    Just sayin' :)

  • On the post: Why Did Congress Let Law Enforcement Officials Lie About Encryption?

    Monday ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2016 @ 08:36pm

    I tried... I really tried...

    ... [t]o watch this pretty messed up piece of history. It comes in at 00:46:34 with an eloquent introduction, and then a rally of information and common, unconscious knowledge - unconscious in that anyone who is even tenuously informed, up-to-date, and has a pulse, already knows all this shit about encryption, and the "vital role" it plays in all our lives. Then it starts to go south from there.

    I was able to watch another twenty-five or so more minutes of it before I realized that it was time I was never going to get back. They're a pack / bunch / conflation etc. pack of lying dogs / taints / gooches / scrots / tards. I just couldn't watch anymore. That saying comes off as kinda true...

    "Men go crazy in congregation."

    It's like watching paint dry...

  • On the post: FISA Court Still Uncovering Surveillance Abuses By NSA, FBI

    Monday ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2016 @ 11:23am

    Hahahahaha

    "Taint Team"... Really?!?!?

    :P

  • On the post: Not Funny: How The OFAC Is Outlawing Even The Lamest Attempts At Humor Over Terrorist Fears

    Monday ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2016 @ 10:56am

    Payback???

    "ISIS Keg & Pig BBQ Funds".

    Tell me that ain't funny...

  • On the post: Court Shoots Down Cops Attempting To Prop Up Two Warrantless Searches With A Stack Of Lies

    Monday ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2016 @ 10:30pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Due process is hard! Warrants are hard! So it should be.

    Are you high???

    :D

  • On the post: FBI Director James Comey Continues To Be The 'Fringe Candidate' Of The Encryption Debate

    Monday ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2016 @ 02:09pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: sandwich

    OK :) That's pretty funny. Thanks for reply.

  • On the post: FBI Director James Comey Continues To Be The 'Fringe Candidate' Of The Encryption Debate

    Monday ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2016 @ 11:24am

    Re: Re: sandwich

    I don't get it!?!?!?

  • On the post: Court Shoots Down Cops Attempting To Prop Up Two Warrantless Searches With A Stack Of Lies

    Monday ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2016 @ 10:30am

    Re: Don't blame police.

    All for the Greater Good?

    Shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out?

    We have to keep telling ourselves that there are still really decent, honourable Law Enforcement Officials out there. We shouldn't have to do that. Blame the Police. Make them answerable to questionable, illegal conduct.

    "Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy."

  • On the post: Court Shoots Down Cops Attempting To Prop Up Two Warrantless Searches With A Stack Of Lies

    Monday ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2016 @ 10:20am

    Re:

    I should think that all of the colluding Officers' (involved in this perjury) past / present cases would fall under some category which would require review. Any civilian who has been sentenced and imprisoned by these Officers, should have grounds for their en masse appeals.

    This is how law works, does it not???

    The only "Hail Mary" that the Government has produced is the one for previously convicted citizens, through these law enforcement officials.

  • On the post: Bernie Sanders' Campaign Joins Too Many Other Presidential Campaigns In Abusing Trademark Law

    Monday ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2016 @ 02:42pm

    Re: Re: "You're positive our lawyers are on /our/ side, right?"

    "Swift Boat" or "Willie Horton"

    Those never even crossed my mind. Good point...

  • On the post: Basically Every Single Presidential Candidate Is Totally Clueless As To What's At Stake In The Apple / FBI Fight

    Monday ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2016 @ 01:20pm

    Re: Apple has always given the middle finger to society

    Really! I'm not bullsh*ting you...
    Really?

    Please, please provide a link. That would be an awesome history lesson for me, 'cuz all I remember it getting stoned before class and sitting at something and drawing a square with a kinda mouse thingy...

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