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"It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order
by chernevik 15y ago
"It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests."
Man, I HATE it when companies do that.
- nostromo 15y agoWhat I love about that quote is it could clearly be used to condem the PSAs they've been playing in theaters and tacking on DVDs quite some time now. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9-W9JNjio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9-W9JNjio
- X-Istence 15y agoThat anti-piracy ad makes me want to put a bullet through the brain pan. Nothing in that ad is going to deter me from pirating. Just like the you wouldn't download a car commercials that are made fun of. If I could download a car I would do it in a heartbeat...
- saalweachter 15y agoONE DAY, THINGIVERSE, ONE DAY.
- blhack 15y agohttp://thingist.com/t/item/23279/ http://thingist.com/t/item/23279/
- literalusername 15y agoThe anti-piracy mentality is so evil. Right now we have a few small categories of goods with zero marginal cost of production -- software, books, movies, and music. But we're setting precedents that can have long-lasting negative consequences. In the distant future we may have real replicators that are able to bring post-scarcity to a broad array of categories. With the precedents we're setting today, these replicators will be saddled with government-backed DRM. In such a world, where food can be reproduced for free, poor people will continue to starve, lest they be accused of "stealing" food.
- dhimes 15y agoI think piracy sucks. I am a somewhat sympathetic for students and other low-income people, but certainly when you reach the stage where you can make choices about how to spend your money you shouldn't be pirating any more. However, the corruption of due-process is worse. It truly is dangerous, and I'm saddened that SENATOR Dodd doesn't understand this (or, more likely, chooses to ignore it so he can make some cash).
- elithrar 15y ago> What I love about that quote is it could clearly be used to condem the PSAs they've been playing in theaters and tacking on DVDs quite some time now. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9-W9JNjio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9-W9JNjio Those lovely, piracy prevention notices/copyright infringement notices on the Blu-Ray's I've purchased. That can't be skipped.
- electromagnetic 15y agoI stopped buying DVDs back when I stopped being able to skip the 15 minutes of commercials and 5 minutes of copyright notices, because apparently I need to be warned in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, etc. I'm not paying to be advertised to. I'm not paying to be threatened with FBI notices. So my solution is I'm just not paying.
- gchpaco 15y agoI remember discussing with friends of mine whether or not it would be reasonable to have a DVD player that, upon encountering unskippable content, automatically skipped it. None of us could come up with any difficulty there.
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- zoul 15y agoAs far as I know DVD is a licensed technology and the companies that produce DVD players probably have some draconic measures in the license to prevent them from doing this. I think there used to be some players with an easily accessible factory settings, and the info about how to tweak the factory settings conveniently leaked, but I’m not sure how that worked in the end.
- nodata 15y agoThey can't use the DVD logo if they do that. That's it iirc.
- felipemnoa 15y agoThe cheat will always cry that he's being cheated.
- pyre 15y agoBut the 'honest man' will turn the other cheek?
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- sliverstorm 15y agoWasn't it the users that strongarmed most sites into publicly protesting?
- andrewflnr 15y agoShh. You'll break the reality distortion field.
- SeanDav 15y agoAnyone here think they managed to write that line with a straight face?
- chernevik 15y agoI do. The most frightening effect of political rhetoric is the disruption of the rhetorician's ability to think. See Orwell, "Politics and the English Language."
- rpedroso 15y agoI thought that bit was really interesting. The MPAA and other SOPA supporters adamantly maintain that the law would only serve to enforce copyright infringement. Is Chris Dodd trying to say that Google, Wikipedia, etc. have an interest in preserving piracy? Or, more likely, is this simply a rhetorical contradiction?