Joakal

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by Joakal 15y ago
Would it be piracy if someone was able to provide tools to enable disabled parts? "You're making us lose business by providing a tool to allow customers to use more than what they expected and paid for."
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by Joakal 15y ago
If you think that's bad, government laws are copyrighted in some parts of the world. Yes, you're a pirate if you try to share government laws.
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by Joakal 15y ago
For what's it's worth too, the bail for MU and others were granted because most of what the police said were made up stuff. You probably heard about this when they seized empty accounts. I wouldn't be surprised if the indictment was also an
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by Joakal 15y ago
I'm working on giving people a way to demand stronger Australian Internet Access as a side project. Technology eg darknet, won't solve this at the rate of draconian laws being proposed. No technology can prevent arbitrary disconnections at
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by Joakal 15y ago
The article is a little out of date, interest groups were recently blocked from participating: http://pirateparty.org.au/2012/04/05/tppa-negotiation-farce-... I've written more about what to do (For Australians) in my side project: https
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by Joakal 15y ago
How does the common voter vote against it? Democrats; Supported by Hollywood. Republicans; Supported by big companies.
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by Joakal 15y ago
You mean this: http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY ?
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by Joakal 15y ago
I've heard of them saying they'll change to Debian or other flavours, occasionally macs, but not one said they'll go back to windows.
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by Joakal 15y ago
Spoiler warning: This is the comparison of endings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA Not to mention there was proposal of story DLCs before the release of ME3 that caused further dissonance (nickel and dime perception): https://
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by Joakal 15y ago
To be fair, the earliest form of copyright was a tool of government and church oppression in order to restrict access to information (including bibles).
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by Joakal 15y ago
IANAL but from reading it literally; It seems that the bill goes the other way too, in actually granting the power to take down the companies for 'misappropriation' of 'personally identifiable information'. Since EFF claims this would 'bypa
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by Joakal 15y ago
It has caught some mainstream attention, look up Pirate Party Australia. Is this mainstream attention enough: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/aussie-pira... ?
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by Joakal 15y ago
How would one poison pill genetic data to the point of it being worthless to associate with the individual?
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by Joakal 15y ago
I'm working with my local Pirate Party to outlaw domain name seizures for the reason that it's asinine since domain names act as typically an address to content and can't violate any laws although the server hosting the content can still be
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by Joakal 15y ago
Some websites don't offer this explicitly but they have a print button feature which does the same thing.
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by Joakal 15y ago
Several methods they can attempt; 1) Tax/Licence fee. Look at Germany taxing Google News et al for the News collection societies. 2) Put pressure on the financial areas they're allowing money. There's a reason why KickStarter isn't adopting
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by Joakal 15y ago
The copyright owner can't give the bare right to sue? What about those legal firms sending DMCAs on behalf of copyright owner(s)?
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by Joakal 15y ago
For those that think USA only tackles people profiting from copyright infringement, there's this person extradited from Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Griffiths It's likely you'll deal with USA due to American copyrighted co
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by Joakal 15y ago
The ACTA worries Medecins sans Frontieres: http://www.msfaccess.org/content/counterfeit-substandard-and... More: http://www.msfaccess.org/content/counterfeit-confusion http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2155038/acta-kills-...
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by Joakal 15y ago
You're thinking of liquid democracy if you want to demand that from your representatives.
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by Joakal 15y ago
Google.com even thinks some part of Google.com had some suspicious activity: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.co... Yahoo's even worst: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=yahoo.com The only searc
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by Joakal 15y ago
Probably someone leaking from the inside due to money/incompetence? That makes their PR go worst though. There's a myriad of scenarios. They can only be upfront and show how well they respond to the situation including mitigating future sec
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by Joakal 15y ago
Here's a good read of how Denmark originally intended to censor child porn went on to censor many other areas including piracy, sites that didn't pay taxes, etc: http://ww.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/nqytz/censorship_what...
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by Joakal 15y ago
It's contributing to the popularity, and there's a belief that hollywood is 90% marketing, 10% fluff. I'm just curious if you knew how much was marketing.
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by Joakal 15y ago
How much of the 200 million+ is marketing? Even some celebrity actors are marketing.
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by Joakal 15y ago
Is there a different tax rate if the employees received the equivalent amount in shares and then sold it?
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Uhh, this person didn't profit from piracy.
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by Joakal 15y ago
There's precedent for anti-piracy extraditions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths An Australian was extradited to USA despite having never been to USA or profited from piracy. Then was subsequently jailed, eventually fin
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How is it going to hurt a lot of people?
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by Joakal 15y ago
I wait for a program that generates all the copyright content in existence. It will automatically not generate copyrighted and pubic domained content already. The business model is automatically sending notices claiming copyright infringeme

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