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by apotheon 17y ago
It's better the same way that your apartment complex manager turning off the water to your apartment if there's a problem is better than going inside when you explicitly told him not to, checking all your faucets, and going through your und
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by apotheon 17y ago
Thanks.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the clarification. My hesitation to just take the answer and run wasn't so much succinctness as that it was open to interpretation.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> I want copyright to be just and defensible; I write software for a living, and I like being able to profit from its sale. You've made three separate statements here, and linked them together: 1. I want copyright to be just and defensi
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by apotheon 17y ago
> If you don't use RIAA offerings, why aren't you advocating that other people do likewise? I do advocate that other people do likewise. The fact that I don't do so with every breath -- including the virtual "breaths" used to say wha
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by apotheon 17y ago
I'm not sure exactly how you think that addresses my point. Perhaps you're fallaciously affirming the consequent.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Whoops, now you're talking about dictating the recording industry's business model back to it, because you don't like the one they chose. We dictate business models in much the same way in other cases where a particular business model
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by apotheon 17y ago
So . . . the deeper the comment, the sooner it "expires"? That makes in-depth discussion kinda difficult. . . . or are you saying that one cannot reply right away, but after a while one can, if the comment is at greater depth -- and I just
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by apotheon 17y ago
The apartment manager wouldn't have the ability to "pause" the apartment and wait for permission from the tenant to enter, though. The situation isn't strictly analogous.
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by apotheon 17y ago
If there's something in the terms and conditions that says they reserve the right to change the configuration on your system because their explicitly identified policies for dealing with high CPU usage aren't working, I might back off from
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by apotheon 17y ago
The reason I don't use consumer-grade Western Digital drives has nothing to do with a specific drive failure event, and everything to do with the fact that consumer-grade drives from WD are basically factory seconds of WD's enterprise-grade
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by apotheon 17y ago
> No. Not even close. Rimuhosting owns the box in question. You can't possibly break into your own box. I don't think you're familiar with the common uses of "bordering on". > What would you, as a security professional who was dumpe
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1 points by apotheon 17y ago|6 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
No -- I'm writing as if the current form of copyright law was: 1. roughly inevitable, given continued support and enforcement of copyright 2. inevitably going to result in behavior like suing teenagers Actually, I'm not even writing as if t
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by apotheon 17y ago
Are you aware you just made an argument to the effect of people who can't afford things not representing a loss of revenue when they download it for free?
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Nowhere does apotheon actually advocate that copyright law is wrong Incorrect. Try following links once in a while. Do you expect me to say everything in one place? My god, all my opinions and explanations relevant to them in one pl
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by apotheon 17y ago
> So you're advocating simply ignoring the laws you don't approve of? Not as such. More to the point, I'm advocating phasing out those laws, regardless of whether anyone follows them while they're still on the books. People are alread
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by apotheon 17y ago
That's the implicit message in anyone's attempt to legislate the way I use, or dispose of, what I have in my possession the way copyright law does. "My business model sucks, so I'll use the government to ensure you conform to it -- since i
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by apotheon 17y ago
whoosh Apparently, you too did not read the article, nor most of my comment -- or maybe you ignored the beginning of wwalker3's comment, where (s)he said: > It's a reiteration of a sentiment I've seen a lot recently: "My livelihood does
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Your arguments against copyright are so solid that they appear to change with each comment you make. I don't think you're reading very carefully, then. > What is lost when a penniless student downloads a song? Not much. What is lo
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by apotheon 17y ago
That's great. Now . . . let's see if we can avoid legislating politeness.
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by apotheon 17y ago
What's that -- a long-winded way to say "tl;dr"? Look again, and see that "My livelihod does depend on copyright(able works)." While those aren't the specific words used to express the sentiment, that's definitely the sentiment explicit
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by apotheon 17y ago
It would be easy as hell for me to shoot the hinges off a neighbor's door with a shotgun, wander inside, and turn off all the lights. That doesn't make it right.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Gaining root in such an underhanded manner against the client's wishes is bordering on criminal behavior. It doesn't get much worse than that. Of course, I write about security professionally. Maybe I have a different perspective on what
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by apotheon 17y ago
That is fucking awesome. It's depressing to consider the fact that it would probably get downvoted on the science subreddit.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Well . . . the word "Maybe" in pg's comment is the only reason I didn't downvote it.
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by apotheon 17y ago
What -- so now we aren't allowed to refer to people by name? I think that's a terrible idea, especially when I'm talking to foo about something bar said.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Heh. Maybe, instead of anonymizing names, pg should just ensure that once you pass 200 points your point value is replaced with the word "ensouled". That way, we can still tell who's who, newbies still get drawn in and invested by the kar
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by apotheon 17y ago
There's still the matter of confusion when [name withheld] is responding to [name withheld], though -- and for that reason alone, I'm afraid I have to disagree with your suggestion. It's also the case that sometimes I'm not entirely sure wh
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by apotheon 17y ago
The reason we don't "get" to ignore those monopolistic practices is the simple fact that it's a law -- which says nothing at all about whether it's right or wrong.

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