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by dissident 15y ago
Couldn't be more wrong, sorry. The ICE seizures are perfectly fine because they target the delegation chain directly -- they are actually seizing the domain from a registrar or TLD authority with control over it within the chain. They are
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by dissident 15y ago
I wouldn't use "there isn't enough due process" to describe why SOPA is a terrible bill, or any similar legal argument. Besides, many of those problems have been fixed in the Manager's amendment. DNS blacklisting as a concept is simply unac
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by dissident 15y ago
Also relevant is the increased availability of professional software for film/music production, and advanced technologies for producing creative content which are emerging. How much is a Hollywood movie really going to cost to produce in fi
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by dissident 15y ago
I also don't use Chrome because of the combined elements. I think they serve different purposes and combining them is confusing (at least to somebody used to having them as separate features). I also use the search bar as a kind of clipbo
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by dissident 15y ago
Imagine somebody built a matter duplicator. I decide to use it to duplicate a can of soda instead of buying it from the company. The original creator hasn't been paid for their efforts, but they definitely haven't expended any costs due to
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by dissident 15y ago
The service of creative content production, or intellectual property in general, is an artificial one, not a natural one. We've endowed ourselves with this institution, presumably to promote cultural progress. So established, we can argue
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by dissident 15y ago
That is circular logic and represents all that was wrong in the original article. Copyright, as an institution, implies that ownership of data is possible and real, therefore implying that the data can be "stolen". People who disagree with
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by dissident 15y ago
Copyright is not the only way to financially motivate progress in culture. Public subsidy toward individuals who have enhanced culture is already a working model, and we've also had institutions like this in the past (even in the U.S. gover
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by dissident 15y ago
Public info also makes it easier to steal a domain. Long ago, I (being childish) stole a domain from some random person who pissed me off in a video game. I spent three days calling the registrar's offices (along with a friend) over fifty t
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by dissident 15y ago
> the amount of people that pirate because of DRM is tiny This depends on the DRM and the software. Software which has high international demand but is region-locked to specific countries will be pirated because of the DRM at rates that
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by dissident 15y ago
As an administrator of an online message board, I concur. Web content is being so efficiently aggregated that some forums turn into the awkward conversation between two redditors: "Check this out!" "Heh, yeah. I saw that." Communities befor
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by dissident 15y ago
While it would be much more convenient for everybody if they implemented some extension of the current protocol/formatting, there are some issues with accomplishing that. Names registered with namecoin have to depend on some blobs which can
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by dissident 15y ago
Namecoin is based on Bitcoin, but it uses a different block chain. Essentially, they are two different "commodities". You have to obtain namecoins in order to purchase .bit names. However, you can purchase namecoins with bitcoins using bi
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by dissident 15y ago
Namecoin is already established, and although there could be better P2P naming systems, I'm happy they're trying to snag .bit. I had a similar thought just earlier this week; Namecoin could work seamlessly alongside our current naming syste
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by dissident 15y ago
This isn't a replacement of existing DNS with some arbitrary JSON protocol, this is a P2P DNS called Namecoin which happens to use JSON. Arguably, the flexibility offered by JSON can allow for sophisticated technologies to emerge which can
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by dissident 15y ago
That's absurd. Just because the motive of the advertisement is to sell you an idea, doesn't mean it isn't done creatively and artistically. In fact, advertisements tend to be most effective when they are extremely artistic and unique. Art i
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by dissident 15y ago
That's actually not specifically the problem with crytocurrencies. The CPU cost is dynamic in bitcoin, and has changed in the past to reflect more or less people mining new bitcoins. The real problem with crytocurrencies is scaling transact
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by dissident 15y ago
The homepage links to this: http://www.dartlang.org/support/index.html .
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by dissident 15y ago
He might be saying something false, but he's saying something he believes is true. They're not asking him for an account on some event that took place, they're asking for an opinion. Lying under oath has to be a clear and deliberate misrepr
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by dissident 15y ago
If you dig through their website, it looks like the common theme is "get money out of government", which is a rather vague goal and doesn't explain much. Assuming they mean political finance regulations, who objectively determines when the