firefighterguy
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Edit. I'm an idiot. Lol!
Saw your post before you edited... don't you read what you're posting, silly? :tongue:Edit. I'm an idiot. Lol!
Saw your post before you edited... don't you read what you're posting, silly? :tongue:
Ok, just watched the video. Twice.
Very nice argument, helps clear things up. However, I do want to point out two things that I think the speaker misses, intentionally...
1) He talks about innocent until proven guilty and that we should not be treated as thieves on the internet. But aren't we? I mean seriously, let's be brutally honest here. Which of you reading this has never downloaded an MP3 that you didn't pay for? A movie? A game? Copy of Windows or some other app? Ripped a CD for a buddy, or copied a friend's music collection?
I would be willing to bet that of his audience that is all nodding their heads with him, 75% of them have used the internet to steal content of some sort or another. So I feel like many of them, and most of us, are hypocrites. We claim indignation and denounce this "attack on our freedom", but at the end of the day I didn't know that we had the freedom to steal what we didn't pay for. We do it, I do it, but let's not try to pretend that what I/We are doing is right.
2) I don't think that this is all just to stifle sharing and creation. I think that it is intended to keep others from sharing THEIR creations, first and foremost.
If we owned the materials that were being stolen and parsed out for free on the internet, I am betting that most of us would be singing a different tune than I see here in this thread. It's easy to be against SOPA when it isn't your product that is being ripped off...
That right there is obviously the best solution. It is rare when human beings are willing to truly self-reflect and take responsibility for the choices they make. To paraphrase Ghandi, "Be the change you most want to see in the world." That's a great philosophy to live by. I am optimistic that humanity as a whole will achieve greater heights of self-awareness and realize some of these lofty ideals. It will happen, one day... (probably in another couple thousand years or so.)What if we could actually change ourselves instead of having someone else do it for us?
In the mean time (and getting our heads down out of the clouds), we could potentially develop several interim technological solutions that will stair-step our way toward a truly solid security breakthrough for the web and mitigate these issues almost entirely.
Not as long as there are teenagers with no money, computers, and too much time on their hands
That's the problem with DRM. It doesn't stop pirating and only introduces complications for the paying consumer. If you've ever had an hdcp issue you know what I'm talking about.
So let me get this straight... You and the mods keep stepping in and saying that if the conversation about censorship goes in a direction that you do not approve of, that you will censor us here in the forum?
Kinda ironic, no?