TheAmazingIdiot

It I wasn't authorized, why did the webserver comply?

The fact the webserver willingly gave the information I requested to me (did not 403 or 531), so I must be authorized.

Tptacek is pretty much a nutjob. He was going on and on against 1st sale doctrine about reimportation, how is it evil and such.

He also despises republicans completely, given this thread alone.

I'd set equal the anger in Tptacek to the craziness in sparrowos.

Then justify the distinction of

Trespass: up to 30 days in jail and/or 100$ fine

!!!COMPUTER!!! trespass: Years and years in jail, hundreds of thousands of dollars fine, Federal felony.

Yeah. SOUNDS LEGIT.

YouTube does automated dispute handling. They aren't even DMCA complaints. So they have no real burden.

Hosting with The Pirate Bay would seem like an option. They seem to have 'stop shutdowns' stopped pretty well.

When people while about getting 'removed from friends list' like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, MSN networks...

If it is free, they can do this anytime they like. Your proper answer is to set up your own server and do it yourself. I guess taking it public and getting responses from individuals in that company is your response. Still doesn't mean you shouldn't set up shop in your own right.

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It's yet another sudoku game. No matter how good it is, or looks, you compete with the multitude of free sudoku games out there.

Try something more vertical niche, and hunker down. A fill-in-the-blank game is not super-profit worthy. Even Rovio took a decade before they hit it with Angry Birds.

I think this is a problem too: Price: Free

Well, unless you make up for it in quantity...?

This argument goes towards the DMCA, as well as what is considered under the CFAA..

"Intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain: ....Information from any protected computer."

What does 'without authorization' mean, and what does 'protected' mean?

Does without authorization mean you violate a click-through license? Or is there some nebulous authentication chit you are handed? Is it a felony to fake your name on a website demanding your name?

And with that keyword 'protected', how do we know it is indeed protected? What steps one must take to protect, and what steps one must go through to understand that it is indeed protected computer/data?

In other words, we are all felons-on-standby. The laws are so vague as to entrap all by default.

Companies really hate it when you use globalization to bolster your side.

Whether that be buying DVDs, software, books, watches, or any type of good or service, the big buys will try to make it illegal.

Boo fucking hoo.

Yeah. Tell me about how that death star is going to go again?

That's why these petitions are an utter joke.

I wonder how many subscribers and advertising clients threatened (or did) pull their funding of The Atlantic?

The the time I saw it hit front page here, to now hasn't been that long. Must have hurt their bottom line.

"So by your judgement, all these folks could be sacked and nothing of value would be lost?"

I would argue that value would be gained by sacking these people (and organizations).

Most of the money they (and other journals) uses is dependent on excessive licensing fees charged to universities. The universities turn around and add that to each person's tuition.

And all the work the journal publishes WAS owned by the students of the very university, until the journal demands transfer of copyright to the journal... So they can sell them back work at 1000X the profit.

By definition, they are parasites. What we need is a good anti-parasitic medicine.