This is not about music but there's no better thread:
http://au.gamespot.com/news/ubisoft-drm-games-to-be-temporarily-unplayable-6349732
Publisher's antipiracy scheme will prevent customers from playing some of its Mac and PC games for an undetermined period of time during server transition starting February 7.
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 3 February 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
but the pirates wont have any downtime at all. Way to treat your paying customers.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 3 February 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Despite widespread opposition to SOPA from bloggers on the left, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sopa-hollywood-gop-piracy-286648
not sure i buy the envisioned future of republicans as ip reformers, but it is sort of interesting
― lag∞n, Friday, February 3, 2012 12:36 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was fairly shocked when I read the 'for' and 'against' SOPA columns. For: Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Franken, etc. etc. etc. -- Against: Bachmann, Paul, Issa, etc -- tea party central. Not mainstream republicans like Boehner but all the radical right who are ready to drum up self-righteous anger at the drop of a hat. So the article you posted actually seems to have it right: MPAA assumed Republican support and spent all their time courting / buying off the Democrats, and by the time they started publically reprimanding Democrats for not staying bought off, it had actually become a full on political win for the right
― Milton Parker, Friday, 3 February 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah ur right, i guess what i was taking issue w/is the idea that this is the beginning of a trend, cause you know theres nothing republicans love more than big business and the status quo
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
but i would love to be proven wrong!
Wow @ that Ubisoft thing, thats completely fucked.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
it's perfect really
― Wie wol ich bin der vogel has noch den erfret mich das (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, February 3, 2012 8:46 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
all the companies with internet-realist business models are anti-SOPA. the Republicans are still big business; but they're seeing a new status quo rising up and they're betting on the teams that are clearly going to win
― Milton Parker, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
There, now you've made Cary Sherman cry, you horrible people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/what-wikipedia-wont-tell-you.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
As it happens, the television networks that actively supported SOPA and PIPA didn’t take advantage of their broadcast credibility to press their case. That’s partly because “old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.” Apparently, Wikipedia and Google don’t recognize the ethical boundary between the neutral reporting of information and the presentation of editorial opinion as fact.
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”“old media” draws a line between “news” and “editorial.”
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
The hyperbolic mistruths, presented on the home pages of some of the world’s most popular Web sites, amounted to an abuse of trust and a misuse of power.
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
lmfao at "broadcast credibility"
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
fileserve has quietly gone back up, it seems
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0n09wyQwWk
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
what a creep
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I just love the fact that he actually existed and lived his life
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I think it would make an amazing movie
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
― Milton Parker, Friday, February 3, 2012 12:41 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
this is kind of fascinating. i'm imagining a future republican party that's dominated by "real conservative" values of the sort that nonreligious conservatives love to tout: personal freedom, free enterprise, free internets, darwinian competition in all things, no handouts. opposed to this is a democratic party that advocates limited freedoms and federal oversight/assistance in the name of social justice and "decency", and which counts on the altruistic sympathies of religious leaders.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
iatee otm
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
― Little GTFO (contenderizer),
I believe that is the correct prediction for how the Third American Party System is going to be, just a matter of time for it to all play out. IMO we are in the death throes of the Second Party System.
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
i.e. the two main parties will basically be Libertarian-lite and Christian Democrat.
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
blech sorry, I didn't realize we were already up to the Fourth Party System so disregard my terminology... fucking poli-sci...
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Were it so? In the Anglo-American two party system we still adhere to, the two poles must contain multitudes. The multitudes are shifting generationally but should I live another forty years I would love to see the attritional demise of the 'conservative' wing of the Right (they will be outnumbered ethnically for one thing) but I don't even pray that there will be a Christian Democrat party of any interest. The libertarians and Xtiansists have tried to square the circle w/the Gospel and Mammonism for long enough but it cannot last.
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
well you have to take into account that I don't know what I'm talking about but giving my opinions nonetheless...
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Do we have an ACTA thread?
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://hagenspan.com/NYMHall/players/A/ManAct.jpg
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
So as of today, RIP my most used shared-content site of the last half-year or so, library.nu. Also RIP ifile.it. Supposedly both casualties of an operation by a German association of publishers.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
Stuff going down in the UK too Users warned of 10 years in jail as RnBXclusive.com shut down by police
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 16 February 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
my man Kirby just finished part 4 of Everything Is A Remix and it's the best one yet
http://gizmodo.com/5885644/everything-thats-wrong-with-patent-and-copyright-laws-in-one-brilliant-video
thinking of the Anti-SOPA contingent in the Tea Party; when Kirby pulls up an image of the aged Copyright Act of 1790, it really does strike me how this issue should go right across both party lines
― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently, Anonymous will try to shut the whole internet down on March 31st.
http://pastebin.com/XZ3EGsbc
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Anonymous is getting sloppy - its pretty obvious to me a better date would be the Ides of March rather than a date with no symbolic significance.
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
on a weekend? c'moooooonnnn
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Angus Batey on Mr. Dotcom:
http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/auf-wiedersehen-prat-kim-dotcom-interview.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/26/2141246/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copyrighted-music
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
seeing a lot more of these lately
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― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link