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Thank you for the reference - I agree, that's the most likely interpretation of the email. I wonder why this wasn't called out more strongly when the hedge fund was mentioned in th…

The only reference I found to their hedge fund said that it hasn't launched yet, not that it has failed.

You misunderstand. Your email _address_ (and mine) have already been leaked, shortly before Christmas 2011. What WikiLeaks is now publishing is a list of actual internal emails, as…

That's still not like sending a letter without an envelope.

And he's saying that this change is for the worse. He has made substantive arguments, and you have responded with a useless platitude.

This bit is inaccurate, as far as I can tell: > it was also transmitting the data in “plain text.” This would be like mailing a private letter to someone without the envelope. My u…

There are no straw man arguments in this entire thread, let alone the comment you replied to.

I haven't read a whole lot on this - could you clarify on the ripping off of IP? edit: I should have read the whole comment thread first - nevermind.

I dispute that the law "requires" prosecution.

It's still not a slippery slope. It's an analogy that illustrates what would be possible, de jure. Honestly, there's no slope involved at all.

I see no slippery slope in his argument. Singing Happy Birthday in public is actually a copyright violation, right now.

This is just a friendly suggestion to edit that second sentence - it threw me for a bit.

This sounds more like the original iTerm than the newer iTerm2 to me. They're separate projects.

Thanks for the info!

Strawman. A congressperson ought to either be an expert in those things, or listen to those that are.

I grew up less than a mile away from the Fox River, one of the worst in the state, and I must say, I never thought of myself as saddled with a horrible legacy. There are plenty of …

I grew up in Wisconsin, and until recently worked there. $120k seems an outrageous amount to me - where are your friends?

You posited a situation where a group of people (the artists and/or their representatives) got together for the purposes of tricking UMG into illegally issuing a DMCA takedown noti…

More ridiculous drivel. The "end result" of my life will be substantially different, depending on how I affect the people around me. Do you have anything to say that's even slightl…

> If 'illegal' was as binary as you want to imply, then all penalties would be exactly the same What a ridiculous statement, which bears absolutely no relation to what I said. > Th…

> Don't get carried away with conspiracy theories Followed by a conspiracy theory of your own: > I also find it highly probable that this was a targeted effort to get the video int…

> There is a difference between malice directed towards MegaUpload and (willful) negligence. It's a difference that doesn't matter in the slightest. The organization is acting ille…

I reread it. It still looks like you're drawing a distinction between a person flagging an "infringing" work, and a bot doing the same. I still think that there is no practical use…

We're floating conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence here now?

I see no practical difference between a human issuing illegitmate DMCA takedown notices, or using a bot to do the same. The difference to the affected party is nil. "The bot made m…