Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

Post by VonGallifrey » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

autosharp wrote: post #360

VonGallifrey wrote: post #325

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If store B is actually the black market then you actually did steal from the one producing whatever you bought or possibly from store A. What do you mean by your first sentence? I am fairly sure that movies do actually cost quite a lot to produce.

On your second point I mean that there is zero marginal cost to produce a movie. To me, that makes that it cannot be compared to stealing e.g. a bag of M&M's.

Post by joseph_grobbles » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:10 PM UTC

proverbialbunny wrote: post #347

joseph_grobbles wrote: post #58

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Lyndon B. Johnson - “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” Play on a particular grievance or issue of a voter and they'll let you do almost anything else. Be anti-immigrant and you can destroy social wellness programs, stomp on unions, etc.

It's sad how true that quote is. The average person votes on rhetoric not actions, like voting record. All you got to do is give them a reason to vote for you, and it helps to have an excuse for your actions to prevent political attacks (like the quote above) and your voters will turn a blind eye to everything else.

Post by t-writescode » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

caymanjim wrote: post #98

I'm disgusted by the comments on HN every time media theft is mentioned. It costs money to make movies, TV shows, and music. There are millions of people whose careers depend on it. Most of the people involved make less than your average HN media pirate. Yes, like everything else, the people at the top make more. Yes, there are shitty UIs, DRM, and absurd rules preventing fair and convenient use of media even if you…

Post by kortilla » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

Spooky23 wrote: post #253

tt433 wrote: post #201

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The key problem is essentially the Hastert rule and its infection of the Senate. Legislation is only considered by leadership, who only concern themselves with counting beans.

The Senate is a gross and antidemocratic institution, but this sort of thing is not unique to the Senate. The nature of legislative bodies is such that compromise and voting while holding your nose is a thing everywhere. The supreme power of the leadership more a symptom of the 50/50 political split, which empowers the party machinery. The legislative leadership weren’t household names at most points in time.

Post by kortilla » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:17 PM UTC

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JackFr wrote: post #238

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She needs to be more realistic on the constraints of the system within which she is working. Omnibus spending bills are huge. The COVID relief portion of the bill is huge. So the document, which contains the implementation details is gonna be pretty big. There’s now way around it More importantly though, you can’t reasonably budget more than a trillion dollars without some horse trading. AOC’s real problem is that sh…

> More importantly though, you can’t reasonably budget more than a trillion dollars without some horse trading. Why? If the relief is federal, which I understand to be the case, no state or local level relief, then why must there be horse trading? Do the international relief in another bill. Do the illegal streaming is a felony in another bill. Etc. It's like creating a massive program around a god function with glob…