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> The complaint says that when notified under DMCA of an infringing file, present at a link, say megaupload.com/dark-knight-video-rip.iso that MegaUpload WOULD in fact remove the link, but that they would NOT remove the file, or remove links at say, megaupload.com/dk-knight-dvd-rip_O_o.iso, even if no DMCA takedown notice occurred for that particular link.

it would be great to know if its possible they had an insider. how otherwise would they know that other links linked to the same content were linking to exact the same file that DMCA note was sent to take down. Otherwise it was unfair and thats the purpose why safe harbour exist -- it protects you a small company from millions of users uploading their content and being shorthand or not having boots to check each and single file whether it violates someones copyrights or not.

> Consider this totally legal (for me) scenario: I rip the Dark Knight DVD, and place it in Dropbox as a legal backup of my content. I share the link with nobody; it's just mine, all mine.

I am not sure if this is entirely legal.

First you say you didnt make a copy, but "rip". Its called ripping because DVDs content is locked with an encrypted key, so locked DVD with a movie is not just a folder with files you can copy over to your desktop. Years ago there was a movie when they forgot to lock the key and based off of it software developers were able to build a key decryptor for any encrypted DVD. Most DVD ripping software is illegal throughout the world, at least some software vendors got lawsuit over their software functionality.

Further, while I dont have a link handy, but I recall there was a discussion on HN that 9th circuit make it illegal for anyone to stream any copyrighted content, whether to themselves or a group of people. So uploading it into cloud and then getting it back out of it technically is illegal, AFAIK, but that was month ago when I saw this posting.
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> How can sharing something be wrong? Especially when it is essentially a bunch of 0s and 1s that you could write down by hand if you had the patience to?

Everything in the world is essentially just a bunch of atom, too. By this logic you can probably do anything you want and never be wrong, right?
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Regardless of how this turns out, doesn't the fact that the DoJ already has the tools to take out sites like megaupload mean that we don't need things like SOPA/PIPA?
Hmm, MGM claimed that ripping a CD was legal to the SCOTUS, and I am certainly allowed to circumvent CSS on DVDs for non-infringing purposes, but I think my argument holds just fine if you substitute an ISO of Snow Leopard, a DVD I finally found in my basement recently.

I find the claim that I can't remotely backup the ISO over the internet surprising -- I have never even heard of such a stance.
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Two Senators willing to filibuster plus the amount that backed out after yesterday's protests will make it very tough to get this bill to a vote.

This is absolutely not true. 41 votes are needed to prevent closure. According to Rep Lofgren the headcount for no votes on closure are down in the singe digits : http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/onk34/urgent_message/

Once closure happens the bill heads into markup behind closed doors where the sausage making starts.

These bills are still very much on track. People need to be on the phones to their senators urging a no vote on closure so that the debate can happen in public with input from both sides.
I am in the process of integrating Recurly into my existing business, and I have to say, those graphs misleading regarding Recurly.

The Recurly gateway is already included with the normal Recurly costs.

Zero out the gateway numbers in the calculator there and you will see the difference.
http://expletiveinserted.com/recurring-payment-cost-calculat...

Granted, Stripe avoids the paperwork and business requirements for getting a merchant account. However, I already had most of those requirements ticked (you need them anyways if you intend to operate aboveboard), and I want all the subscription management features Recurly provides.

Further, the Recurly gateway includes credit card portability (Braintree is the only other company I know of that supports this).
http://www.portabilitystandard.org/

EDIT: Removed incorrect merchant account fees.
I think you paint a skewed version of history, slavery was alive and well in England until 1772 with the James Somersett's decision. We can argue over the semantics as to whether a serf is a slave by legal letter, but for most it is commonly accepted that the institution of slavery existed in England until 1772. It also existed in many colonies that existed under many structures of rule. It's existence, in England can be traced to Rome (it actually existed in a form even before Roman occupation), who can trace it to Greece who can trace it to Egypt who can trace it to Mesopotamia. In each of those empires, the rights of slaves ebbed and flowed just as today the rights of citizens ebb and flow. In England slaves had some rights, in the US they had less, in Haiti under the French even less, but it was all slavery and they can all trace their roots back to Rome and as such back to Mesopotamia. But to argue that what England had was not slavery in comparison to the US is akin to arguing what the US had was not slavery in comparison to Haiti. The reality is very different though, they where all indentured, and deprived of rights, to most that classifies as slavery. Roman slavery was also instrumental in shaping the western views on slavery (which was a pretty brutal view).

The republic is no more or less responsible for slavery than any other form of government, with maybe the exception of Fascism. Abolitionism and industrialization can take far more credit for the elimination of slavery than the structuring of a government. The fact that slavery was not abolished in Norther states until 4 years after the war started lends credence to the fact that the institution of slavery fared no better due to a strong central government in DC, what ended slavery was a combination of changing cultural norms (the abolitionist possessing the stronger moral argument) and Industrialization requiring the need for skilled and educated workers. These are the constructs that ended slavery not a strong central government. Hitler had a strong central government, and it could be argued that he enslaved millions. It is not the system of government but rather the morals and virtue of the culture.

in both cases the better side won

Yes in much the same way the better side won in the Iraqi war. Some good will come of it and some bad will as well. But with conflict there are always a host of agendas at play, boiling war down to "liberating the Iraqi people" does us a disservice and makes us far more susceptible to repeating past mistakes, because every war that has ever been fought has been justified by a moral cause. But morality does not emerge from acts of immorality. It emerges from the enlightenment of moral people such as the abolitionist, or Dr. King or Gandhi.

War is never morally virtuous, it is men killing men and usually for resources or power, forgetting that, allows us to succumb to moral propaganda, when we need to be vanguards of peace.
Get an Apple typewriter. Write your Book. Once it's done Apple knocks on your door, tells you that you have to sell their book in their store, and they will take a cut from it. And if you are against that, you can't sell it at all.

So much for the 21st century progress and freedom to own what you create.
Deceptive headline: GDP is annual revenue, yet they are comparing that with market capitalisation... What would the total assets (government, public and private) of Greece cost to buy?

Confusingly http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/gdp-market-cap/2006/12/21/ implies that amount of GDP is crudely comparible with the amount of market cap (which ignores govt or private equity) - due to other reasons!
He's probably being downvoted by people who have extensive experience in dealing with PayPal. Dealing with PayPal's rather frequent API outages can be hell for businesses and developers. If you have a small enough business that you don't need to use the API, then go for it, but otherwise, you might just wind up scraping the PayPal site pages when there's an outage.
10 Most Influential Twitter Users In Protest Against SOPA
Megaupload's Kim Schmitz arrested in Auckland (police statement)
IANAL either, but Apple's lawyers _are_ lawyers, so rest assured that they've thought about this, as well.

I suspect the answer is this: you're free to sell the e-book version for a fee and give away the iBooks version: this just makes the iPad a more attractive product and undercuts your own e-book sales. This is probably a stupid move on your part, but that's hardly Apple's problem.

But giving away the iBooks version _only to purchasers of the e-book version_ is equivalent to the iBooks version being a "feature" of the (non-free) e-book version, which is quite different than "giving away the iBooks version". This would also apply to giving away the iBooks version, but only to members of my fee-based "book club", subscribers to my fee-based newsletter, and so on. Otherwise, what stops textbook publishers from selling non-iBooks "teachers' editions" for $10,000, then giving away copies of the iBooks versions to students enrolled in courses taught by holders of teachers' editions, then passing the $10,000 cost on to students by way of "enrollment fees" or tuition hikes, offset by the fact that "textbooks are now free"?
Consumers can easily see alternatives to MS products are better. It's only a matter of time; MS lost that contest.

They are now resigned to use bogus patents to get a piece of the future they will not otherwise be a part of. The alternatives to their ridiculous continous upgrade path are more functional, easy enough to use and more cost effective.
When we manage to show this to business market, MS is in big trouble. Cost effectiveness and ease of deployment and use. MS can be beaten on these fronts. And they will be. In time.
Ethics of clinical drug trials run in India
How can it be qualified as derivative work ? If you consider it this way, then everything in your life is a derivative work of something else. Writing a patent on paper is a derivate work of the paper manufacturer ? Painting a picture would be a derivative work of the brushes and paint ?

There is no ground for any of this.
I agree here. We should make the main issue the fact that MPAA and RIAA just want to do away with due process. So we have to ask ourselves, why are they doing that? It's because when these cases actually go to Court, they don't always win. In fact in a lot of the cases they lose.

This is why they've been trying to switch their strategy from fighting the "pirate sites" in Court, and instead just try to get Congress to pass a law that helps them bypass the courts completely and give them a kill-switch for all the sites they don't like. Their strategy with these bills has been "shoot first, and hopefully you don't ask any questions later and take us to Court".

So before anything, this is what we really need to focus on and fight against - them wanting to remove full due process. But once we do kill SOPA and PIPA for good, we really need to get Congress to kill the Pro IP Act (passed in 2008), which already allows ICE to take down .com, .org, .net sites without due process. In a way Pro IP is worse than SOPA and PIPA, because they already affect "US sites" rather than "foreign sites".
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Is there a valid design reason for a site to render zero content if the browser has JavaScript disabled?

Ok, so the top bar shows up, but not the actual post. And if I select View->Page Style->No Style, I can find the text, as well.

Sad.
Researchers Release Exploits for Critical Infrastructure Software
Clickable link: http://trycapsule.com

Good luck!
You mentioned hoping someone can come along to get this right. I am certainly trying with http://searchco.de/

Its still a long way from being close to Google code search both in terms of code indexed (amending that as I write this) but I hope to get things up-to a par as soon as I possibly can.

Symbolhound http://symbolhound.com/ also has a code index that's worth a look too.
Agreed. Navigation through a file without using the mouse or arrow keys greatly speeds up misc. edits in a large tree of files.

Other upsides are the ability to delete text without the backspace or delete key, and to perform more complicated operations on a file, such as full regex search-and-replace, macros, and so on.

Really what it boils down to is a powerful text editor that lets you keep your hands on the keyboard at all times- which of course is not appropriate for all tasks, but very useful for many.
These are really, really basic tools and books. Once you're past this you can get a copy of some good Springer books (e.g. "Recommender Systems Handbook") and follow up on the papers and studies referenced.
I'm confused, if "knowledge of infringing material and do nothing about it" cause you have no safe harbor. Any big content site like YouTube must know some of it's users are abusing the service, but they're more likely to handle it after there's complain.
Or how can you tell whether a file is copyright infringement or not? censoring all uploads, non sense.
You can see some of Verelo's updates here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Verelo/217341405001113
Sorry, but where does Apple claim partial ownership? Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen that.

hm, you may be right. I got it from the paraphrased part of the article (right after the bold EULA text) but now that I look at it, it wasn't actually stated explicitly in the contract anywhere.
It saddens me a little bit that this is the current top post on this subject. I have no problem with pedantic fact checking, but it is hardly the most pertinent issue in the interview.
As a power user, I like detailed error messages because I can search for solutions online, if they exist but I can definitely appreciate the need for a simplified version for the regular user.

A good middle ground is a generalized message that has an advanced button with more details underneath. I do agree that it could be dialed down from 11 on the cute scale. Showing a graphic of a monkey with some smartass remark is not pleasant when I just lost data.
Anonymous Launches "Largest Attack Ever on Government & Music Industry Sites"
Destroying The Internet
If it can sync .vimrc, could it also sync a directory over iCloud? That would be amazing. I'm a die-hard Emacs user, but this would be enough for me to use Vim for at least some work.
You'd think. But that would reduce the number of Windows developers, so doing that would be eating the seed corn.
This commit [1] seems to indicate that it's possible to change the font.

However, I can't actually figure out a way to do so; ":set guifont" doesn't appear to work.

[1]: https://github.com/applidium/Vim/commit/be572d759e857de58453...
The first paragraph makes it very clear. The case is against people who have expensive cars and big television sets.
OMG This is about Kim Schmitz aka Kimble and his Kimpire. He was a lot in the news in 2005 or so. Insider trading, shady business etc. Wow!
Portability is very important and often overlooked. Braintree created the Credit Card Data Portability Standard a couple years back, and I think there are may be a few additional companies supporting it now. http://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/data-portability
a similar article made me think if I ever owe any digital audio whether from my own CDs or from internet, I would have stored it on encrypted drive, preferably encrypted with more than one encrypting algorithm, and either download from work/starbucks etc, or at least owe wireless router so if they go after me, I could claim someone was using my wireless router without my knowledge. I could just hope case against me wouldnt be that strong that they would weight between me giving out a key to my hard drive and lets say 15 hard years in jail.

EDIT: and then in court I would say I forgot the password because I havent been using this drive for a while now.
Not really. When I'm in steno mode, it's like I'm speaking to myself in a different dialect, but when I'm in English mode it's all normal again. Like, this is how I would pronounce the previous sentence in steno:

When I'm n stoin mode, ts like I'm speeg to mysef nay difrt dailect, but when I'm in glish mode ts aul nol sgen.
Kaspersky Scores the Highest Rating in AV Test
What's really surprising about all this, besides the very strange and bogus charges, is how they are handling this. They are going after "copyright infringers" like they are some kind of drug cartel leaders.

It's really amazing how things have changed at the top regarding copyright infringement, that they treat copyright infringers as some of the most wanted criminals. What's next? Sending the drones after them? Giving the chair to the Megaupload or ThePirateBay's founders? It's becoming really ridiculous.
Using PayPal is basically a crap shoot for recurring virtual services. As one poster on Hacker News said, if you aren't putting physical items in boxes and shipping to customers homes, you aren't in PayPal's target market.
you made your point.the indictment,the indictment. Someone was talking about how our freedoms are getting more and more restricted. The big picture. You get in and try to educate people. Well, that's probably how you see yourself.
"simply removing a single link to the content while duplicate links were left in place"

I don't know how MegaUpload works. Does that statement mean that a single user uploaded a file and there were multiple links to that file or does it mean that multiple users uploaded bit-for-bit identical files which each had links? The way it's phrased it sounds like the former, in which case it's obviously wrong.
> a good merchant account will have rates under $0.20/transaction

That's impossible. Visa and MasterCard's interchange rates are 1.15% - 2.7% + $0.10 per transaction, that's the floor at which a merchant account could start its pricing.
Making profit should be proportional to the amount of work + the amount of money needed for the initial investment to be recouped. With such kind of agreements, Apple can claim money FOREVER on this app, no matter the small investment that was initially needed to created this app. This is disproportionate. It's like if I give you a hammer, and then I claim that in all the houses you build with it, you would owe one room. It's disproportionate, because "building a house" is way longer and more difficult than building a hammer.
Just realized this might be geo-blocked to NZ only viewers, I know some video content is as part of their bandwidth agreements (I know the team there quite well). So sorry if it is.
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My wrists went in a week. How on earth did you manage?
Why the iPad Won’t Transform Education — Yet
At least they're embracing the fact most users search for their error messages online.
I'm actually here on side of FBI / DOJ.

As far as I understand they collected a lot of evidence that the site was actually promoting piracy, and refusing to comply to DMCA requests - and handsomely profiting from it (about ~170M).

Hey - on every torrent site when you search for a movie to download you have ad for megaupload (or some of these sites).

And megaupload is not only one: there is http://www.downloadweb.org and many others.
I also worked for Google and people could understand any idea quite easily. I missed that kind of "working speed" in the "real world". Answering your question, I would start from Google search :)
I wonder how much the in-house expertise of developing Chrome is contributing to the GoogleBot analysis stuff. Having people who aren't afraid to go knee deep in WebKit and produce some nice fast library for partially evaluating layouts, etc, is probably quite a nice thing.

As one of the sibling comments here mentions, ad detection is a pretty well-solved problem by now, through size, position and origin matches. The interesting part here I think is how they're actually doing the 'virtual rendering' (and presumably, reflowing it for each of their mentioned typical browser resolutions) to check what's actually 'above the fold'.
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Presumably when Microsoft starts giving away Word and makes Visual Studio a compelling platform for cross-platform development?

In all honesty, given the iPad's share of the tablet market, making unrestricted, high-quality, cross-platform interactive content development tools available to iOS developers at no cost might provoke antitrust claims from the likes of Adobe. But Adobe isn't likely to sell expensive digital publishing software to authors of free books, and mainstream publishers are unlikely to commit to "iPad exclusive" titles to avoid a few thousand dollars in software licenses.
I have to disagree with that. I think the vast majority of businesses, even those selling services, have no problems working with PayPal. Services and virtual goods are as baked into their service as physical ones -- anywhere you describe a payment, in sending, accepting or disputing one, 'service' is an option in the dropdown. Their buyer protection policies and seller protection policies explicitly call out what portions apply and don't apply to virtual goods. Not shipping a tangible item does not automatically put you in a bad position with disputes or chargebacks -- I win virtually all of them.

I consume a lot of other SaaS products, and the majority of them accept PayPal alongside credit cards. I run several "recurring virtual services", and have done so for many many years, and have hundreds of subscribers paying with PayPal. My PayPal account is 11 years old now and some of my PayPal subscribers have been around more than half that long.

When PayPal's customer service fails it tends to fail spectacularly, but all evidence points to these failures being exceptionally rare given the size of their user base.

http://i.imgur.com/z1fTG.png
The other thing is you can probably put up with difficult work OR home, IFF the other is excellent. If both are stressed (and working with a relationship partner makes this more likely), it's really hard.

Maybe personal health (physical and psychological) is the third leg. ONE of the three can be compromised for a while, but if you compromise two, you'll end up losing all three pretty quickly.
The Pettiness of Apple's iBook Author EULA
Yeah, but there's an appropriate middle ground here.

"Something has gone wrong. We've backed up your work, which you can retrieve _here_. It appears the server did not receive the latest update. We will attempt to send the data again, but, in the mean-time, we recommend..." etc.

The message is from professionals that are ready for the unpredictable, which we are.
What confuses me even more is they applied US laws to those who live outside the US?

So the law of America and desires of the copyright cartel trump every other country's laws?

Overall this seems like a big orchestrated F U to the opponents of SOPA (the Internet).

Really if they provided us, what we all are screaming for - better access and selection to their product on the Internet, MegaUpload and future services wouldn't be a concern. Ridiculous!

Updated:
Further some of those behind MegaUpload are artist's of the RIAA.....
Yeah -- maybe a package trip somewhere which DOES include a lot of daily activities (like a structured hike, hunt, photo safari, etc.) would be the best compromise. Someone else plans everything for you, but you still have to actually do it yourself.
It has been apparent for a while now that Obama's DOJ takes orders from the MPAA.