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Life is short, you can't control other people's motivations or beliefs. Don't feel guilty, maybe you will go on to solve more important problems.
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Boxer supports PIPA as well.

Another example of how things could be better if Northern and Southern California split into two states.
No it's just copying. Copying is not "theft" or "piracy" unless you prove that there is a loss. Arguing that investment return should be a guarantee is kind of creepy. Honestly, story telling has never been so expensive.

There's always a rogue fringe in the population. No matter how many laws you introduce, these law are only going to inconvenience the majority of the population. America has this great trend of over-criminalizing everything and for what ? The content industry represents what, 1% of the GDP ?

I'm not saying that if everybody would use TPB is wouldn't be bad for the content industry but last time I saw their numbers, they never have made as much profit. If it weren't for TPB&friends, we would probably not have Spotify or Netflix because the pressure wouldn't be there. The rogue people have always been useful in history to challenge status quo and we should cut them some slack. This is where the freedom kicks in.

Also, by repeating these terms of "piracy" and "theft", you are playing right in the hands of the hollywood PR. It's not aligned with reality and oversimplifies the complexity of what is going on. That's why I'm reacting. I'm sick of seeing the same biased ideas repeated by intelligent people that sound exactly as coming from hollywood.

Please, can't we just have more tolerance for each-other ?
The authors will be very unhappy. So you just build your own happiness on other people's unhappiness and ignore them, saying, "why should they?"
The point of the treaty is to come to an agreement between two governments. If the provisions of the treaty are not legally possible than the treaty is meaningless. For a more extreme example:

If the US congress signs a treaty with England which agrees that the US Presidents will no longer have any power in exchange for the English Prime Ministers too also no longer have any power, it doesn't matter because congress didn't have the power to write such laws in the first place.
That is utter insanity. And only two Justices understand. This is a dark day for the U.S., and the vast majority of the population neither knows nor cares.

It's all up to Lessig now.
Are there some examples from the article that support this idea that primarily "he just doesn't want to pay"?
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If this is true, shouldn't TPB take down all items on their website which is already available digitally? Everything available currently on Amazon, iTunes, Hulu, Spotify, Rhapsody, Netflix, et al should be removed then correct? It is availably digitally. I think your statement of 'how and when they want it' actually means they want it immediately and want it for $0 or as close to $0 as possible.
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Or specifically, "impersonation".
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>> When does the act of stealing occur? If I download a torrent and then delete it without watching/playing/listening, did I steal it?

Yes, welcome to adulthood.
Oh, sorry, by "representation" I meant the proportion represented in the "top one percent" relative to the proportion in the total or remaining population. For example, are some fields more highly represented at the top than others?
>> The crux of the matter is that "steal" implies you've deprived the owner of something.

Yes, earnings. When you grow up you will need to work and earn money and pay bills and balance a checkbook and without "piracy" (meaning stealing) controls, your Internet usage will be even higher than mine as you grow older.
You are asking for more tolerance, but blindly ignoring the fact that artists are asking you to pay them for their content. Don't believe that? Or think downloading the music is acceptable as long as you go see them in concert?

Here is Anthony Hamilton who is a Grammy winner signed to RCA Records tweeting an hour ago asking to please not bootleg his music: https://twitter.com/#!/HamiltonAnthony/status/15984085001528...

Also asking for an investment on a return is creepy? Isn't that kind of what you do for work? I'm investing in the fact I'm going to get paid at the end of the month in return for time I put in at the office every week.
It's disheartening to not see any congress person stand up and admit that they were wrong in the initial bipartisan support that this bill had. Reacting is one thing, understand what caused the internet to revolt is another.

Instead, I was hoping this would cause some of the more sincere members of congress to admit that they pass legislation prepared by special interest groups without due diligence. Maybe I'm just too optimistic, but all reaction so far appears to be crowd-pleasing more than sincere.
HTTP has always just seemed... clunky to me. I think it is the statelessness.
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I like A, but maybe with a slightly thicker font. It matches the hand drawn style of the logo.
At least two of those composers died in poverty so they might have actually thought that copyright is a good thing.
The author sounds knowledgeable, but the reference to Y2K as an overreaction makes me think he hasn't a clue.

Kenneth, boychik... how much effort do you think it took to make sure Y2K didn't become a memorable problem?
Are you too good for cookies?! Who doesn't like cookies.
As a final year E.E. Ph.D. student, I want my five years back.

For some reason, I found many professors in US are doing systems. That is something you can do, and can do better in the industry. Competing with the industry in a disadvantageous position is no fun. Before I was admitted to the Ph.D. program, I dreamed of exploring the science for the sake of pushing the human knowledge forward, but I can hardly see anyone in my neighbourhood is doing that. They are just pushing their publication count forward. That's it. It depends on the school culture, maybe. But I see this as a norm.
Reminds me of the Darth Vader that was never compensated because every year Star Wars showed a loss. Anyone have a link?
Of course they will gt it next time. I think perhaps you misunderstand how contributions work.

Special interest groups contribute to everyone. They don't pick and choose. Half the people they contribute money to don't even get elected.

At the end of the day there may be questions of scale, but corporations are perhaps the most bipartisan of entities. They understand that the party doesnt matter as much as the person. Regardless of the election outcome they've bet on the winner.

They also understand the tension a politician is under. So this bill gets killed - big whoopee. There are a dozen more like it waiting to be written. Time will tell if the populace have the staying power - corporations certainly do, and politicians have nothing but.

This is a bill that strikes at the best disseminator of information known to man. The only reason it has got so much attention because those that control the Internet (Wikipedia et al.) firstly care enough about this bill, and secondly have a way to communicate with lots of others.

This is an improvement over just big media, but only really concerns bills that are Internet related. There have been plenty of worse bills in the past, and there will be plenty of horrible bills to come. Until voters come to understand that their responsibility extends to more than just making a cross every 4 years (and many don't even do that) then we can't complain if others are filling the void.
SOPA? The Gov can't even identify child pornography correctly...
(US Citizen) The title of this post is a bit misleading and I'm having a hard time seeing why there's a problem or disagreement here.

The ruling was specifically focused on foreign works as they relate to the Berne Convention. This international treaty binds signatory nations to the copyright protections provided in countries where the original art was created. It would apply to both US copyright holders to protect their works abroad and foreign copyright holders where their works are used here.

The Wikipedia page on the Berne Convention has some really interesting facts on this treaty and you should read it before voicing opposition to the SCOTUS ruling or claiming "American Exceptionalism" is being run over by a truck. This is not a bad ruling and the 6-2 vote suggests 1 judge appointed by a liberal President agrees with the argument. Ne, if you get into the opinion (link below) you'll find that two conservative appointees dissented while the remaining justices agreed (sans Kagan who recused). The point is that this was hardly a "party line" or ideological divide.

The official opinion here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-545.pdf

Some worthy quotations from the Wikipedia page found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protec...

Before the Berne Convention, national copyright laws usually only applied for works created within each country. Consequently, a work published in United Kingdom (UK) by a British national would be covered by copyright there, but could be copied and sold by anyone in France. Likewise, a work published in France by a French national could be copyrighted there, but could be copied and sold by anyone in the UK. Dutch publisher Albertus Willem Sijthoff, who rose to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in 1899 in opposition to the convention over concerns that its international restrictions would stifle the country's print industry.

The United States initially refused to become a party to the Convention, since that would have required major changes in its copyright law, particularly with regard to moral rights, removal of the general requirement for registration of copyright works and elimination of mandatory copyright notice. This led to the Universal Copyright Convention in 1952 to accommodate the wishes of the United States. But on March 1, 1989, the U.S. Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 was enacted, and the United States Senate ratified the treaty, making the U.S. a party to the Berne Convention, and making the Universal Copyright Convention nearly obsolete.

Editorial. I believe in American exceptionalism on a number of fronts including some trade issues. But, the notion that any individual or group of people from one country can merely disregard the copyrights of and profit from works created in another is ludicrous. I feel bad for the plantiffs -- the orchestra members who brought the suit. They have been treated unfair, not by the SCOTUS, but by a general failure of US enforcement of foreign copyright as provided by the treaty.

Just my $0.02
> Is it mainly because of the HTTP request overhead?

Aside from the overhead you and others mention, there is a bigger problem. For most server-side languages, once a request is initiated, it is very difficult to feed new data into that request and make it perform additional functions. Most requests get their input data from GET or POST. What if an external server outside of the one that is handling the request needs to contact one of the clients?

Using long polling/SSE, you essentially have to have the thread/process handling the request also poll any external sources for information for any potential events that might need to be triggered. This turns into a huge mess very quickly. Especially since each polling/SSE request thread/process is isolated from the rest, forcing you to do really funky stuff to coordinate everything.

This isn't as much of a problem with web sockets. Your web socket server has access to all of the connected clients and you can create a web socket interface in any external servers to allow them to talk directly to the proper clients. It's cleaner.

Web sockets isn't perfect. I had to implement a proper client for web sockets in PHP so that it can talk to my Node.JS websocket server. It was horrible. But it was less horrible than setting all of that up with long polling.
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My girlfriend of 27 was diagnosed with the same exact type of leukemia in 2010. She went through a similar process as Amit and so this story resonates deeply with me. She received a bone marrow transplant last summer and still has to go to the hospital every week or two, but she is getting better and better.

Amit, let me wish you the best of luck. The coming days will be tough, sure, but they will seem insignificant compared to all the days you'll get to enjoy in the future. My girlfriend getting her transplant is easily the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life. It's literally life in liquid form.
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This is great advice, save this link. If we don't do this, we will lose and it will be perceived as "just another thing those liberal hippy kids started that petered out"... just like Occupy Wall Street. We can do better, and this is an issue that is unifying people who don't always agree. There is a HUGE opportunity (and risk) here.
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It is great that Mincraft is as successful as it is. But trying to say that gaming would exist as is without the backing of big companies as is is a joke. Minecraft caters to a niche market.

I'm pretty sure Notch couldn't have cranked out Skyrim on his own, and WoW wouldn't have been developed by a small group of people as a hobby project on their own time. Large and complex games and systems and the like take lots of money to produce a product people will want to play, and without big backing these type of games wouldn't exist.
I agree, and this is why I think you can start the argument by framing it in first principles. If you have fundamentally different premises, you at least need to create doubt in the opponent and hopefully get them to (eventually, possibly after dozens of encounters/debates) to check their premises.

Fundamentally, can an entire industry that makes art and music be rotten to the core. Probably not, it is full of people like us would are making things and doing things and building careers, and a lot of them are probably also concerned about thxe future of the Internet with SOPA. So we have to respect our audience and opponent's attention span and intelligence, and get some simple effective messages distributed before we miss the window of opportunity.
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"Zynga has constructed a super-sonic ultra-high-altitude aircraft to recover the bar it's accidentally set for itself in the exosphere." A fine finish for this article! I think this means Zynga has probably peaked?
Because the blog was titled "I'm pirating the Next Version of Windows" (because I feel it will be too difficult to activate) and not "I'm pirating Windows XP"
Thank you for the wake up call Amit. Like many others here, I just signed up to be a donor because of you. You've inspired us all.
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Don't underestimate hollywood money's effectiveness with california congresspeople.
Just a note regarding most of the piracy discussion I have seen take place on HN in the last day or so: everyone who refers to internet piracy as theft is doing a disservice to the argument. They can call it immoral, dangerous, or harmful, but it to equate it with theft is just not accurate.

The people who most frequently refer to internet piracy as theft/stealing are the ones who want to censor the internet and pay off congress. I hope that, regardless of where they stand on the piracy issue, HN users can be a little more articulate about why piracy is or is not permissible and stop referring to it inaccurately.
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I don't think there will be one until the bills are re-evaluated in February. To the best of my knowledge the only significant chance is the removal of the DNS restriction (Which the sponsor himself said was a change). Even if you do find a SOPA breakdown remember it would have to be reconciled with PIPA after being passed (if both were to be passed). So that would add wrinkles as well.

So basically no, i'm of absolutely no use to you on this.
The departments are not separate, but the majors are; that is, the EECS department runs several majors, broadly speaking falling into the categories of a) pure CS, with a a course or two of EE to give the general idea; and b) EECS, two majors (Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Computer Science and Engineering) which offer varying combos of CS and EE. (I may have missed one or two). All of these degree programs require CS61A (the local version of SICP), though the department has switched to a version of the course taught in Python.
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I suppose they could have patented them (although there would have been allot of prior art), but that patent would have expired way before now.
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We are living in such a fiercely competitive society where even a church has to implant an image so as to stand it

out from the rest using various methods.
I agree with you in many ways but it's important to remember copyright is in the constitution in the first place. If you surveyed most people I doubt they'd even know that.
As soon as you refer to copying as "theft" you lose me. Society can function just fine with unlimited PirateBay activity. It already does! Society cannot function with unlimited real-life thievery. QED
Huh? How are they stored for a couple days if they're not on disk?
So then, by your logic, walking up to a record store, and sneaking out with a cd that you did not pay for, is not theft then.
The central dogma of molecular biology is:

1) DNA is transcribed to RNA
2) RNA is translated into protein
3) Proteins do work

(This is a gross simplification, but is still a good working model)

In this case, the 10/10 are probably cell surface markers, which are proteins in a specific conformation (with possibly some other types molecules attached). And yes, one of their roles is touching and communication. So the important part for compatibility is that the DNA that ultimately makes those proteins match Amit's DNA. After that, you have made a pretty good match, so you are then just hoping that they are healthy in all other regards.

To use a programming analogy, the 10 markers could represent an Interface definition. Amit's blood has that Interface, but the underlying class has a severe bug. The donor's blood has the same Interface, but has a better implementation.
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It's equivalent in an ethical sense, not equivalent in the legal sense. I think it's perfectly fine to call it stealing, since it embodies the core meaning "steal" is meant to convey. You're depriving another of something that is rightfully theirs, control over their creative content. Let's not get pedantic here, lest we devolve into discussing what "to steal the spotlight" means.
Astronomical observations at small resolutions of time already have to compensate for so many variables that the current leap second system does not help them any. Seriously, look at the formulae and data collected by these guys http://www.iers.org/ and then say "astronomers need leap seconds to point their telescopes".

More likely, somewhere some budget for astronomers will be reduced by the move to a terrestrial source of time.
Why are people suddenly embracing this argument that piracy isn't theft?

People work to create music just like people work to mine the earth to produce coal. Should one not get paid just because what they're producing can't be physically held?
But who will pay me for my work if it is not some bespoke contract thing?

Will you ask for donations?
What happens if you announce you will work on something and take a bunch of donations in the first couple of months (enough to live off).

What happens if the donations then dry up and you run out of money so you can't continue to work on the program full time but it is not finished? Do you have to go into debt to repay the people who donated or do they have to take a gamble that your program will get finished and be good enough?

Or do you only start work when you have sufficient donations to finish development? What happens if you misjudge this?
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Honestly, watching Star Wars and other Sci-fi movies with my dad helped kindle an interest in science in me more than anything else.
From one of our evil scientists:

Why [Everyone Else] Is a Hypocrite -Kurzban
How The Mind Works -Pinker
The Stuff of Thought -Pinker
The Evolution of Human Sexuality -Symons
Where Mathematics Comes From -Lakoff & Nunez
Passions Within Reason -Frank
Culture of Honor -Nisbett & Cohen
Can other languages create a Facebook friends map as easily?
That's clearly theft. The record store had a CD, and then you took it.

But what's that got to do with copyright infringement?
She is the absolute worst offender with almost six hundred thousand in donations. It's a sick society in which corporations have such an influence on politics. They should only be allowed to donate as much as the average person can afford to donate. The average person in America makes about 40k so that means not much.
Because it isn't theft. There is no argument-- it simply isn't. When a user downloads a file, that file then exists in one more place. It is copied.

That may be immoral, but it is not theft.
I found the article on Neal Stephenson to be more interesting. A link to it appears in the second last para.

http://www.salon.com/1999/05/19/stephenson/
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Well then I guess the question boils down to 'Do we support morality or do we support loopholes?'
I'm a hard core social liberal, but given all this I'm forced to really think if Democrats, particularly Boxer and Feinstein deserve my vote [read: they don't].

I wish there were more fiscally conservative and socially liberal Republicans.
They also fought it today with minimal, biased coverage. I compared the Google trends search volume of the headline stories that were shown today on the major news sites. SOPA was easily 2-3x more searched than any other headline, yet it barely showed up as a blip on sites like FOX News.
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The Communications Decency Act, DMCA, and Clipper Chip were all Democratic initiatives, too.
A few years ago, I used to browse /prog/ during down time in work. After a while you learn to block out all the crap posts and trolling and you realize there's actually a tiny tiny bit of top quality content. For example, I first heard about the Factor programming language there. Nowadays I don't have the patience to sift through 99.9% crap just to read something intelligent.
You know, there used to be a SHAME associated with shoplifting. One had to have the friggin balls, and take considerable risk to go through such an endeavor. No, BUT NOW, as long as we can hide behind our frikken computers, with absolutely no risk, we start grabbing whatever we want now, don't we? And no, that's not theft, oh no no no. I now have a fond new found respect for shoplifters. At least they have true grit, and don't delude themselves by calling it anything other than stealing.
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