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Bonus error:

"At that time (about 400 years ago), there were no "well capitalized industrialists...and the few corporations that existed at all were captives of the sovereign rulers who created them."

Again, not so! Indeed, 400 years ago is when some of the fierest and best capitalized industrialists known to man emerged. Specifically, I'm talking about the Dutch East India Company - a private corporation which commanded a heavily armed fleet several times larger than those of the competing French and British Crowns combined. And it was wind-powered industrialization that supported the assembly-line techniques that made their ship yards so incredibly productive.

Obviously, theirs was a relatively limited enterprise - certainly nothing compared to what we now refer to as the Industrial Revolution. But that difference is a function of having wind rather than coal to run their mills, not the application of the techniques, or the systematic accumulation and pooling of capital needed to apply them. In terms of the capital-intensive industrial operations needed to run them, and a chartered corporation to manage it, the VOC (as it was known) was a force unlike any the world had seen, utterly dominating both the global trade routes to the East Indies, and the flow of commerce moving through their ports. Phillip II of Spain waged a furious fight to maintain his colonies in the Netherlands, but the idea that he did so successfully is the opposite of reality. When the Dutch finally sued for peace, they did so as a republic.

Getting back to the press - while I mentioned that the business aspect of if got off the ground in 1493, Anton Koberger's family didn't continue it when he died. Though it was profitable, it remained baffling to his relatives, who had - and continued - to trade in gold. In terms of the flow of ideas, the most influential presses emerged in Venice. This was a city that had it's own long history with industrialization. Specifically, the Arsenal, which is where it pioneered the heavy industrial techniques needed to build the fleets with which it dominated the Mediterranean throughout the Crusades.

This unmatched foundation in assembly-line work was easily transferred to publishing operations, which the Venetians also turned into an industry. It would be some time before work of equal quality and sophistication was produced North of the Alps. And Venice, of course, was a republic. Kings (and Popes, and Princes) were dominated by the Venetians, not vice versa.

Incidentally, nobody who actually knows what they're talking about refers to Kings as "sovereigns" until after 1648, and the Peace of Westphalia, which is what established the concept of the sovereign state as such; one (theoretically) secure in its borders and (again, theoretically) free from the external authority of the Pope. Ergo, the sovereignty.

Given the general magnitude of your historical ignorance, this must seem like a minor point, but still. I actually do know about this stuff, and hearing references to "sovereigns" operating in the early 17th century is like nails on a chalkboard. It's a bit like hearing people discus life in the "American States" circa 1720.
But if you give me the name of a VC and tell me to go raise money - where do I start? How do I approach him? What will burn bridges and what won't?

My skeptical side says that as long as you have a product and traction that are both awesome enough for him to consider investing in, it doesn't really matter.

That's sort of where I take issue with this article: he may just be picking up on signs of confidence that are the result of really believing that you have a kickass product. That reality (as well as the attitude that it inspires) make it both a lot easier to successfully pitch your wares, as well as to talk about them to previous investors.

Similarly, in the Google example, a large part of what you see is probably that the people there really understand their domains of expertise exceptionally well. As a result, they're confident that they know what you're talking about, and eager to just get to the meat of it, without bothering you for details that they already know about.

I'd be hesitant to assume that emulating the confidence that comes along with expertise or good prospects necessarily works causally in the opposite direction, I've seen many examples to the contrary...
>> The site charged for access to, and provided advertising around, pirated content.

> This is true in the same way YouTube provides advertising around, and your friendly local ISP provides access to, pirated content.

I can get the full "The Dark Knight" in 720p on YouTube? Links please
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I was glad to see him call them out on that. I made a similar comment here on HN about a month ago[1] saying that calling on "nerds", to me, implied a lack of respect. The replies I received, however, seemed to disagree.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358472
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I wonder if it is because I'm using xmonad.
I've described a solution in a different comment on this thread. For each outbound link on the page, build a link that points to a redirector that accepts two query parameters: current page's canonical URL and outbound link's URL. The redirector will redirect the browser back to the canonical URL. Upon receiving the request for the canonical URL, instead of serving normal content, the server redirects the browser to the outbound link's URL on the condition that its referrer came from the redirector. This way, the outbound link gets the correct referrer without using any javascript wizardry. In fact, you can use this technique to customize the referrer to whatever you want.

1. Browser visits http://a.com/pages/3?privacy_leaking_param=1

2. User clicks on an outbound link: http://b.com/

3. Browser gets redirected to redirector at:

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4. Redirector logs the request and redirects browser to canonical_url (i.e. "http://a.com/pages/3)

5. Code behind http://a.com/pages/3 checks the referrer to see if it came from the redirector.

5a. If it is, parse the outbound_url from the referrer URL and redirect the browser to that URL.

5b. If it isn't, serve normal content.

Basically, every content page needs to also act as a redirector and only redirects when the referrer indicates that the previous request came from the redirector.
SOPA : Twitter et les microblogueurs se mobilisent contre ce projet de loi
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At a glance this seemed like an obvious move, but the deeper you look everything stops making sense.

The emails between company officers suggest that they themselves used their own service to upload copyrighted content and share it with others, knowingly breaking the law. Case closed!

But what gives US law enforcement the right to obtain those private emails between officers of a foreign company? Reasonable suspicion of infringement? What suspicion? Suspicion of failure to comply with DMCA takedown notices?

What is the basis for that suspicion? Their failure to delete ALL links to any file for which a single link is reported. But as many others have pointed out, each of those links represents a specific user who has uploaded the same file. Without a public searchable index, each of those keys is effectively a distinct privately uploaded file.

So we come down to whether a copyright holder has the authority to say "anyone anywhere who has uploaded a copy of this file, does not have the right to share it".

What next? If a service like Dropbox borrows a hint from git and stores not just single file hashes, but distinct unique data chunks, and a takedown request calls for the deletion of say, a feature film, will they claim Dropbox knowingly infringed for failing to remove a 10 second chunk of that film that some student put in their dissertation?
Megaupload is back
The crucial difference here being that Microsoft had a monopoly.
> You can sell anything really.

In fact, you can even sell an iBook—just like the ones iBooks Author makes—as long as iBooks Author isn't the program you used to make it. The iBooks Author software will inevitably spawn FOSS clones, and other tools that already exist (a likely candidate is Adobe InDesign) will allow export to the same iBook format in new versions, without the same EULA qualification. You might even just author an iBook "by hand," just the way you're currently able to author eBooks—writing HTML and CSS yourself, and zipping the results. You'll be able to have your cake and eat it too, just so long as you avoid Apple's particular cake mix.
> why would you use old obsolete releases of mission critical software?

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

Because it's mission critical, and you can't afford for it to break. Once you hit a certain complexity, upgrades almost always break something:

APIs change. Undefined behavior changes. New bugs are introduced. A feature critical to your app starts performing worse. The above changes break something else you depend on (libraries, proxies, etc.)

Upgrading to a significantly changed version of a mission-critical app/library/language is a lot of work, and is sometimes impossible: many projects couldn't be reasonably ported to Python 3 if they wanted to; a lot of important libraries don't work on Python 3.

This is exactly why bug and security fixes are often backported into old versions. Python 2.5 is still receiving security patches. Apache 1.3 was maintained for years after 2.0 was considered stable.
4 weeks? How about "Black Year"?
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They don't want their methods to be public.
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The scams have already begun.

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EDIT: And now, a few minutes later, it's been labeled a phishing site by Google.
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Not 720p, but I don't think that was really the main point. By the way, I just got the link by going to YouTube and searching for "the dark knight part 1".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuaUcGr32SM
No.

NZ Police started working with the FBI on this in early 2011.

The level of coordination required by the US Fed Gov, the NZ Gov and the FBI, not to mention being in agreement is no small deal. To suggest that this all happened in the space of 24hrs is pretty ridiculous.

NZ isn't exactly an American lap dog.
I think what you were seeing was that many "nerds" don't see the term as particularly derogatory and even self-describe as such, though I suspect several of the congressmen did mean to be derogatory in their use of it.
Fun fact: the SOPA page on Wikipedia was still accessible during the blackout.
What were the criteria for determining that there were too many unique 2-grams and too few 3-grams? Did it just come down to too much memory for the former, and barely enough memory for 3-grams?
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It's not. DropBox will be next.
How exactly would going through 2 keyboards to switch modes work in a practical situation?
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It's a classic move.

Yes, people will start claiming PIPA and SOPA are unnecessary, and they may be taken of the table. Hurray!

Of course, this now means that much of the evil stuff in PIPA and SOPA is already reality, but instead of being angry about it, we're now breathing a sigh of relief.

In the mean time, the feds will start taking down sites left, right and center, and across the globe, without any form of due process. And we'll be cool with it, because things could have been so much worse with PIPA and SOPA...

We're not seeing "infringers charged" here. Megaupload is gone. The entertainment industry has been playing judge and jury, with the feds as their executioners, and the justice department giving it a thin veneer of legal process.

PIPA and SOPA are more of less a reality without the laws actually being passed. That in itself is way scarier than the actual content of those laws. And thanks to this wonderful sleight of hand, it will now be perceived as if it were a good thing.

Maybe not yet checkmate, but definitely: check.
It's derogatory because they used it in a way to imply that they didn't particularly want to be associated with the group labeled "nerds." I've always preferred the term "geek." Anyone else feel the same way?
On the plus side, all the conspiracy theorists who claimed that Jon Stewart and The Daily Shows were pawns of their parent multinational media conglomerate, and thus wouldn't negatively cover SOPA, these people were wrong.

On the negative side, no one in the news media or whistleblowers and WTF-watchers like Jon Stewart knew what SOPA was until two days ago.

That's even scarier.
Okay, so the problem that I'm seeing is that in your mind, you are equating a pirated copy with a lost sale. But that's an outdated and incorrect assumption, and hopefully one that time will deal with (when we've all grown up with infinite copies available from birth). A pirated copy is definitely not the same as a lost sale.

Plenty of people payed for and touted Minecraft, obviously. A huge category of people didn't pay, but still touted it.

Would that category of people have paid if piracy was impossible? Well, I've argued against that reality since making piracy impossible would most likely also make Minecraft impossible (since you'd have to distribute through government-approved channels). I don't see how someone could possibly create an independent product and be able to self-distribute if piracy is technically impossible. And arguably the environment that spawned and formed the successful indie game maker is heavily dependent on free and easy peer-to-peer sharing of information, code and software.

Secondly, clearly these people didn't have any moral issue with pirating the game while at the same time loving it. It may be bizarre to you, but a huge number of people will happily break the law if it's to their benefit, without feeling bad over lost sales. Most likely, these people wouldn't have paid even if they couldn't have had the game. They would just have gone without the game.

I'd even go so far as to say that generally acting in their own self interest with little regard to people outside their closest circle is a fundamental human behavioral constant, and it's shocking to me that this is so shocking to other people. You do know that children are starving to death in poor areas of the world? You certainly have the means to save at least one of them. Yet you don't, why? Because their plight is too remotely removed from you. You have no emotional connection to them.

Closing the emotional gap is key to exploiting the modern economy: see the success of pay-what-you-want schemes, where people end up paying more than they would have with a set price. I'd argue that this demonstrates another interesting detail: the humble bundle, which was available as pay-what-you-want, was heavily pirated! Why? It was essentially free already! Perhaps because people like to share, and the distribution model and the economic profit margins of the creator are both lesser forces than the innate emotional desires to have and to share.
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But can also come across as patronising, if you were trying to do something important.
In order for the MPAA/RIAA claim that copyright infringement causes large monetary damages to ring true, we must see profits increase in these industries.

If profits do not increase, then Megaupload did not impact profits.
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I wonder if executive compensation schemes are at least partially to blame for failures like these? After all, next quarter's numbers will look a lot better if you stop spending money on R&D which, if it ever does pay off, won't for a few years down the road. So, if you're running Kodak in 1992 and you don't expect to be the CEO in 2002, why negatively affect your stock options by ensuring the company's future? Investors aren't given a breakdown of R&D spending by expected first payoff year, so no one can tell that your earnings look good because you've sold off the future.
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>> 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.

He didn't choose a good example, because that would probably be a copyright violation. A better example would be: I'm a small independent software vendor. I sell copies of my software (which I own the copyright to 100%) and distribute them via private MegaUpload links. Someone else decides to upload a copy and distribute the link freely, so I file a takedown notice. Should my original copy also be deleted?
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I was thinking the exact same thing when I was watching it.
The sad part is I still see this device being used - the security guys using this have no idea this is a scam - Even if its pointed out to them, they cannot do anything except follow orders from the top.
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I'm glad to see Stewart finally give this issue some coverage. I actually think the more interesting part of this bit was his montage of Daily Show clips using "copyrighted" content. It really underscores the importance of fair use and the grey area that makes copyright violations such a difficult area to police. The nerds bit was funny, but it was just the usual mockery of our elected officials he usually does.
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It's a rockin machine, and when EVERY other Android device was sold out at Christmas, Best Buy had hundreds in the store.

I've spent probably a hundred bucks this month on Kindle Fire media.. books, movies.. I love it.

That said, it sucks as a development device.
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> assuming there isn't some fundamental flaw in the encryption algorithm

Big "if".
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I've always thought "geeks" were Mac users (that was the crowd from which I heard the term used most, back in my Amiga days), and nerds were nerds. That said, I may call myself a nerd, you you best not be calling me a nerd. ;-)

Seriously, though, for a group of people who like to call each other out on standards of conduct, it's pretty appalling that they used a derogatory term to jokingly dismiss their utter lack of expertise in the area.