The Glade 4.0

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html

It's a video stream.

This is about the Internet Blacklist Bill.

So much face stabbing... so little time.

I **** hate congresspeople.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Page after page of free grinches. /facestab

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Holy shitsnacks!

So much stupid... I can barely keep listening. Why do these people have to be in charge?

They keep coming back to Ms. Oyama... "What has Google done to stop piracy"
"Insert awesome stuff they've done"
"No, what have you done proactively to stop piracy"

It looks like they want google to do all the searches and proactively shut down all the pirate sites. Jesus **** they're stupid.

"If these sites are illegal, then why is google still returning the results?"
"Because we don't control the content on the internet you dolt? Like I've already explained this **** 6 times?"

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Holy shitsnacks!

It seems like they wanted Google to be the judge, jury, and executioner AND lose lots of advertising money in the process, in addition to the engineering/administrative costs of these actions.

"From our industry's perspective it's not thievery, it's murder"

One woman on the committee. One woman gets it.

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Holy shitsnacks!

That deserved an epic /facepalm.

Its almost as if they don't understand why piracy and counterfeit drugs exist.

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Holy shitsnacks!

This hurts to listen.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I will say that the Google Chick is awesome. Like really awesome.

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Holy shitsnacks!

It seems like barely anyone at this panel is qualified to even discuss the subject.

See also:

http://gladerebooted.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7499

If you haven't already, please spam your congresscritters about this. This is horrible, horrible legislation in so many ways. Even if you 100% support all of our IP laws as they currently stand, you should still oppose this legislation on the grounds that it forces private citizens to act as law enforcement and that it gives the U.S. federal government dangerous powers over the common DNS system. This is essentially a proposal for the Great Firewall of America, and nothing good can come of it for anyone.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

This Marino dude is a Tool of the Highest order.

He's making my head hurt. One can look at kiddie porn and say Yep, that's kiddie porn and illegal. One cannot look at a clip of content and know that its infringing.

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Holy shitsnacks!

The guy just got told why it was technically impossible and then said "Google has the technology to do it" - he just never even heard what was said.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

It was just adjourned. It'll be interesting to see what tech articles and opinions come from this.

That last dude was a tool too. Only two people I thought knew a **** were the chairman dude, and that one chick that googled J Edgar and sait all the sites were legal.

"Oh, but if you put in "Free J Edgar" you get a youtube link! "

Yes tool, you do. And if you look, its not the movie, but a link to go watch the movie off site.

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Holy shitsnacks!

It seems they want to ban Youtube videos that instruct people how to pirate?

I hope it doesn't surprise anyone that the government would want to ban knowledge.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I can't actually listen to the stream right now, but that sounds about right. And probably not just "here's how to pirate game X" vids, either. Based on past behavior, I'm sure they're targeting even general reverse engineering tutorials that aren't tied to any product. Ex. tutorials for how to "unpack" a binary protected by Armadillo, or whatever (I don't even know if Armadillo is still a thing -- I've been away from the RE scene for awhile). Nevermind the fact that such tutorials aren't actually illegal. Nor should they be; there are any number of legitimate reasons, even with the **** that is the DMCA for why a person would both need to and be allowed to circumvent such protections.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

I support this legislation. It is another step towards showing the American voter that violence is the only solution.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

The more I think about this, the more annoyed I am about it. Those congresscritters had no **** clue what they were talking about. It was all about "Well, google search results come up with pirate sites when you search for pirate sites! What's google doing about this?!"
The Google chick says "Well, we're taking down the search results within 6 hours of a DMCA notice being filed by the content creator like we're supposed to. In fact, we also have content search and screening to protect against people putting up copyrighted stuff that they're not supposed to."
"That's not what I asked, what's Google doing against pirate and rogue sites?"

SHE JUST **** TOLD YOU YOU EMPTY HEADED WASTE OF OXYGEN!!! JESUS ****!!!

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Holy shitsnacks!

The votes in support of the bill are already bought and paid for. The Congress critters are just trying to look like they actually care in case their constituents are watching.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Yeah. And this is why it sucks.

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Holy shitsnacks!

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