On January 09, 2015 at 12:55PM Angel Said…

Hey Everyone, CISPA Is Back… Because Of The Sony Hack, Which It Wouldn’t Have Prevented | Techdirt
This isn’t a huge surprise, but Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, the NSA’s personal Rep in Congress (NSA HQ is in his district), has announced that he’s bringing back CISPA, the cybersecurity bill designed to make it easier for the NSA to…

 

On December 19, 2014 at 12:19PM Angel Said…

Goliath strikes back: Google takes legal action against Mississippi State Attorney General
Last Friday, The Verge published leaked documents revealing a secret legal campaign to discredit Google, coordinated by the MPAA on behalf of the major Hollywood studios. The documents show a…

 

On December 19, 2014 at 12:11PM Angel Said…

The MPAA is attempting to revive SOPA.

The MPAA’s Attempt to Revive SOPA Through A State Attorney General

 

On November 25, 2014 at 03:07PM Angel Said…

White House Admits That It Still Supports Parts Of SOPA: Wants To Make Streaming A Felony | Techdirt
Last week, we wrote that Senator (and still for the next few weeks, Majority Leader) Harry Reid was looking for ways to push for a piece of SOPA, making streaming a felony, into law. The story we’d heard from multiple sources was that he was…

 

On December 30, 2013 at 02:47PM Angel Said…

“You are just spoiled brats who don’t want to pay”, said the copyright industry as people shared culture and knowledge online.

“You are just spoiled brats who don’t want to pay”, said the English after the Boston Tea Party. The underlying mechanisms are basically the same.”

On December 11, 2013 at 03:00PM Angel Said…

1) How Google gets search information: Google uses a bot, Think of of the bot as a little man whose job is to walk every road everywhere and write down what it sees. Only Google’s little man does this with the internet. It follows every single link on the internet and keeps notes on what it sees and sends it’s note to a bunch of little guys who file it away these are the equivalent of team of secretaries keeping & organizing records.

2) How Google gives you information: You go to Google and type in a word or phrase. This is equivalent to you going to an office of records and telling them you need a specific record. So the front desk person then talks to the secretary team & tells them what you’re looking for. In turn the secretarial team runs around and finds any records that might possibly be what your after and gives it back the front desk who then shows you what they came up with. You get to look through the results and pick the one you find most relevant.

3) How the MPAA, RIAA and other Big Media Want Google to work: They want to make Google only show you what they think you should see. In other words they want to censor the internet. SOPA would have helped do this, PIPA would have as well. Right now behind closed doors the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP is being negotiated behind closed doors and will also help push this agenda.

So if you want to keep a free and Open internet, write to your politicians and let them know how you feel. The internet was built upon the idea of sharing knowledge & information and left unchecked there are many government authorities who want to end that openness.

Piracy can not ever be completely stopped however it is possible to compete with free. If the companies that were spending millions hunting “pirates” would instead invest in building a better way to reach their audiences with easy to use legal methods then the number of people who pirated would go down. Playing whack-a-mole is nothing more than a waste of time, energy and money.

This post brought to you by my own mind……lol

On November 12, 2013 at 09:42AM Angel Said…